Pakistan President Mamnoon Hussain today rejected the mercy pleas of six death-row prisoners from the southern Sindh province.
Following the decision, the Sindh Home Department ordered the IG Prisons to take measures to execute the convicts, said an official.
All six cases were from Sindh and their appeals for clemency were sent to the President by the provincial home department.
The prisoners include Achar alias Bhai Khan, Abdul Aziz, Bashir Ahmed, Muhammad Faisal, Muhammad Afzal and Munwar Ali.
The rejection of mercy pleas removed the last legal hurdle in the execution of these prisoners, the official said.
Pakistan has already executed at least 22 people since lifting the moratorium on death sentence after the December 16 attack at Peshawar school that killed 150 people, including 136 students.
There are more than 8,000 death row prisoners in the country.
