Tag: Jails

Inspection team recovers 7,364 mobiles from prisoners in Punjab jails

LAHORE: According to the details, an operation was conducted by police inspection teams in jails of Punjab in which 7,346 mobile phones, 2,271 sim cards and...

12 inmates in KP jails have AIDS: report

KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA: A dozen inmates in the various jails of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) are suffering from human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS),...

Turkey jails filmmaker for movie portraying execution of Erdogan

    ANKARA: A Turkish filmmaker was convicted on Friday of membership of a terrorist group for a feature film that portrayed President Tayyip Erdogan having...

Jails overcapacity by 22,000 prisoners: report

ISLAMABAD: Nearly 80, 000 prisoners are languishing in almost a hundred jails across the country, having a capacity to accommodate only 56,353 inmates, says...

Illegal activities surge in jails under officials’ nose

LAHORE: A so-called rate list to accept bribes is fixed in different jails of the provincial capital by which prisoners are ‘allowed’ to do illegal...

Kosovo jails Muslim extremists over Israeli football terror plot

  PRISTINA: Eight Muslim extremists who plotted terror attacks against Israeli footballers and fans during a 2016 World Cup qualifier in Albania were jailed for...

SC directs sessions judges to inspect conditions of jails across country

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court (SC) has ordered sessions judges across the country to conduct inspections of district jails and submit a signed report in...

Govt transforming prisons into reformation centres: minister

LAHORE: Provincial Minister for Prisons Malik Ahmed Yar Hinjra on Tuesday said that jail reforms initiated by the Punjab government had given positive results and...

Kazakh court sentences woman for 9-years over planning to join IS

QARAGHANDY: A court in central Kazakhstan has sentenced a 30-year-old woman to nine years in prison on charges that she was planning to join...

Vietnam court jails environmental blogger for 14 years

HANOI: A court in central Vietnam jailed a prominent environmental blogger on Tuesday for 14 years for abusing his democratic freedom and opposing officials...

Punjab takes top slot with most overcrowded prisons in country

LAHORE: Prisons all over the country are overcrowded, and a decrease in the number of criminals on death row and foreign convicts has been...

Different laws for Nawaz Sharif and others: Sharjeel Memon

KARACHI: Former provincial minister of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), Sharjeel Memon has said that the transparency of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) is a question...

Historic steps of Punjab government on 12 Rabi-ul-Awwal

LAHORE: On the special directions of Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif, 12 Rabi-ul-Awwal will be celebrated with full religious zeal and fervour in the...

Bangladesh court jails opposition leader Khaleda Zia’s son

A Bangladesh court Thursday sentenced the eldest son of the main opposition leader to seven years in prison for money laundering, a move that...

UAE jails 11 for life over ‘terror plots’  

  A top court in the United Arab Emirates jailed 11 people for life on Sunday after convicting them of jihadist links and plotting “terrorist”...

189 Pakistanis imprisoned in Indian jails go ‘missing’

  Some 189 Pakistanis imprisoned in Indian jails have gone missing, according to the lists of nationals exchanged by Pakistan and India on the first...

Dhaka court jails Rubel Hossain in actress rape case

Bangladesh cricketer Rubel Hossain has been sent to jail by a Dhaka court in a case filed under the Women and Children Repression Prevention...