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KARACHI, April 22: An anti-terrorism court acquitted on Tuesday four workers of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement in the killing case of four American employees of Union Texas Petroleum (UTP) and their Pakistani driver.

Judge Khan Pervaiz Chang of the ATC-4 acquitted Shahnawaz alias Ajmal Pahari, Mohammed Kashif, Faisal Iqbal and Waseem Javed as the prosecution could not establish its case against them.

The Americans — Ephraim Egbu, 42, senior auditor; Joel Enlow, 40, manager of audit projects; Larry Jennings, 49, audit manager; and Tracy Ritchie, 49, senior audit supervisor — and their driver, Anwar Mirza, 51, all employees of the Houston-based oil giant, Union Texas Petroleum, were killed on November 12, 1997 in the morning when their station wagon was ambushed by gunmen on PIDC bridge.

The American, all residents of Houston, had been in Karachi for two weeks doing the company’s annual audit.

Earlier, the ATC-4 had awarded capital punishment to two workers of the Muttahida in t