Former judge, accomplice get death sentence

A Pakistani court has found a former judge and his accomplice guilty of killing the young son of another former judge and sentenced them to death.

Sikandar Lashari and Irfan Bengali had been charged with murdering 19-year-old Aqib Shahani, the son of former judge Khalid Shahani, in the city of Hyderabad. The verdicts were announced in open court yesterday.

Pakistani media have reported that Aqib was in love with Lashari’s daughter but Lashari was against the relationship.