Associated Press
ISLAMABAD — Pakistani officials say authorities have hanged seven condemned prisoners in four different prisons across the country including one convicted of killing two police officers outside a U.S. consulate.
Officials say the executions took place in prisons in Karachi, Sukkur, Faisalabad and Rawalpindi early Tuesday.
Zulfiqar Ali was convicted of killing the police officers at the U.S. consulate in Karachi in 2003. Two of the others were involved in a failed attack on former ruler, Gen. Pervez Musharraf. Three were convicted of killing a defense ministry official while the last was convicted of killing a lawyer.
Pakistan imposed a moratorium on the death penalty in 2008. It waived that moratorium — specifically in terrorism-related cases — last month after a Dec. 16 attack at a Peshawar school killed 150 people.