INDIA. PAKISTANI SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR INDIA FORT ATTACK

October 31, 2005: a Delhi court sentenced to death Mohammad Ashfaq, a Pakistani, over a militant attack at New Delhi's famous 17th Century Red Fort in December 2000. Prosecutors had said Ashfaq, convicted of "waging war" on India, was a member of the banned Pakistani-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba. The court also sentenced six Indians to between life and seven years in jail over the attack on an army garrison at the Red Fort in which three soldiers died. As the sentence was read out, Ashfaq shouted in protest. Outside, a crowd chanted: "Hang the terrorists." (Sources: Reuters, 31/10/2005)