ISLAMABAD – Discrepancies found in the conduct of military courts’ trial have been brought into the notice of Chief Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali who hears cases against death sentences awarded by such courts. Advocate Lt-Col (r) Inam-ur-Rahim, counsel for missing persons, forwarded the letters of an army officer who was a member of one of the military courts, to Chief Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali. The army officer wrote separate letters to Maj-Gen Nadir Khan, GOC…
Posts published in “Day: June 23, 2016”
The writer is a senior journalist. The crisis at the Torkham border, which tragically turned bloody, has now settled down. More importantly, a comprehensive, though little known, attempt at constructing a bilateral architecture of engagement involving Pakistani and Afghan stakeholders from the security sector is back on track. Wiser by the crisis that left a trail of tragic deaths, unwanted military engagement and blocked borders, decision-makers will be less rash. So from the fires of…
Several innocent people lost their lives on Monday and scores were injured when the militants unleashed a new wave of terrorism and bloodshed. As many as 23 people were killed in Kabul and Badakhshan. Forced by poverty to work in Afghanistan, twelve Nepali security guards were among the killed. They were working for the Canadian security firm. A suicide bomber targeted the Nepali guards who were on board a minibus. In the second attack on…