Three questions in Pakistan

The [Supreme Court of Pakistan] can adjudicate, sooner rather than later, the defence ministry’s appeal against the [Peshawar High Court] judgment, to determine whether military courts are dispensing justice or revenge based on suspicion. But will it? Our parliament can engage in a meaningful debate about extension of military courts, by summoning from the defence ministry record of trials conducted by military courts so far and determining through application of mind whether the process in place meets basic standards of fairness. But will it? As for the executive, let’s not even ask what it can do and if it will do it.

Babar Sattar, writing here in The News International