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Pakistan to execute four rapists

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IANS Islamabad
Last Updated : Apr 20 2015 | 1:02 PM IST

The Pakistani authorities are slated to execute four rapists on Tuesday and Wednesday.

According to officials, the four convicts will be hanged at the Sialkot district jail, Dawn online reported.

Convicts Nauman and Saleem will be executed on Tuesday. Both of them had raped a minor girl in 1999.

Abid Maqsood and Sanaullah will be hanged on April 22. They had gang-raped a 15-year-old girl in 1997.

Pakistan lifted its moratorium on the death penalty in all capital cases on March 10.

Initially, executions were resumed only for terrorism offences in the wake of Taliban massacre at an army-run school in Peshawar which claimed more than 150 lives, mostly school children, on December 16, 2014.

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First Published: Apr 20 2015 | 12:56 PM IST

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