ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: As many as 12 death row prisoners were hanged to death across the country on Tuesday, taking the toll of executions carried out since the resumption on December 17 last year to 39.
An interior ministry spokesman said that two convicts Muhammad Afzal and Muhammad Faisal were executed in Karachi for killing a man Abdul Jabbar during a robbery bid in Korangi area of the metropolis in 1998.
Muhammad Nawaz, another death row convict, was executed in Faisalabad Central Jail after he was found guilty of murdering two persons Maqsood and Manzoor in 1996 over a minor dispute regarding water irrigation.
Likewise, two death row prisoners Muhammad Jawed and Malik Muhammad Nadeem Zaman were hanged at the Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi.
Jawed was found guilty of killing his female cousin in 1997 while Zaman was involved in the murder of his father, two sisters and a nephew in 1998.
Another convict Muhammad Iqbal was executed in Gujranwala because he had killed one of his in-laws Muhammad Sharif in 1996 over a family dispute.
In addition, three death row prisoners Mubashir Ali, Muhammad Sharif and Muhammad Riaz were hanged till death in the District Jail Jhang.
Mubashir and Sharif were awarded death sentence by an anti-terrorism court in 1998 after they were found guilty of killing a taxi driver during a robbery bid while Riaz was hanged for killing one of his relatives in 1995 over a family dispute.
Similarly, two convicts Zafar Iqbal and Rab Nawaz were executed in a jail in Mianwali.
The reports said that three more death row convicts will be hanged in Faisalabad tomorrow (Wednesday).
