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December 19, 2014

Pakistan Kills 67 Militants, Revives Death Penalty After School Massacre 
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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.