Pakistan hangs seven more people in terrorism-related cases

Pakistani early Tuesday hanged seven more people, whom the authorities say had been involved in terrorism-related cases, jail officials said.

Courts had handed down death penalties to the accused in different cities and the Supreme Court and the president had rejected their appeals.

Pakistan lifted a 2008 moratorium on executions last month after Taliban attacked an army-run school and killed 140 children and 10 staff members.

Officials said that death penalties of those convicts are being implemented who had been behind the attacks on security personnel and defence installations.

Two militants -- Mushtaq Ahmed and Nawazish Ali -- were hanged in Faisalabad, an industrial city in Punjab province. They were handed down death penalty for their involvement in a 2003 attack on former President Pervez Musharraf. Musharraf had survived two attacks that had killed several people.

Three members of a banned group -- Shahid Hanif, Muhammad Talha and Khalil Ahmad -- were executed in Sukkur, a main town in southern Sindh province.

One convict Zulfiqar Ali was sent to gallows in a jail of Rawalpindi, near Islamabad, for killing two police officers in the city in 2004.

Jail authorities in Karachi also hanged a man, Behram Khan, for killing a lawyer in 2003 inside a court room. Endi