Pakistan plans to execute 500 terror convicts in coming weeks: officials

MONDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2014
Pakistan plans to execute 500 terror convicts in coming weeks: officials

ISLAMABAD (AFP) - Pakistan plans to execute around 500 militants in coming weeks, officials said Monday, after the government lifted a moratorium on the death penalty in terror cases following a Taliban school massacre.

Six militants have been hanged since Friday amid rising public anger over Tuesday's slaughter in the northwestern city of Peshawar, which left 149 people dead, most of them children.