Islamabad: Pakistan is in the process of setting up military courts for speedy trial of accused in terrorism related cases, the country’s defence minister Khwaja Asif said yesterday. He also said that executions of those sentenced to death for terrorism would begin soon.
After the December 16 Taliban attack on the Army Public School in Peshawar that left more than 140 people, mostly children, dead, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif announced the lifting of government moratorium on capital punishment.
Asif said there would be no discrimination in punishing convicted terrorists who have been sentenced to death and whose appeals have been rejected.
The civil and military leadership discussed the security situation in the country at a meeting in Rawalpindi.
The prime minister chaired the high-level meeting attended by Chief of the Army Staff General Raheel Sharif, senior military officials, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, and Finance Minister Ishaq Dar.
The meeting also discussed the ongoing Zarb-e-Azb military operation against terrorists and the future course of action following the Peshawar school attack, officials said.
Director-General Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Lt. General Rizwan Akhtar gave a detailed briefing to the meeting on the security situation
The military’s public relations wing said 32 more terrorists were killed by security forces in an ambush in Tirah valley of Khyber Agency tribal area yesterday.
Fleeing terrorists left behind bodies of their accomplices, the official statement said.
