In Pakistan, at least 31 militants have been killed and scores of others injured as jet fighters targeted militants hideouts in Koki Khel area of Tirah Valley today, said an ISPR statement. Four terrorist hideouts and a suicide bomber-training center were also destroyed. The Army has intensified its offensives in the tribal areas after the massacre of people in a school in Peshawar in December. The military has been targeting Taliban and Lashkar-i-Islam militants in the region since October.

Pakistan has issued orders to hang seven more militants, the latest in a wave of executions in the wake of the Peshawar school massacre, which claimed 150 lives in the country's deadliest terror attack. Officials Saturday said, among the seven is Shafqat Hussain, who was 15 when he was sentenced to death for the kidnapping and murder of a seven-year-old boy in 2004.

However, rights groups in the country have opposed Hussain's conviction and sentence saying he should have been tried in a juvenile court and not been given the death penalty, which cannot be imposed on minors in Pakistan. Pakistan ended its six-year-old moratorium on the death penalty in terror cases last month in the wake of the slaughter at an army-run school in the northwestern city of Peshawar on December 16.