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Pakistan hangs four militants
 [Al Ahram] Pakistain on Tuesday hanged four turbans involved in attacks on civilians, police and troops after they were convicted by the country's controversial military courts, an army statement said.It said the four, who were hanged at a prison in the northwestern province of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... , all belonged to the umbrella Death Eater group Tehrik-e-Taliban ...the Pashtun equiovalent of men... Pakistain (TTP). Pakistain's powerful army chief last week confirmed death sentences passed by military courts on 30 Death Eaters, some of whom were involved in the country's worst-ever murderous Moslem attack. The assault on a school in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. , the capital of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, saw Taliban gunnies slaughter more than 150 people, the majority of them children. The military courts -- in which the army can try civilians on terror charges in secret, despite strong criticism from rights groups -- were established in the wake of the 2014 attack, which traumatised a country already grimly accustomed to atrocities. They were seen as an "exceptional" short-term measure to give the government time to reform the criminal justice system as the military targeted turbans in the tribal areas of the northwest. Security has dramatically improved since then. The law expired in January with the controversial tribunals having hanged 12 people and ordered the executions of 149 more. But in February a fresh wave of Death Eater violence killed 130 people across the country. Shortly afterwards, parliament voted to extend the courts for another two years. Figures earlier this month showed 161 executions have been ordered by the courts since they were created and 24 of them have been carried out -- not including Tuesday's hangings. Posted by: Fred 2017-04-26 |
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