Tag: Convict

A district court in Dutch capital, Amsterdam, has convicted five citizens of Pakistani origin in a money laundering case. According to report, the five convicts...

The Lahore High Court (LHC), Rawalpindi Bench, on Thursday dismissed four intra-court appeals (ICA) filed by convicted persons of GHQ attacks. The appellant...

Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has conceded he would automatically lose his job if he is convicted of contempt, as he prepared to face...

Justice Mazahar Ali Naqvi of the Lahore High Court on Wednesday adjourned, without any proceedings, an appeal petition of 85-year-old convict against his sentence...

Aasia Bibi, a Christian woman convicted of blasphemy and currently imprisoned in Sheikhupura Jail, is in perfect mental and physical condition as opposed to...

Afsar Khan, the civilian among six convicted for the extrajudicial killing of Sarfaraz Shah, challenged on Tuesday the verdict of an anti-terrorism court (ATC)...

ISLAMABAD - President Asif Ali Zardari remitted the remaining jail sentence of Indian convict Gopal Das detained in jail for the past 27 years on humanitarian grounds.
Spokesperson to the President Farhatullah Babar said that the remission was granted on the advice of the prime minister to honour the appeal of the Supreme Court of India to the Government of Pakistan.
He said that several Indian newspapers recently reported that in an unusual step the Supreme Court of India

LAHORE: Lahore High Court (LHC) Chief Justice Khwaja Muhammad Sharif on Monday issued an interim order restraining President Asif Zardari and Punjab Governor Salman Taseer from possible pardoning of blasphemy convict Aasia, a Christian woman who was sentenced to death.
Issuing notice to the respondents, the court also sought an explanation until December 6 regarding statements and announcements by Taseer and the representatives of the federation intending Aasia's release by

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Minorities Shahbaz Bhatti on Thursday presented a report on the Asiya case to President Asif Ali Zardari, recommending pardon for the convict.
In a similar development, Pontifical Council for Inter-Religious Dialogue President Jean Louis Cardinal Tauran also called on Zardari and thanked him for taking interest in the case. The report along with supporting documents concluded that the blasphemy case against Asiya was registered on grounds of

LAHORE: Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer on Saturday termed death sentence for Asiya Noreen a 'disgraceful episode' and an 'embarrassment to Pakistan'.
Asiya Noreen, a 45-year-old mother of five, has been in prison since last year after some Muslim women, and fellow farm workers, accused her of blasphemy because of an altercation.
She was beaten by a mob of men, after being accused of blaspheming Islam, and later had an FIR filed against her by a local cleric who had been