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Sunday, August 14, 2011
Court convicts seven in GHQ attack
ISLAMABAD: A military court has found seven men guilty of attacking the General Headquarters in 2009, sentencing a retired soldier to death and four men to life imprisonment, an official said on Saturday. The main Taliban faction had claimed the responsibility for the daylong siege carried out by 10 terrorists at the army headquarters in Rawalpindi. Troops ultimately fought off the attackers and freed 39 hostages, but 23 people were killed, including 11 troops, three hostages and nine attackers. “One former soldier, Aqeel alias Dr Usman, was awarded the death sentence while one of his accomplices, also an ex-soldier and three civilians were sentenced to life imprisonment,” a military official said on the condition of anonymity. Two other civilians were each handed seven years in prison. He did not give further details on the precise nature of the seven men’s involvement in the attacks. The country has faced a wave of assaults over the last few years, many of them claimed by Taliban and other al Qaeda linked terrorist groups. agencies
Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk