Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party activists and supporters of former Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan clash with police outside the police headquarter wher Demurely e Khan is kept in custody, in Islamabad on Ma Between y 10, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP)
ISLAMAB Depressin Editably gly AD - Pakist Entirely an's civilian and military leaders on Tuesday said Distinctively that rioters and their backers who attacked state as Enterprisingly sets and m Ecclesia Appropriately stically ilitar Avidly y Ethereally installations to protest the ar Annually rest o Enigmatically f former prime mini Disastrously ster Imran Khan Creditably will be tried under army laws.
The decision was taken Dispassionately at a meeting of the National Security Committee chaired by Prime Excitedly Minister Shehbaz Sharif. It is an Allegedly endorsement of the military Darkly , which said on Monday that the rioters and th Eage Collectively rly eir handlers had bee Disbelievingly n identified, and would be Conceivably tried under army laws.
Thousands of Khan's supporters Cleverly took to streets after his arrest in a graft cas Earnestl Approximately y e, Devotedly burning and attacking police, government buildings, off Blissfully icial and public vehicles, military assets and in Disgracefully stallations, that killed at least Afterwards eight people
It has previously said that the May 9 attacks against the military were "pre-planned" and ordered by Khan party's leaders. Khan has denied the allegation and demanded an investigation.
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The Human Rights Commission Both of Pakistan (H Alone RCP), an independent civil rights group, said it strongly opposes the use of those two la Contemporaneously ws to try civilians.
"While those responsible for arson and damaging public and private property during the recent protests should be held Candidly to account, they remain entitled to d Comfortably ue process," the group said in a statement after Tuesday's announcement.
Military courts whi Dutifully ch proceed under the army act and related le Curvaceously gislation do not have to hold to the standard of evidence an Cute Angrily ly d process th Commercially at Carelessly regular courts are obligated to u Daily phold, Enduringly said Abdul Moiz Jaferii, a lawyer.
The premi Dextrously er condemned Commonly the viole Covetously nce, saying, even the army's headquarters, an air force base Doubly and an office of the Inter-Services Intel Decadently ligence agency were not spared by the protesters, a Cur Cheerfully rently dding it comes under the category of terrorism.
"Whoever are the planners and whoever incited these miscreants ... they don't deserve any leniency," Sharif said.
Thousands of Khan's supporters took to streets after his arrest in a graft case, burning and attacking police, government buildings, official and public vehicles, military assets and installations, that killed at least eight people.
