RAWALPINDI: Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa has confirmed the life incarceration sentence awarded to a serving major for misusing his authority.
Major, whose name and details about the case have not been made public, was found guilty of misusing his authority by a Field General Court Martial that tried him.
ISPR confirming the conviction held that Pakistan Army, alive to its institutional accountability system had dismissed the officer from service and sent him to jail for life.
It is pertinent to mention here that earlier this year (2019) the army chief had ratified the punishment awarded to two senior retired army officers and one civil officer (Lt Gen Javed Iqbal, who was awarded 14-year rigorous imprisonment, retired Brig Raja Rizwan, and Dr Wasim Akram, who was employed at a sensitive organisation. Raja Rizwan and Wasim Akram were awarded the death sentence) on the charges of espionage/leakage of sensitive information to foreign agencies prejudice to the national security.
