Summary PM Nawaz said the government is determined to eliminate terrorism from the country.
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) - Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Monday directed the Attorney General and his legal team to make all out efforts to vacate the stay orders against execution of the convicted terrorists.
In a press release, the Prime Minister said there should be no mercy for those killing innocent youth, citizens and children.
The government is determined to eliminate terrorism from the country, he said.
He directed the relevant authorities to pursue the cases of terrorism on fast-track basis.
The government ended a six-year moratorium on the death penalty following a terrorist attack on Army Public School in Peshawar that killed 149 people, most of them children.
Earlier on Sunday, jail authorities in Faisalabad executed four more convicted terrorists. Ghulam Sarwar, Rashid Tipu, Zubair Ahmed and Akhlaq Ahmed have been hanged for an assassination attempt on General Pervez Musharraf.
On December 19, two convicts Aqeel, alias Doctor Usman, and Arshad Mehmood were hanged in Faisalabad jail.
Dr Usman was convicted for an attack on the army headquarters in Rawalpindi in 2009 and was arrested after being injured whereas Arshad Mehmood was convicted for his involvement in the assassination attempt on Musharraf in 2003.
