PESHAWAR: An anti-terrorism court on Wednesday sentenced to life imprisonment two Afghan nationals for kidnapping a teenaged boy for ransom, and fined them Rs20,000 each.

The ATC judge Syed Asghar Shah also convicted the wife of one of the convicts under section 14 of the Foreigners Act for illegal stay in Pakistan and sentenced her to seven years imprisonment.

The judge ordered that the properties owned by the three convicts should be confiscated to the state and they should be deported to Afghanistan after completion of their prison term. The three convicts -- Fazlullah, his wife Ms Talha and Mohammad Alam -- were charged with kidnapping Abdul Wahab, 18, from Tehkal area on May 17, 2013. The complainant Akhter Munir, uncle of the kidnapped boy, charged them for the commission of the offence. Later, the boy was recovered from his captors.