HYDERABAD/FAISALABAD: Countdown begun to take eight more convicted terrorists to their logical end as authorities finalised arrangements for execution of the condemned prisoners in Hyderabad and Faisalabad jails, Samaa reported. <br /> <br />Three prisoners are ready to be sent to gallows in Hyderabad, according to Samaa correspondent. <br /> <br />Shahsawar and Shabbir were sentenced to death in PIA plane hijacking case in 1998, whereas Saleem Maseeh was involved in a law-enforcing agency officer’s wife. <br /> <br />Sources said the death row convicts could be hanged at anytime as there death warrants have been received. <br /> <br />In district jail Faisalabad, four terrorists are facing the noose. <br /> <br />Nawaz Ali and Ghulam Nabi were involved in attack on Pervez Musharraf while Mushtaq Ahmed and Abdul Malik were handed down death penalty in Rawalpindi bank attack. <br /> <br />The jail administration has received their death warrants. <br /> <br />Muhammad Nawaz, another death row prisoner, is likely to be sent to gallows in Bahawalpur jail. Nawaz, a resident of Punjab’s Sargodha town, belongs to a banned outfit. He was convicted by Rawalpindi anti-terrorism court for his involvement in sectarian riots and bomb blasts. <br /> <br />Six convicts have been hanged after Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif lifted a moratorium on executions in terror cases, and the military has stepped up operations against insurgent bases in the tribal northwest following massacre of 149 people in Peshawar. <br /> <br />Officials say the government plans to execute around 500 militants in coming weeks. - Samaa
