sparklingway
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Thank you for posting this, i was about to say the same. Also the additional right granted to the suspects is a very good thing for accountability and transparency in the international arena.
If we were to use the Army Act we would have Amnesty International and the sorts shoving verbal truncheons down our throats...
Smart move by the judiciary and executive.
But the ATO 2010 Amendment Ordinance itself has lapsed as the 18th amendment does not allow for more than two consecutive promulgations of the ordinance (so as to prevent presidents violating legislative business but here the legislature has not done its part in debating and legislating the said ordinance). The cases under trial would continue under previously amended laws however new cases will have to be prosecuted without the new provisions. It will be a big mess for the prosecutors.
As the topic is prosecution, the special public prosecutors for Rawalpindi's ATC-I and ATC-II do not have an office, a legal assistant (paralegal), clerk or anybody. They are on their own. In the most high profile cases the provincial special public prosecutor is appointed but for all other terrorism cases how can you expect a prosecutor without any assistance or infrastructural support to fight a case to his best caliber. This is Rawalpindi, a big urban center. Imagine the mess for other ATCs.
You might want to read this post :- http://www.defence.pk/forums/pakistans-war/60854-terrorism-convictions.html