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Death penalty ban ends in terror cases

PESHAWAR: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif today lifted a self-imposed moratorium on death penalty in terror related cases, a day after ruthless Taliban militants massacred at least 132 students and 16 staffers at an army-run school in Peshawar.



Peshawar, December 17

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif today lifted a self-imposed moratorium on death penalty in terror related cases, a day after ruthless Taliban militants massacred at least 132 students and 16 staffers at an army-run school in Peshawar.

Prime Minister Sharif told an All Parties Conference here that the moratorium on death penalty has been lifted.

“Yesterday’s incident is extremely tragic,” he told the political leaders. “These sacrifices will not go wasted and we all want complete elimination of terrorism from Pakistan.” An official from the Prime Minister’s office in Islamabad said that Sharif abolished the moratorium on death penalty in terrorism-related cases.

Sharif said, “We have proposed terror cases should be expedited.” “If terrorists are not punished, then who will be punished?” he quipped. — PTI

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