Pakistani Terrorist Executions

Five "hardcore" Pakistani terrorists have been handed down the death penalty by military courts for committing heinous terror offences and the army chief on Thursday confirmed their sentences, a week after 11 Taliban terrorists were given the capital punishment.

Yakub Memon -- who was convicted for playing a crucial role in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts -- was executed today by the same constable who had carried out the hanging of Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab in Pune's Yerwada jail three years ago.

Pakistan on Wednesday hanged two men sentenced to death by an anti-terrorism court, taking the number of executions to nine since the country lifted a moratorium on capital punishment after last month's Taliban school massacre.

A draft of amendments for trying enemy combatants and hardcore terrorists involved in execution, abetting, and financing mass murders was presented to Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Saturday.

A top Pakistani official has said the government has fast-tracked the execution of terrorists following reports that the convicts are in contact with their accomplices across the country and planning new attacks.

Four Pakistani terror convicts on death row were reportedly executed at a jail in Faisalabad today, after the government ended a moratorium on the death penalty earlier this week.

DMK chief M Karunanidhi has appealed for the death penalty to be abolished. Earlier this month, Afzal Guru from Kashmir was hanged for his role in 2001's deadly attack on Parliament. In November, Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab was executed for the 26/11 strikes in Mumbai in which 166 people were killed.

Ajmal Kasab was hanged at 7.30 am today, five days before the fourth anniversary of the 26/11 Mumbai attacks. Kasab was the lone terrorist captured. The other nine Pakistani men who had sneaked into Mumbai with him to lay siege to the city were killed, but not before they had murdered 166 people across the city in nearly three days.

Supreme Court judges will tomorrow hear excerpts of phone conversations between the men who executed the 26/11 terror attacks and their Pakistani handlers.

Five "hardcore" Pakistani terrorists have been handed down the death penalty by military courts for committing heinous terror offences and the army chief on Thursday confirmed their sentences, a week after 11 Taliban terrorists were given the capital punishment.

Yakub Memon -- who was convicted for playing a crucial role in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts -- was executed today by the same constable who had carried out the hanging of Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab in Pune's Yerwada jail three years ago.

Pakistan on Wednesday hanged two men sentenced to death by an anti-terrorism court, taking the number of executions to nine since the country lifted a moratorium on capital punishment after last month's Taliban school massacre.

A draft of amendments for trying enemy combatants and hardcore terrorists involved in execution, abetting, and financing mass murders was presented to Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Saturday.

A top Pakistani official has said the government has fast-tracked the execution of terrorists following reports that the convicts are in contact with their accomplices across the country and planning new attacks.

Four Pakistani terror convicts on death row were reportedly executed at a jail in Faisalabad today, after the government ended a moratorium on the death penalty earlier this week.

DMK chief M Karunanidhi has appealed for the death penalty to be abolished. Earlier this month, Afzal Guru from Kashmir was hanged for his role in 2001's deadly attack on Parliament. In November, Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab was executed for the 26/11 strikes in Mumbai in which 166 people were killed.

Ajmal Kasab was hanged at 7.30 am today, five days before the fourth anniversary of the 26/11 Mumbai attacks. Kasab was the lone terrorist captured. The other nine Pakistani men who had sneaked into Mumbai with him to lay siege to the city were killed, but not before they had murdered 166 people across the city in nearly three days.

Supreme Court judges will tomorrow hear excerpts of phone conversations between the men who executed the 26/11 terror attacks and their Pakistani handlers.