Adiala Jail authorities have approached a session’s judge in Rawalpindi to seek death warrants of 13 prisoners, who have been on the death row for the last many years.
Sources said that almost all courts have turned down clemency appeals of all the 13 prisoners and the president of Pakistan has also rejected their mercy appeals.
The sources said that the jail authorities have formally written an application to the sessions judge Rawalpindi requesting him to issue the death warrants of all the death row prisoners.
According the sources, the judge has also been requested to fix the dates to execute the prisoners. The sources said that once the death warrants were issued and the dates fixed, an executioner (hangman) will be called from Lahore to carry out executions.
Pakistan lifted moratorium on hanging of prisoners after terrorists killed more than 130 students during an attack at the Army Public School, Peshawar on December 16, 2014, which drew a mass reaction, forcing the government to take a tough stance on terrorists and their sympathizers.
Since then, more than a dozen prisoners on the death row have been executed across the country.