Pakistan government is planning to revive controversial military courts set up for the speedy trial of hardcore terrorists as they played an extremely important role to address the issue of extremism, two days after they were wound up.<br/><br/>The government said today that it was consulting political parties for bringing back military courts. The decision to revive military courts was taken at a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.<br/><br/>The military courts were set up in January 2015 after a Taliban attack on an army school killed 150 people, mostly children.<br/><br/>Finance Minister Ishaq Dar, Interior Minister Nisar Ali Khan, Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa, Advisor to Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz, National Security Advisor Nasser Khan Janjua and other senior officials attended the meeting.