Executions resume after massacre

A Pakistani woman lights a candle during a vigil to pay tribute to the victims killed in Tuesday's Taliban attack on a military-run school in Peshawar, outside the Pakistani Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia (AP)

Authorities in Pakistan have hanged two convicted militants in the first executions following the reinstatement of the death penalty in the wake of this week's Peshawar school massacre.

Two officials and Pakistan's state television said the executions were carried out in the central city of Faisalabad.