*RAWALPINDI: **Pakistan Army General and a Brigadier sentenced to death and14 year jail over spying for foreign agencies.*
A three-star army general has been sentenced to 14 years in jail, and abrigadier awarded the death sentence on charges of espionage by militarycourts in separate cases.
A doctor associated with a “sensitive organisation” has also been handedthe capital punishment on similar charges.
According to a brief statement issued by the Inter-Services PublicRelations (ISPR), Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa endorsedthe punishment to the officers on the charges of espionage/leakage ofsensitive information to foreign agencies prejudice to national security.
The officers – identified by the military’s media wing as LieutenantGeneral (retd) Javed Iqbal, Brigadier (retd) Raja Rizwan, and Doctor WasimAkram – were tried under the Pakistan Army Act (PAA) and Official SecretAct by separate Field General Court Martial (FGCM) for separate cases,
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Lt Gen (retd) Iqbal has been awarded 14 years rigorous imprisonment, whileBrigadier (retd) Rizwan has been handed the death sentence. Doctor Akram,who, according to the ISPR, was employed at a sensitive organisation, hasalso been awarded the death penalty.
The ISPR, however, did not disclose the exact nature of espionage theofficers have been convicted of.
