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Death penalty for Pervez assailant

Islamabad, December 24
A military court had handed down death sentence to a soldier and 10-year imprisonment to another for masterminding an assassination bid on Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf last year, an army spokesman said today. The state-run television quoted the spokesman Maj Gen Shaukat Sultan as saying that the two convicted were low-ranking Army personnel.

The soldiers have been identified as Muhammad Younas and Islam-ud-din. General Sultan said eight Army men were behind the attack and trial of six others of the Pakistan Air Force would be held separately. — PTI