Islamabad: Pakistani Army Chief General Raheel Sharif on Thursday confirmed the death sentence for seven terrorists convicted by military courts, the public relations wing of the military announced.
According to the statement the convicts were involved in attacks on citizens and personnel of police and armed forces, and other terrorist activities.
The convicts were identified as Mohammad Qasim Toori, Abid Ali, Mohammad Danish, Syed Jahangir Haider, Zeeshan, Mutahar Khan, and Rehmanud Din. They belonged to different banned groups including Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan.
Around a dozen special military courts were set up after the December 2014 terrorist attack on an army run public shool in which over 130 students were killed.
Moratorium lifted
The tribunals have so far awarded capital punishment to well over 100 men tried on charges of invovement in heinous terror acts.
The government had also lifted a six-year moratorium on executions following the school carnage in northwestern provincial capital of Peshawar.
The convicted terrorists were involved in attacks on citizens and personnel of police and armed forces, and other terrorist activities besides sectarian killings. The military courts award death sentences to most wanted terrorists.
Most of the convicts were found to be in possession of firearms and explosives.
— With inputs from agencies
