Karachi prosecutor murder: Two MQM workers jailed for life

Pakistani prosecutor Naimat Ali Randhawa briefs the media about the death sentence awarded to an Islamic militant by an anti-terrorism court in the central prison of Karachi on March 5, 2008. A Pakistan court on March 5 sentenced an Al-Qaeda-linked militant to death over a 2006 suicide attack which killed a US diplomat and three other people in the southern port city. Anwarul Haq was convicted by the anti-terrorism court on four counts in connection with the bombing outside the US consulate in Karachi on March 2, 2006, the eve of a visit to Pakistan by US President George W. Bush. AFP PHOTO/Asif HASSAN (Photo by ASIF HASSAN / AFP)

KARACHI: (HRNW) An anti-terrorism court in Karachi has sentenced two MQM workers to life imprisonments for murdering the special prosecutor who was fighting the journalist Wali Babar murder case.

A fine of Rs200,000 each has been imposed on Kazim Abbas and Nauman and their assets will also be seized.

Former special public prosecutor Naimat Ali Randhawa was killed and his son Tauqeer injured after the two men opened fire at them in North Nazimabad in September 2013.

Abbas has been already been sentenced to 10 years in prison for illegal possession of weapons. He was fined Rs50,000.

 

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