Tag: Convict

No mercy for acid attack offenders, rules CJP

--Top court dismisses convict’s mercy plea despite victim’s ‘forgiveness’ --Says acid attack a 'bigger crime than murder' and deserves no clemency The Supreme Court (SC) on...

37 PML-N workers sent to jail for obstructing Safdar’s arrest

RAWALPINDI: A local court here on Wednesday sent 37 Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) workers to jail on a 14-day judicial remand in cases registered against them...

PICTURE: Capt (r) Safdar hid in a cave to avoid NAB...

MANSEHRA: A picture that went viral on the internet shows former prime minister Nawaz Sharif's son-in-law Capt (r) Safdar hiding in a Mansehra cave...

Judge approves death sentence of convict in murder case

Additional District and Session Judge Muhammad Yaqoob awarded death sentence to a convict in the murder case on Saturday. According to the prosecution, Akram Ali of...

Pakistani drug convict in Indonesia urges govt to intervene in halting...

A Pakistani drug convict, who is facing execution in Indonesia, pleaded for his life on Wednesday. “Talk to me, if you still find me guilty,...

Diplomatic efforts beefed up to save Pakistani death row convict in...

The government has intensified its diplomatic efforts to save a Pakistani national who was sentenced to death in Indonesia after being convicted of drug-related...

Death row convict hanged

A death row prisoner was executed in the Kot Lakhpat Jail early on Tuesday morning while the execution of another convict was postponed after...

Death row convict sent to gallows in Mianwali

  A death row convict was hanged in Mianwali Central Jail on Thursday. According to details, Mumrez had been convicted in a double murder case. He...

Indian court declines to lengthen jail time for Delhi gang rape...

The youngest of six men convicted of the 2012 gang rape of a woman, in a case that shocked India, moved closer to being...

Double murder convict hanged in Bahawalpur

  A double murder convict was executed in the New Central Jail Bahawalpur early Wednesday morning. Irshad had shot dead two people in 1999. Irshad’s dead...

Execution of paralysed death row convict postponed

The execution of paraplegic death row convict Abdul Basit was postponed following appeals by human rights groups, officials said Tuesday. The man's family welcomed the...

Nine more delivered justice on the gibbet

As many as nine more death-row prisoners were executed in various jails across Punjab on Wednesday. With the latest executions, so far 48 convicts have been hanged across the country, after the deadly attack on Army Public School, Peshawar on December 16 last year.

Court stays execution of murder convict

A court on Tuesday postponed for almost a month the hanging of a murderer in what would have been the country's first civilian execution...

Krishna to persuade Khar on releasing Indian terror convict

Indian External Affairs Minister SM Krishna will take up the issue of releasing Sarabjit Singh, Indian prisoner on death row in Pakistan, with his...

Gilani is convict, doesn’t understand constitutional matters: Imran

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan has said Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani is a convict who does not possess any understanding of the constitutional...

No protocol for ‘convict PM’ in Punjab

The Punjab government has decided not to extend protocol facilities to Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani during his visit to Punjab after his conviction...

Nawaz vows not to let ‘convict PM’ stay in office

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Nawaz Sharif on Friday reiterated his demand for Yousaf Raza Gilani’s resignation, asking him to step down as the...