The commission formed under the chairmanship of Peshawar High Court (PHC), Justice Mohammad Ibrahim Khan has completed its investigation into the Army Public School (APS) carnage on December 16, 2014, The Express Tribune reported on June 5. The commission recorded the statements of over 135 people including the parents of students who were martyred in the attack. It will present its report to the Supreme Court until June 30. In the deadliest attack in the country’s history, armed militants affiliated with the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) stormed the APS Peshawar and martyred 132 innocent students and 17 staff members.
According to the spokesperson of the commission, the parents of the martyred students in 2018 had filed a petition and requested the Supreme Court to conduct a judicial inquiry of the APS incident. The then Chief Justice Saqib Nisar during his visit to Peshawar had taken notice of the issue when parents of several deceased APS students approached him with a request for intervention to address their grievances. Nisar approved the request and the high court constituted a commission on October 12, 2018 under the chairmanship of PHC Justice Mohammad Ibrahim Khan.