PAKISTAN: MULTIPLE DEATH SENTENCES FOR ORCHESTRATOR OF 2011 SUICIDE BOMBING

February 1, 2013: An Anti Terrorism Court (ATC) in Pakistan awarded the death penalty seven times to an accused convicted of planning and orchestrating a suicide attack at a public rally of former Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) leader Amir Muqam. His two accomplices were handed life sentences along with fines.
In July 2011, seven people including two policemen identified as Hazrat Ali and Muhammad Tayab were killed and 24 others were severely injured when a suicide bomber detonated himself a few yards from then PML-Q provincial president Engineer Amir Muqam in a public gathering in Battagram.
The three accused were tried in ATC, Abbottabad. Upon the completion of their trial, ATC judge Muhammad Anwar Khan sentenced the principal accused Qari Basit to death seven times (once for each person killed in the suicide attack), life imprisonment of 25 years for 22 times and a Rs1.2million fine for involvement in the Battagram case. (Sources: tribune.com.pk, 02/02/2013)