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| Malala attack case to be heard in military court |
| 2015-01-15 |
| [DAWN] The federal government has decided to refer two high profile terror cases to military courts for the speedy trial of suspects involved. The first case is the attack on Nobel Peace Award winner, child activist Malala Yousafzai ...a Pashtun blogger and advocate for girls' education from Mingora, in Swat. She started blogging at age 11-12. She was 15 when a Talib boarded her school bus and shot her in the head in 2012. She was evacuated to a hospital in Britain and the Pak Taliban vowed to kill her and her father. Among other awards, she received the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize, which she deserved more than Barack Obama, Jimmy Carter, Al Gore, Yasser Arafat, or Rigoberta Menchu... , which would be heard at a military court 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. when it formally starts functioning. Formalities are being processed by legal experts at the Federal Law Ministrythe case will soon be sent from an anti-terrorism court to a military court, a federal government source told Dawn.com. The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) had attacked Malala in 2012 as she was returning from her school in the Mingora town of Swat ...a valley and an administrative district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistain, located 99 mi from Islamabad. It is inhabited mostly by Pashto speakers. The place has gone steadily downhill since the days when Babe Ruth was the Sultan of Swat... valley. She survived after being airlifted to Britannia for treatment and recovered from her life-threatening wounds. The other high profile case is the terrorist attack on mountaineers in June 2013 at the Nanga Parbat base camp, which would also be referred to a military court in Gilgit. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... on Tuesday gave approval for the establishment of military courts in Gilgit-Baltistan. Gunmen dressed as paramilitary police had killed ten mountaineers in the attack. The night-time raid - which killed five Ukrainians, three Chinese and a Russian - was among the worst attacks on foreigners in Pakistain in a decade. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 It's a Pakked court. They'll discover it's her fault. |
| Posted by: Fred 2015-01-15 12:20 |