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| Army chief ratifies death sentences for 11 terror convicts |
| 2018-05-06 |
| [DAWN] Chief of Army Staff Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa ratified death sentences handed down to 11 holy warriors and prison sentences given to three others, an Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) blurb said on Saturday. The convicts, who were tried by special military courts, were found guilty of attacks on the army, law enforcement agencies, academic institutions including Malakand University and the murder of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) MPA Imran Khan Mohmind and other civilians. "On the whole, [the convicts] were involved in the killing of 60 persons including 36 civilians, 24 armed forces/Frontier Constabulary/police officials and injuring 142 others," the statement read. All 14 convicts, who were members of proscribed organizations, admitted their offences before a magistrate and the trial court, and were subsequently awarded death sentences, the military's media wing said. |
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