Four militants executed in Pakistan

In the latest hangings since it lifted a moratorium on death penalty last year following the Peshawar school carnage, Pakistan on Tuesday executed four militants involved in major crimes.

Chief of the Army Staff General Raheel Sharif had signed their black warrants earlier this month after a military court gave them death penalty.

They were convicted for killing of innocent people, suicide bombing, training and providing assistance to suicide bombers, kidnapping for ransom and funding terrorists' organisations.

Pakistan lifted moratorium on executions in December 2014 after the Taliban attacked a school, killing 150 people, mostly students. There are about 8,000 death row prisoners in Pakistan.