Islamabad: Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari on Monday directed the Adiala jail authorities to delay the death sentence of seven prisoners.
According to Deputy Superintendent Adiala jail, the seven prisoners, who were to face death penalty in few days, had requested for presidential pardon.
The jail administration received a letter from the President House on Monday to stop the death sentence of the seven prisoners for three months.
Two months earlier, Sindh Minister for Law, Parliamentary Affairs and Prisons, Ayaz Soomro had stated that the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) would not execute the death penalty against any prisoner in the jails of the province.
“No convict of death sentence will be hanged until the PPP government is in office up to March, 2013,” he had asserted.
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