Islamabad – Pakistan’s prime minister, Nawaz Sharif asked the president, Hussain Mamnoon on Thursday to reject the mercy pleas of four militants on death row for their role in a school massacre in 2014.
At least 150 people, mainly pupils, were killed in December when Taliban militants stormed an army run school in the north-western city of Peshawar.
Pakistan lifted its moratorium on the death penalty after the attack and has since hanged more than 300 convicts.
The four were convicted by special military courts created after the attack for the speedy trial of militants.
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The president has the power to pardon the convicts under certain circumstances but Sharif advised Mamnoon to reject the mercy petitions of all four convicted terrorists,” a government statement said.
“The brutal and merciless killings of our children convinced us that the perpetrators of such crimes do not deserve any mercy,” it said. (dpa/NAN)
