KARACHI - A Pakistani anti-terrorism court on Monday handed down fresh death sentences to two members of an Al Qaeda-linked group for an attack on a paramilitary vehicle, which killed two people, lawyers said.Attaur Rehman and Shahzad Bajwa, both members of Jund Allah or Army of God, were condemned to death for the attack in March 2004 near the road to the airport in Karachi, public prosecutor Maula Bux Bhatti told reporters. “The court found both guilty for carrying out the fatal attack,” he said.
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A Pakistani official has said Jund Allah was suspected of being behind a suicide car bomb attack that killed a US diplomat outside the US consulate in Karachi on Thursday, the day before President George W. Bush visited Pakistan. Police say members of Jund Allah were trained in camps run by Al-Qaeda in the rugged tribal area of South Waziristan near the Afghan border, where PakistanÂ’s military is engaged in an ongoing hunt for militants.