PESHAWAR, Pakistan: Pakistan on Wednesday hanged a man convicted of attempting to assassinate former military ruler Pervez Musharraf, the seventh execution since the country lifted a moratorium on capital punishment after its bloodiest-ever terror attack, officials said.
“Niaz Mohammad, 40, was executed today and his body was handed over to relatives,” an official at Peshawar’s high-security Central Jail told AFP.
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