Tag: Killing

ISLAMABAD - PPP Senator Khatu Mal Jeewan is going to resign from the Senate to block the way of Michael Javed to the National Assembly, who is next to Jeewan on the PPP's priority list for MNAs submitted with the ECP in 2008.
The move will also secure the senate seat for a close aide of President Asif Ali Zardari.
According to the records of the ECP, after the killing of minorities minister Shahbaz Bhatti, Jeewan should have been notified as the MNA on the minorities'

SAHIWAL - Real brothers killed their sister and her paramour in the name of honour at Chak Meer Dad Muafi the other day. Reportedly, Zubaida, a resident of Chak Meer Dad Muafi, developed illicit relations with Shaban. Zubaida's brothers Nazir and Tasleem caught her and Shaban red handed and slaughtered them with the strokes of an axe.
BLIND MURDER CASES' MYSTERY SOLVED: Sahiwal police traced a gang of killers involved in two blind murder cases and arrested them. As per details,

KARACHI - Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik promised that criminals involved in Karachi's targeted killings will be dealt with strictly.
Malik said that stern action will be taken irrespective of any connection with political or religious parties.
While talking to the media, Malik said that the government's main concern was to provide protection to people.
He urged religious parties not to engage in politics over the issue of sacrilege to the Holy Quran.
"The

SARGODHA - Sargodha Police have arrested Civil Judge Kamran Ahmad for killing two people in a road accident on Saturday. As per details, Station House Officer (SHO) Chaudhry Azhar Yaqoob said a car and a motorcycle collided on Salanavali Road near Chak No 04 killing two people Anum Bibi and Ahmad Bux whose heirs alleged that Kamran Ahmad was responsible for the accident. According to sources, the civil judge was presented to the magistrate after he presented himself for arrest while

LAHORE - The Punjab Assembly (PA) unanimously demanded an apology from the US over the drone attack on a peace jirga in tehsil Ditta Khail of North Waziristan in which over 40 innocent citizens died, through a resolution on Friday. The legislators collectively demanded Pakistani government raise the issue of innocent citizens' killing at international level. The resolution, expressing grief over the killing of 40 civilians in Thursday's attack, demanded the government adopt a clear

LAHORE - They yelled their guts out chanting slogans, carried banners in scorching sunlight and discussed and then discussed again about the issues that require solutions, and now they are hungry and thirsty. They are protestors and need something that could satisfy their hunger; anything that could be regarded as food. The market demand for food, calls in for food, and soon eateries stalls are established on the road where protests are held most commonly.
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NEW YORK - A Pakistan-born executive of an Islamic television station, who was convicted of beheading his wife, was given life imprisonment of 25 years on Wednesday.
Muzzammil Hassan was sentenced in upstate New York by Erie County Judge Thomas Franczyk following a jury verdict of second degree murder handed down on February 7, The Buffalo News reported on Thursday.
Hassan was co-founder of Bridges TV, established to promote Islamic values, with his wife, Aasiya. Hassan,

SRINAGAR - Police in Indian Kashmir said Thursday they had shot dead the top commander of a Pakistan-based militant group blamed for a series of local attacks, including an assault on the state assembly in 2001. The chief of Jaish-e-Mohammad (JEM), Sajjad Afghani, and his bodyguard were killed in a gunfight along the banks of Dal Lake in Srinagar, the biggest city in Kashmir, senior police chief S.M. Sahai told reporters. Afghani, who was also known among the militant ranks as "Qari

Faisalabad - Divisional Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) chief Engineer Azeem Randhawa has held American intelligence agency, CIA, responsible for the assassination of Federal Minister for Minorities Shahbaz Bhatti. He was killed by the CIA to divert the global attention from the case of Raymond Davis, the US spy who killed two Pakistanis in Lahore, he said. Engineer Azeem Randhawa was determined that it was necessary to free Pakistan from the US grip and restore the national dignity, he said and

KHUSHPUR/ISLAMABAD - Shouting 'death for killers', thousands of people on Friday buried the country's only Christian government minister who was killed for seeking a review of the country's blasphemy laws. Shahbaz Bhatti, 42, an outspoken campaigner against the blasphemy law, died in a hail of bullets as he left his mother's home in the capital Islamabad on Wednesday.
Wailing women in his ancestral mainly Christian village Khushpur, 290km south of Islamabad in Faisalabad, beat

ISLAMABAD - Conflicting accounts of two witnesses have raised doubts about the facts narrated in the first information report (FIR) lodged against the murder federal minister Shahbaz Bhatti, as one of the witness included in the report told Pakistan Today that he was not present in Islamabad at the time of the incident. It has been recorded in the FIR that the minister's brother Sikandar Bhatti and his nephew Rehan Bhatti were following Shahbaz Bhatti in another car when he was

BAGHDAD - An Iraqi court on Monday sentenced a British security guard to life in jail for killing a fellow Briton and an Australian in Baghdad, the first conviction of a Western contractor since the 2003 invasion. Danny Fitzsimons, 30, could have received the death penalty for the August 2009 shooting in the Iraqi capital's heavily-fortified Green Zone.
His lawyer said that the life sentence equated to 20 years in Iraqi law, and added that he would appeal the verdict. "The court

TEHRAN - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday said it was weapons manufactured and delivered to "dictators" by the United States that were killing protesters in uprisings around the Arab world.
The hardliner said that the United States and its allies must be blamed for imposing dictatorships on regional countries now in the grip of deadly revolts.
These "dictators who are killing their own people are incapable of manufacturing even simple things and they are

KARACHI - Enraged protesters took to the streets and scuffled with police in Godhra Colony, New Karachi on Saturday to protest the murder of a prayer leader of the area. Adnan Qadri, the prayer leader at Rabbani Masjid in New Karachi, Sector 11-E, was gunned down by two unidentified men on a motorcycle on Friday night.
Qadri was believed to be an activist of the banned outfit Jamaatud Dawa. Following Qadri's death, many people in Godhra Colony started firing in the air to protest

PESHAWAR - The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan on Saturday claimed killing Col (r) Sultan Amir Tarar, also known as Col Imam. A spokesman for TTP Ahsanullah Ahsan told reporters over phone from an undisclosed location that they had killed Col Imam after the government's failure to meet their demands, including the release of their colleagues.
Col Imam was a former officer of the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) and well connected in the former jihadi circles and claimed to have close

SRINAGAR - Thousands of protesters poured into the streets in restive Indian occupied Kashmir on Saturday after a student was shot dead by the army. The new unrest raised memories of massive anti-India protests that rocked the Muslim-majority region last summer in which at least 114 people were killed, most of them shot by security forces.
Manzoor Ahmad Magray, 21, a student, was killed by Indian troops late Friday in Handwara, 80 kms (50 miles) north of the region's summer

LAHORE - Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has called upon the Punjab government to ensure an early and transparent investigation of an alleged incident of honour killing of a young woman in a village of Bahawalpur district.
The young woman, Saima, left her parents house in November and went away to Karachi with a man named Dilawar she wanted to marry as her family wanted her to marry someone else. Saima's family had took Dilawar's father to Karachi with them and brought