TOBA TEK SINGH, July 2: The president has for the fourth time ordered postponing the death sentence of a condemned prisoner.

Muhammad Siddique, the guard of a cinema, had been awarded death sentence on three counts by an Anti-Terrorist Court, Faisalabad. Siddique had shot dead four spectators, Rafiq, Nadeem, Muhammad Husain and Nadeem Abbas, for hooting a stage dancer during a stage show at Kamalia in 2004.

His execution was schedule on Wednesday, but the jail authorities were asked to postpone it because reconciliation between the family of condemned prisoner and heirs of the deceased was going on.

RELEASED: District and sessions judge Jalaluddin Akbar ordered releasing some two dozen prisoners involved in minor crimes here on Wednesday.

The judge visited the district jail, heard minor cases against prisoners and ordered their release on personal surety bonds.