ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan has arrived at the Supreme Court of Pakistan to appear before the apex court’s bench today (Wednesday) after he was summoned to attend a hearing of the Army Public School (APS) massacre. Imran Khan said there was no sacred cow in Pakistan therefore the govt will take action if supreme courts asks us to do so.
A three-member bench headed by Chief Justice Gulzar Ahmed is hearing the case.
On December 16, 2014, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militants stormed the Army Public School in Peshawar and martyred over 140 people, mostly schoolchildren.
A hearing of the case took place today during which the apex court summoned the prime minister to appear before the bench when the hearing resumes at 11:30am, in his personal capacity.
During the previous hearing of the case, parents of the children martyred in the 2014 terrorist attack had complained to the court that they had lost their children in the incident hence the top civil and military leadership of the country should be summoned by the Supreme Court and cases registered against them.
