Shafqat Hussain

Pakistan on Tuesday hanged a man whose case triggered an international outcry after his lawyers said he was arrested as a juvenile and tortured into confessing to a murder.

Pakistan executed a convicted child killer Tuesday, brushing aside a storm of protests from rights groups that his confession had been extracted by torture and he was a minor at the time of the crime.

Pakistan is preparing today to hang a convicted killer whose case has attracted international protests because family members say he was a juvenile at the time of the crime.

Pakistan has imposed a one month moratorium on executions during Ramadan, officials said today, providing temporary reprieve for a death row prisoner whose lawyers claim he was a juvenile at the time of the crime.

Pakistan today executed a man who rights groups say was tortured into confessing to a murder committed more than two decades ago, when he was still a minor, prison officials said.

Relatives of a Pakistani death row prisoner said today they "felt a wave of life" when his execution was halted to examine claims he was a juvenile when the crime was committed.

A Pakistani killer was granted a fourth stay of execution today, with campaigners saying his high-profile case will go to the Supreme Court over claims he was a juvenile when the murder was committed and so can not be put to death.

A Pakistani man charged as a child with murder was dressed in a white uniform, ready for hanging, and told to write his will before the execution was postponed, his family said today.

Pakistan's president has postponed an execution scheduled for Thursday of a death row prisoner condemned as a teenager after appeals by human rights groups for a review of his case, officials said.

The family of a Pakistani man charged as a child with murder and due to be hanged made heartrending appeals to the government on Wednesday, complaining of a flawed justice system that allowed months of torture to extract a confession.

Pakistan hanged 12 male convicts on today, an Interior Ministry spokesman said, the largest number of people executed on the same day since an unofficial moratorium on capital punishment was lifted in December.

Pakistan on Wednesday hanged two men sentenced to death by an anti-terrorism court, taking the number of executions to nine since the country lifted a moratorium on capital punishment after last month's Taliban school massacre.

Pakistan on Saturday issued orders to hang six more militants, official said, the latest in a wave of executions in the wake of the Peshawar school massacre, which claimed 149 lives in the country's deadliest terror attack.

Pakistan's main parties on Wednesday suspended campaigning for weekend polls in honour of politician Imran Khan, who was in hospital with head and back injuries after falling at an election rally.

Pakistan on Tuesday hanged a man whose case triggered an international outcry after his lawyers said he was arrested as a juvenile and tortured into confessing to a murder.

Pakistan executed a convicted child killer Tuesday, brushing aside a storm of protests from rights groups that his confession had been extracted by torture and he was a minor at the time of the crime.

Pakistan is preparing today to hang a convicted killer whose case has attracted international protests because family members say he was a juvenile at the time of the crime.

Pakistan has imposed a one month moratorium on executions during Ramadan, officials said today, providing temporary reprieve for a death row prisoner whose lawyers claim he was a juvenile at the time of the crime.

Pakistan today executed a man who rights groups say was tortured into confessing to a murder committed more than two decades ago, when he was still a minor, prison officials said.

Relatives of a Pakistani death row prisoner said today they "felt a wave of life" when his execution was halted to examine claims he was a juvenile when the crime was committed.

A Pakistani killer was granted a fourth stay of execution today, with campaigners saying his high-profile case will go to the Supreme Court over claims he was a juvenile when the murder was committed and so can not be put to death.

A Pakistani man charged as a child with murder was dressed in a white uniform, ready for hanging, and told to write his will before the execution was postponed, his family said today.

Pakistan's president has postponed an execution scheduled for Thursday of a death row prisoner condemned as a teenager after appeals by human rights groups for a review of his case, officials said.

The family of a Pakistani man charged as a child with murder and due to be hanged made heartrending appeals to the government on Wednesday, complaining of a flawed justice system that allowed months of torture to extract a confession.

Pakistan hanged 12 male convicts on today, an Interior Ministry spokesman said, the largest number of people executed on the same day since an unofficial moratorium on capital punishment was lifted in December.

Pakistan on Wednesday hanged two men sentenced to death by an anti-terrorism court, taking the number of executions to nine since the country lifted a moratorium on capital punishment after last month's Taliban school massacre.

Pakistan on Saturday issued orders to hang six more militants, official said, the latest in a wave of executions in the wake of the Peshawar school massacre, which claimed 149 lives in the country's deadliest terror attack.

Pakistan's main parties on Wednesday suspended campaigning for weekend polls in honour of politician Imran Khan, who was in hospital with head and back injuries after falling at an election rally.