Seventy devotees were killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up over three years ago at the Sehwan dargah

Other sentences of imprisonment would run concurrently. However, their death sentences are subject to confirmation by the Sindh High Court. Nadir Ali was further given life imprisonment for possessing explosives in addition to seven-year imprisonment for possessing illicit weapon and Rs50,000 fine. They were ordered to pay a fine of Rs100,000 for causing injuries to each victim.Īdditionally, the convicts were awarded a collective sentence of 24-years each for their involvement in the bomb blast and ordered to pay Rs100,000 fine each. The judge also awarded 10-year imprisonment to each convict for wounding each of 65 people. It also ordered the convicts to pay a collective fine of Rs14m (Rs200,000 each), as compensation to the legal heirs of victims. The court handed them capital punishment on 70 counts (for killing of 70 victims, including women and children) and ordered to pay a collective fine of Rs14 million each (Rs200,000 for each killing) to the state. The judge of the Anti-Terrorism Court-XVI found Nadir Ali and Furqan guilty of facilitating suicide bomber Barar Brohi who on blew himself up at the packed-to-capacity courtyard of the shrine of the Sufi saint. KARACHI: An antiterrorism court on Monday sentenced two men, said to be associated with the militant Islamic State group, to death in a case pertaining to the 2017 suicide blast at the shrine of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar in Sehwan that killed around 70 people and wounded dozens of others.

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