[DAWN] LAHORE: Death row prisoner Ikramul Haq alias Lahori, whose execution was deferred by anti-terrorism court a few days back, was hanged at Kot Lakhpat Central Jail on Saturday.Haq was executed at 6:30am after the court rejected the compromise between his family and the relatives of the man he murdered in 2001.
Ikramul Haq Lahori was convicted by Faisalabad
...formerly known as Lyallpur, the third largest metropolis in Pakistain, the second largest in Punjab after Lahore. It is named after some Arab because the Paks didn't have anybody notable of their own to name it after...
ATC for his involvement in killing of Nayyar Abbas of Shorkot on sectarian basis. He was a resident of Jhang district.
Some TV channels reported him member of a band outfit, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ...
, but the police denied his association with the organization. It said the accused was booked under murder and terrorism charges.
Lahori was awarded death sentence in 2004 and the court issued his black warrants on Jan 6, 2014 when President Mamnoon Husain turned down his mercy petition.
Earlier, Haqs execution was scheduled for Jan 8 but his family members approached a first-class magistrate in jail few minutes before his hanging and produced an amnesty affidavit of the complainant pardoning the convict. The magistrate, after viewing the affidavit, ordered the jail authorities to stop the execution and referred the matter to the trial court.
Later, the court rejected the compromise and upheld the decision of death sentence by reissuing the death warrants and fixed the execution on Jan 17.
The convicts family also moved the Lahore High Court (LHC) for the verification of amnesty affidavit. LHC dismissed the petition on the ground that only trail court could verify the affidavit.
The security was beefed up in and around the Kot Lakhpat jail area ahead of the execution. A heavy contingent comprising police, army and rangers personnel were deployed around the jail premises to avert any untoward incident.
Family members of Haq held last meeting with him on Wednesday. The body of the convict was handed over to his brother by jail authorities after the execution.
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif
... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf...
had lifted the moratorium on death penalty on Dec 17 after the attack on Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
s Army Public School that killed more than 140 people including 134 schoolchildren. Since then 20 convicts have been hanged in different areas of the country.