Tag: Executions
Pakistan did not vote in favour of death penalty ban, FO...
ISLAMABAD: Foreign Office (FO) Spokesperson Dr Mohammad Faisal on Tuesday said that all reports conveying the news that Pakistan had voted in favour of a...
Reports of executions in Libya’s Benghazi alarm United Nations
TUNIS: The United Nations Libya mission said it was alarmed by reports of “brutal and outrageous summary executions” in the eastern city of Benghazi...
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,...
Saudi executes four convicted of murder
Saudi authorities executed four citizens on Sunday convicted of killing six members of their tribe, the interior ministry said.
The killings took place due to...
Anger grows in Saudi Arabia’s Shia areas after executions
Since Saturday's execution of four Shia Muslims in Saudi Arabia, hundreds or thousands of the minority sect have marched nightly in protest, and their...
JI wants govt to take up tripartite accord violation, BD executions...
Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) chief Sirajul Haq has exhorted the government to move the International Court of Justice (ICJ) over the violation of the tripartite agreement...
Disabled man set for scaffold as Pakistan nears 300th execution
Abdul Basit, a paraplegic who developed tubercular (TB) meningitis while on death row, and was convicted of murder in 2009, is scheduled for execution...
Saudi executes murderer, 147th death sentence this year
Saudi Arabia on Thursday executed one of its citizens convicted of murder, adding to a toll which rights group Amnesty International says is the...
Iran summons Saudi diplomat after 3 nationals executed
Iran has summoned Saudi Arabia's charge d'affaires in Tehran after the Gulf kingdom executed three Iranians convicted of drug trafficking, Iran's official IRNA news...
Military denies Taliban hanged military officer in ‘revenge killing’
In the two videos, the Pakistani Taliban claimed to have hanged a military intelligence officer in retaliation for recent executions of militants by authorities
Two more death-row prisoners hanged in different jails
Two more death-row prisoners convicted for murder were executed in different jails early on Wednesday.
As per details, a death-row prisoner Shahid Mahmood was hanged...
Punjab’s hangman makes only Rs 500 per execution: report
Sabir said since December last year he has hanged around 60 convicts in half a dozen jails across Punjab
SC stays execution of four death-row convicts
A two-member bench of the Supreme Court has stayed the execution of four murder convicts who were scheduled to be hanged in Mianwali and Lahore Kot Lakhpat jails on August 5.
Govt to halt executions in Ramzan
The government on Friday imposed a moratorium on executions during the upcoming holy month of Ramzan.
A notification was issued by the Federal Interior Ministry...
Pakistan rejects EU concerns over executions
FO spokesperson says capital punishments come under international laws and are Pakistan’s internal affair
Says Pakistan committed to improving relations with all neighbouring countries
Pakistan on...
Four death row inmates walk the gallows in Punjab
Four death row convicts were sent to the gallows in jails across Punjab early on Saturday.
Ehsan was sentenced to death by an anti-terrorism court...
Murder convicts hanged in Mirpur, AJK
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Two murder convicts on death row were executed Friday in Central Jail in Mirupur, Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK).
Convicts Muhammad Riaz and Muhammad Fayyaz...