9 additional members from ex-Pakistan PM Imran Khan’s social gathering to be tried beneath Army Act

By Press Trust of India: Nine additional members of Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf social gathering had been arrested and handed over to the Pakistan Army on Wednesday to be tried beneath the stringent Pakistan Army Act over their alleged place inside the May 9 assaults on delicate military installations and authorities buildings.

With these arrests, the number of PTI activists to be tried beneath the Army Act and the Official Secrets Act has exceeded 50.

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“On the orders of the anti-terrorism courts, nine suspects belonging to PTI and involved in the attack on the ISI buildings (in Faisalabad) and military installations in Multan Cantonment were handed to the Pakistan Army on Wednesday for their trial under the Army Act and Official Secrets Act,” a court official said.

On May 9, violent protests erupted after paramilitary Rangers arrested 70-year-old Khan, the chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party from the Islamabad High Court premises in connection with a corruption case.

His party workers vandalised a dozen military installations, including the Lahore Corps Commander House, the Mianwali airbase and the ISI building in Faisalabad in response to Khan’s arrest.

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The mob also stormed the Army headquarters (GHQ) in Rawalpindi for the first time.

Thousands of Khan’s supporters were arrested following the violence that the powerful Army described as a “dark day” inside the historic previous of the nation.

The crackdown launched after May 9 violent protests have thrown PTI proper right into a deep existential catastrophe with dozens of key social gathering leaders quitting the social gathering day-after-day.

The excellent leaders who’ve cease Khan’s social gathering embody Secretary General Asad Umar, senior chief Fawad Chaudhry and former minister Shireen Mazari.

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Earlier this month, the National Assembly, the lower residence of Pakistan’s Parliament, handed a choice vowing to try May 9 rioters beneath the current authorized pointers along with the stringent Army Act and the Official Secrets Act.

The Pakistan Army Act was enacted in 1952 by the Pakistan parliament to regulate the affairs of the navy.

Among totally different provisions, it consists of the trial of military personnel beneath the military’s licensed code.

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The laws applies to civilians in certain circumstances, notably the civilians working inside the military departments.

It moreover applies to the civilians accused of inciting mutiny inside the navy, involved in espionage like sharing secrets and techniques and strategies with the enemy.

Khan, a former cricketer-turned-politician, was ousted from power in April closing yr after dropping a no-confidence vote in his administration, which he alleged was part of a US-led conspiracy concentrating on him attributable to his neutral abroad protection decisions on Russia, China and Afghanistan.

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May 31, 2023