PESHAWAR, March 20: The bill to extend the tenure of military courts, which were formed after the 2014 Peshawar attack, has been opposed by the Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party (PkMAP) and Awami Muslim League.
According to Express News, the bill was tabled by the government in the lower house of Parliament on Monday.
Speaking on a point of order, the PkMAP leader said extending the tenure of military courts was tantamount to showing distrust in the judiciary.
The government last week had succeeded in breaking the impasse over the revival of military courts for two years.
The breakthrough came in a marathon consultative session between the government and opposition leaders. National Assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq chaired the meeting.
The courts were established in January 2015 for two years after the December 2014 attack on the Army Public School in Peshawar which left 150 people, mostly children, dead. The main opposition Pakistan Peoples Party had opposed the courts. It, however, extended its conditional support to the revival of the courts and voluntarily withdrew five of the nine recommendations it had initially demanded to be included in the draft bill.-Agencies
