SC approached against military trials of civilians during PTI regime
Pakistan
SC approached against military trials of civilians during PTI regime
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – A plea was filed in the Supreme Court against military trials, convictions and sentences of 29 civilians during the PTI regime.
The petition, filed by Inamur Rahim, sought to declare “investigations and trials of civilian accused persons under the Pakistan Army Act, 1952, read with, the Official Secrets Act, 1923, and all actions taken subsequently in pursuant to it” as illegal.
A petition has been filed under Article 184 (3) by Col (r) Inamur Raheem. The registrars of provincial high courts were made the party in the petition seeking quash of the sentences handed down by military courts to 29 civilians.
The plea has not been fixed for hearing yet. The petitioner named the Federation of Pakistan through the defence secretary, PTI chief, former army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa, former director general of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Lieutenant General Faiz Hameed, Judge Advocate General at the General Headquarters, and registrars of all the Lahore (Pindi bench), Islamabad, Karachi, Peshawar and Balochistan high courts.
The 29 civilians named in the petition include Syed Adil Hussain Shah, Idrees Khattak, Muhammad Hussain, Ahmed Nawaz, Muhammad Imtiaz Khan, Habib Qadir, Ajmal Khan, Mohammad Saddique, Raja Mushtaq Ahmed, Syed Imtiaz Shah, Abid Zaheer, Muhammad Usman Akram Kiyani, Muhammad Haider, Ashfaq Masih, Asif Mehmood Shahid, Muhammad Amir Khan, Imtiaz Ahmed, Mushtaq Ahmed, Muhammad Akbar, Khizer Ahmed, Shahzad Asghar, Muhammad Asif Khan, Muhammad Irshad, Syed Irfan Hussain, Lt Col (retd) Akmal Ashraf, Lt Col (retd) Faiz Rasool, Maj (retd) Saifullah Babar, and Hassan Askari.
