PAKISTAN. SHC DISMISSES APPEAL OF ACTIVISTS IN SECTARIAN KILLING CASE

the Sindh High Court, Pakistan, dismissed the appeals of two activists of the banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi group upholding their death sentences for murder. Attaullah and Mohammad Azam had been sentenced to death by anti terrorism court in Karachi for killing religious leader Syed Ather Hussain Rizvi on May 3, 2001 in the Korangi area of Karachi.