Islamabad: Pakistani Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif on Tuesday confirmed death sentences awarded to 10 “hardcore terrorists” by military courts, the military’s public relations wing announced.
The convicts had been involved in heinous offences related to terrorism, including killing of innocent civilians and slaughtering of army personnel, it said.
Six of them belonging to Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan were identified as Hanifa, Khaista Mohammad, Ali Rehman, Fazal Ali, Mohammad Ali and Nisar Ali.
Four others belonged to Lashkar-e-Islam militant group and they were identified as Tirah Gul, Mohammad Wali, Khial Jan and Payo Jan.
Military courts to try civilians accused of terrorism were set up in January 2015 for a two-year period following massacre of more than 130 students in an attack by terrorists on an army run state school in the northwestern city of Peshawar.
The term of these special courts, which have so far convicted and handed death sentence to more than a hundred terror accused, is due to expire in the January next year.
