The hangings took place in the eastern province of Punjab, an Interior Minister official said on the condition of anonymity.
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3 condemned prisoners were executed in New central jail Bahawalpur.
One death row prisoner Muhammad Ashraf was hanged in district jail Attock for killing two persons including father and a son in 2003.
In all cases, the executed men had exhausted their appeals against conviction and the president had also rejected their mercy petitions. None of the nine were convicted of terrorism-related offenses.
Pakistan lifted moratorium on executions in December after the Taliban attacked a school and killed 150 people, mostly students.
Pakistan on Tuesday hanged at least eight men for murder, officials said, bringing the total number of people executed since it lifted a moratorium on the death penalty to more than 230 since December.
The United Nations, the European Union, Amnesty global and Human Rights Watch have called on Pakistan to re-impose its moratorium on the death penalty.
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2 death row prisoners were executed in New Central Jail Multan in the wee hours today.
