Pakistani court gives death penalty to soldier who shot dead unarmed youth, captured on video
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KARACHI, Pakistan — A Pakistani anti-terrorism court on Friday sentenced to death a soldier who shot dead an unarmed young man in the southern city of Karachi, an incident that was caught on videotape and broadcast widely on TV, shocking the public.
Five other soldiers and a civilian who were also charged in the case were given life sentences. All were convicted of murder.
The verdicts appeared to be a relatively rare instance of Pakistani security forces being held publicly accountable in a case of troop brutality. The Pakistani military establishment is still reeling from a string of other humiliations including the unilateral U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden.
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