Pakistan executes 10 convicted murderers
Judicial officials in Pakistan say ten convicted murderers have been executed in the country in another wave of capital punishments.
The executions were carried out on Tuesday in two prisons in the provinces of Punjab and Sindh.
This came after the government lifted a six-year-old moratorium on the capital punishment following an attack on December 16, 2014, when a group of pro-Taliban militants stormed an army-run school in the city of Peshawar and killed about 150 people, including 132 students.
The militants of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan claimed responsibility for the assault, saying it was carried out in retaliation for the Pakistani army’s major military offensive in the North Waziristan tribal area, which borders Afghanistan.
Reports say Islamabad hanged 37 people, most of them militants, since the moratorium was lifted on December 17.
According to an estimation of human rights group Amnesty International, more than 8,000 prisoners are on death row in Pakistan.
Pakistan has witnessed major militant attacks over the past few years.
The Pakistani army also started an operation against militant hideouts in North Waziristan in June 2014 after a deadly raid on the Karachi International Airport ended the government’s faltering peace talks with pro-Taliban militants.
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