An anti-terrorism court indicted on Monday the chief of the banned Lashkar i-Jhangvi and three others in the Mehmoodabad massacre case. LJ chief Akram Lahori, Mohammed Azam, Attaullah and Malik Tasadduq were charged with killing six people and injuring five others in an attack on April 10, 2001, on Ali Murtaza Imambargah [Shia mosque] in Mehmoodabad. Judge Haq Nawaz Baloch fixed Tuesday for recording the statements of the prosecution witnesses after the four Lashkar men denied their involvement in the case and pleaded "not guilty".
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Six faithful were killed and five injured when they were sprayed with a volleys of bullets during Maghreb prayers. The police had registered a case against four unknown culprits, who had come on two bikes. |