PAKISTANI MUSLIM DOCTORS JAILED FOR TERRORIST LINKS

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Doctors jailed for militant links  

BBC
Monday, March 14, 2005

Dr Akmal being taken to jail after the verdict

Two Pakistani doctors have been sentenced to seven years
in prison after being convicted of assisting Islamic
militants.

Akmal Waheed and Arshad Waheed were found guilty of
providing financial and medical aid to Jundullah, a
militant group with alleged al-Qaeda links.

The two brothers say they have done nothing wrong and are
planning to appeal against their sentences.

The convictions are part of Pakistan's attempts to curb
Islamic militancy.

  "We are doctors and we are duty bound to provide
   medical help to injured people"
    - Dr Akmal Waheed  

"Evidence against them is sufficient, therefore, they
have been given the maximum punishment, which is seven
years," the anti-terrorism judge trying the two doctors
in the port city of Karachi said in his judgment.

The two doctors were also fined 50,000 rupees ($839)
each.

"Our only sin was that we provided medical relief to the
war-stricken Afghans. We have no regrets. We are proud,"
Dr Akmal told reporters after being sentenced.

"What we did was an obligation of our professional
duties," AFP news agency quoted him as saying.

"We are doctors and we are duty bound to provide medical
help to injured people."

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The court found them guilty of aiding the Jundullah group
which is suspected of involvement in the attack on a top
military commander, General Aslam Saleem Hayat, in
Karachi last year.

The attack killed 11 people but Gen Hayat escaped unhurt.
He has since been promoted and now serves as Pakistan's
vice chief of army staff.

The Waheed brothers were also charged with providing
medical treatment to two alleged al-Qaeda members, Abu
Hashim and Abu Mussab, AFP reports.

The agency quoted their lawyer as saying that it was "a
case fit for appeal" and that "there is no evidence".

The Waheed brothers were detained in July 2004 for their
alleged links to Islamic militants.

The verdict was announced on Monday from a makeshift
courtroom inside Karachi's high security central prison.

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