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Pakistan 'in post-attack executions' Pakistan resumes executions after Peshawar school attack
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Pakistan carries out first executions since PM lifted moratorium, following Peshawar school massacre, reports say Pakistan has carried out two executions, the first since a death penalty moratorium was lifted after a deadly attack on a Peshawar school.
This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version. One of those executed was convicted over an attack on Pakistan's Army HQ in 2009, the other over an assassination attempt on ex-leader Pervez Musharraf.
If you want to receive Breaking News alerts via email, or on a smartphone or tablet via the BBC News App then details on how to do so are available on this help page. You can also follow @BBCBreaking on Twitter to get the latest alerts. The UN had earlier urged Pakistan not to resume its executions.
Some 141 people, mostly children, died in the Taliban attack on the Army Public school in Peshawar.
Pakistan's military carried out operations against Taliban units in areas near the border with Afghanistan on Friday, saying it had killed 59 militants.
'Different crimes'
The two executions were carried out in the central city of Faisalabad late on Friday, officials said.
Pakistani media named the two executed men as Aqeel, alias Dr Usman, and Arshad Mehmood.
Usman was arrested during the raid on the Rawalpindi HQ and sentenced to death in 2011.
Mehmood was sentenced to death over the attempt on Mr Musharraf's life in the same city in 2003.
UN human rights spokesman Rupert Colville had earlier urged Pakistan not to resume executions.
He said: "To its great credit, Pakistan has maintained a de facto moratorium on the death penalty since 2008," he said, adding that those at risk of imminent execution were unconnected to the "premeditated slaughter" in Peshawar.
"We urge the government not to succumb to widespread calls for revenge, not least because those at most risk of execution in the coming days are people convicted of different crimes."
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif lifted the moratorium on executions in terror cases amid outrage at the massacre of the children.
The country's de facto foreign minister, Sartaj Aziz, said the Peshawar attack was his country's own "mini 9/11" and required a sea-change in its fight against terrorism.