The hangings follow those of two convicted militants on Friday after death warrants for the six men were signed the day before.
"Ghulam Sarwar, Rashid Tipu, Zubair Ahmed and Akhlaq Ahmed have been hanged for an assassination attempt on General Pervez Musharraf," a prison official said Faisalabad said. Akhlaq Ahmed, also known as Russi, was a Russian. Official sources said more would be executed in coming days, some of them in Lahore, the power base of PM Nawaz Sharif.
The government ended the six-year ban on capital punishment for terror-related cases following Tuesday's bloody rampage. But the decision was slammed by human rights groups, with the UN also calling for it to reconsider the move.
"The brutal killers were clearly frightened and sought mercy from the jail staff on their cruel, inhuman and un-Islamic act," the state-run Associated Press of Pakistan (APP) said. "They admitted that their brutal and inhuman acts had finally brought them to the gallows," it added.
Pakistan's military chief on Thursday signed the death warrants for the six militants who were on death row.
On Friday two militants Aqil, alias Doctor Usman, and Arshad Mehmood were hanged in Faisalabad. While Aqil was convicted for an attack on army headquarters in 2009, Arshad was convicted for the assassination attempt on Musharraf in 2003.
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