The defence ministry\u2019s lawyer, Khawaja Haris, on Tuesday informed the Supreme Court\u2019s Constitutional Bench that the alleged masterminds and conspirators of the May 9 \u201cconspiracy\u201d would be tried in military courts.<\/p>\n
The bench, including Justices Aminuddin Khan, Naeem Akhtar Afghan, Jamal Khan Mandokhail, Muhammad Ali Mazhar, Hassan Azhar Rizvi, Musarrat Hilali, and Shahid Bilal Hassan, is hearing a case pertaining to the military trials \u2014 and recent sentencing \u2014 of civilians for their role in attacks on army installations during the riots that followed ex-premier Imran Khan\u2019s arrest on May 9, 2023.<\/p>\n
In recent hearings, SC judges have questioned why the accused were \u201cspecifically\u201d tried in military courts instead of anti-terrorism courts, with Justice Mandokhail observing that \u201cthe executive cannot play the role of judiciary\u201d.<\/p>\n
A day ago, Justice Hilali wondered whether the Pakistan Army Act (PAA), 1952, outlined any punishment for officers who suspend the Constitution.<\/p>\n
During today\u2019s hearing, Advocate Haris, who appeared as the defence ministry\u2019s lawyer, in response to a question, said that trials of the conspirators and masterminds would also be held in the military courts.<\/p>\n
While continuing his arguments from yesterday, the defence ministry lawyer presented Sheikh Liaquat Hussain\u2019s case as an example of a civilian being tried in military court.<\/p>\n
Justice Rizvi asked whether an army officer was tried for their involvement in the events on May 9.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow did the people reach the corps commander\u2019s house without any weapons,\u201d he asked, terming the intrusion a \u201csecurity failure\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The defence ministry\u2019s lawyer, Khawaja Haris, on Tuesday informed the Supreme Court\u2019s Constitutional Bench that the alleged masterminds and conspirators of the May 9 \u201cconspiracy\u201d would be tried in military courts. The bench, including Justices Aminuddin Khan, Naeem Akhtar Afghan, Jamal Khan Mandokhail, Muhammad Ali Mazhar, Hassan Azhar Rizvi, Musarrat Hilali, and Shahid Bilal Hassan, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4679,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4680,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4678\/revisions\/4680"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}