PAKISTAN. COURT SENTENCES MILITANT CHIEF, DEPUTY TO DEATH

a Pakistani court sentenced to death Atta-ur Rahman, the chief of the Jundullah organization, and his deputy Shahzad Bajwa after convicting them of shooting and throwing a grenade at a military pickup truck in the southern city of Karachi in March 2004, killing a soldier and a bystander, prosecutor Maula Bakhsh Bhatti said.
"We had proved our case without any doubt and the judge duly acknowledged it and punished them," Bhatti said of the ruling by trial judge Feroz Mahmood Bhatti of the antiterrorism court in Karachi. The pair's defense lawyer, Mohammed Ramzan Syed, said he would appeal the convictions because they were based on "flawed evidence."