Islamabad, March 13 (IANS): Two death row Pakistani convicts were executed on Friday in Faisalabad Central Jail.

Convicts Akhtar and Muhammad Sajid were found guilty of murder in separate offences, Dawn online reported.

Akhtar had intruded into a house on December 10, 1999 and attempted to rape a woman.
He killed the father-in-law of the victim, who tried to intervene.

Muhammad Sajid had killed a woman, Khursheed Bibi, and injured her husband Azhar on March 12, 2000, in a feud.

Both were sentenced to death in 2001.

Their petitions were turn downed by superior courts and mercy appeals were also rejected by the president.

These were the first executions at the Faisalabad Central Jail. All previous executions had taken place in the city's district jail.

Initially executions were resumed for terrorism offences in the wake of a Taliban massacre at an army-run school in Peshawar which claimed more than 150 lives, mostly school children on December 16, 2014.

Pakistan lifted its moratorium on the death penalty in all capital cases on March 10.