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Pakistan: Moratorium on death penalty lifted

───   13:50 Wed, 17 Dec 2014

Pakistan: Moratorium on death penalty lifted | News Article

Peshawar - The office of Pakistan's Prime Minister has said the moratorium on the death penalty in terror-related cases is expected to end.

AFP reports this comes after Taliban militants killed 132 students at a school in the city of Peshawar in a grisly attack, which has shocked the nation.
 
People around the country lit candles and staged overnight vigils as parents prepared to bury their children during mass funerals in and around the city. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif came to power last year promising to negotiate peace with the Pakistani Taliban - but those efforts failed this year, weakening his position and prompting the army to launch an air-and-ground operation against insurgents along the Afghan border.
 

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