Pakistani court sentences two militants to death
Posted on: Monday, 6 March 2006, 06:46 CST
KARACHI (Reuters) - A Pakistan anti-terrorism court sentenced two members of an al Qaeda-linked Islamic group to death on Monday for an attack on paramilitary troops two years ago.
The two suspects -- Atta-ur Rehman and Shazad Bajwa -- belong to the Jundullah group, a shadowy faction with ties to foreign militants.
Police suspect the group was involved in a suicide attack on the U.S. consulate in Karachi last week that killed four people, including a U.S. diplomat, a day before a visit by U.S. President George W. Bush.
The court convicted the two militants of carrying out an attack on a paramilitary rangers' vehicle in Karachi in March 2004, killing two people and wounding five.
"We have proved them guilty. The court has given them the maximum punishment, which they deserved," government prosecutor Maullah Bux Bhatti told Reuters.
The defense said it would appeal.
Rehman and Bajwa were among 11 Jundullah members sentenced to death by the same court last month after being found guilty of killing 10 people in an attack on a convoy escorting a military commander, Lieutenant-General Ahsan Saleem Hayat, in June 2004.
Hayat, now a full general, escaped unharmed, but 10 people, including six soldiers, were killed and 12 people were wounded.
Source: REUTERS
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