Pakistan assembly set to legalise military court trials

The amendment authorises the army to try any suspect charged with terrorism-related charges.


Islamabad, Mar 10: Pakistan's parliament is set to adopt a bill legalising trials before military courts for another two years.

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Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's government is expected to fast-track the draft before lawmakers later on Friday amid indications that the National Assembly would unanimously back the constitutional amendment.

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The amendment authorises the army to try any suspect charged with terrorism-related charges.

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A similar amendment adopted in 2015 allowed military courts to carry out trials of militant suspects under a two-year mandate.

That initial mandate expired in January. The 2015 measure came after a December 2014 Taliban attack at a school in the northwestern city of Peshawar that killed 154 people, mostly schoolchildren.

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The army says that during the previous two-year mandate, 274 cases were referred to military courts, which sentenced 161 people to death.

PTI

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