Terrorists must go to the gallows: moratorium on execution of death penalty lifted

Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif Wednesday, lifting moratorium on executions, allowed capital punishment for those sentenced to death in cases of terrorism. "The Prime Minister has approved abolishment of a moratorium on the execution of death penalty in terrorism-related cases," a Prime Minister's Office's statement said.
The Prime Minister took the important step in the wake of a terrorist attack on a school in Peshawar on Tuesday that killed around 140 people, most of them children. There was a moratorium on executions in the country since 2008.