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India-Pakistan
Nishtar Park carnage, Abbas Town bombing cases to be tried by military courts
2018-05-20
[DAWN] The interior ministry has approved transfer of 90 terrorism cases, including the Nishtar Park and Abbas Town kabooms cases, to military courts for trial, it emerged on Friday.

Sources told Dawn that the federal government had approved a total of 90 cases for trial by military courts established under the Pakistain Army Act, 1952.

Suspects to be tried in these cases by the military courts are said to be associated with banned holy warrior outfits, including Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain
...a Sunni Deobandi organization, a formerly registered Pak political party, established in the early 1980s in Jhang by Maulana Haq Nawaz Jhangvi. Its stated goal is to oppose Shia influence in Pakistain. They're not too big on Brelvis, either. Or Christians. Or anybody else who's not them. The organization was banned in 2002 as a terrorist organization, but somehow it keeps ticking along, piling up the corpse counts...
(SSP), Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ...
(LJ), Tehrik-e-Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
Pakistain (TTP) and Tehrik-e-Taliban 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...
(TTS).

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