Pakistan has carried out two executions, the first since a death penalty moratorium was lifted after a deadly attack on a Peshawar school.
Sang MIO - One of those executed was convicted over an attack on Pakistan's Army HQ in 2009, the other over an assassination attempt on ex-leader Pervez Musharraf.
The UN had earlier urged Pakistan not to resume its executions.
Some 141 people, mostly children, died in the Taliban attack on the Army Public school in Peshawar.
Pakistani media named the two executed men as Aqeel, alias Dr Usman, and Arshad Mehmood.
Usman was arrested during the raid on the Rawalpindi HQ and sentenced to death in 2011.
Mehmood was sentenced to death over the attempt on Mr Musharraf's life in the same city in 2003.
UN human rights spokesman Rupert Colville had earlier urged Pakistan not to resume executions.
He said: "To its great credit, Pakistan has maintained a de facto moratorium on the death penalty since 2008, and we urge the government not to succumb to widespread calls for revenge, not least because those at most risk of execution in the coming days are people convicted of different crimes, and can have had nothing to do with Wednesday's premeditated slaughter."
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