Brigadier Ali Khan should be tried in civilian courts

[Awesome]

His lawyer has said that the Brigadier only demanded that the right people from the military be held accountable for letting the US raid in Pakistan and that Bin Laden was found there.

It is a conflict of interest since he spoke against the military, the military is trying him - a clean shaven man does not look like he belonged to Hizb-ut-Tahrir and worked in GHQ without anyone noticing.

Funny how he was arrested soon after May 2. Military can't try him he should be tried in civilian court so that real culprits come out of the trial.

Alleged militant links: Military trial of Brig Ali Khan begins – The Express Tribune

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Army has started court martial proceedings against a senior army officer over his suspected ties with banned group Hizbut Tahrir (HuT), military sources confirmed to The Express Tribune.

“I can confirm that Brigadier Ali Khan is facing trial by a field general court martial,” a military source said, while refusing to give details of the trail.

Brig Khan and four other officers were detained in 2011, soon after the May 2 incident in which US forces killed al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad.

Brig Khan, who has been in custody for almost 10 months, was working at the General Headquarters (GHQ) in Rawalpindi at the time of his arrest. He has denied the allegations against him.
His lawyer, retired Col Inam Rahim, said his client was detained for demanding that someone within the military be held accountable for the covert US raid in Abbottabad.

Security agencies had also arrested HuT deputy spokesperson Imran Yousafzai from Islamabad following the detention of the suspected officials. Four other HuT activists were also arrested from Islamabad and Multan.

The banned outfit has spearheaded criticism against the Pakistan Army for its ‘failure’ during the US raid in Abbottabad.

Leaflets distributed by HuT in major cities instigated army officers to mutiny against their top brass.

According to reports, the arrested HuT activists were accused of providing ‘inflammatory’ material to army officers, besides urging them to work against their high command as well as against the civilian government.

The significance of the court martial lies in the fact that it has been initiated at a time when the Abbottabad commission, formed to probe the May 2 incident, is close to completing its inquiry report.

Brig Khan was due to retire on July 9, 2011, after completing his service in the Pakistan Army.
According to Brig (retd) Shaukat Qadir, a major general or lieutenant general normally presides over a military court. An army officer charged by a military court for breaching discipline is liable to imprisonment for a maximum of 10 years.

The sentence of life imprisonment or death, under military laws, can be given if the accused is found guilty of mutiny or intending mutiny, he said.

It is yet to be ascertained whether the other four army officers will also be put on trial.

Officials familiar with the army procedure, however, were expecting a joint trial of all the arrested army officers and HuT activists.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 12th, 2012.

 

[Jango]

Well he can do that in the mess, or at lunch ,or in the ante room, but in front of his men, and so openly as he might have done, that was in gross violation of military law, and he was caught by MI, so he must have some links, and according to some people with whom i have talked, he did have some sort of contacts with the bad guys.

And a military court martial makes perfect sense, he was a military officer, and was charged with violation of law, and now he is being persecuted. He knows, and the people know what the outcome will be, because in a court martial, judge ,jury and executioner are all the same.

BTW, having a beard or being clean shave does not signify anything as to whether there are links or not.

 

[ejaz007]

He was a military officer and should be tried in a military court. Legally he can not be tried in a civilian court.