ISLAMABAD-
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has directed Attorney General Salman Aslam Butt and his legal team to actively pursue terrorism cases and approach courts to vacate stay orders against executions, private media reported on Monday.
The directives were issued shortly after Rawalpindi bench of the Lahore High Court (LHC) stayed execution of five prisoners condemned to death by a military court for 2002’s army camp attack in Gujrat.
A government spokesman said the PM has directed the authorities to pursue terrorism-related cases of on fast-track basis. The Prime Minister also directed that all out efforts should be made to vacate stay orders against death sentences.
On Sunday, authorities executed four more militants while on Friday last week two other convicts were hanged in Pervez Musharraf attack case as the government lifted a six-year moratorium on capital punishment for terror-related cases following Taliban attack on Peshawar school that killed 149 people.