RAWALPINDI, Pakistan, Sept. 1 (UPI) -- Six men tied to Pakistani militant groups were given life terms for their roles in a plot to kill former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, a court said.
An anti-terror court in Rawalpindi sentenced six men to life in prison for their role in a 2008 plot to kill Musharraf using cars laden with explosives. The six men were accused of having links to the Pakistani Taliban, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and Jaish-e-Mohammed, the Press Trust of India reports.
More than a dozen men were accused of plotting to drive cars rigged with explosives into the former president's motorcade or his residence.
Malik Muhammad Akram Awan, the judge at the Rawalpindi court, dismissed the case of seven others tied to the plot because of a lack of evidence.
Investigators said they uncovered more than 2,000 pounds of explosives in three vehicles connected to the plot.
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