Government: Pakistan military cases reviewable by Supreme Court

The Express Tribune reports:

Five death row convicts allegedly belonging to an Islamic State-inspired militant group can appeal to the Supreme Court (SC) against their conviction and sentences awarded by the military court in the Safoora Goth carnage and Sabeen Mahmud’s murder cases.

This was contended by Additional Prosecutor-General Iqbal Awan before a two-judge bench of the Sindh High Court hearing appeals filed by five convicts, including Saad Aziz and others, challenging their conviction and sentences awarded by the military court.

The government's position seems to be that these cases are indeed reviewable -- but only in the Supreme Court of Pakistan, not in the High Courts. It's an odd position since the Supreme Court has previously sent military trial challenges to the High Courts.