Reply #206: I'm not too familiar with Pakistan's legal system [View All]

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but since there is a similarity with what Turkey had a few years back, let me comment on that. The case was handled by an 'anti-terror court', which would punish it to the extreme (i.e. death penalty). Since the perpetrators were, what you would call a 'gang', and they conspired to commit the crimes (note the court added the death threats to the case), they are automatically 'upgraded' to 'terrorist' status, and terror/treason cases are always punished really hard here in Turkey as well. They are practically military courts.

This actually does relate to the terrorist groups who are always trying to assasinate Musharraf more than they do relate to any reforms, I think. He wants to see them dead as soon as possible and without too long trials.