Three Islamic Sunni militants were sentenced to death...

Three Islamic Sunni militants were sentenced to death by a Pakistani court for the murder of three men from the rival Shiite community in March 2002.
Anti-terrorism court Judge Haq Nawaz Baluch convicted and condemned Akram Lahori, a key leader of the banned Sunni extremist group Lashkar-i-Jhangvi (LJ), and two of his followers Mohammad Azam and Mohammad Attullah.
"The court has announced death verdicts," police officer Rashid Saeed said.
The three were found guilty in the court in Karachi of killing Anwar Tirmizi and Zulfiqar Haider, provincial leaders of the banned Shiite political party Tehreek-e-Jafria, and Dr Alley Safdar Rizvi.
Lahori, described by police as one of LJ's most wanted hitmen when they arrested him in June 2002, yelled to reporters to leave the courtroom as the verdict was read out.
LJ, which stands for the "Jhangvi fighters," was declared a terrorist organisation by the United States in January. Pakistan had outlawed it in August 2001.
The gang's hard-core Sunni Muslim militants have been linked to al-Qaeda, the murder and abduction of US journalist Daniel Pearl, deadly car bomb attacks in Karachi, and the murders of four US oil workers in Karachi in 1997 and hundreds of Shiite activists.