A military court in Pakistan has sentenced a top Pakistani Taliban leader Muslim Khan from the Swat region to death for killing 31 people, including civilians and security personnel. <br/><br/>The former spokesman for the terrorists, Khan is among eight terrorists whose death penalty was confirmed by Army Chief Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa. <br/><br/>The military courts were set up in the aftermath of the 2014 Peshawar school massacre. Their term expires next week.<br/><br/>Others whose convictions were confirmed by the Army Chief on Wednesday include four gunmen sentenced for involvement in a 2015 bus massacre of Ismaili Shias in Karachi, and the assassination of social activist Sabeen Mahmud, also in Karachi the same year.