ISLAMABAD // Nawaz Sharif has asked Pakistan authorities to temporarily suspend the implementation of the death penalty during the holy month of Ramadan.
A statement released by the Pakistan prime minister’s office late Thursday said Mr Sharif ordered a pause to observe “the sanctity of the holy month”.
The prime minister partially lifted Pakistan’s moratorium on executions in December specifically for terrorism-related cases following the Taliban attack on a school in the city of Peshawar that left 150 people dead.
He later lifted it entirely and since then about 150 inmates have been hanged in Pakistan.
* Agence France-Presse
