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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (48960)8/26/2005 6:38:11 PM
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Five more sentenced to death

Staff Report

ISLAMABAD: Five people have been sentenced to death for their involvement in a 2003 attempt to assassinate President Pervez Musharraf in which 15 people were killed, an army spokesman said on Friday.

“Five people have been given the death sentence,” Army spokesman Major General Shaukat Sultan said, adding that a low-ranking member of the military and four civilians were given the sentence a few days ago, but would not say which court heard the case.

The sentences relate to Christmas Day 2003, when two suicide bombers rammed explosives-laden vehicles into Musharraf’s motorcade in Rawalpindi near the capital.

All five have the right to appeal their sentences. The final word will rest with Musharraf himself. The soldier who was sentenced for the Christmas Day attempt was named Naik Arshad Mahmood, and the civilians were Zubair Ahmed, Rashid Qureshi, Ghulam Sarwar Bhatti and Akhlaq Ahmed.

Sultan said another three people convicted of involvement in the plot were jailed. Rana Mohammad Naveed was sentenced to life imprisonment, Adnan Khan got 15 years behind bars and Aamir Sohail 20 years.

“I cannot say where the case was tried,” the military spokesman added. “They were tried under the relevant provisions of law.”

Multan correspondent adds: The Field General Court Martial delivered the verdicts at Attock Fort. The convicted men were later moved to the Jhelum district jail in a helicopter where they have been kept in separate cells. The accused had been tried under Section 31-D of the Pakistan Army Act.
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