Pakistan hangs 17 prisoners

Pakistan on Tuesday hanged 17 prisoners, the highest number of executions on a single day since reversing of the country's self-imposed moratorium on the death penalty in December after the Taliban school massacre. The prisoners were executed in different jails of Punjab and Balochistan province.

Sixteen executions were carried out in different jails of Punjab province, including Gujranwala, Faisalabad, Sialkot, Multan, Sahiwal, Gujrat, Lahore and Rawalpindi while one man was hanged in Macch jail of Quetta.

Three convicts Inayatullah, Zafar Iqbal and Muhammad Latif were hanged in Central Jail in Gujranwala. Inayatullah was convicted for the murder of seven people from the same family in Wazirabad. Iqbal and Latif were hanged for shooting four people including one woman. Three men Muhammad Hussain, Nizamuddin and Azam were hanged in Central Jail Faisalabad.