[DAWN] Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif..Pak chief of army staff, meaning he pulls the strings on the Nawaz Sharif puppet to make it dance and sing and not do much at all....
on Thursday approved death sentences of seven "hardcore terrorists" involved in the massacres at 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.
's Army Public School and Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
's Safoora Goth, a statement released by the army's media wing said.
This is the first approval of death sentences by the army chief following Supreme Court's recent judgment giving legal cover to the establishment of military courts in the country.
The convicts, however, have the right to appeal, said the statement from the Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR).
One terrorist has also been awarded life imprisonment, said the ISPR.
Political parties had unanimously agreed over the issue of setting up military courts to tackle terrorism cases in the country following the gruesome attack on the Army Public School in Peshawar in December 2014, following which the Parliament passed the 21st constitutional amendment to set up the said courts.