Pakistan Muslim League-Q President and former Prime Minister Ch Shujaat Hussain has said that military courts are still needed for complete elimination of terrorism in the country, as such this matter should not be brushed aside through statement mongering.
Talking to the media here on Sunday, Ch Shujaat Hussain said this is not understandable why some people are opposing military courts. According to the army spokesman, 717 cases were heard by the military courts in four years, military courts decided 648 cases as a result of which 345 terrorists were awarded death sentences.
Ch Shujaat Hussain said this fact should not be ignored that entire civil and military leadership had supported the approval of the National Action Plan. In four years Armed Forces have completed the task assigned to them under the National Action Plan but regretfully the civilian institutions have not completed their work under the National Action Plan.
He recalled that in the first meeting of the National Action Plan establishment of military courts was discussed after the tragedy of Army Public School Peshawar. Nawaz Sharif, Asif Ali Zardari, incumbent Prime Minister Imran Khan, Asfand Yar Wali, Aftab Sherpao and myself, including other parties' chiefs and General Raheel Sharif were also present. All the participants had unanimously supported the National Action Plan and afterwards Maulana Fazlur Rehman had led the prayers. Ch Shujaat Hussain said that those who had signed the National Action Plan should not indulge in any criticism now and should not back out from it.
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