Pakistan sentences five to death in Musharraf plot
Pakistan sentenced five men, including a soldier, to hang for their involvement in an al Qaeda-inspired assassination attempt on President Pervez Musharraf in late 2003, a military spokesman said on Friday. Major-General Shaukat Sultan said one of the convicted men was a soldier and the others were civilians. “They were convicted in the assassination attempt on the president on Dec. 25, 2003,” he told Reuters, referring to an attack in which suicide car bombers rammed Musharraf’s motorcade killing 15 people.Full Story