48-year jail for attacking Chinese nationals

KARACHI:

An Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) has sentenced an alleged banned Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) terrorist, Dad Bakhsh, to a total of 48 years in prison for attacking a vehicle carrying Chinese nationals and injuring two of them in Karachi.

ATC-IV Judge Aminuddin Khaskheli announced the verdict at the special court established within the Anti-Terrorism Complex at the Karachi Central Jail.

The court also imposed a cumulative fine of Rs1.35 million on the convicted accused. In the same case, the court declared three other accused, identified as Nasir Ali, Shehzad Baloch and Dr Khalil Baloch, proclaimed offenders.

According to the prosecution, the accused had opened fire on a vehicle carrying Chinese nationals in the Gulbai area of Karachi, injuring two Chinese nationals.