Islamabad: Two convicted Pakistani terrorists were executed Friday, in the first capital punishment carried out in the country since Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif lifted the 2008 moratorium on the death penalty in wake of the Peshwar school attack.

The executed terrorists were Usman, a former soldier of the Army Medical Corps who was sentenced to death for his role in the 2009 attack in the Pakistan Army headquarters in Rawalpindi and Arshad Mehmood, also a security force personnel, for involvement in an 2003 assassination bid on then military ruler Gen. Pervez Musharraf, Dawn online reported.