RAWALPINDI: Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif on Monday signed death warrants of nine ‘hardcore terrorists’, tried by the military courts.
The terrorists were involved in attack on Maj Gen Sanaullah, Col Tauseef, killing of civilians and security personnel in KPK, suicide attack on a Naushera mosque as well as sectarian killings in Mastung,” announced ISPR spokesman Maj Gen Asim Salim Bajwa through Twitter.
The men were convicted by the military courts established as part of a crackdown on militancy following the Army Public School attack in Peshawar on December 16 last year, in which more than 150 people, mostly children, were killed.
Parliament approved the use of the courts for the next two years, and the Supreme Court endorsed the move last month, rejecting claims it was unconstitutional.
The army announced the first verdicts and sentences from the new courts in April when six militants were condemned to death and another jailed for life, all on terrorism charges.
On August 13, it announced death sentences for seven more militants for their involvement in the Peshawar school massacre and an attack on a bus carrying members of the minority Ismaili community.
