Ex-PIA staff jailed for funding terror attack

karachi — An anti-terrorism court has sentenced a former engineer of the country’s national flag carrier to 10-year imprisonment for funding a 2015 terrorist attack on the Ismaili community in which 47 people died.

The minority community members, including eight women, were gunned down on May 13 in Karachi’s Safoora Goth area when they were going to the city centre in a bus.

The court on Friday found Khalid Yousuf Bari, a former engineer of the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), guilty of arranging funds for the terrorists involved in the attack.

It also imposed a fine of Rs100,000 on Bari. — PTI