Sindh High Court suspends death warrants of two terror convicts

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Sindh High Court on Monday suspended the death warrants issued for two terror convicts jailed in Sukkur, private media reported.

The convicts were to be executed tomorrow. Arrangements to execute Ata Ullah and Muhammad Azam, held in Sukkur’s central jail, had been finalised. The prisoners were scheduled to meet with their family members today.

The court ordered to shift the convicts to Karachi central jail and issue new death warrants.

With the two convicts’ execution orders suspended, banned outfit member Muhammad Nawaz; jailed in Bahawalpur, faces an execution in the next 24 hours for his involvement in sectarian riots and terrorism.

Since Friday, 19th December, six terror convicts have been executed in Faisalabad.

Two 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.

 

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