ISPR clarifies

PESHAWAR: A spokesperson for the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) has clarified that the convicts Haider Ali and Qari Zahir Gul sentenced to death by a military court have not been convicted for the attack on the Army Public School (APS).
An official statement issued by the ISPR said on Monday that the convicts were not involved in the APS attack as mentioned in a news story carried by The News. Two of the six convicts, sentenced to death in April by a military court after the APS attack had challenged their sentence in the Peshawar High Court. It was wrongly mentioned in the story that they been convicted for the attack on the APS. The mothers of both the convicts filed appeals through senior advocate Malik Mohammad Ajmal, requesting to declare their trial by the military court as illegal and void on different grounds as one convict Haider Ali was a juvenile and had remained in illegal detention for six years, while the second convict Qari Zahir Gul remained in illegal detention for four years.