RAWALPINDI-
Lahore High Court (LHC) Rawalpindi bench on Monday stayed the execution of five prisoners condemned to death by a military court for army camp attack in Gujrat in 2012, private media reported.
One of the prisoners’ counsel Laiq Khan Sawati filed a petition stating that his client Ahsan Azeem was not given a right to hire a counsel for defence nor was he provided with a copy of the court ruling despite a request.
The five men – Ahsan Azeem, Asif Idrees, Umar Nadeem, Kamran Aslam, and Amir Yousuf – had been handed down death penalty by a military court for involvement in attack on an army camp in Gurjat in which at least seven security personnel were killed.
Justice Arshad Mahmood Tabassum stayed the execution of the convicts who are currently held in Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat jail.
Meanwhile in Karachi, Sindh High Court suspended the death warrants issued for two terror convicts jailed in Sukkur. The convicts were to be executed tomorrow.
The court ordered to shift the convicts to Karachi central jail and issue new death warrants.
Since Friday, 19th December, six terror convicts have been executed in Faisalabad.
Two other convicts were hanged on Friday in Pervez Musharraf attack case while on Sunday, authorities executed four more militants as the government has ended a six-year moratorium on capital punishment for terror-related cases following Taliban attack on Peshawar school that killed 149 people.