Tag: Execution

Jamat-e-Islami leader Abdul Quader Molla's death sentence was upheld by Bangladesh's Supreme Court on Thursday. The judge dismissed his appeal, saying it paves the way for...

President Asif Ali Zardari on Saturday cancelled the execution of two death row prisoners. A media report said Behram Khan was to be hanged on...

Saudi authorities on Wednesday beheaded a Pakistani convicted of smuggling heroin, the Saudi Interior Ministry said. Wajid Ali Zarnoosh was found guilty of trafficking heroin...

Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan executed 21 soldiers kidnapped during an attack on a checkpost on Thursday near Peshawar, a private TV channel reported. According to reports,...

While the execution of Ajmal Kasab, the only gunmen involved in the Mumbai attacks captured alive, went unnoticed in Pakistan, there is another ‘Pakistan’...

Former Army Chief General Aslam Beg expresses reservations over the SC verdict in Asghar Khan case but said he has confidence in the judiciary. In...

Sindh Minister for Law, Parliamentary Affairs and Prison Ayaz Soomro has categorically stated that the present government would not execute the death penalty against...

As many as 11 women have been executed by the Taliban in the Shinwari district of northern Parwan province since the start of the...

Saudi Arabia beheaded two nationals on Monday in the eastern province of Al-Ahsa after convicting them of drug smuggling, the interior ministry said. The pair,...

Judges in Chennai on Tuesday delayed by two months the execution of three men convicted of the 1991 assassination of former Indian Prime Minister...

Judges in Chennai on Tuesday delayed by two months the execution of three men convicted of the 1991 assassination of former Indian prime minister...

Police on Monday said Taliban had released a video showing policemen being executed by firing squad after being captured in the northwest. A senior police...

Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Thursday condemned the beheading of an Indonesian maid in Saudi Arabia and accused Riyadh of breaking the...

ISLAMABAD - The senators demanded on Tuesday that government should implement reforms in the Frothier Crimes Regulation (FCR) immediately as the existing laws were being deemed as cruel, inhuman and barbaric.
They were speaking on a resolution moved by Senator Hafiz Rashid Ahmad regarding changes in the FCR. "It is strange that members of the Parliament from FATA take part in the legislation but that legislation is not meant for the territory they represent," senator from FATA

SITUATIONER - Split and differences among various militant groups are intensifying day by day while clashes among the militants of once strong and united Lashkar-i-Islam, headed by Mangal Bagh, have been in progress for two days in Bazaar area of Tirrah Valley. The rifts erupted among the ranks of Lashkar-i-Islam a couple of days back when its top commander Mangal Bagh ordered execution of Maulana Muhammad Hasham, a respectable religious figure of Zakhakhel clan of Afridi tribe.

LAHORE - About 100 activists from different schools of thought staged a protest on Sunday demanding the execution of Raymond Davis. Young protesters from the Pakistan Revolution Movement, Pakistan Ethesab Party and Khaksaar Tehreek Pakistan gathered at the Lahore Press Club and demanded the government banish American spies from Pakistan. The protesters chanted slogans against the US and its discriminatory policies towards the third world countries.
The activists agreed that the

LAHORE - PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif has once again expressed dissatisfaction over the efforts being taken by the government in the implementation of the 10-points agenda by the government.
Nawaz voiced disappointment on Monday while presiding over a high-profile meeting called to review the current political situation, the implementation of its 10-point agenda and the reorganisation of the party. He said the proposed 10-points were in fact the real solution to all the prevailing