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Military court reinstatement: Pak Senate 'perturbed' over being
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Jan. 19 (ANI): Pakistan Senate chairman Raza Rabbani has asked Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif-led government to take parliamentary leaders in the Senate into confidence on the discussion of legislation for reinstating military courts that is currently underway.
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Pak army chief lauds military courts' performance
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Rawalpindi [Pakistan], Jan. 11 (ANI): Pakistan's top military leadership has lauded the role of military courts in reduction of militancy and terrorism across the country.
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Pakistan Peoples Party to oppose reinstatement of military courts
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Jan. 10 (ANI): Opposition leader in the National Assembly of Pakistan, Khursheed Shah has said that Pakistan People's Party (PPP) will oppose the reinstatement of military courts in the country.
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Pak govt. begins consultations for reinstatement of military courts
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Jan. 10 (ANI): The Pakistan government has begun consultations for a constitutional amendment to reinstate military courts for a period which will be decided by political parties in Parliament.
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Pak Military Courts come to an end
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Rawalpindi [Pakistan], Jan. 9 (ANI): Military Courts in Pakistan have come to an end on the expiry of their mandated period after hearing 274 cases and awarding 161 death sentences during their two-year-long tenure.
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No plans by govt. to extend term of military courts: Pak Interior Minister
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Jan. 7 (ANI): Pakistan's Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan has said that there are no plans by the government to extend the term of military courts as there term expires, adding that the cases will be transferred to anti-terrorism courts.
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Permanent status for military courts will be Pak Govt.'s failure on N
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Peshawar [Pakistan], Dec. 30 (ANI): Jamiat Ulema-Islam-Fazl chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman has said that if military courts were given a permanent status, it would tantamount to confessing that the government has failed to achieve the targets of the National Action Plan (NAP) which was set up t
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Now in Pakistan, special speedy trial courts to deal with terrorism cases,
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Dec.30 (ANI): Come January 7, 2017, and the Pakistan government has taken the principled decision that all terrorism-related cases will be dealt by special trial courts rather than military courts.
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Pak military courts to get permanent status
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan] Dec. 29 (ANI): The Pakistan Interior Ministry has decided to grant permanent status to military courts in the country which were initially setup for two years following the December 2014 Peshawar Army Public School attack that killed 132 children.
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Pakistan put to death 324 persons having no terror links: Pakistan Human R
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Oct. 15 (ANI): As many as 324 people, most of them having no links to terrorism, were put to death in Pakistan, while another 8,000 prisoners stayed on death row as the 21st constitutional and corresponding amendments to the Army Act 1952, has given the military courts
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Pak Army chief confirms death sentence of 11 terrorists
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Rawalpindi(Pakistan), Aug. 16 (ANI): Pakistan's Army Chief General Raheel Sharif on Tuesday ratified the death sentences awarded to eleven terrorists by military courts involved in committing heinous offences.
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Kashmiri leaders protest Pakistan's move to establish military courts
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Mirpur(POK), Aug 6 (ANI): The independent leadership in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) and Gilgit, led by the United Kashmir People's National Party (UKPNP), have strongly rejected moves by Pakistan to establish military courts in the region in order to further suppress the local popul
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