KARACHI, Pakistan: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) activist Saulat Mirza will be executed on March 19 after an anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Karachi on Wednesday issued his death warrant.
The death warrant for Saulat Mirza was issued on an application to the court submitted by the Superintendent Karachi Central Jail.
His execution is expected to take place at 5:30 am on March 19 in Karachi.
Saulat Mirza was sentenced to death by an ATC in May 1999 for killing the managing director of then Karachi Electric Supply Corporation Shahid Hamid, his driver Ashraf Brohi and guard Khan Akbar in July 1997.
Currently detained in Machh jail in Balochistan since April 2014, Mirza will now be shifted to Karachi.
A total of 24 executions have been carried out across the country since December 17 last year when Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif lifted a six-year moratorium on death penalty for those convicted for terrorism.
The prime minister allowed the implementation of death penalty in the wake of a deadly terror attack on army public school in Peshawar that left 150 persons mostly children killed.
