Tuesday, December 23, 2014

To be or not to be: military trials for civilians in Pakistan

A battle seems to be shaping up over whether to introduce military trials for civilians in Pakistan in the wake of the Peshawar school massacre. The Nation reports that the parliamentary All-Parties Conference's Action Plan Committee has voted in favor of doing so. Earlier accounts indicated that the Army had decided such trials were a bad idea. Stay tuned.

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