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Nine People Sentenced to Death in Pakistan for Terrorism-Related Crimes

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Pakistani Chief of Army Staff confirmed death sentences to nine people involved in criminal cases related to terrorism.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — A military court in Pakistan has sentenced nine people to death for crimes related to terrorism, the Inter Services Public Relations said Friday in a press release.

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"Today, Chief of Army Staff confirmed death sentences awarded to another 9 hardcore terrorists, who were involved in committing heinous offenses relating to terrorism…," the press release by the body headed by Lt. Gen. Asim Saleem Bajwa said.

One of the convicted is said to be a member of the Taliban Islamic movement, Muhammad Ghauri, who was involved in an attack on Parade Lane Mosque in 2009, when at least 38 people were killed.

The ban on the death penalty was lifted in Pakistan in December 2014, after four militants conducted a deadly attack on students at a military school in the Pakistani city of Peshawar. The militants were executed in Islamabad.

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