SC to conduct 2014 APS carnage hearing on Oct 5

The Supreme Court on Friday set October 5 as the date for the suo motu hearing of the 2014 Army Public School carnage in Peshawar.

Notices were sent to the attorney general and advocate general of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa among others. Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nisar will preside over the three-member SC bench.

In the deadliest terror attack in the country’s history, 131 schoolchildren and 10 other people were killed when heavily armed militants stormed the APS on Dec 16, 2014.

The top judge had taken a suo motu notice of the matter in April when parents of some martyred students, including mothers, approached him while he was hearing other cases in Peshawar.

In May, the SC had ordered an inquiry into the APS carnage through a judicial commission comprising a judge of the Peshawar High Court (PHC).

A judicial inquiry into the APS massacre was a longstanding demand of the parents. Parents in the courtroom during the May order said that they had been demanding justice for over three years and had put forward their request for a judicial inquiry at different forums.

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Ali Sabir

Sep 28, 2018 01:33pm

The dead will never rest until all is known about the attackers and planners.

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Khan

Sep 28, 2018 01:38pm

Nation cant forget that incident.... on the other hand, Government is working on proposal for giving Pakistani Nationality to Afghans....

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M. Saeed

Sep 28, 2018 02:14pm

A nostalgic reminder picture above, of the horrible APS attack of 2014! Are they not our mothers and sisters? Is their grief not equally ours as well? Where are those big talking official sympathisers now? Although the then PM had immediately made and appointed a National Action Plan to respond and take action to counter and arrest all such activities of terrorists in the country but, so far the big talks are just talks. NACTA and all other high sounding bodies associated with implementing tasks of the Plan, are just the usual bureaucratic bottle necks and nothing more. That is why the Honorable CJP has to take suo motu action to deal with the matter himself. Let us see what we get out of this last resort action.

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RUMI

Sep 28, 2018 03:43pm

@M. Saeed The grieving mothers are not requesting suo motu to arrest the terrorists. Those terrorists were already caught and the mastermind was also recently killed in Afghanistan. Poor mothers of martyrs are requesting suo moto because several weeks before that unfortunate occurrence the concerned authorities were conveyed by National Counter Terrorism Authority (Nacta) about plans of terrorists to attack an army run educational institution including Peshawar APS. However, they said no steps were taken to avert that attack.They pointed out that their demand was to conduct an impartial judicial inquiry so as to fix responsibility of negligence on the officials concerned.

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