QUETTA – The Balochistan Home Department issued the black warrants of three condemned prisoners in Central Jail Machh.
Sources in the Home Department told that the black warrants of condemned prisoners were sent to the Machh jail administration on Monday for execution. The condemned prisoners include Muhammad Musa, Ali Gul and Akhtar Muhammad.
The Jail Superintendent had been asked to fix the date for execution of the condemned prisoners within seven days.
Superintendent Machh Jail Ishaq Zehri told DawnNews that Akhtar Muhammad from Killa Abdullah district would be executed on May 19, while Muhammad Musa and Ali Gul would be hanged on May 20.
The mercy petitions of the prisoners were rejected by President Mamnoon Hussain previously. The condemned prisoners were convicted by anti-terrorism courts in Quetta for various murder cases.
Since the lifting of the moratorium on the death penalty last year, three condemned prisoners have been executed in Machh Jail Quetta, Zehri said.
On Tuesday morning at 4:30 am, former Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) worker and high profile prisoner Saulat Mirza was hanged in Machh jail.
Sources in the Balochistan Prisons Department told that the number of condemned prisoners in the province was 90.
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