Pakistan hangs seven more terrorists

The executed terrorists were Behram Khan, Shahid Haneef, Muhammad Talha, Khaleel Ahmed, Zulfikar Ali, Mushtaq Ahmed and Nawazish Ali.

Behram Khan was found guilty of killing an advocate in a courtroom of the Sindh High Court in April 2003.

Shahid Haneef, Muhammad Talha and Khaleel Ahmed were found guilty by an anti-terrorism court in Karachi of killing a senior officer in the Defence Ministry in July



2001. Zulfikar Ali was associated with al Qaeda and was convicted of killing two policemen near the U.S. Consulate General in Karachi.

Mushtaq Ahmed and Nawazish Ali were executed for their involvement in a 2003 attempt to kill then president Gen. (retd.) Pervez Musharraf.

On Dec 17, Pakistan lifted a moratorium on the death penalty in terror-related cases following a terrorist attack on the Army Public School in Peshawar on December 16, 2014 in which Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militants killed over 140 people, mostly children.