Islamabad- The Independent Human Rights Commission of Pakistan said government has resumed executions on Monday, with the hangings of two convicted murderers, following a temporary moratorium for the fasting month of Ramadan.
It said the two were hanged at a prison in the central city of Multan.
The commission noted that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had ordered the authorities to halt all hangings out of respect for Ramadan, the most revered month of the Islamic calendar during which Muslims fast from dawn to dusk.
Ramadan ended on July 18.
It said Pakistan lifted a six-year moratorium on the death penalty in December 2014 after Taliban militants killed 136 children at a school in the north-western city of Peshawar.
The commission said government said the decision was part of a plan to deter Islamist militants, but fewer than 25 terrorism convicts have been among the 180 executed so far.
Meanwhile, a court in the southern city of Karachi issued a death warrant against a prisoner whose family said he was 14 when convicted for murder.
The court official said Shafqat Hussain, who was arrested for kidnapping and killing a child half his age in 2004, was set to be hanged on August 4,.
He explained that his scheduled hanging was postponed four times after several international rights groups urged the government to determine his age at the time of the crime.
The official added that the death warrants were issued for the fifth time after a government inquiry in May concluded that Hussain was 23 at the time of his arrest. (dpa/NAN)