Seven death row convicts were executed in jails across Pakistan's Punjab province on Tuesday, a media report said.Amjad Ali was hanged in Sargodha District jail. He was sentenced to death in 2002 for killing two women and a child, Dawn online reported.Two convicts, Iftikhar and Asif, were sent to the gallows in Faisalabad Central Jail for committing murders. Iftikhar had killed a man in 2001 and was sentenced to death in 2004. Asif was sentenced to death in 1998 for killing a man earlier that year. Sher Ali, who was executed in Lahore Central Jail, was sentenced to death in 2001 for killing a man over a personal feud.Noor Ahmed was hanged in Toba Tek Singh District Jail for murdering six people of his family, including his father and brother. The killings took place over a land dispute in 2006.
Ishaq was executed in Sahiwal District Jail. He was sentenced to death in 2002 for killing a man in 1994. Mohammad Nawaz was hanged in Gujranwala Central Jail for the murder of a man in 1999. He was sentenced to death in 2001.Pakistan lifted its moratorium on the death penalty in all capital cases on March 10.Initially, executions were resumed for terrorism offences only in the wake of a Taliban massacre at an army-run school in Peshawar which had claimed the lives of more than 140 students and staff on December 16, 2014.The UN, the European Union, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have called on Pakistan to reimpose its moratorium on the death penalty.