PM advises president to reject mercy petitions of four APS terrorists

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ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister of Pakistan Mian Mohammad Nawaz Sharif has advised President Mamnoon Hussain to reject the mercy petition of four convicted terrorists involved in Army Public School attack on December 16, 2014.

The ‘terrorists’ were sentenced to death by military courts.

While performing his constitutional obligation under Article 105 of the Constitution, the premier said Pakistan has changed after the Peshawar tragedy.

He said “the brutal and merciless killing of our children convinced us that the perpetrators of such crimes do not deserve any mercy.”

Immediately after the Army Public School tragedy, the ban lifted from the executions and till now more than 250 murder convicts were hanged in various jails of Pakistan.