The Constitutional Bench has touched upon an issue of extreme public importance as it too found itself in a zigzag situation while interpreting Pakistan Army Act, 1952, in conjunction with fundamental rights enshrined in the Constitution. Justice Aminuddin Khan — justifying the May 7 short order on a set of 38 intra-court appeals — yesterday remarked that the absence of an independent right of appeal to a civilian court has rendered its application to civilians constitutionally incomplete. His prescription to seek the parliament's input to........

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