MULTAN: Two brothers convicted of murdering six people from the same family were hanged at a jail in Sialkot on Saturday.
According to a `senior officer of the jail, Nasir Mehmood and Tahir Iqbal were hanged for murders in 2002.
“The two were brothers and they killed six members of a family over a land dispute,” said the official.
A six-year moratorium on the death penalty was lifted in Pakistan after Taliban militants gunned down more than 150 people, most of them children, at the Army Public School in Peshawar in December 2014.
Earlier, in a report, Amnesty International declared Pakistan the world’s third most prolific executioner after China and Iran.
