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Civil society, lawyers reject military courts
From Our Correspondent
MULTAN: The Youth Commission for Human Rights on Tuesday organised a function to discuss countrywide current situation and ongoing wave of terrorism.
The participants, including lawyers, rejected the formation of military courts and said that it was against the spirit of democracy. They condemned the Peshawar carnage and urged the government to take more steps for tightening security around public as well as private schools. They lauded the political parties for being united on the same page against terrorism. Dr Haq Nawaz while addressing the function said that the objectives intended to be achieved by the establishing military courts could be better attained through the existing courts. Senior lawyer Ejaz Hussain Gurmani said that the constitution separates powers of executive, legislature and judiciary. He said that appointment of military officers as judges in the courts was a violation of basic structure of the constitution.