Islamabad, Feb 3 (IANS): The execution of a Pakistani civilian convicted of murder which was scheduled for Tuesday has been deferred for 21 days.
Convict Shoaib Sarwar murdered the son of a police inspector in 1996 over a petty issue. He was later arrested and awarded death sentence in 1998, Dawn online reported.
He has spent a total of 18 years in prison and all his appeals for mercy have been rejected.
On Monday, his family received the news that the president has deferred his execution.
The government lifted a moratorium on executions in terror cases Dec 17, 2014, in the wake of the Peshawar school carnage Dec 16 in which 141 people, mostly school children, were killed.
Earlier in the day, two convicted terrorists affiliated with Lashkar-e-Jhangvi were hanged in Karachi's central jail.