General Raheel confirms death sentences of nine hardcore terrorists

RAWALPINDI, Pakistan: The Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif has confirmed death sentences of nine hard core terrorists, the Director General Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) Major General Asim Saleem Bajwa told on Monday.

On his twitter account, Bajwa told that these terrorists were involved in killing civilians and personnel of law enforcing agencies (LEAs) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

The DG ISPR told that they were also involved in sectarian killings in Mastung area of Balochistan, suicidal attack on a mosque in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Nowshera city, and attack on Major General Sanaullah and Lt Colonel Tauseef Ahmed in Swat.

Bajwa told that out of 10 terrorists, nine were awarded death sentences and one was given life imprisonment by the military courts.

#COAS confirms death sentence of 9 hard core terrorists involved in killing civs/LEA persons in KPK,sectarian killings at Mastung,suicidal.1

— AsimBajwaISPR (@AsimBajwaISPR) September 21, 2015

..attk on mosque in Noshera,attk on Maj Gen Sanaullah&Col Tauseef. 1 terrorist awarded life imprisonment.cases’ detail follows separately-2

— AsimBajwaISPR (@AsimBajwaISPR) September 21, 2015

Detail of each case is as follows:

1. Civilian Said Zaman Khan S/O Said Nawaz Khan. The convict was an active member of Harkat Ul Jehad-e-Islami. He was found involved in attacking the Armed Forces in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, which resulted in death of 6 soldiers, injuries to 5 soldiers and damage to government property. He admitted his offence before the Magistrate and the trial court. He was tried on 4 charges and awarded sentence of death.
2. Civilian Obaid Ullah S/O Muhammad Azam Baloch. The Convict was an active member of Harkat Ul Jehad-e-Islami. He was found involved in attacking the Armed Forces in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, which resulted in death of 2 Soldiers and injuries to 18 Soldiers, possessing a suicide jacket, fire arms / explosives and fabricating huge quantity of explosives. He admitted his offence before the Magistrate and the trial court. He was on 6 charges and awarded death sentence.
3. Civilian Mehmood S/O Khawaza Khan. The convict was an active member of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). He was found involved in attacking Law Enforcement Agencies using improvised Explosive Devices and Rocket Launchers in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa which resulted in death of 2 soldiers and injuries to 13 soldiers. He admitted his offences before the Magistrate and trial court. He was tried on 3 charges and awarded death sentences.
4. Civilian Qari Zubair Muhammad S/O Sakhi Muhammad. The convict was an active member of Tehreek-e-Taliban. He was found involved in abetting a suicidal attack on a mosque in Nowshera, which resulted in death 2 soldiers, 3 civilians and injuries to 81 persons as well as possessing firearms/ explosives. He admitted his offences before the Magistrate and the trial court. He was tried on 7 charges and awarded death sentences.
5. Civilian Rab Nawaz S/O Shahi Room. The convict was an active member of the TTP. He was involved in killing of two civilians, processing firearms and abetting attack on Armed Forces at Peshawar which resulted in death of 2 soldiers and severe injuries to another. He admitted his offences before Magistrate and the trial court. He was tried on 4 charges and awarded death sentence.
6. Civilian Muhammad Sohail S/o Zahoor Ahmed. The convict was an active member of the TTP. He was found involved in attack on Armed forces of Pakistan in KPK which resulted in injuries to soldiers. He was also involved in abetting attack on Bannu jail, owing to which, large number of terrorists managed to escape from the jail and also resulted in injuries to 2 police constables and a soldier of frontier constabulary. He admitted his offence before magistrate and the trial court. He was tried on 3 charges and awarded death sentence.
7. Civilian Muhammad Imran S/O Muhammad Hanif. The convict was an active member of proscribed organization. He was found involved in sectarian killings at Mastung which resulted in death of 27 persons. He was also found involved in attacking the Law Enforcement Agencies, possessing fir-arms and explosives. He admitted his offences before the Magistrate and the trial court. He was tried on 4 charges and awarded death sentence.
8. Civilian Aslam Khan S/O Rozi Khan. The convict was an active member of the TTP. He was found involved in attacking Law Enforcement Agencies and civilians, which resulted in death of 4 persons including 1 soldier and injuries to 9 persons including 5 soldiers. He admitted his offences before the Magistrate and the trial court. He was tried on 4 charges and awarded death sentence.
9. Civilian Jameel ur Rehman S/O Sher Rehman. The convict was an active member of Tahreek-e-Taliban (Swat). He was found involved in attacking military convoy which caused death of Maj General Sana Ullah, General Officer Commanding, Lieutenant Colonel Tauseef Ahmed and Lance Naik Muhammad Irfan Sattar. He was also involved in kidnapping and slaughtering the employees of Armed Forces and Frontier Constabulary, killing and injuring civilians and planting Improvised Explosive Devices to cause damage to Govt property. He admitted his offences before the Magistrate and the trial court. He was tried on 8 charges and awarded death sentence.
10. Civilian Jamshed Raza S/O Allah Ditta. The convict was an active member of Harkat ul Jehad-e-Islami. He was found involved in attacking the Armed Forces of Pakistan including killing of 2 soldiers, possessing fire arms and explosives. He admitted his offences before the Magistrate and the trial court. He was tried on 3 charges and awarded the sentence of imprisonment for life.

These condemned terrorists were tried by military courts which have been set up in the country for a period of two years as part of the national action plan against terrorism adopted on December 24 last year in the wake of the terror attack on the army public school in Peshawar.

In addition, the 21st constitutional amendment and the amendment in the Pakistan army act 1952 were also made to pave the way for setting up military courts in the country.

Initially, nine military courts were established across the country but later the army chief approved an increase in such courts.