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| LeJ member sentenced to death over Shi'ite attacks |
| 2006-06-01 |
| A Pakistani anti-terrorism court has sentenced an Islamist militant to death for an attack on a gathering of Shi'ite Muslims seven years ago that killed 16 people, a lawyer said today. The convict, Qari Omar Hayat, belonged to the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, one of the most feared militant groups blamed for most attacks on minority Shi'ite Muslims in Pakistan. Hayat and three other militants were convicted yesterday for firing on a crowd of Shi'ite Muslims near the town of Muzaffargarh in central Punjab province in 1999, said state prosecutor Malik Najaf Ali Mahe. ''He was one of the attackers who fired at the gathering with a Kalashnikov rifle. The three other attackers have already been killed in police encounters,'' Mahe told Reuters. Hayat had the right to appeal. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |