ISLAMABAD: Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Gen
eral Qamar Javed Bajwa has confirmed the death sentences passed by mi
litary cour
ts on 30 militants, some of whom were involved in the country’s worst-ever extremist attack, authorities said on Wed
nesday. The mi
litary did not give a date for the executions, but when
the army chief has given such orders in the past the hangings have usually been carried out within 24-48 hours. “These terrorists were involved in committing heinous offences relating to terrorism,” a mi
litary statement said. It listed a string of offences, including a Taliban assault on a school in Peshawar in 2014 in which more than 150 people – mostly children – were killed in the country’s deadliest-ever assault.
