PESHAWAR, Pakistan: The authorities executed another convicted terrorist in the Central Jail Peshawar early on Wednesday morning.
Niaz Muhammad, a former Pakistan Air Force (PAF) junior technician, was involved in an attempted suicide attack on former President General Pervez Musharraf in Rawalpindi in December 2003.
The executed terrorist was a resident of Swabi district. He was kept at the Haripur Central Prison until Tuesday, from where he was shifted to the Peshawar Central Prison in a helicopter.
Following his execution, the body was handed over to his family.
A military court awarded Niaz Muhammad death sentence in 2005 for his involvement in an attack on former military ruler Pervez Musharraf near Jhanda Chichi bridge in Rawalpindi on December 14, 2003.
Earlier, six death row convicts had already been hanged till death after Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had lifted a six-year moratorium on death penalty for those convicted for terrorism.
The prime minister allowed the implementation of executions on December 17, a day after the deadly attack on army public school in Peshawar that left 150 persons mostly children killed.
