Feb 09 , 2016
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Supreme Court stays execution of three APS convicts
ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed the execution of three men convicted by military courts for their involvement in the Army Public School attack.
The three men - Mohammad Zubair, Ali Rehman and Taj Mohammad - were convicted of facilitating and abetting the deadly attack on December 16, 2014 that killed over 140, mostly children.
A two-member bench comprising Justice Dost Muhammad and Justice Qazi Faez Isa ordered a stay on the implementation of the military court decision.
The families of the convicts had challenged the military court verdict through petitions filed in the Peshawar High Court. However - after the court dismissed the appeals - they moved the Supreme Court through Advocate Latif Afridi.
During the hearing, Afridi said that the high court did not even open the record and dismissed the appeals without hearing them. The court issued notices to the attorney general and jail branch, and directed the former to explain the dismissal of the appeals.
Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk