MULTAN, Pakistan (AP) — A Pakistani court docket on Wednesday sentenced 4 males to demise for his or her involvement in a automobile bombing final 12 months that killed 4 folks close to the residence of an anti-India militant chief.
The court docket additionally served up a five-year jail time period for a girl convicted of facilitating the assault within the japanese metropolis of Lahore, based on an announcement launched by the Punjab province Counter Terrorism Division.
All 5 of the convicted — together with the 4 males convicted of homicide — are Pakistani and have been arrested after the June 23 assault final 12 months close to the residence of anti-India militant chief Hafiz Saeed. Saeed has been designated a terrorist by the U.S. Justice Division and has a $10 million bounty on his head.
Saeed is the founding father of the outlawed Lashkar-e-Taiba group, which was blamed for the 2008 Mumbai assaults that killed 166 folks. Lashkar-e-Taiba was lively for years in Kashmir, which is cut up between Pakistan and India and is claimed by each.
In 2020, Pakistan sentenced Saeed to fifteen years in jail in a terror financing case, however he was by no means charged over the Mumbai assaults. He was serving his time period underneath home arrest underneath a authorities order and he escaped the bombing assault unhurt. 4 bystanders have been killed.
Pakistan and India have a historical past of bitter relations. They've fought two of their three wars over Kashmir since gaining independence in 1947.