KARACHI: A sessions court issued on Thursday a black warrant for the execution of a prisoner on death row and asked jail authorities to send him to the gallows on Oct 14.

Rashid Nazeer was sentenced to death by the sessions court after the judge found him guilty of killing a man within the jurisdiction of the Gulberg police station in 2000.

The jail authorities thro­ugh an application informed the court that the appeals of the convict had been dismissed by the higher and superior judiciary while his mercy petition was also turned down by the president. They asked the court to issue the back warrant for his execution.

The additional district and sessions judge (central), Zeeshan Akhtar Khan, issued the black warrant.

The officials said the prisoner was shifted to the Kot Lakhpat prison in Lahore last year and he was to be hanged there on scheduled date.

Published in Dawn, October 9th, 2015

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