A Pakistani military court convicted two low-ranking army officers on charges of involvement in assassination attempts on President Pervez Musharraf last year, a military spokesman said on Friday. Spokesman Major-General Shaukat Sultan said one of the convicts, a sepoy, was given the death penalty, the other was sentenced to 10 years in jail. The cases could go to appeal. The military court handed down the sentences a few days ago and the trial of up to four other junior army officers and six air force officers was under way, Sultan said. Musharraf, a key ally in the U.S.-led war on terror, survived two assassination attempts in December last year in the garrison city of Rawalpindi, near Islamabad. Sultan did not say in which of the attempts the two had been involved. The announcement of the verdicts came on the first anniversary of the second attempt on Musharraf's life in which 15 people were killed. The attacks were blamed on Islamic militants angry at Musharraf's support for the war on terror. --SP 2209 Local Time 1909 GMT
