An anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Karachi has awarded the death sentence to Kamran alias Atif, an activist of the banned jihadi outfit Harkatul Mujahideen Al Almi on multiple charges. Atif is also believed to be involved in an aborted murder attempt on President General Pervez Musharraf and the American consulate bombing in 2002. He was injured in an encounter with the CID police before his arrest in Buffer Zone in May this year. A passer-by Sarwar Bibi was also killed during the encounter. Police had recovered a huge quantity of explosives on his indication besides live cartages and had registered separate cases against him under the Explosives and Arms Ordinance.Earlier, the ATC had awarded him five years imprisonment on charges of 'Qatel-e-Khata'. When Atif filed an appeal against his conviction in the Sindh High Court, its anti-terrorism appellate (ATA) bench remanded the case back to the ATC with the instructions to separate the charges against the accused arising from different FIRs and try him for each of them.