TOBA TEK SINGH, Pakistan: Another person was executed in District Jail Toba Tek Sindh on Thursday morning after being found guilty of murdering three persons in 2004.
Muhammad Siddique was awarded death penalty by an anti-terrorism court in Faisalabad on May 16, 2005 for killing there persons in 2004 at a theater where he was a security guard.
His subsequent mercy appeals were rejected by the Lahore High Court (LHC), the Supreme Court of Pakistan and President Mamnoon Hussain respectively.
Following the rejection of his mercy appeals, the ATC had issued his death warrant.
A total of 25 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 in the wake of a Taliban Peshawar school massacre.
On Tuesday, a moratorium on the death penalty in all capital cases in Pakistan was also lifted.
Talking to the British High Commissioner Philip Barton in Islamabad on Wednesday, the federal interior minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said that awarding capital punishment is an internal matter of Pakistan. However, he said that he understands the concern of friends in the international community on the issue.
