Four terror convicts executed in Pakistan

Islamabad, Dec 21: Four prisoners, convicted for attacking former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf, were executed Sunday at a district jail in Faisalabad. Zubair Ahmed, Rasheed Qureshi, Ghulam Sarwar Bhatti and Russian citizen Akhlaque Ahmed were shifted from the central jail in Faisalabad to another district jail late Saturday to be hanged, Dawn online reported. Similar preparations are underway in Lahore for the execution of four other prisoners in Kot Lakhpat Central Jail. The executions are expected to be carried out within the next one or two days, media reports said. Pakistan has started executing terrorists sentenced to death since a terrorist massacre left over 140 students and teachers dead in a Peshawar school Dec 16.