Lahori moves court against execution

LAHORE
DEATH row prisoner Ikram-ul-Haq alias Lahori has moved a writ petition in the Lahore High Court challenging re-issuance of his death warrants by an anti-terrorism court at Faisalabad.
The petitioner said legal heirs of deceased had pardoned him and they wanted to record their statements before the court. He said the trial court rejected his compromise with other sides and re-issued his death warrants. He said he would be executed on January 19. Initially Lahori was to be executed on January 8 but his execution was deferred at the last moment at the Kot Lakhpat Jail, Lahore, after his family informed the judicial magistrate, present at the spot, that the aggrieved party had pardoned him.
The reported settlement was referred back to the ATC for its confirmation but the judge on January 12 scrapped the settlement as out of eight family members of Abbas, his two brothers and a sister appeared before the judge. Lahori was handed down death sentence in 2001 by a special anti-terrorism court of Faisalabad for murdering Nayyar Abbas.