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2020-02-09 India-Pakistan

[DAWN] Parents and family members of the children who were martyred in the terrorist attack targeting Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 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 Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire...
's Army Public School filed a petition with the Peshawar High Court on Saturday, seeking contempt of court proceedings against multiple government officials following reports of former TTP front man Ehsanullah Ehsan

...formerly the front man for the Pak Taliban, then the lips and tongue of the Jamaatul Ahrar splinter group in Mohmand Agency...
’s escape from custody.

The petition, submitted by Shuhada APS Forum President Fazal Khan Advocate, said that the respondents, which include the army chief, the director general of the ISI, as well as the federal and provincial secretaries, had violated earlier orders of the PHC barring authorities from releasing Ehsan.

"Despite clear cut directions of this honourable court [...], now it has come to light that [a] luxurious home [was provided to Ehsan] from which the terrorist has made his escape: a fact not denied by the respondents," reads the petition, a copy of which is available with Dawn.com.

"The petitioner has been informed through reliable sources that clemency was in order of Ehsanullah Ehsan for his ’full and frank disclosure’ which is not only highly deplorable but also outrightly illegal and unconstitutional," the writ petition says, adding that the respondents had earlier assured the court that Ehsan would be tried by a military court and would not be granted clemency.

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#1 Corruption in Pakistan is so widespread (among the military, all ethnicities, in all provincial, state and city governments, from shops to stores, from Karachi to Peshawar and from Multan to the far reaches of Baluchistan) that not another dime should be sent in US foreign aid or military assistance. The policy then should be reviewed in the 22nd century.

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