SAHIWAL, April 4: An anti-terrorism court has sentenced to death a Lashkar-i-Jhangvi activist for killing a lawyer and his son Convict Naveed Akhtar had killed advocate Syed Abid Hussain Bukhari and his son advocate Haidar Abbas on July 30, 1997. The slain were office-bearers of Anjuman-i-Islamia, Qasar-i-Batool Imam Bargah.

ATC-2 judge Malak Amir Muhammad, however, acquitted Sipah-i-Sahaba’s local president Maulana Inamullah Bukhari, general secretary Qari Muhammad Ahmed Rashidi, Qari Abdul Rashid, Hakeem Abdul Latif Mujahid and two other LJ leaders Malak Muhammad Ishaq and Imran Ashraf detained in the same case. — Correspondent

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