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11 death row prisoners hanged

LAHORE: As many as 11 death row convicts were sent to the gallows in different jails of the country on early Tuesday morning. Two death row inmates were hanged in Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat jail in Tuesday. Convicted murderers, Shakeel, killed a man in 1998 and another convict, Sher Ali, had

By our correspondents
May 27, 2015
LAHORE: As many as 11 death row convicts were sent to the gallows in different jails of the country on early Tuesday morning.
Two death row inmates were hanged in Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat jail in Tuesday. Convicted murderers, Shakeel, killed a man in 1998 and another convict, Sher Ali, had killed a man in 2001.
Convicts Iftikhar Ahmed and Asif were executed on Tuesday morning in Faisalabad jail. Iftikhar assassinated three people in 2001 over political antagonism. Asif Zeb killed his rival in Sargodha in 1996.
A man, Rana Faryad, who shot to death his cousin, has been executed in Multan’s Central Jail. A convicted killer
was hanged at the gallows in Sargodha’s District Jail for taking the lives of two women
and a man.In Jhelum also,
a condemned prisoner,
Malik Afzal has been sent to the gallows for killing a spy agency officer in 2003. Quetta’s Central Machh Jail also witnessed a convict, Muhammed Ibrahim, hanged at the gallows.
Ibrahim murdered Nawabzada Safdar Jogezai in Qila Saifullah in 2003. In Gujranwala, a convict Nawaz, was hanged till death in Gujranwala as he killed a youth in 1999.
In Sahiwal, a man, Ishaq, was executed for killing a man in 1994. In Toba Tek Singh, a convicted assassin was sent to gallows in district jail for killing his father, brother and four nephews.