Four death row prisoners hanged in Gujrat, Kasur

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Four death row convicts were sent to gallows in jails of Gujrat and Kasur earlier on Tuesday.

Jail authorities said, three murder convicts belonged to Mandi Bahauddin were hanged in District jail Gujrat. Ghazanfar, Nisar and Mohammad Rana had killed to real brother over an old dispute.

On the other hand a death row convict was executed in District jail Kasur. The murder convict Ikram had killed a person in 1998.

It is pertinent to mention here that, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif lifted the moratorium on the death penalty on December 17, 2014, a day after Taliban gunmen attacked a school and killed 134 students and 19 adults.

The killings put pressure the government to do more to tackle the insurgency. Since then more than 250 death row prisoners, including terrorists and murderers have been hanged in various jails of the country.