Pakistan-TTP
Pakistan Govt-TTP parleys: Parents of APS martyrs move Peshawar High Court
Peshawar, Pakistan: Five mothers of students, who were killed by militants in the 2014 Peshawar Army Public School attack in Pakistan, have moved Peshawar High Court against the ongoing negotiations between the government and proscribed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).
The mothers also sought directives for the government against ‘taking any step of reconciliation with the outfit without taking them into confidence’.
A bench consisting of Justice Lal Jan Khattak and Justice Abdul Shakoor issued a notice to the interior secretary asking him to respond to the petition, jointly filed by the mothers of four slain students and a woman teacher, on the next date of hearing to be fixed later, reports Dawn News.
The petitioners included Falak Naz, mother of students Noorullah and Saifullah, Shahana, mother of Asfand Khan, Seema, mother of Aimal Khan, and Zulaikha, mother of teacher Sadia Gul.
Advocate Ajoon Khan, who is the father of slain student Asfand Khan, appeared for the petitioners and contended that they were direct victims of the brutal act of killing innocent students and some of their teachers at the APS by the TTP militants, so negotiating with the outfit by the government without redressing their grievances would be a destruction of the justice system in the country.
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