Pak awards death sentence to a terrorist
A Pakistani court sentenced a terrorist to death on Saturday for masterminding two suicide attacks on minority Shi’ite Muslims that killed at least 45 people, lawyers said. The convict, Gul Hasan, belonged to Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, an underground banned group that has ties with the former Taliban regime in Afghanistan and Al-Qaeda linked terrorists. Judge Haq Nawaz of an anti-terrorism court said Hasan was found guilty of masterminding attacks on two Shi’ite mosques in Karachi in May last year, in which around 127 people were also injured. Full Story