MULTAN: An anti-terrorism court on Tuesday handed down death sentence to four militants for attacking the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) Multan office.

ATC-I handed down the sentence to Abdul Raheem, Hafiz Suleman, Sajjad and Muhammad Afzal for on 11 counts each, and 25-year imprisonment to their fifth accomplice Ijaz.

As many as 15 people were killed and more than 50 others were injured in the bomb and gun attack on the ISI office located in Cantonment area in 2009 and an FIR of the incident was lodged with the Cantonment police.

All the convicts reportedly belonged to a banned outfit.

DEFUSED: The bomb disposal squad of civil defense department defused a suicide jacket fitted with explosives found near Nau Bahar Bridge on Old Dunyapur Road here on Tuesday.

Police said some locals spotted the jacket and informed the 15 emergency about it. Officials of Seetal Mari police and civil defense reached the spot and the bomb disposal squad defused the explosives.

Station House Officer Jamshed Akram said police were investigating the matter.

Published in Dawn, January 14th, 2015

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