Death warrants for convicted sectarian terrorist Ikramul Haq have been re-issued after he dodged his execution by winning an eleventh hour pardon from the victim’s family last week.
Haq, who was to feel the hangman’s noose tightening around his neck on January 8, will now be executed on January 17 at Kot Lakhpat Jail.
Earlier, an anti-terrorism court (ATC) declared the ‘compromise agreement’ between the two parties as null and void for failing to meet certain legal requirements.
The case is seen as a test of the government’s plan to execute convicted terrorists in the aftermath of a school massacre that claimed 150 lives in the country’s deadliest terror attack.
Haq is a member of the banned Sunni terrorist outfit Lashkar-e-Jhangvi who was sentenced to death by an anti-terror court in 2004 for killing a Shia man three years ago.
He was set to be hanged last Thursday but his family reached a deal with the victim’s relatives on Wednesday night.
Ehsanul Haq, brother of Ikramul Haq, confirmed the cancellation of the hanging.
