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![]() Friday, June 4, 1999 Published at 16:45 GMT 17:45 UK ![]() ![]() World: South Asia ![]() Nine MQM members sentenced to death ![]() An anti-terrorism court in Pakistani has sentenced nine members of the MQM to death for the murder of a former governor of Sindh province. There was tight security in the court in Karachi as the judge announced the sentences. The nine men have a week to appeal to the Sindh high court. The former Sindh governor, Hakeem Mukhammed Saeed, who was also a respected scholar, was shot down in Karachi last October; his killing prompted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to impose direct federal rule on the province. The anti-terrorist court announced that warrants had also been issued for the arrest of twenty seven other MQM members, including the party leader, Altaf Hussain, who lives in exile in London. From the newsroom of the BBC World Service ![]() |
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