LAHORE: An anti-terrorism court on Wednesday issued death warrants of two condemned prisoners convicted on terrorism charges.

Presiding judge Muhammad Qasim issued the warrants on an application of superintendent of Faisalabad jail. The superintendent stated that condemned prisoner Faiz Ahmad was awarded death penalty in 2006 for killing Lance Naik Tariq Mahmood in Nankana Sahib. He said the appeal of the convict against the sentence was also dismissed by the superior courts.

He said the second prisoner on death row, Muhammad Sharif, was convicted in 2000 for involvement in various terrorism activities. The jail chief pointed out that mercy petitions of the convicts had also been rejected by President. Therefore, he asked thecourttoissue death warrants of the convicts for their execution. The court allowed the application and issued the death warrants.