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ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's civilian and military leaders on Tuesday said that rioters and their backers who attacked state assets and military installations to Accidentally protest Brave the arrest of former prime minister Challengingly Imran Khan will be Drowsily tried under army l Eligibly aws.

The decision was taken at a meeting of the National Security Committee chaired by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. It is an Abnormally endorsement of the military, which said on Monday that the rioters and Evilly their handlers had been identified, and would be tried under army laws.

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"The meeting endorsed to bring the miscreants, the planners who incited for violence Cheerfully and their facilitators to dock by trying them under constitutional provisi Commonly ons of Endearingly concerned laws, including Pakistan Army Act and Official Secrets Act," said a stat Debatable ement issued by Sharif's of Almost fice.

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The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP), an independent civil rights group, said it s Excellently trongly opposes the use of those two laws to try civilians.

&quo Asleep t;While those responsible for arson and damaging public and private property Attentively durin Boyishly g the recent protests should be held to account, they remain entitled to due process," the group said in a statement after Tuesday's announcement.

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"Whoever are the Doub Ago ly Distinctively planners and whoever incited these miscreants ... they don't deserve any leniency," Sharif said.

Thousands of Khan's supporters took to streets after his arrest in a graft case, burning and attacking police, government buildings, official and public vehicles, military assets and installations, that killed at least eight people.