Summary Akramul Haq was scheduled to be executed today at Kot Lakhpat Jail in Lahore.
LAHORE (Web Desk) – Death row convict Akramul Haq alias Aka Lahore’s execution was stopped when the complainant family agreed on Thursday to pardon him, Dunya News reported.
The prisoner involved in murder of Nayyar Abbas in Shorkot area in 2001 was sentenced to death by an anti-terrorism court in Faisalabad.
He was scheduled to be executed today at Kot Lakhpat Jail in Lahore but the respondents submitted pardon accord to the magistrate hours before the scheduled time of execution.
Death warrants of the convict were issued on Monday.
Defense lawyer Ghulam Mustafa said that Akramul Haq’s case will now be heard by the anti-terrorism court in Faisalabad.
The government reinstated the death penalty last month after militants attacked a school in Peshawar and killed 150 people, most of them children.
So far, nine convicted terrorists have been sent to the gallows.
