MIANWALI, Jan 25: Execution of two brothers and their uncle, who have been convicted of murder, has been postponed for the third time just a day before they are to be taken to the gallows. The jail authorities had made all arrangements on Tuesday night, but on the receipt of stay orders issued by the president secretariat the execution had been postponed for a month.

Reports said Muhammad Khan and Ahmad Sher (two brothers) and their uncle Abdullah, a resident of a Pillo Vains village in Khushab, were to be hanged on Wednesday morning and their last meeting with their parents and members of the family was arranged on Tuesday evening. But the jail authorities received a stay order from the president.

According to a report of the Joar Kalan police station, some 14 people had shot dead four persons over a trivial issue on May 21, 1991. All the accused were awarded death sentence by the Khushab sessions court, but the apex court upheld the death sentence of four and exonerated others.

Muhammad Afzal, 65, died in the jail and the remaining three are counting their breaths.

It is learnt that all efforts for compromise have been turned down by the legal heirs of the deceased and they have written to the DCO and the Khushab sessions judge that they will not compromise with the convicts.

The family, however, is struggling to seek pardon from the aggrieved party.