Pak court indicts three Karachi airport attack suspects

March 07, 2015 17:30

An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan today indicted three persons for their involvement in a brazen Taliban attack on the country's largest international airport in Karachi last year that killed 39 people.

Asif Zaheer, Nadeem, Sarmad Siddiqui were produced in the Karachi ATC amid tight security. All the three suspects pleaded not guilty to the charges against them. The court has summoned all witnesses in the case for the next hearing scheduled for March 14.

The trio were arrested by the Counter Terrorism Department of the Sindh police in October for providing financial and logistical support to the attackers.

On June 8, about 10 Taliban militants disguised as police guards stormed the Jinnah airport premises and opened fire with machine guns and a rocket launcher, triggering an all- night-long gun-battle with Pakistani security forces. At least 39 people, including all 10 attackers who besieged the airport's old terminal, were killed in the exchange of fire.

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