Pakistan: 4 men get life over 2013 slaying of woman activist

KARACHI, Pakistan — A Pakistani tribunal connected Friday sentenced 4 men implicated successful the 2013 sidesplitting of a pistillate activistic successful Karachi to beingness successful prison, her lawyer said.

A 5th antheral was sentenced to 7 years, according to Salahuddin Panhwar, who represented the slain activist. The 5 did not really propulsion the trigger successful the shooting decease of Perveen Rehman but were convicted of facilitating the murder, the lawyer said.

Reham, an architect, had worked successful immoderate of poorest neighborhoods successful Karachi, Pakistan’s largest metropolis and the superior of Sindh province. She was hugely fashionable and headed the Orangi Pilot Project, which helped communities physique sewer and h2o systems.

She was ambushed by 2 gunmen who opened occurrence earlier fleeing the scene. The tribunal connected Friday besides reiterated its bid for the constabulary to hunt down the killers.

At the time, Rehman’s sidesplitting drew nationwide condemnation. Her friends and different activists person since demanded justness for her.

Karachi is simply a sprawling metropolis of implicit 20 cardinal people, with galore of its mediocre surviving successful makeshift communities that deficiency pubic services.