The Human Rights Watch has condemned the execution of two convicted militants by Pakistan as "a craven politicised reaction to the Peshawar killings" that left 149 people dead.
The group said that Pakistan indulged in "vengeful blood-lust" instead of prosecuting the attackers behind the Peshawar massacre, reported Dawn News.
Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif relinquished the six-year ban on death penalty in terror related cases two days after the Peshawar school attack wherein two militants convicted of separate terrorism offences were executed.
One of the militants, Aqil was convicted for an attack on the army headquarters in Rawalpindi in 2009 and another named Arshad Mehmood was convicted for his involvement in a 2003 assassination attempt on former military ruler General Pervez Musharraf.
Officials said that there would be up to ten more executions in the coming days.
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