Akhlas Akhlaq

Akhlas Ahmed Akhlaq (July 17, 1981 – December 21, 2014) was a Russian citizen who, in the year 2005, was convicted by Pakistani authorities in a plot to kill the then president and military chief, Pervez Musharraf.

[citation needed] Akhlaq was charged in a military court and found guilty of terrorism in an alleged attempt to murder Pervez Musharraf.

But following the 2014 Peshawar school massacre, it was restored under the current Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Akhlaq was shortly later executed in a jail in the Pakistani city of Faisalabad.

[8] The Russian embassy in Islamabad also stated that they regretted that Pakistani officials failed to inform them their decision to proceed with the death sentence against the accused individual.

[9] It was also rumored that a Russian delegation's visit to Pakistan had been snubbed over the Pakistani government's refusal to respond to the embassy's pleas to allow consular access and assistance to the individual's case.