Nawaz directs AG, legal team to ‘pro-actively’ pursue terrorism cases
Updated about 2 hours ago
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Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. — AFP/File
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ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has directed Attorney General Salman Aslam Butt and his legal team on Monday to proactively pursue cases related to terrorism in situations where courts have granted stay orders against executions.
After the premier's directives, the government's legal team would file review petitions against stay orders so trials could be completed at the earliest.
Evidence would be presented before the court of law in cases where proof had been missing. “We are committed to eliminating terrorism at any cost. No mercy would be accorded to those who have killed our youth, citizens and children,” a federal government spokesman said.
Moreover, Radio Pakistan has reported that the premier also directed officials to ensure fast-track prosecution of terrorists and vacate stay orders issued against their death sentences.
Earlier on Friday, two former military men were executed in the Faisalabad district jail. Usman, a former soldier of the military's medical corps, was executed in relation to the 2009 attack on the headquarters of the Pakistan Army in Rawalpindi.
Arshad Mehmood, who was a trooper and also hanged, was among the five convicted men who were handed down death sentence for their role in an Al Qaeda-inspired assassination attempt on the life of former President Pervez Musharraf in late 2003.
The hangings on Friday were the first death sentences carried out after the government ended a six-year moratorium on executions last week, a move that appears to have come in response to the Peshawar tragedy that claimed the lives of over 140 people, most of them children. On Sunday, four more convicts were executed at a district jail in Faisalabad.
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