ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: The executions in different jails across the Pakistan’s central Punjab province has reportedly been halted for the Holy month of Ramadan which is likely to commence on June 18, the sources said on Saturday.
The hanging in Pakistan has received criticism from various leading international organizations including the United Nations, the European Union, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch since it was resumed in December last year.
These organizations since then have consistently demanded the government of Pakistan to reinstate the moratorium on death penalty and fully respect all of its international obligations.
However, Pakistan rejected such criticism and insisted that carrying out executions are its internal affair.
In a press conference in Islamabad on Friday, the Federal Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said that the executions in Pakistan are being carried in accordance
with the country’s law and constitution and they will continue.
The interior minister regretted the hue and cry on the revival of capital punishment saying a propaganda campaign has been unleashed to make it controversial.
Nearly 150 executions taken place across Pakistan since a six-year moratorium on executions was lifted following a dead terror attack at an army-run school in Peshawar on December 16, 2014.
