Pakistan- APS carnage: CJP issues notices to federal, KP governments

(MENAFN- Tribal News Network) PESHAWAR: Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nisar on Thursday issued notices to the federal and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa governments regarding terrorist attack on the Army Public School (APS) in Peshawar in which 150 people, mostly students, were martyred on 16 December, 2014.

A three-member bench of the apex court headed by Chief Justice Saqib Nisar and comprising Justice Umar Ata Bandial and Justice Mansoor Ali Shah took notice of the applications by parents of the APS martyrs who sought judicial inquiry into the carnage. The parents, mostly mothers, who earlier staged protest outside the Peshawar Registry of the Supreme Court, complained to the chief justice that they have been ruined and they only want justice, and nothing else. Media reports indicated that the chief justice was greatly moved by the requests of the crying mothers of the APS martyrs and said there will also be a bigger court above this court where everyone will be answerable.

He sought one-week time from the parents of the APS martyrs to shift all the APS-related cases to the Supreme Court.

KP chief secretary, who was in the court, also said the provincial government was also demanding judicial inquiry into the carnage from the very beginning, after which the chief justice issued notices to the federal and provincial governments.

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