Tag: Prisoners

2 convicted for injuring fellow prisoners in lock-up

An anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Monday awarded 26 years jail term each to two accused for injuring two other prisoners in lock-up. The court also...

Two under-custody robbers killed in cohorts’ firing

Two under-custody robbers were killed on Wednesday in firing of accomplices as they were caught in the cross-fire during an attempt to free them. Police...

173 under trial prisoners granted bail before Eid

District and Sessions Judge Lahore Bahadar Ali Khan on Wednesday granted bail to 173 under trial prisoners of Camp Jail involved in petty offenses...

Pakistan and India exchange list of prisoners

Pakistan and India have exchanged list of prisoners under an Agreement on Consular Access signed between Pakistan and India on May 21, 2008. "Consistent with...

Four condemned prisoners hanged in Punjab jails

Three condemned prisoners were hanged in jails of Attock, Mianwali, Sargodha and Rawalpindi on Tuesday. Sargodha Central Jail — established in 1910 — saw its...

Four more prisoners sent to the gallows

Three death row prisoners, including two brothers, were executed in Rawalpindi's Adiala Jail on Thursday while another was hanged to death in Mianwali jail. All...

India court orders prisoners to be freed over trial delays

More than two-thirds of India's nearly four million prison inmates are awaiting trial India's Supreme Court on Friday ordered the country's notoriously overcrowded jails to...

US moves prisoners from Afghanistan to Pakistan, Yemen

Obama admin may shut down controversial detainee prog in Afghanistan ahead of its troop withdrawal The United States has moved 11 new prisoners out of...

No Eidi for prisoners this year

Thousands of prisoners in jails across Sindh were deprived of any relief in their sentences on Eidul Fitr as the government failed to announce...

Britain restores agreement with Pakistan on transfer of prisoners

Britain has restored an agreement with Pakistan that provides for the transfer of convicted criminals. The agreement was declared null and void by Britain...

List of Taliban non-combatant prisoners given to Nisar

PESHAWAR/ISLAMABAD Taliban negotiating committee member Professor Ibrahim on Monday said a list of 300 Taliban women and children prisoners has been given to Interior Minister...

Kabul irked at haphazard release of Afghan Taliban prisoners in Pakistan

Afghanistan’s High Peace Council, set up to oversee peace talks with the Taliban, has had no formal meetings with any of the 46 Taliban...

Rs 15m paid to get Pakistani inmates released from abroad

ISLAMABAD The government has paid over Rs 15,962,163 in the last few years for the release of 251 Pakistani prisoners imprisoned in various countries due...

Pakistan asks India to release prisoners: FO

ISLAMABAD Pakistan has asked India to release all of its prisoners who have completed their sentences on humanitarian grounds, state-run media reported on Sunday. The demand...

Prisoners free to compete

50,000 prisoners registered for event of Punjab Youth Festival  The Punjab Youth festival has started gaining popularity to such an extent that more than 50,000...

Pakistan and India agree to return prisoners

Pakistan and India have agreed to return the prisoners who have completed their sentences. The agreement was reached at a meeting between the officers of...

Prisoners’ torture against Islamic injunctions: CJP

Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry has said it is instructed to treat a prisoner as a free individual in Islam with...