Islamabad (September 28, 2018): The Apex Court on Friday fixed the date for the hearing of the suo motu case of the 2014 Army Public School attack.
A three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Mian Saqib Nisar will hear the case on October 5.
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Notices have been sent to the attorney general and advocate general of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa among others in this regard.
Justice Nisar had taken suo motu notice of the case during a trip to Peshawar earlier this year.
Earlier on May 09, Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Mian Saqib Nisar ordered to form a judicial commission on Army Public School (APS) Peshawar massacre.
The hearing of Army Public School tragedy case was held at the Supreme court Peshawar registry, during the hearing CJP ordered to submit a report of tragedy within two months.
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Fazal Khan, father of a student who was martyred in APS Peshawar attack, tried to speak without permission during the hearing, Fazal Khan was asked to leave the court.
At this, security personnel tried to take Fazal Khan outside the courtroom holding his hands, which annoyed the chief justice.
Chief Justice Saqib Nisar said they did not have the right to hold Fazal Khan’s hand, he himself had ordered the man to leave.
APS Attack
On December 16, 2014, terrorists stormed the army-run school and killed around 150 people, including more than 130 students, in one of the deadliest terrorist attacks in Pakistan’s history.
The incident shook the country and resulted in the formation of a National Action Plan to stem extremism and terrorism from the country, as well as the creation of military courts to try ‘hardcore’ terrorists.
The heinous attack on schoolchildren followed intensification of the military’s campaign against terrorists of all hue and colour, chasing and wiping them out from the country’s urban centres to far-flung rural areas.
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