The leader of the main Islamist opposition party was among 14 people convicted and sentenced to death on Thursday for smuggling weapons to a rebel group in India nearly a decade ago. In April 2004, security officials seized more than 4,000 firearms, ammunition and other military equipment from fishing boats. According to case documents, the shipments were meant for Indian insurgents in Assam State, who signed a truce with the Indian government in 2011. Among those sentenced to death were Matiur Rahman Nizami, the leader of the main Islamist opposition party, Jamaat-e-Islami, two former intelligence officials and a former cabinet official.