PAKISTAN: TWO GET DEATH SENTENCE IN MURDER CASE

an anti-terrorism court in Karachi, Pakistan, handed down the death sentence to two for kidnapping and killing a boy for ransom. Tehsil Khan and Taj Mohammad allegedly kidnapped 11-year-old Tufail from Al-Asif Square on September 28, 2008. They demanded Rs800,000 ransom from his family but later killed him. The court also ordered confiscation of property, worth Rs100,000 each, of both the convicts and fined them Rs50,000.