This is just now! In the News! - ? "MULTAN, Pakistan (Reuters) - Three brothers were hanged in Pakistan Tuesday for murdering two brothers from another family after a dispute over less than three dollars, officials said.

President Pervez Musharraf had rejected mercy appeals from the condemned men who were executed in Mianwali prison in central Punjab province.

Prison superintendent Munir Ahmed Kahloon told Reuters a court convicted the brothers of stabbing the two men to death after a dispute erupted over a 155 rupee ($2.69) payment for a tape recorder.

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