More Than 180 Convicts Sentenced to Death by Pakistan’s Military Tribunals Since 2015

Since their reinstatement in 2015, military courts in Pakistan have sentenced 186 convicts to death and issued verdicts for more than 300 terrorism-related cases, the country’s Ministry of Defense said last week. The figures were released by the ministry in response to an inquiry by Pakistan’s Lower House of Parliament about the status of concluded, pending and ongoing cases in the military courts. Military courts have proved to be controversial between the military and civilian...

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