Karachi, March 6, SPA -- A Pakistani court on Mondaysentenced to death two leaders of a group called "the Jundullah organization"for killing two men in an attack two years ago, a lawyersaid. Atta-ur Rahman, the chief of the Jundullah organization,and his deputy Shahzad Bajwa were convicted Monday ofshooting and throwing a grenade at a military pickup truckin the southern city of Karachi in March 2004, killing asoldier and a bystander, prosecutor Maula Bakhsh Bhattisaid. "We had proved our case without any doubt and the judgeduly acknowledged it and punished them," Bhatti said ofthe ruling by trial judge Feroz Mahmood Bhatti of theanti-terrorism court in Karachi. The pair's defense lawyer, Mohammed Ramzan Syed, said hewill appeal the convictions because they were based on"flawed evidence," according to a report of the Associated Press. Last month, the same court sentenced Rahman and 10 othermen to death for an attack on a senior army general inKarachi in June 2004. The general survived but 10 otherswere killed. Rahman has already filed an appeal against thatconviction. Police say Jundullah, is suspected of being behind a car bombing outside the U.S. consulate in Karachi on Thursday that killed a U.S. diplomat and threeother people. --SPA 13 06 Local Time 10 06 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/337020
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