The militant was convicted of killing a retired police officer and his son in an incident of sectarian targeted killing. DESIGN: MUHAMMAD SUHAIB
A Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) militant will be sent to the gallows at the Karachi Central Jail on Thursday morning, becoming the second prisoner in the city to be executed since the government lifted the moratorium on capital punishments.
Central Jail superintendent Kazi Nazeer Ahmed told The Express Tribune that the inmate, Saeed, will be hanged on January 15 at 6:30am.
The militant was convicted of killing a retired police officer and his son in an incident of sectarian targeted killing. In 2001, he was sentenced to death by the anti-terrorism court for killing a retired police official, DSP Syed Sabir Hussain, and his young son, Abid Hussain, in Malir.
After Saeed, there is currently no other prisoner in Karachi for whom black warrants have been issued. Black warrants were issued for the execution of Shafqat Hussain for January 14, but the federal government has stayed his execution. Hussain was sentenced to death by the ATC in 2004 for kidnapping a minor boy.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 15th, 2015.
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