PAKISTAN: MAN HANDED DEATH PENALTY FOR SLAUGHTERING FIVE

An Additional Sessions Judge in Attock on 20 February 2020 handed a man death sentence on five counts for slaughtering five members of a family in Jatial village in Hazro on 14 June 2018. Alishia Masih left her husband Hanook Masih and contracted marriage in Lahore with Wasim after converting to Islam. In the absence of Wasim, Hanook Masih entered his house and killed his ex-wife Alishia and Wasim’s first wife Naila as well and his three sons – Hassan, 8, Kashan, 6, and Usman, 4.