ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: As many as 17 death row prisoners were hanged till death in various jails across the country on Tuesday morning.
It was the highest number of executions to have taken place in the country in a day since the federal government removed the moratorium on death penalties in December last year.
Three murder convicts were executed at Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi while two were executed at Kot Lakhpat Jail in Lahore.
Likewise, two convicts were hanged to death in Gujranwala Central Jail and two others were sent to the gallows in Faisalabad Central Jail.
Two rapists were executed in Sialkot Jail whereas two persons were hanged till death separately in Central Jails of Multan and Sahiwal.
Similarly, two other murder convicts were executed in Gujrat District jail and Quetta’s Mach jail.
Initially executions were resumed for terrorism offences only in the wake of a Taliban massacre at an army-run school in Peshawar which had claimed the lives of more than 150 persons, mostly schoolchildren on December 16, 2014.
The United Nations, the European Union, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have called on Pakistan to re-impose its moratorium on the death penalty.
