FAISALABAD, July 20: Six condemned prisoners will be hanged in the district jail here on Aug 3, all hailing from the same family, including a father, son, uncle, two brothers and a relative. According to the prosecution, Manzoor Ahmad of Chak 100-JB, his son Muhammad Ishaq, bother Muhammad Ilyas and their three relatives, including Iqbal and two brothers Ghulam Mustafa and Muhammad Anwar, had shot dead three people Najeebullah, his father Maqbool Ahmad and a relative, Ghulam Muhammad, over an old enmity in June 1989.

They had been awarded death sentence by Additional District and Sessions Judge Abdur Razzaq Bhatti, a sentence later upheld both by the High Court and Supreme Court, while the mercy petition had been turned down by the president.

The execution was suspended three times earlier in efforts for a compromise with the heirs of the murdered, who refused to forgive them.

Black warrants: The district and sessions judge has issued black warrants of condemned prisoner Sabir Ali of Khanuana, Fatehabad.

The convict, involved in a murder case of D-Type police station, will be executed on Aug 3. —APP