Four militants involved in the Peshawar Army Public School attack in December 2014 were hanged on Wednesday in Pakistan’s Kohat district.
Four militants involved in the Peshawar Army Public School attack in December 2014 were hanged on Wednesday in Pakistan’s Kohat district.
The hanging came two days after Army Chief Raheel Sharif signed the black warrants of Maulvi Abdus Salam, Hazrat Ali, Mujeebur Rehman and Sabeel alias Yahya nearly a year after the horrific massacre.
This was the first such sentence endorsed by the Army Chief after an order of the Supreme Court on August 2015, which gave legal cover to the establishment of military courts.
The move came after President Mamnoon Hussain rejected the clemency appeals of the four convicts on the advice of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on November 20.
Earlier, a military court sentenced all four terrorists to death after the government lifted the moratorium on the penalties in the country under the National Action Plan.
Survivors of the assault, in which the majority of the more than 150 victims were children, said they were “happy” to hear of the executions, with one father saying the hangings should have been carried out in public squares rather than behind prison doors.
The attack, that sent Pakistan into shock, was its deadliest.
