The Interior Ministry has prepared a summary to defer the execution of former MQM worker Saulat Mirza for another month.
Saulat Mirza was awarded death penalty in May 1999 for the murder of then KESC managing director Shahid Hamid.
Sources said the summary is being sent to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif who will forward it to President Mamnoon Hussain for stopping issuance of fresh death warrants for Mirza’s execution.
The government has decided to delay the execution in order to widen the scope of Shahid Hamid’s murder after the report of the Joint Investigation Team (JIT), which interrogated Mirza in Machh Jail.
In the light of the JIT report, the sources said that the scope of the investigation would be widened and MQM leaders identified by Saulat Mirza would be investigated.