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Pakistan Kills 67 Militants, Revives Death Penalty After School Massacre

HeadlineDec 19, 2014

Pakistani jets and ground forces have killed 67 accused militants in a northwestern area near Peshawar, where the Taliban killed 148 people, most of them children, in a school attack this week. Pakistan has also revived the death penalty for terrorism-related cases following the massacre, ending a six-year moratorium. Thousands of convicted terrorists now face execution, some of them within days.

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