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Pakistan hangs two convicts

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ISLAMABAD, April 7: Two death row convicts were hanged on Tuesday in Pakistan’s Punjab province, a media report said. Jafar, convicted of a dual murder in 1997, was hanged in Sahiwal Central Jail, Dawn reported.

He was sentenced to death in 2000. Jafar was scheduled to be hanged on March 25, 2015 but his execution was held due to an accord.



Tayyab Ghulam Nabi was executed at the Kot Lakhpat Jail in Lahore. He was convicted by a district court in a murder case in 2002.


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