MULTAN, Pakistan - Four brothers were hanged on Tuesday at a prison in central Pakistan for slaughtering 13 members of their own family over a land dispute, officials said. The four were executed in the central city of Multan after President Pervez Musharraf rejected their plea for clemency, jail superintendent Mubashar Malik said, adding the bodies were handed over to their mother.
The brothers, named as Khuda Bakhsh, Muhammad Asghar, Muhammad Akram and Muhammad Iqbal, were convicted of the murderous rampage in 1999 after their uncle refused to sell a plot of land, police said. Their 13 victims included women and a three-month-old baby, police said.
Their father was arrested with them, but died in prison during the trial. PakistanÂ’s Supreme Court and Lahore High Court had both turned down appeals by the four brothers. |