Allama Turabis murder: Three get death penalty

An anti-terrorism court on Thursday sentenced three accused to death and awarded life term to three others in Allama Hassan Turabis murder case. Judge Anand Ram, hearing the case in Karachi Central Jail, awarded death sentence and 0.1million fine each to Mohammad Rehman, Sultan Mahmood alias Saifullah and Mohammad Amin alias Khalid Shaheen for masterminding a suicide attack on the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal leader and also with planting a remote-control bomb to kill him. Their three accomplices namely Mohammad Akbar Khan, Ashfaq Qureshi and Raheemullah alias Ali Hasan have been given life term. Sindh chief of the Tehrik-i-Islami and provincial vice-president of the MMA, Allama Hasan Turabi, and his young nephew were killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up outside the religious leaders Gulshan-i-Iqbal residence on July 14, 2006. In an earlier incident, the same set of accused had planted a remote-control bomb in a pushcart on April 6, 2006 to kill Hasan Turbi when he was travelling on Abul Hasan Ispahani Road in the jurisdiction of the Mubina Town police station. However, he had escaped unhurt in the attempt, it added.