The militants who were hanged had no links to the Taliban assault on the military school in the city of Peshawar, which is the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, not far from the border with Afghanistan. READ MORE: ‘Gunman was pumping bullets into bodies’: Eyewitnesses describe Pakistan school siege There had been a moratorium on the death penalty in Pakistan; however this was lifted after the massacre of 148 people on December 16, the vast majority of whom were children. Mohammed Aqeel and Arshad Mehmood were the first prisoners to be sentenced to death following the lifting of the...
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