巴基斯坦軍隊擊斃多名武裝分子大綱

Pakistan Targets Militants After School Massacre

Pakistani officials say jets and ground forces have killed 58 militants days after Taliban fighters attacked a school in the northwestern city of Peshawar, killing 149 people, mostly children.

As Pakistan began a third day of mourning, the troops ambushed and killed at least 50 militants in Khyber near the Afghan border. Another eight were killed in southwestern Baluchistan province, including a senior Taliban commander.

The massacre at the military-run school in Peshawar Tuesday shocked the world and prompted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to lift a moratorium on the death penalty.

On Thursday, the head of Pakistan's military signed the death warrants for six “hard-core terrorists.”

The army did not release the names of the convicts and local media reported they would only be identified after their death.

The warrants cannot be appealed, and the prisoners are expected to be hanged within days.

The convicts are said to be linked to attacks including a militant raid on the Pakistan military headquarters in Rawalpindi and assassination attempts against former President Pervez Musharraf.

Human rights advocacy groups Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have condemned Mr. Sharif's decision. Amnesty called it a "a knee-jerk reaction which does not get at the heart of the problem."巴基斯坦官員說，巴基斯坦戰機和地面部隊擊斃了58名激進分子。星期二，塔利班武裝分子襲擊白沙瓦一所軍隊管理的學校，殺害了149人，其中大部分是學生。

在巴基斯坦開始第三天的全國悼念之際，政府軍在阿富汗邊境附近附近開伯爾的提拉山谷伏擊並打死至少50名激進分子。還有8名激進分子在俾路支省被擊斃，其中包括一名塔利班高級指揮官。

星期二發生在白沙瓦學校的屠殺事件震驚了世界，隨後巴基斯坦總理謝里夫撤銷了對死刑的暫停令。

星期四，巴基斯坦軍隊首腦簽發了針對6名恐怖組織核心成員的死刑執行令。

巴基斯坦軍方沒有透露這6名激進分子的姓名。當地媒體報道說，只有在他們死後才公佈姓名。

死刑執行令不容上訴，預計這些罪犯將在幾天內被處以絞刑。

據稱這些罪犯與襲擊事件有關，包括激進分子襲擊拉瓦爾品第的巴基斯坦軍事總部以及針對前總統穆沙拉夫的暗殺企圖。

國際特赦組織和人權觀察指責謝里夫的決定。國際特赦說，這種“本能反應”，並未觸及問題的實質。