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.