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KARACHI: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights are very clear; civilians should not be tried by military courts, Amnesty International’s Secretary General Dr Agnès Callamard said. In an exclusive interview with Dawn, the Amnesty chief — who is on her first regional visit to South Asia — said that although military trials …

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