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Monday 22 Dec 2014 - 12:32 Makkah mean time-30-2-1436  Islamabad (IINA) – Pakistan executed four convicted militants on Sunday, as Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif sought to show he was getting tough on terror after Taliban militants slaughtered more than 130 children at a school last week in Peshawar, Financial Times reported.
The hanging of the four men, all convicted in connection with a failed 2003 assassination attempt on former military ruler Pervez Musharraf, came just two days after Pakistan executed two other convicted terrorists.
The four men hanged on Sunday, and one of the men hanged on Friday, were all convicted for their involvement in an Al-Qaeda inspired assassination attempt on Musharraf.
Sharif declared the end of the unofficial embargo on executions last week, a day after six Taliban militants massacred more than 140 people, including 132 children, a number of teachers and the principal of an army school in Peshawar.
A senior member of Sharif’s party, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, told the FT on condition of anonymity that the executions are intended to send a tough message to militant groups. People who choose to kill will be executed, he said. There will be a body for every innocent body being killed.
Senior police officials told the Financial Times that further executions were expected in the coming days in Pakistan, where about 500 people convicted of terrorism offensives were said to be on death row.
Pakistan is already braced for the potential retaliation from Taliban militants following a series of air strikes and ground operations against fighters in the northwestern tribal regions late last week. Scores of militants were reportedly killed in the government offensive.
SM/IINA
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