DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (Reuters) - The Pakistani Taliban has hanged a military intelligence officer in retaliation for recent executions of militants by Pakistan, the militant Islamist group said in videos released on Sunday. Reuters could not independently authenticate the two videos and a Pakistani military spokesman was not immediately able to comment on them.
Pakistan reinstated the death penalty last December after Taliban gunmen massacred 134 school children. Since then the Taliban have staged several deadly attacks, but the videos of the hanging appear to be the first staged execution of a military officer since the restoration of the death penalty.
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