Pakistan’s Supreme Court has questioned Prime Minister Imran Khan over the massacre of the Pakistan Taliban, a day after Pakistan’s ceasefire agreement with the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).
In 2014, 150 people were killed in a vicious attack on an Army-run school. Imran Khan appeared before the Supreme Court on Wednesday in connection with the incident.
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Khan’s government signed a month-long cease-fire agreement with the local Taliban group earlier this week, which has been responsible for numerous attacks on the country’s security forces and civilians over the last 15 years
The government is also in talks with the banned group, and some ministers have hinted that the group could be granted amnesty if it agrees to lay down its arms and follow the Islamic country’s constitution.
Pakistan’s Supreme Court summoned Khan to a hearing in the Peshawar school massacre case on Wednesday and grilled him about the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) talks.
“Why are we bringing them (Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan) to the negotiating table instead of taking action against them?” a judge asked Khan.
The court ordered the prime minister to heed the parents’ demands and take action against the school attackers. Khan justified his acts by stating that he was just trying to bring peace. Despite not being in power during the incident, he said they had compensated the victim’s family.
The Peshawar school massacre case was filed by the families of the children who died in the attack. Every year on December 16, relatives, families, and members of civil society hold vigils to remember the victims and call on authorities to bring the perpetrators to justice.
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