To the gallows: Black warrant issued for murder convict

The convict, Rashid Nazeer, was sentenced to death after court found him guilty of killing a man in Gulberg in 2000

KARACHI: A sessions court issued on Thursday a black warrant for a condemned prisoner and fixed his execution on October 14.

The convict, Rashid Nazeer, was sentenced to death after the court found him guilty of killing a man in Gulberg in 2000.

The jail authorities informed the court that the appeals of death-row convicts have been dismissed by the higher and superior judiciary.

Nazeer's mercy petition was also turned down. District Central's sessions judge Zeeshan Akhtar Khan issued the black warrant and directed the jail authorities to hang him till death on October 14.

The death row prisoner has been shifted to Kot Lakhpat prison in Lahore to be hanged on the scheduled date, informed the officials.