Pakistan, July 10 -- LAHORE - The Lahore High Court (LHC) has rejected the appeal of Sagheer Hussain, a convicted murderer serving a 100-year sentence, who sought early release by challenging the calculation of his prison term.

Justice Amjad Rafiq issued an 11-page detailed judgment, stating that Sagheer's sentence, reduced from three death penalties to life imprisonments by the Supreme Court, must be served consecutively. The convict also received another life sentence under separate sections, totaling a 100-year imprisonment.

The court highlighted that Sagheer has been in jail since 1989 and has already received 59 years of sentence remission. However, he still has four and a half years left. His appeal, which requested that his 1.5 y...