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Seven convicts hanged in Sindh, Punjab

KARACHI-

Seven death row prisoners were executed Tuesday in different jails across country, local media reported.

Murder convict Bahram Khan was hanged in Karachi for killing Advocate Mohammad Ashraf in a courtroom of the Sindh High Court in April 2003.

In Sukkur, three convicted terrorists Shahid Haneef, Talha and Khalil, from a banned outfit, were executed. They were convicted for killing  Syed Zaffar Ali Shah; a director in Defence ministry, in July 2001.

Two convicts of Musharraf attack case of 2003,  Mushtaq Ahmed and Nawaz Ali, were hanged at the gallows in Faisalabad’s District Jail.

Another convict in the case, former Pakistan Air Force (PAF) chief technician Khalid Mehmood, was executed in the Adiala Jail on January 9.

In Rawalpindi, a death row prisoner Zulfiqar Ali convicted for killing two policemen near the US Consulate General in Karachi, was hanged in Adiala Jail.

 

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