Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif Thursday announced that the government would spend Rs 50 billion for the construction of a new Chakdara-Dir-Chitral road and completion of Lowari Tunnel to shorten travel time and facilitate the people of the remote area.
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Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif today advised the President to reject the mercy petitions of four terrorists convicted to death by a military court for their involvement in the Peshawar school attack.
The military courts have awarded death sentence to four suspects of the Taliban attack on the Army Public School in Peshawar in December 2014.
The prime minister in his comments said the APS attacks have changed the country forever.
He said the killing of the children has convinced us that the perpetrators of such crimes do not deserve mercy.
The prime minister further said that Pakistan attaches high value to its partnership with Russian Federation in all areas, including bilateral trade, economic, scientific and technical cooperation.
Immediately, after the Army Public School tragedy, the state, the elected representatives in the Parliament, all political parties and every single state institution unanimously made a decision to bring the perpetrators of this crime to justice even if required amendments in the laws.
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Past year on December 16 a group of terrorists attacked Army Public School in Peshawar and killed as many as 151 people including children. After rejection of mercy appeals, there will be no legal bar to hang the convicts. The massacre-in which Taliban gunmen coldly slaughtered more than 150 people, a lot of them children, at an Army-run school-shocked and outraged a country already scarred by almost a decade of attacks. The raid prompted Pakistan to set up military courts for terrorism and lift a 2008-moratorium on the death penalty.
