BROTHERS HANGED FOR KILLING RELATIVES

four brothers were hanged in Pakistan's eastern Punjab province for murdering their relatives eight years ago. Khuda Bukhsh, Mohammad Akram, Mohammad Iqbal and Mohammad Asghar were executed at the Multan central prison, police officer Afsar Khan told Reuters. He said the brothers, along with their father, slaughtered 13 of their relatives including women over a land dispute near Multan in 1999. A court sentenced the four a year later but the father died in custody before the conviction. "All of their appeals were rejected as there was solid evidence against
them and also nobody left in the deceased family to pardon them," Khan said. Under Islamic law, Pakistani courts can set aside the death penalty if the heirs of a deceased person pardon a murderer.