Two convicts hanged in Sialkot jail

Author: Online

SIALKOT: Two death convicts have been executed in Sialkot District Jail following rejection of their mercy appeals by the president. Zafar Iqbal and Khalid were convicted after prosecution proved their involvement in the killing of two people in 1996 in Malkay Village of Sialkot. Jail sources said that the death-row convicts had sent mercy appeals to President Mamnoon Hussain who rejected them. A meeting of the two convicts was arranged with their family members prior to their execution. The bodies have been handed over to the family members after medico-legal formalities.

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