Minister for Interior Rana Sanaullah shedding light on the May 9 violent protests and providing key statistics regarding the ensuing investigations and arrests Friday revealed that a total of 499 First Information Reports (FIRs) were registered in connection with the incidents, and out of those, only six or seven cases would be tried in military […]
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GB SC directs petitioners to challenge Military Court sentences in Chief Court GB
The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the petitioners to challenge their sentences awarded by Military Court before the Chief Court Gilgit-Baltistan (GB). A three-member SC bench headed by Justice Mushir Alam and comprising Justice Sardar Tariq Masood and Justice Amin-Ud-Din Khan heard the case filed by Sharafat Ali and another against conviction by Military Courts. […]
Abbasi demands an explanation for military courts’ renewal
Former premier, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, on Monday, called on the government to consult opposition parties on the extension in military courts. Talking to media sources, he noted that previously, military courts had been set up for a maximum time of two years to be followed with an extension of another two years. Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz […]
Military courts: To extend or not extend
Now that the military courts which had been set up under the National Action Plan in 2015 to try civilians on terrorism charges have ceased to function, we must ask ourselves where Pakistan’s legal system and its anti-terrorism strategy goes from here. They were revived for another two years after first expiring in March 2017. […]
Govt briefing on NAP cancelled after opposition backs out
The government on Wednesday cancelled its consultative meeting scheduled for March 28 to discuss National Action Plan due to the absence of important political leaders of the opposition, sources said. Sources stated that Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi had written letters to opposition members upon special orders of Prime Minister Imran Khan to summon them […]
Military court’s extension
Sir: This refers to the news published in newspapers that Government and opposition are discussing military court’s extension these days. It would be better to mutually agreed to extend the duration of military courts as it is need of the hour because in civil courts cases are pending since long while some cases are pending […]
13 terrorism-related cases sent to military courts
KARACHI: 13 terrorism-related cases pending in anti-terrorism courts were sent to the military courts, it was reported on Friday. Seven high-profile terrorism cases from Karachi and six from Sukkur were sent to the military courts. The cases include Nashtar Park tragedy, attack on polio workers’ team, Sachal bomb explosion, among several other murder cases. Moreover, […]