SIALKOT: A criminal accused of murder has been hanged on Tuesday morning (today) in the Sialkot District jail.
The name of murderer was Shafeeq and he was accused of killing his two sisters in Narowal in year 2004. Shafeeq planned to rob his own sisters and upon resisting he killed both of them at the spot.
Before the suspect was to be hanged, a meeting with his family had been arranged after which he was hanged to his death at dawn on Tuesday.
Ever since the Army Public School massacre in 2004, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had lifted the moratorium on death penalty in the country. Ever since, death sentences have been carried out and more than 160 prisoners have been executed by the state since then.
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