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A Pakistani born US citizen named Faisal Shahzad who plotted a car bomb in the tourist flooded Times Square has been sentenced life imprisonment on Tuesday morning in Manhattan Federal court by the US District judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum.

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Faisal Shahzad, 31 years of age was pleaded guilty in the failed bomb blast mission on May 1 in Midtown Manhattan. The victim on interrogation revealed that he received bomb-making training from Pakistani Taliban—called Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan- and that the group had funded for the bomb plot.

Sources have revealed that Shahzad who got the US citizenship in 2009 lived in Connecticut and worked as a budget analyst for a commercial firm in there before indulging in the malicious act. It was also told that on May 1 Shahzad had parked a car with its engine running and the hazard lights flashing on a balmy springtime on Saturday evening with the aim to kill at least 40 people.

However, street vendors reported about this to the police who later, on scanning the car found explosives including firecrackers and propane gas tanks. A bomb squad diffused the crude homemade bomb.

The son of a retired Pakistani vice air marshal, Shahzad was arrested aboard a Dubai-bound jetliner at New York’s John F Kennedy International Airport two days after the attempted attack. He had been on his way back to Pakistan.

Calling himself a “Muslim solider,” a defiant Shahzad pleaded guilty in June to 10 terrorism and weapons counts.

On the acceptance of the crime by Shahzad, the prosecutors demanded a life imprisonment for the accused and they successfully got it.

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