(ANSA) - Islamabad, December 22 - Pakistan plans in coming
weeks to execute nearly 500 people after lifting a moratorium on
carrying out the death penalty, officials said Monday.
Islamabad announced the moratorium on the death penalty
being carried out for terrorism convictions had been ended
following the massacre of children by the Taliban at a school in
Peshawar.
The moratorium had been in force since 2008.
Pakistan plans 500 executions for terror in coming weeks
Moratorium on death penalty lifted after Taliban school attack