PAKISTAN: ANOTHER DEATH ROW CONVICT HANGED IN MULTAN JAIL

A double murder convict was hanged in Multan’s central jail, days ahead of a one-month moratorium imposed on executions in the fasting month of Ramadan.
Khizar Hayat was convicted of murdering his father-in-law and brother-in-law over a dispute in 1997.
Since the de facto ban on capital punishment ended on 17 December 2014, at least 162 people, including twenty-five convicted terrorists, have been executed across the country.
It is a tradition that nobody is executed in the (Islamic) fasting month of Ramadan and an official in the federal interior ministry confirmed that a notification had been issued to halt executions during Ramadan, which in 2015 starts on 18 June and will continue for 30 days until 17 July.