It was a grim end to a sad year, Pakistan, was quiet on New Year’s Eve as the rest of the world reveled and brought in 2015 with fireworks and fanfare.

The alleged mastermind of the bloodiest school massacre in Pakistan’s history, however, was busy sending emails.

Just as the New Year changed the date on smartphones and computer screens, Khalifa Umar Mansoor sent a mass email message to hundreds of Pakistani journalists and newspapers. He wanted everyone to know that he now has a new Facebook profile page. He provided its ID and promoted a video message he has posted on it. It is impossible to tell whether the message was authentic, but the profile exists, as does the video message.

After killing hundreds of innocent children, Khalifa Umar Mansoor of Darra Adam Khel apparently still has things to say and does so via email and Facebook.

In Pakistan’s smoke and mirrors battle against terror, it is difficult to tell whether or when Khalifa will be apprehended. However, the question of the legal venue of where he or the many like him should be tried and convicted is one that is being fervently tossed around.

As is often the case in the aftermath of bloody pogroms, there is talk of abridgments of procedure, amendments to the Constitution and the establishment of military courts.

Also read: Military courts: How the reluctant were brought around

On just the second day of 2015, a multi-party conference called by the sitting Government issued a statement that endorsed “the proposed legislative measures including amendments to The Pakistan Army Act to extend the jurisdiction of speedy trial of cases under specified acts and provide Constitutional cover”.

The efficiency of annihilation; of bombings and raids that is the business of an Army, will now be applied to the matter of judging terror suspects. The whole country, the statement issued after the MPC declared, is firmly behind the project.

It makes sense.