Tag: Jail

Dr Chishti walks free from Indian jail

Pakistani scientist Dr Khalil Chishti, who spent last 18 years in an Indian prison on murder allegations, finally walked out of jail on Wednesday,...

Class 9 student sent to jail

Civil Lines Police registered a case against a student of Class 9 for cheating during examination on Monday night. Police released the boy on personal...

‘SC can’t put PM in jail for more than 6 months’

Barrister Aitzaz Ahsen, who is advocating Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani in the contempt of court case, claimed on Tuesday that the Supreme Court...

PRISON BETTER THAN GALLOWS

Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani has taken a novel stance against the Supreme Court on writing a letter to Swiss authorities to reopen corruption...

Fake nikahnama lands cleric in jail

The Islamabad police arrested a cleric who had allegedly solemnised the marriage of a 16-year-old girl without her consent and information. The Supreme...

ISPR rejects issuing PR on Adiyala Jail inmates’ case

A spokesman of the ISPR on Wednesday strongly denied charges that the ISPR had issued a press release and commented on the sub-judice case...

11 Adiala Jail detainees are hardcore terrorists: security official

Calling the Adiala jail detainees terrorists, a security official on Friday said sympathisers had forgotten the miseries of those 28 innocent families, who had...

Threatened with jail, Berlusconi lashes out at judges

Italy’s Silvio Berlusconi launched a public attack Thursday on the country’s judges, accusing them of being out to “destroy” him after prosecutors called for...

Doctors demand restoration of seniors, block Jail Road

Several doctors from the Punjab Institute of Cardiology (PIC) and Services Hospital protested on the Jail Road under the banner of the Young Doctors...

Something (hugely) fishy…for Rs 170,000 or jail

For Dilawar Hussain, catching one of the biggest fish in the Pakistani waters came with a heavy price. Although the fisherman sold off his...

Rein them in

Out of sight, out of hand? What was once spoken only in whispers or expressed in innuendos is now being discussed openly in the courts...

Ukraine’s Tymoshenko gets massage in jail

The personal masseur of Ukraine’s former premier Yulia Tymoshenko visited her in jail Tuesday after supporters of the opposition leader complained she was confined...

Asia Bibi is ‘well’, faces ‘no threat in jail’: husband

Asia Bibi, a Christian woman sentenced to death for blasphemy last year is "well" and faces "no threat in jail", her husband told AFP...

Iran sentences former president’s daughter to jail

The daughter of influential former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani was on Tuesday sentenced to jail and banned from political activities for “anti state...

In memory of BB, 2-month remission for Sindh’s prisoners

Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah announced on Friday a two-month remission for prisoners throughout the province in memory of Pakistan People’s Party’s assassinated...

Chirac convicted of graft, but escapes jail

Popular former French president Jacques Chirac was convicted of graft on Thursday but escaped jail when he was handed a two-year suspended sentence for...

When Bipasha landed in a Russian jail

Bipasha Basu, who was shooting in Russia for her upcoming multi-starrer ‘Players’ landed in a jail along with her co-star Sikander Kher. Bips and...