Tag: mentally ill
CJP stays execution of mentally ill prisoner Ghulam Abbas
ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Asif Saeed Khosa on Monday stayed the execution of a mentally ill prisoner, Ghulam Abbas, who was to...
Mentally ill ex-cop dies after spending 16 years on death row
A mentally ill prisoner who spent the last 16 years of his life on death row passed away in a Lahore hospital on Monday...
Dolphin Force personnel kill ‘mentally ill’ attacker
Dolphin Force personnel on Saturday shot dead a "mentally ill" man after he allegedly attacked and injured five people with a knife in the...
Man kills family, commits suicide
LARKANA: A reportedly mentally unstable man gunned down his sister, sister-in-law and father following which he committed suicide.
Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Tanveer Hussain Tunio...
Sushma Swaraj wants Pak-India to free elderly, women, mentally ill
ISLAMABAD: India has proposed to Pakistan to “release all prisoners who are above 70 years of age, are women, or are of unsound mind,”...
Execution of mentally ill prisoner halted by session judge
LAHORE: District and Sessions Judge Abid Hussain Qureshi halted the execution of Muhammad Saleem Ahmed, a severely mentally ill prisoner on Saturday. He was due...
Mentally ill prisoner Imdad Ali to be executed on November 2
The authorities issued a death warrant for a mentally ill condemned prisoner on Wednesday after the Supreme Court ruled that his schizophrenia is “not...
Losing the mind hurts, treatment to get it back hurts more
Inhumane treatment of mental health patients is nothing new. This is in addition to the torture that mentally ill people go through at the hands of almost everyone they meet on the street, from stone-throwing children to sneering youths and dirty older men.
