“We are relieved that his life has been saved”, Nadeem told Geo News via telephone.
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Diplomats, Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop, and human rights groups called on Indonesia to halt the planned executions when the 72 hour notice was given, but their pleas fell on deaf ears.
The attorney general’s office had said late Wednesday that 14 convicts would be executed “soon”.
Both an Indonesian woman and a man from Pakistan have reportedly asked for clemency, Reuters reported.
Security was stepped up at the Indonesian embassy in Abuja on Thursday as protesters gathered to urge Indonesia to halt the executions.
In a late night tweet Maryam said: “Despite bleak chance of success, PM NS [Nawaz Sharif] chose to make one more attempt to have Zulfiqar’s execution suspended & Alhamdolillah it happened”.
Fourteen drug convicts faced the firing squad in 2015, six in January and another eight in April.
Earlier this morning, Indonesia executed four drug convicts, three of them foreigners, by firing squad.
Last year’s executions were heavily criticized by the worldwide community, with some countries – whose nationals had been put to death – withdrawing ambassadors from Jakarta.
Three of those put to death by firing squad were Nigerians while the fourth one was an Indonesian.
It was not immediately clear when the remaining 10 convicts will be executed, but all of them have been held in isolation cells since last weekend.
The death penalty has been widely accepted by the Indonesian public, but police had to break up a protest outside the prison on Thursday by members of a migrant group who called for mercy for the local woman who was scheduled to be executed.
Indonesia executed four people convicted of drug crimes on Friday despi.
Muhammad Rum, a spokesman for Indonesia’s attorney-general, said the executions are the “implementation of our positive laws” and will not be delayed or stopped.
Kamara also stated that “Indonesian President Joko Widodo will be putting his government on the wrong side of history if he proceeds with a fresh round of executions”. Of the 14, ten are foreign nationals who generally have no adequate interpreting services, the right to a translator or a lawyer at all stages of trial and appeal.
“When this process in not respected, that means that this is no longer a country that upholds the law, nor human rights”, he said.
The president’s office cites figures that drugs are killing at least 40 people a day, but “several global experts have questioned the methodology used to arrive at those statistics”, Reuters says.
The lawyer of Pakistani prisoner Zulfikar Ali earlier told Vaessen that his client was not among those who had reportedly been executed.
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UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein on Wednesday called on Indonesia to end the “unjust” use of the death penalty, while the European Union urged Jakarta to stop the “cruel and inhumane punishment, which fails to act as a deterrent”.
