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Akram Lahori, 3 aides sentenced to high jump
An anti-terrorist court on Saturday gave the death sentence to Mohammad Ajmal, popular as Akram Lahori, and two other men last yearâs sectarian killing of a doctor. Judge Haq Nawaz Baloch convicted Lahori, former head of the outlawed Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, Attaullah and Azim for shooting down urologist Safdar Zaidi on March 4, 2002. The court also sentenced them to death for a double murder of two Shia leaders, Anwar Tirmizi and Zulfiqar Haider, who were killed on March 11, 2002. The convicts are also facing trial in another court on the charges of killing Shaukat Raza Mirza, managing director of Pakistan State Oil, in 2001. Judge Khan Pervez Chang has reserved the decision in this case until Wednesday. The 62-year-old managing director was murdered on July 26 while he was going to office in his car. Akram Lahori was 2nd-in-command after Riaz Basra, who was killed in a police encounter in Punjab.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2003-04-27 |
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