A military court in Pakistan has sentenced a top Pakistani Taliban leader Muslim Khan from the Swat region to death for killing 31 people, including civilians and security personnel.
The former spokesman for the terrorists, Khan is among eight terrorists whose death penalty was confirmed by Army Chief Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa.
The military courts were set up in the aftermath of the 2014 Peshawar school massacre. Their term expires next week.
Others whose convictions were confirmed by the Army Chief on Wednesday include four gunmen sentenced for involvement in a 2015 bus massacre of Ismaili Shias in Karachi, and the assassination of social activist Sabeen Mahmud, also in Karachi the same year.