Islamabad, March 27 (IANS): Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has advised President Mamnoon Hussain to postpone the execution of murder convict Saulat Mirza by a further 30 days, sources told Geo News on Friday.

Death warrants were issued last week for the execution of the triple-murder convict Mirza to be carried out at 5.30 a.m. on April 1 at the Machh jail in Balochistan province.

Mirza is convicted of killing the former managing director of Karachi Electric Supply Corporation (KESC) Shahid Hamid, his driver and guard in July, 1997. He was sentenced to death by an anti-terrorism court (ATC) in May, 1999 for the murders.

Mirza's hanging was earlier postponed, after a video confession surfaced just hours before his scheduled hanging, in which he alleged that he had received orders to assassinate Hamid from the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) party's top leadership.

Following the allegations, the government decided to reopen the murder case of the former KESC top official.