article_snippet: Pakistani officials executed 12 people this morning in the country's single-largest day of executions since a moratorium on the death penalty was lifted in December.
article_snippet: The killings put pressure the government to do more to tackle the Islamist insurgency and the current wave of executions are a continuation of Pakistan's crackdown on Taliban.
article_snippet: Authorities at different jails in the country's largest province of Punjab today hanged 10 people who had been sentenced to death in murder cases, said the provincial Home Minister Shuja Khanzada.
article_snippet: the provincial Home Minister Shuja Khanzada said authorities planned to execute more convicted criminals in the coming weeks, adding: 'authorities have started a process, and a process will continue.'
article_snippet: The superintendent of the main jail in the southern port city of Karachi, Qazi Nazir, said The superintendent of the main jail in the southern port city of Karachi, Qazi Nazir executed two convicted murderers and handed The superintendent of the main jail in the southern port city of Karachi, Qazi Nazir bodies over to The superintendent of the main jail in the southern port city of Karachi, Qazi Nazir families.
article_snippet: Human rights groups estimate Pakistan has roughly 8,000 prisoners on death row.
article_snippet: So far, 39 people have been hanged since December.
article_snippet: More than 40 are scheduled to hang in the next week, an Interior Ministry spokesman said.
article_snippet: There are more than 8,000 Pakistanis on death row.
article_snippet: Some of Pakistan's allies have criticised The executions. '
article_snippet: an Interior Ministry spokesman said of the 12 executed on Tuesday: 'They were not only terrorists, They included the other crimes, some of They were murderers and some did other heinous crimes.'
highlights_snippet: Officials carried out executions of 12 people at jails in Punjab and Karachi .
  
highlights_snippet: Largest number of executions in a single day in Pakistan since moratorium on the death penalty was lifted in December .
  
highlights_snippet: 134 students and 19 adults were savagely killed in the Peshawar massacre .