An anti-terrorism court in Karachi on Monday issued death warrant for condemned prisoner Shafqat Hussain, and ordered his execution on June 9.
The superintendent Central Jail Karachi wrote a letter to the judge of ATC III, saying that the stay period of Shafqat’s execution is over, and therefore a black warrant be issued for the hanging of the death row prisoner.
ATC III judge issued a death warrant for the condemned prisoner with directives to hang him till death on June 9 at 4:30 am under the supervision of a judicial magistrate, and submit a compliance report after executing him.
Shafqat was arrested and sentenced to death in 2004 for the kidnapping and involuntary murder of a seven-year-old boy, who lived in a Karachi apartment building where he worked as a security guard.