28 Mar 2024
Saturday 17 January 2015 - 16:17
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Pakistan hangs militant involved in Iran diplomat assassination

[caption id="attachment_143756" align="alignright" width="161"] Ikramul Haq alias Lahori[/caption]
A Pakistani militant involved in the assassination of the Iranian cultural attach in Islamabad in 1990 has been hanged in a jail in the Pakistani city of Lahore.
Ikramul Haq alias Lahori, a member of outlawed Lashkar-e-Jhangvi as well as SIpah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP), was executed in Central Jail Lahore also known as Kot Lakhpat early on Saturday.

The militant was sentenced to death by an anti-terrorism court in 2004. He was involved in the killing of Iranian diplomat Sadeq Ganji and a number of other people, including Imtiaz Haider, a brother of former Interior Minister Moinuddin Haider.

His execution was initially scheduled for Thursday, but it was delayed following a compromise agreement reached with the family of one of the victims to pardon him, Pakistani media reported.

Pakistan has resumed executions after Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif rescindeda moratorium on capital punishment in December 2014, in response to anearlier attack by Taliban on a school in Peshawar, which left more than 140 people dead, almost all of them children.

On January 6, Pakistan's parliament approved the establishment of military courts to hear terrorism-related cases.

By Press TV

 

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