Islamabad, Feb 13 (IANS): Two death row prisoners have been executed in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, a media report said Friday.

The executions took place in the Mirpur central jail, Dawn online reported.

Muhammad Riaz and Mohammad Fayaz were sentenced to death for killing the son of Fazal Rabbani, the advocate general of Pakistan-administered Kashmir during a 2004 robbery at his home in Mirpur.

The two were initially sentenced to ten years imprisonment and fined, but the victim's family pursued the matter in Pakistan-administered Kashmir's Shariat court, which enhanced the punishment to the death penalty in November 2005.

The appeals of the prisoners challenging their punishment were rejected in June 2006.

Pakistan-administered Kashmir's then president Raja Zulqarnain Khan had rejected in October 2010 the mercy appeals filed by convicts.

According to a jail official, the last time anyone was hanged in the prison was a decade back in 2004.

The government lifted the moratorium on hanging Dec 17, 2014 in the wake of the Peshawar school carnage Dec 16 in which 141 people, mostly school children, were killed.