By Liaquat Ali Khan,
14 January 2015
Mohammad Sajjad/AP
<p>Nations do inane things under panic. Pakistan has chosen to amend its constitution to empower the armed forces to execute "religious terrorists" without due process and fundamental rights otherwise available under the criminal justice system in civilian courts. This extreme constitutional measure is taken in reaction to the December 16 attack on the Army Public School in Peshawar where more than a hundred students <a target="_hplink" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/11295865/Taliban-kill-at-least-100-children-in-school-attack-in-Pakistan.html">were brutally massacred</a>.</p>
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