PAKISTAN. COURT REVOKES DEATH SENTENCE AGAINST MILITANT

the Sindh Provincial High Court in Karachi, Pakistan, threw out a lower court's death sentence against a man convicted of masterminding two suicide attacks. Gul Hasan was sentenced to death on May 7, 2005 for organising attacks that killed at least 45 minority Shiites in 2004. Justices Afzal Soomro and Rahmat Hussain Jaffery declared the sentence void and ordered the acquittal due to insufficient evidence, according to a defence lawyer. Hasan belonged to Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, an underground, banned militant group that has been implicated in many incidents of violence.