CHAPTER VI
OFFENCES
34. Offences in relation to the enemy and punishable with death. Any person subject to this
Act, who commits any of the following offences, that is to say :___
(a) shamefully abandons or delivers up any garrison, fortress, post, place or guard, committed
to his charge, or which it is his duty to defend, or uses any means to compel or induce any
commanding officer or other person to commit the said act ;
(b) intentionally uses any means to compel or induce any person subject to Military, Naval or
Air Force law to abstain from acting against the enemy, or to discourage such person from
acting against the enemy ; or
(c) in the presence of the enemy shamefully casts away his arms, ammunition, tools or
equipment or misbehaves in such manner as to show cowardice ; or
(d) treacherously holds correspondence with, or communicates intelligence to, the enemy or
any person in arms against Pakistan ; or
(e) directly or indirectly assists the enemy with money, arms, ammunition, stores or supplies ;
or
(f) treacherously or through cowardice sends a flag of truce to the enemy ; or
(g) in time of war or during any Air Force operation, intentionally occasions a false alarm in
actions, camp or quarters or spreads reports calculated to create alarm or despondency ;
or
(h) in time of action leaves his commanding officer or his post, guard, piquet, patrol or party
without being regularly relieved or without leave ; or
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