Four death row convicts were hanged in jails across Pakistan's Punjab Province on Saturday.
According to the Dawn, one convict, Ehsaan, who was sentenced to death by an Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) in 2002 for murder, was executed at Lahore's Kot Lakhpat Central Jail.
A resident of Faisalabad's Millat Colony, Mohammad Saleem, was sent to the gallows at the Faisalabad Central Jail after his death warrant was issued by an ATC.
Abdul Ghaffar from Muzaffargarh was hanged for killing three people, including his wife in 1990.
Mianwali resident Wazir was hanged at the Sahiwal Central Jail for committing a murder in Rajanpur in 1991.
Meanwhile the United Nations, Amnesty International, the European Union and Human Rights Watch have urged the Pakistan Government to re-impose a moratorium on the death penalty.
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