As many as seven convicted prisoners were hanged in Karachi, Sukkur, Rawalpinid and Faisalabad on Tuesday morning.
Behram Khan, convicted of a murder, was hanged in a detention facility in Karachi. He was found guilty of having murdered a lawyer in a courtroom in 2003.
Khan was handed down death punishment in 2004 by an anti-terrorism court while his review petitions were also rejected by the the Sindh High Court and the Supreme Court of Pakistan.
Behram Khan was hanged after the President of Pakistan rejected his appeal for clemency.
Similarly, three other prisoners who had been on a death row in Sukker Prison were sent to gallows.
Shahid Hanif, Talha Hussain and Khalil Ahmed were found sentenced to death after being found guilty of murdering Zafar Hussain Shah, a Director of Zafar Hussain Shah in Karachi in 2001.
Mushtaq Ahmed and Nawazish Ali convicted in Musharrf attack case were executed in Faisalabad’s District Jail amid tight security outside the prison.
A death row prisoner Zulfiqar Ali, who was sentenced to death for killing two policemen, was hanged In Rawalpindi’s Adiala Jail.
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