Tag: Jail

Riots in Sukkur Central Jail leave 4 dead

At least four inmates and a Frontier Constabulary official were killed as riots broke out in Sukkur Central Jail on Tuesday. A protest against...

Scuffle in Sukkur jail kills 3 prisoners

Protests by prisoners against the unavailability of necessities turned violent at the central jail in Sukkur on Tuesday resulting in 3 deaths, police said....

Mega scam unearthed at Manawan Jail Farm

A scandal involving embezzlement of government assets worth millions of rupees has been unearthed as a turbine, transformer, doors and windows of a rest...

Policemen sent to jail for murdering youth

The Model Town judicial magistrate on Monday sent Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Riasat Ali Javed, Sub-Inspector Muhammad Riaz and constables Abdul Qadir and...

207 inmates released from Camp Jail

Two hundred and seven prisoners were released from the Lahore Camp Jail on Saturday on the directives of Lahore High Court (LHC) Chief Justice...

15 PML-N workers sent to jail for vandalism

A local court sent 15 Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) workers, booked by Koral Police Station last Thursday for removing banners installed by a newspaper,...

Sarabjit’s sister allowed to meet him in Kot Lakhpat...

Lahore High Court Chief justice Ijaz Ahmed Chaudhry on Wednesday granted permission to an Indian national, Dalbir Kaur, to meet her brother Sarabjit Singh...

Aamir Khan: Mohajir in jail, Muttahida in freedom

There are several political parties including Muttahida Qaumi Movement that advocate the Mohajir cause? What is your party’s point of view on the Mohajir...

Court orders probe into jail torture

Additional District and Sessions Judge Musharaf Hassan has directed the Kot Lakhpat station house officer (SHO) to record the statement of Dr Fahim Raza,...

IMF chief set to walk free from New York jail

Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was due to be released on bail Friday, but it remained unclear exactly when or how he would escape...

No clue to heirs of man who died in Indian jail

The Daska police are making hectic efforts to trace the heirs of a Pakistani Muhammad Shabbir, son of Bashir Ahmed, who reportedly died in...

Al Qaeda mutiny kills 17 at Baghdad jail

The accused mastermind of last year's Baghdad church siege overpowered a policeman while being led to questioning, sparking a jail mutiny Sunday that killed...

“Mutiny” kills 18 at Baghdad jail

The accused mastermind of last year's bloody Baghdad church siege grabbed a policeman's gun mid-interrogation and led a jail mutiny that left eight police,...

Afghan justice minister says mass jail escape had inside help

Hundreds of insurgents who escaped from a jail in Afghanistan’s volatile south through a tunnel dug by the Taliban must have received inside help...

475 inmates break Kandahar jail: governor

As many as 475 Taliban fighters imprisoned at Kandahar central jail, have escaped by breaking the prison in the wee hours of Monday, governor...

Jail warder dismissed for supplying liquor to inmates

LAHORE - A Camp Jail Lahore warder was dismissed from service on Monday by the jail superintendent for supplying liquor to prisoners. Camp Jail Superintendent Gulzar Butt said that he received information that Warder Humayun Maqsood supplied liquor to prisoners in guise of water. Butt said that he observed that Maqsood cleared a prisoner's luggage carrying liquor in a cold drink bottle.
The jail superintendent said that he issued show cause notice to Maqsood to explain his

Man gets 50 years in jail

SAHIWAL - Sahiwal additional sessions judge (ASJ) awarded a man 50-year imprisonment and Rs 2 lakh fine on the charges double murder. Reportedly, Sahiwal ASJ Jamil Ahmed awarded 50-year imprisonment and a fine of Rs 2 lakhb to accused Tahir Abbas after his trial. According to the prosecution, Tahir Abbas, on April 10, 2010 in Chak No 49-GD, shot two women Kausar and Khatoon Rani dead over some domestic issue.
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