PAKISTAN. TWO MEN HANGED FOR MURDER
May 19, 2006: two men were hanged till death in Faisalabad Jail in Pakistan. One of the men, Asghar Ali, had been sentenced to death by the Speedy Trial Court in Lahore for shooting dead Haji Saleem and Tahir Javed during a robbery in Faisalabad in 1992. The second man, Muzaffar Iqbal, had been convicted by the Lahore Anti-Terrorism Court of shooting dead his father in the Jaranwala court premises during a family dispute. (Sources: Pakistan Press International Information Services, 19/05/2006)
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