“Four militants involved in the attack on the APS School were hanged this morning in Kohat prison,” a Peshawar security official said.
A Kohat police official named the militants as Maulvi Abdus Salam, Hazrat Ali, Mujeebur Rehman and Sabeel, alias Yahya. The army on Monday issued a black warrant confirming their executions were imminent.
The hangings were confirmed by a prison official, who said the militants had held a final meeting with their families on Tuesday night.
The hangings come nearly a year after the December 16 attack by Taliban gunmen on the army-run school in Peshawar, the country`s deadliest ever extremist attack, in which the majority of the victims were children.
The attack shocked and outraged Pakistan, already scarred by nearly a decade of unrest, and prompted a crackdown on extremism, with the establishment of military courts and the resumption of capital punishment after a six-year moratorium.
The militants` bodies will be handed over to the families shortly, the Kohat police official said.