FAISALABAD, Pakistan: The number of executions taken place in Pakistan since the resumption has reached 27 after two more death row prisoners were hanged in Faisalabad Central Jail on Friday morning.
The death row prisoners including Muhammad Akhtar Urfand and Sajid alias Taaroo were executed after they were found guilty of being involved in two separate murder cases.
Muhammad Akhtar had been awarded death penalty by an anti-terrorism court in Faisalabad in 2001 for attempting to rape a girl as well as for killing her father-in-law on December 10, 1999.
While Sajid had been awarded death sentence on March 30, 2001 for murdering a woman Khursheed Bibi and wounded her husband Azhar on March 12, 2000 over a personal feud.
After two more executions carried out in Faisalabad on Friday, the toll of executions to have taken place in the country since the resumption on December 17 last year has reached 27.
Recently, the Human Rights Watch (HRW) suggested that the Pakistani government reverse the lifting of the moratorium on death penalty for capital crimes and move towards complete abolition of the capital punishment, according to a report by the HRW.
