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Pakistan Hangs Two Terrorism Convicts


Pakistani soldiers patrol outside the central jail in Multan on January 7.
Pakistani soldiers patrol outside the central jail in Multan on January 7.

Pakistan on January 7 hanged two men sentenced to death by an antiterrorism court, bringing to nine the number of executions since last month's lifting of a moratorium on capital punishment.

The two, who were sentenced to death in 2002, were reportedly members of banned Islamist militant group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and had been found guilty of murder.

They were hanged in the southern city of Multan.

Pakistan lifted a six-year moratorium on the death penalty in terrorism cases following a Taliban attack that killed 142 children and nine staff at an army-run school in the city of Peshawar on December 16.

On January 6, parliament approved the use of military courts to hear terrorism-related cases in a bid to speed up hearings.

The country's notoriously slow civil court procedures often delays justice for years.

Based on reporting by AFP and dpa
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