PAKISTAN. THREE PEOPLE SENTENCED TO DEATH ON SAME DAY
March 1, 2006: the Sialkot Additional District and Session Court, Pakistan, sentenced to death on counts, with a fine of 300,000 rupees each, Ali Raza alias Muna and Moazzam Shehzad after convicting them of double murder.
According to the prosecution, the two killed Zeeshan and Imran Yousuf over a minor dispute in Sialkot on February 28, 2003.
In a separate case, the Daska Additional District and Session Court sentenced to death Mubarak Ali with a fine of 50,000 rupees for killing landlord Shahbaz Ahmad over an old enmity in Moosa Wala-Daska village on June 29, 2004. The judge also awarded life imprisonment to Khizar Hayat, another man involved in the case. (Sources: Pakistan Press International Information Services, 01/03/2006)
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