KARACHI: Seven convicted terrorists were hanged in Karachi, Sukkur, Rawalpindi and Faisalabad on Tuesday morning.
The executions came a day after Peshawar Army Public School resumed classes after witnessing a deadly militant attack that saw around 150 people mostly children killed on December 16, prompting the government to lift a moratorium on the capital punishment.
Behram Khan, convicted of a murder, was hanged in a detention facility in Karachi. He was found guilty of having murdered a lawyer in a courtroom in 2003.
Khan was handed down death punishment in 2004 by an anti-terrorism court while his review petitions were also rejected by the the Sindh High Court and the Supreme Court of Pakistan.
Behram Khan was hanged after the President of Pakistan rejected his appeal for clemency.
Similarly, three other prisoners who had been on a death row in Sukker Prison were sent to gallows.