ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: The process of executions continues across the country as four more convicts hanged to death in Rawalpindi and Mianwali on Thursday.
Following latest executions, the number of executions so far carried out in the country has reached 54 since lifting the moratorium on death penalty in December 2014.
On Thursday, three death row prisoners including two brothers Ghulam Muhammad and Muhamad Asghar were executed at the Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi.
Both the brothers were sentenced to death by a district and sessions judge for killing two of their relatives in Gujar Khan in 1996.
Another death row prisoner Gulistan Zaman was executed in Adiala Jail on the directives of a district and sessions judge because he had killed a man in Kallar Syedan in 1998.
In addition, another convict Abdul Sattar was hanged to death in Mianwali Jail for killing a man in 1992 over a personal feud.
Recently, the European Union has condemned recent executions in Pakistan and called on Islamabad to reinstitute the moratorium on the death penalty.
However, Pakistan has emphatically stated that lifting of moratorium on death sentence is not in violation of any international human rights law.
“Pakistan has its own constitution and legal system which contains death penalty within the parameters of international laws,” the Foreign Office Spokesperson Tasnim Aslam said at her weekly news briefing in Islamabad on Thursday while talking about the EU concerns on capital punishment in Pakistan.
The spokesperson said that it is the fundamental right of the state to protect the lives of its people.
