Pakistan hangs 100th convict

Pakistan yesterday carried out its 100th execution since lifting a moratorium on the death penalty last December, in what rights group Amnesty International described as a "shameful milestone". Hangings resumed after the country's bloodiest-ever militant attack, in which the Taliban gunned down 154 people -- mostly children -- at a school in the northwest. Amnesty estimates that Pakistan has more than 8,000 prisoners on death row.