A Pakistani anti-terrorism court sentenced Mohammad...

A Pakistani anti-terrorism court sentenced Mohammad Attaullah and Mohammad Azam, two members of the banned Sunni Muslim extremist Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LJ), to death for the murder of six Shiites. Judge Haq Nawaz Baluch found the two guilty of involvement in an armed attack on a mosque of the minority Shitte Muslim sect in 2001 that also left six others injured, state lawyer Mazar Qayyum told AFP. He said that two others including LJ chief Akram Lahori, already facing 15 more cases of murder and attempt to murder, and his accomplice Tassaduq Hussain were given life sentences. "I am satisfied with the verdict as justice has been done," Qayyum said. LJ was banned in 2002 by President Pervez Musharraf along with Shiite rival Sipah-e-Mohammad in efforts to curb sectarian violence in the country.