Lahore:
A Pakistani court has awarded two death sentences to a man who raped and killed an eight-year-old girl in the central Punjab province.
Muhammad Usman was sentenced by Additional Sessions Judge Wasimur Rehman Khakwani during a hearing at a court in Lahore on Thursday.
The judge also ordered him to pay a fine of Rupees 2.50 lakh for his offence.
The convict, a resident of Green Town in Lahore, kidnapped Naheem Sonu when she had gone to a market near her home to buy some candies.
He took her to a deserted place and then raped and killed her, prosecutors said.