PAKISTAN: TWO GET DEATH SENTENCE

03 September 2009 :

the Rawalpindi Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) No I in Pakistan awarded the death sentence and 33 years imprisonment to two men. Judge Malik Muhammad Akram Awan found Tahir Khan of Karachi and Chanzeb of Haripur guilty of armed robbery, murder, trespassing, attempted murder and an anti terrorism act in cases registered with the Sadiqabad police station on July 1, 2003.

(Sources: Daily Times, 02/09/2009)

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