Four death row prisoners were hanged on early Wednesday morning in the jails of Lahore, Bahawalpur, Toba Tek Singh and Dera Ghazi Khan while executions of two convicts were postponed.
According to details, death row convict Fayaz was executed in the New Central Jail Bahawalpur, Qamar Zaman was executed in District Jail Toba Tek Singh, Saif was sent to the gallows in District Jail Dera Ghazi Khan and another convict, Munir, was hanged in the Kot Lakhpat Jail Lahore.
The dead bodies of the convicts were handed over to their families.
More than 250 death row prisoners have been hanged so far as the government lifted a six-year moratorium on death penalty on December 17, 2014. There are more than 8,000 prisoners on death row in the country.
