Tag: Jail

Prosecutors want 11-year jail, 59 Mn euro fine for ex-Barca boss...

BARCELONA: Spanish prosecutors said Wednesday they want former Barcelona president Sandro Rosell to be jailed for 11 years and fined 59 million euros ($69...

Caretaker minister lists facilities provided to Nawaz in jail

--Deposed premier given ‘better class’ facilities, including bed, 21-inch TV, newspapers, regular medical check-ups LAHORE: Caretaker Punjab Information Minister Ahmad Waqas Riaz said on Wednesday that...

Cabinet meeting to discuss holding Sharifs’ trial in court tomorrow

ISLAMABAD: A meeting of the Federal Cabinet scheduled for tomorrow will discuss whether to continue holding the trial of former premier Nawaz Sharif, his...

37 PML-N workers sent to jail for obstructing Safdar’s arrest

RAWALPINDI: A local court here on Wednesday sent 37 Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) workers to jail on a 14-day judicial remand in cases registered against them...

Nawaz, Maryam will have to apply for ‘Better Class’ jail facility:...

LAHORE: When former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam Nawaz, who were convicted in the Avenfield Apartments case, are arrested upon arrival in Lahore,...

Decision against Nawaz not to affect election: Ali Zafar

LAHORE: Caretaker Federal Minister for Information, Broadcasting, National Heritage and Energy Syed Ali Zafar on Sunday said that the accountability court's decision against former...

Wikipedia ‘semi-protects’ Maryam against vandals

After several attempts to vandalise the page by users and bots, the Wikipedia has changed the status of Maryam Nawaz's page to semi-protected in line with its...

UK man mistakenly released from prison, returned by wife just two...

COLORADO: The next time James Rynerson gets out of jail, it’s fair to say that he and his wife might have a bit of talking to...

Prison authorities fail to produce Shahrukh Jatoi in court

KARACHI: Shahrukh Jatoi was once again not presented before a judicial magistrate on Wednesday in a case pertaining to the convict’s attempt to flee the...

Philippine President Duterte: Drug dealers face ‘jail or hell’

MANILA: The Philippine president has told drug suspects in a central province to look for a way to get arrested and then stay in...

Turkey orders life jail for 104 suspects over coup bid

  ANKARA: A Turkish court on Monday handed life sentences to 104 suspects over their involvement in the July 2016 attempted coup against President Recep...

Govt to appoint new community welfare officers to address overseas Pakistanis’...

ISLAMABAD: Foreign Affairs Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif on Friday said that the government will increase the number of community welfare officers in the foreign countries...

Parliamentarians should look into their own weaknesses: Aitzaz Ahsan

ISLAMABAD: Senator and PPP leader, Aitzaz Ahsan has said that parliamentarians will have to look into their own weaknesses and that they will have to...

Salman Khan, Katrina Kaif to face jail-time?

NEW DELHI: A petition was filed in a Delhi court seeking to lodge an FIR against actors Salman Khan, Katrina Kaif, and others for...

Prisoner under custody expires

KARACHI: A prisoner held in custody inside the city's Landhi Jail passed away Thursday night, police reported, citing his drug abuse to be the reason...

Moscow court sentences Navalny aide 8-days jail over election-boycott protest

MOSCOW: A Moscow court has sentenced a prominent associate of opposition politician Aleksei Navalny to eight days in jail on charges of participating in...

Singapore court rejects longer jail term in City Harvest Church fraud case

SINGAPORE: A Singapore court rejected on Thursday a prosecution appeal to reinstate a longer jail sentence for the co-founder of a popular church who...