Four LeJ men handed down death on 22 counts

MULTAN: The anti-terrorism court No 1 on Tuesday awarded death on 22 counts to four activists of the banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) for attacking the Multan ISI headquarters. Abdur Rahim, Hafiz Salman, Sajjad and Muhammad Afzal have been awarded death on 11 counts under section 302 of the PPC and the same sentence under section 7 of the ATA. The court also awarded life imprisonment twice to their accomplice Ijaz Ahmed. The convicts had rammed a mini-truck into the ISI Headquarters in December 2009, killing 11 people and injuring 76 others. Several houses and residential quarters also collapsed in the attack.