Convict in Musharraf assassination attempt case executed

Islamabad: A former Pakistan Air Force junior technician, convicted in former president Pervez Musharraf assassination attempt case, was executed Wednesday, a media report said. The last death sentence at the Peshawar Central Prison was carried out June 6, 2006, when a condemned prisoner, Mawas Khan of Sufaid Sung area in Peshawar, was hanged to death. In the first assassination attempt on Musharraf, which took place near Jhanda Chichi bridge in Rawalpindi Dec 14, 2003, six PAF personnel were convicted by a field general court martial at the PAF Base Chaklala Oct 3, 2005, after they were kept in detention for over 20 months. Since Dec 19, four personnel - former junior technician Adnan Rashid, who later escaped during the 2012 Bannu jailbreak, former chief technician Khalid Mehmood, former senior technician Karam Din, and former corporal Nawazish - have been sentenced to death.