Pakistan court sentences bin Laden wives: relative Pakistani policemen stand guard on March 17 outside a house in Islamabad where family m...

Pakistan court sentences bin Laden wives: relative

Pakistani policemen stand guard on March 17 outside a house in Islamabad where family members of slain Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden are believed be be held. A Pakistani court on Monday sentenced Osama bin Laden's three widows and two of his daughters to a month and a half in prison for illegal residency and ordered the government to arrange their repatriation

A Pakistani court on Monday sentenced Osama bin Laden's three widows and two of his daughters to a month and a half in prison for illegal residency and ordered the government to arrange their repatriation.

"The judge has announced a one and a half month imprisonment to all the five accused. The punishment was announced today. He has also imposed a fine of 10,000 rupees," Zakarya Ahmad Abd al-Fattah, the Yemeni brother of one of the wives, told reporters.

(Agencies)