Three TTP terrorists awarded death sentences

RAWALPINDI: The Anti-Terrorist Court (ATC) No-II, Rawalpindi, on Tuesday awarded eight-time death sentences to three terrorists of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) involved in an attack on the Nato supply convoys.
The bloody attack was made on October 3, 2010 in which some of police officials had also died.The terrorists handed down the sentence are Afraz-ur-Rehman, Ali Imran and Wajih-ur-Rehman. The court has also awarded life sentences with fines of millions of rupees to each.
Eleven oil tankers carrying supplies for the Nato forces stationed in Afghanistan were gutted and four people were killed when gunmen mounted a late night attack at a filling station in Islamabad.
More than 25 oil tankers stopped for refuelling near the Defence Housing Authority (DHA), Phase-II and Jedah Town on the outskirts of the city when they were attacked by at least eight gunmen. Nine tankers parked there in a queue were completely gutted.
Rescuers and fire tenders from Rawalpindi and Islamabad rushed to the scene to put out the fire. Rescuers said that they had recovered four charred bodies from the burning oil tankers. Another six persons were rescued with burn injuries. They were referred to hospital where two of them were in a critical condition. Most of the dead and injured were drivers and cleaners of the vehicles.
It was a terrorist attack. The gunmen first opened fire and then set the oil tankers on fire. Some of the tankers were removed from the place to prevent the fire from spreading.
Just after the attack, the Tekreek-e-Taliban Pakistan spokesman Azam Tariq accepted responsibility for the attacks on the Nato supply trucks and tankers. “We will carry out more such attacks in future. We will not allow the use of Pakistani soil as a supply route for Nato troops based in Afghanistan. This is also to avenge the drone attacks,” the spokesman added.