May 13, 2010 8:49 PM

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Pak anti-terrorism court acquits 9 suspected suicide attackers

In Pakistan, an anti-terrorism court today acquitted nine suspects linked to a suicide attack that killed a general of the Pakistan Army and several others in February 2008.Judge Raja Ikhlaq Hussain of the Rawalpindi-based anti-terrorism court acquitted the accused due to lack of evidence.The prosecution had alleged that the suspects were involved in the suicide attack that killed Lt Gen Mushtaq Ahmed Baig, the Director General of Medical Services. The judge ruled that the prosecution had failed to produce any evidence to back up its charges. Seven others, including the general's driver and bodyguard, also lost their lives in the attack.The verdict came a week after another anti-terrorism court in Rawalpindi acquitted four suspects accused of involvement in the 2008 suicide car bombing of the five-star Marriott Hotel that killed nearly 60 people.In that case too, the judge ruled that the prosecution had failed to produce any evidence against the accused.

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