Pakistan PM Imran Khan To Appear In Supreme Court Over 2014 Peshawar School Terrorist Attack Case

Earlier, the Supreme Court of Pakistan had summoned Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan to appear before the apex court.

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan. (File Photo)

New Delhi: On the directives of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, Prime Minister Imran Khan will be reaching the court in person. He will appear before the Pakistan apex court after he was summoned regarding the 2014 Peshawar school terror attack.

Imran Khan met the Attorney General (AG) Khalid Jawed Khan after the Supreme Court of Pakistan summoned him to appear to ask him to register FIR against big wigs like the then CM of KPK, then ISI Chief, then Army Chief on demand of the parents of the children killed.

Parents had raised this demand immediately after the attack and the Court had directed so but AG did not inform PM Imran Khan on same so SC has asked Imran to appear in person so that they themselves can ask him to get the FIRs registered

Interestingly if an FIR is filed against the then KPK CM Parvaiz Khattak, he is now the Defence Minister of Pakistan.

A judicial commission investigating the 2014 Peshawar attack had submitted its report to the Supreme Court of Pakistan in July 2020.

On December 16, 2014, a group of six Tehrek-i-Taliban Pakistan terrorists attacked the Army Public School in the northwestern city of Peshawar. As many as 147 people including 132 children were killed during the attack.

As per the Dawn reports, in the last hearing, a bench led by Chief Justice of Pakistan, Gulzar Ahmed, had asked the attorney general to inform the apex court about the steps initiated by the government to redress the grievances of wailing parents.

Chief Justice Ahmed in today's hearing asked the attorney general that if Prime Minister Imran Khan has read the court's order or not.

In response, Khalid Jawed informed the court that the order is yet to be sent to the Prime Minister.

While asking the attorney general that is this the level of seriousness, Chief Justice said, "Call the Prime Minister, we will talk to him ourselves. This cannot go on."

On behalf of the government, Attorney General said, "We accept our mistakes."