Karachi: A Pakistani court on April 14 convicted four militants over a deadly car bomb attack outside the US Consulate in Karachi last June and sentenced two of them to death.

"The case against four of the men has been proven and two are awarded death sentence," judge Ahle Maqbool Rizvi announced in an anti-terrorism court in Pakistan's largest city Karachi.

Two other men were given life prison sentences, while a fifth defendant was acquitted.

The five men belonged to the Islamic militant organisation Harkatul Mujahedin al- Alaami.

Twelve Pakistanis were killed in the June 14 explosion.