The World - News from July 15, 1985

A Pakistani military court has sentenced seven officers to long jail terms for plotting to overthrow President Zia ul-Haq, Pakistan’s official news agency reported. After a secret trial that prompted protests by rights groups, the officers received sentences ranging from 10 years’ hard labor to life imprisonment. Twelve others were acquitted, the news agency said. The defendants were charged with plotting last year to kidnap Zia, blow up the houses of leading generals and Cabinet ministers, destroy bridges and communications lines and seize power.