Four prisoners, convicted for attacking former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf, were executed yesterday at a district jail in Faisalabad.
Zubair Ahmed, Rasheed Qureshi, Ghulam Sarwar Bhatti and Russian citizen Akhlaque Ahmed were shifted from the central jail in Faisalabad to another district jail late Saturday to be hanged, the Dawn online reported.
Family members were allowed to meet the convicts before the hanging.
Strict security measures were put in place with additional contingents of security personnel deployed on the routes leading to the district jail.
Similar preparations are underway in Lahore for the execution of four other prisoners in Kot Lakhpat central jail. The executions are expected to be carried out within the next one or two days, media reports said.
All the roads leading to the detention facility in Lahore have been blocked and mobile phone jammers have been installed around the jail premises.
Over 300 terror suspects, including some foreigners, were nabbed by security agencies in Pakistan’s capital city during joint operations, a media report said yesterday.
Six teams of sniffer dogs, armed personnel carriers, bomb disposal squads and commandos participated in the operations, carried out across Islamabad in the light of intelligence inputs about militant threats, the Dawn reported.
Arms and ammunitions were also recovered in the swoops, carried out by the police, Pakistan Rangers, and intelligence agencies on Saturday.