ISLAMABAD, Oct 4: The government is finalising a summary to pardon or commute death sentence of convicts into life imprisonment. It will be sent to the federal cabinet this month for approval, Dawn has learnt.

“The law ministry is doing a thorough research on the subject to come up with a final draft and fulfil government’s promise of commuting death sentence into life term,” sources privy to the development said on Saturday.

The Supreme Court is also seized with a petition instituted by 52 inmates on death row, pleading to pardon or commute their death sentence as allowed to a foreigner guilty of terrorism — a reference to an Indian spy whose sentence was commuted by the caretaker government.