Tag: Execution

Bahrain executes three men in first death sentences since 2010

Britain was facing fresh calls to loosen its ties with Bahrain after three Shia Muslim men convicted of killing an Emirati police officer and...

Judge approves death sentence of murder case convict

Additional District and Sessions Judge Shakeel Ahmad on Monday awarded death sentence to Aamir Ali involved in a murder case of Sadar police station. According...

Mentally ill prisoner Imdad Ali to be executed on November 2

The authorities issued a death warrant for a mentally ill condemned prisoner on Wednesday after the Supreme Court ruled that his schizophrenia is “not...

Two murderers executed in Mirpur, AJK

Two death row prisoners Yaqoob and Ghazanfar were executed in Central Jail of Mirpur, Azad Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday morning. Both the convicts were...

Saudi executes two murder convicts, raises number of death sentences to...

Saudi Arabia on Monday executed two convicted murderers, the interior ministry said, raising to 107 the number of death sentences carried out in the...

Two murderers sent to the gallows

Two death row convicts have been executed in Faisalabad and Sahiwal jails. Death row prisoner Adeel Shahzad was hanged in district jail Faisalabad on Tuesday...

Fazl says Qadri’s execution was judicial murder

Religious parties to meet March 15 to discuss Qadri’s hanging, Blasphemy Law and the Women Protection Act Leader of Jamiat-e-Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) Maulana Fazlur Rehman said on...

Islamabad becomes no-entry zone: City under complete lock down

Metro closed, exams cancelled, attendance in offices low Faizabad, Naseerabad, Bara Kaho, all entry points sealed, police deployed Following the execution of Mumtaz Qadri early on...

SC maintains stay on execution of APS terror convicts

The Supreme Court Wednesday maintained its stay order against execution of four terrorists, including two facilitators of the December 2014 carnage at Army Public...

North Korea executes army chief of staff: South Korean media

North Korea has executed its army chief of staff, Ri Yong Gil, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported on Wednesday, which, if true, would...

Protests erupt across Pakistan over Shia cleric’s execution

Thousands of Shias protested in Pakistan and Indian-held Kashmir on Sunday to condemn Saudi Arabia's execution of a leading Shia cleric Nimr al-Nimr, as...

Four terrorists sentenced by military courts hanged in Kohat

Four terrorists sentenced by military courts were executed on Tuesday at the Kohat Central Jail. According to local media, Chief Of Army Staff (COAS) General...

HRCP calls for stay of execution of murder convict

  The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has called upon the president to stay the execution of Syed Saqi Shah who is scheduled to...

‘APS massacre convicts should have been hanged from squares’

Pakistan hanged four men linked to the Taliban’s massacre of more than 130 schoolchildren on Wednesday, with parents of victims saying they deserved “no...

Reaction over executions, Bangladesh govt summons Pakistani envoy

  Bangladesh government summoned Pakistan high commissioner to Bangladesh over statements from the country's top officials on the executions of two BNP leaders as 'war...

Killer of ex-Punjab CM, five others executed in various jails

Zaman alias Zamani, the man convicted of killing former Punjab chief minister Ghulam Haider Wyne, was hanged in Multan on Thursday. Ghulam Haider was a...

Death row convict hanged at Kot Lakhpat Jail

A death row convict was sent to the gallows at the Kot Lakhpat Jail Lahore early Wednesday morning. Death row prisoner Mushtaq had killed a...