PESHAWAR: Peshawar High Court (PHC) has accepted a writ petition filed by the parents of Army Public School (APS) attack victims, seeking a judicial inquiry into the December 2014 carnage that claimed the lives of around 140 people, including 132 schoolchildren.
APS Shuhada Forum President Advocate Ajoon Khan filed the writ petition on behalf of the victims’ parents and made the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government, the provincial home secretary, additional chief secretary of Federally Administered Tribal Areas, inspector general and the federation of Pakistan respondents through the interior secretary. The petitioners requested the court to order a judicial inquiry into the incident. On 16 December 2014, seven gunmen affiliated with Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP) had conducted the terrorist attack on Army Public School.
