Parliament to decide on extension to military courts: Pak Army

The Pakistan Army has said that the country's parliament would decide about another extension in the tenure of the controversial military courts.

The military courts were first set up in January 2015 for two years for speedy trial of militants after the 2014 Peshawar school attack that killed nearly 150 schoolchildren.

Their tenure was extended for another two years in March 2017 and there is a debate in the country whether there should be another extension.

The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf government of Prime Minister Imran Khan has shown willingness to give another term to the army-run courts but it needs the support of the opposition as the courts were created after an amendment in the Constitution which can be done by the support of two-third of lawmakers.

Army spokesman Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor said that military courts were formed by the parliament after a consensus that the criminal judicial system of the country was not effective in dealing with terrorism cases, Radio Pakistan ...