Pakistan is to resume executions for all death penalty offences, months after a moratorium was partially lifted to allow executions of terror convicts.
All condemned prisoners who have exhausted the appeals process and whose pleas for clemency are rejected now face execution, officials say.
Executions were suspended for seven years until some resumed after the Peshawar school massacre in December.
More than 8,000 people are on death row in Pakistan, human rights groups say.
About 1,000 have lost their appeals and had clemency petitions rejected, a senior official quoted by AFP news agency said.
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