PESHAWAR, Nov 30: An anti-terrorism court on Tuesday found two Afghan nationals guilty of the March 23 rocket attack on Peshawar and sentenced them to five years' rigorous imprisonment and fined them Rs50,000 each.
The presiding officer of the court, Shahjee Rehman Khan, ruled that prosecution had proved its case against Bedar Gul and Nadir. The court observed that the accused had recorded their statements, confessing that they had fired rockets against different targets in the city.
Earlier, public prosecutor Mushtaq Khan contended that the evidence on record had proved the involvement of the accused in the offence. The accused were charged with firing four rockets in the city on March 23.
Police claimed that on the lead provided by the accused they had recovered two live Russian-made rockets of 107mm from a deserted location in the jurisdiction of Pishtakhara police station. One of the four rockets had landed inside the Balahisar Fort, the headquarters of the Frontier Corps.
The rest landed in the vicinity of district courts, the parking lot of the civil secretariat and Dabgari Garden Area. An FIR was registered at the East Cantonment police station under section 3/4 of the Explosive Substance Act, section 324 of Pakistan Penal Code, and section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act.
