Pakistan considers ban on executions during Ramadan

Pakistani authorities have proposed ban on executions during the Holy month of Ramadan.
Ramadan is the most revered month of the Islamic lunar calendar in which Muslims fast.
An Interior Ministry official said on Thursday on condition of anonymity in Islamabad that though 170 death row inmates have been hanged in 2015, nobody would be sent to gallows during the Ramadan.
Pakistan has been executing convicts since lifting a six-year moratorium on the death penalty after December’s massacre of school children by gunmen with the extremist Islamist Taliban.
The pace of the hangings has drawn widespread criticism from the UN, EU and international rights groups with all calling for a reinstatement of the moratorium.
On Tuesday, the authorities hanged a man who was convicted of murder at the age of 15.
Another death row inmate, whose family insisted he was a teenager at the time of his conviction was awaiting the gallows after his appeals were rejected by the Supreme Court.