Tag: Released

LAHORE - Punjab Governor Sardar Latif Khosa said on Sunday that Raymond Davis was released by the court as he was pardoned by families of murdered persons after taking blood money of Rs 200 million which was in accordance with Shariah laws.
Talking to the media at the marriage ceremony of daughter of Habibur Rehman aka Mani Pehalwan, a senior worker of the PPP, he said that the court had quizzed all 19 members of the family before the decision and their affidavits were presented

PESHAWAR - Erin Mark DeHaven, the US national who had been arrested two weeks ago over his outstaying the Pakistani visa, was released on bail Tuesday, Central Jail Peshawar officials said. After his release from Central Jail Peshawar DeHaven boarded a police mobile pick-up van and was shifted to University Road Peshawar where the wife of the US national, Rehana, was lodging. A local court on Monday had accepted plea of Ms Rehana and ordered her husband's release on bail but and he

KARACHI - Interior Minister Rehman Malik claims to have put an end to targeted killings in Karachi but at least 182 people, including political activists, have been killed in the two months of 2011. Law enforcement agencies claimed to have arrested "53 target killers," but a majority of them were released, Pakistan Today has learnt.
According to the data collected by Pakistan Today, 109 people were killed in January while another 73 were gunned down in February, with 24 targeted

ATHENS - Greek police clashed with protesters on Wednesday as around 100,000 workers, pensioners and students marched to parliament in protest at austerity policies aimed at helping Greece cope with a huge debt crisis. Riot police fired scores of rounds of teargas and flash bombs at protesters hurling petrol bombs, choking the main Syndagma square with smoke and sending crowds of striking protesters running for cover.
Public and private sector employees' 24-hour strike grounded

GUJRANWALA - A killer who was awarded capital punishment and black warrants was released after reconciliation with the victim's party. Reportedly, Shabbir Ahmad shot dead his rival group's man on August 10, 1990, at village Hadhonoye in the precincts of Sadar Police Station.
Later, a district and sessions judge sentenced him to death and Lahore High Court and Supreme Court upheld the decision. After the rejection of his mercy petition by the president, black warrants for Shabbir

NEW DELHI - Renowned Pakistani singer Rahat Fateh Ali Khan was released on Monday, 28 hours after he was detained at Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport with a huge amount of foreign currency. According to media reports, Rahat has surrendered his passport to the Indian authorities.
He and two others - Maroof and Chitresh Shirivastava - have been asked to appear before the Department of Revenue Intelligence on February 17. Indian authorities are investigating the source of

MIRPURKHAS - Thirty-six peasants including women and children were released from illegal custody of a landlord by Pithoro police on Sunday. Pithoro Police Station Station House Officer (SHO) Ghulam Haider Kaniyo reported that a police raid was carried at the agricultural land of Zamindar Shareef Shahani late at night on a Sindh High Court Circuit bench (Hyderabad) order.
He said that all released peasants were now secure and in police custody. He said the released peasants would

'The Lord of the Rings' director Sir Peter Jackson has left a New Zealand hospital after surgery for a perforated ulcer. Publicist Melissa Booth says Jackson was discharged from Wellington Hospital on Thursday and would continue his recuperation at home. He had surgery after being admitted Jan 26 with acute stomach pain.
Booth said a delay on filming of the two-part film 'The Hobbit' is expected to be minimal. Jackson is set to start filming the prequel to his 'The Lord of the

ISLAMABAD - While a lot of concerns are being expressed at all political, security and diplomatic levels about the increasing presence of US diplomats and their unchecked movement across the country, a PPP legislator on Friday dropped a bombshell in the National Assembly by accusing Interior Minister Rehman Malik of making efforts for the release of the US national involved in killing of two Pakistani youth in Lahore.
An alarming situation developed in the National Assembly when

KARACHI - Members of the All-Pakistan National Lady Health Worker (LHW) Employees Association, which is part of the women's wing of the Pakistan Paramedical Staff Association, protested on Saturday outside the Karachi Press Club against delays in the issuance of salaries and petrol allowance.
The association's provincial president, Khairunnisa Ehsan, demanded that the workers' salaries be released immediately. "If the government has money to cover non-essential expenses, why does

KARACHI - The jail reforms proposed by President Asif Ali Zardari - Benazir Prison Reform Package - seem to have hit a snag as the Sindh government has not made any progress on the plan even after the passage of more than two years.
Well-placed sources told Pakistan Today that the Finance Department has not released a single paisa for the proposed reforms despite repeated attempts by the prisons department for the release of funds.
In October 2008, President Zardari had

Lindsay Lohan's mother has confirmed the actress left rehab on Monday morning. Dina Lohan reveals the 'Mean Girls' star was released from a California clinic after completing her treatment for substance abuse.
The 24-year-old actress was ordered to serve three months in rehab last year after breaching her probation relating to a 2007 DUI conviction. She remains on probation and is due back in court for a progress hearing on 25 February. Lohan's rehab stint has not been without

ISLAMABAD: Environment managers in Pakistan have so far taken no serious view of a United Nations report which stated that the recent devastating flood have released some 3,000 tons of hazardous chemical posing potential threat to human health.
The report entitled "Climate Change and POPs Inter-Linkages" is due to be released by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) early next year.
The report presented at the climate moot held in Cancun, Mexico, last month revealed

KARACHI: The government on Monday released 12 Indian fishermen imprisoned at the Landhi jail for violating Pakistan's territorial sea waters. The released men identified as Jenti, Deva, son of Nathu, Jana, son of Ram, Bhavesh, son of Karshan, Karshan, son of Velji, Yogesh, son of Nanhu, Babu, son of Shamant, Karshan, son of Pala, Jena, son of Kara, Bhupt, son of Aibha, Bhupat, son of Govind, and Dhima, son of Rana, would travel to Lahore by bus and then handed over to the Indian

GARDEZ: Unidentified gunmen kidnapped 18 Afghan deminers on Thursday in southeastern Khost province, the provincial police chief said, the second abduction of a mine clearing team this month.
The group from the Kabul-based Mine Detection Centre were travelling in Musa Khel district when they were stopped by a group of gunmen and then seized, said Abdul Hakim Ishaqzai. "They had gone to the area on the request of the elders to clear mines from their village," Ishaqzai told

PESHAWAR: Afghan Ambassador-Designate to Pakistan Abdul Khaliq Farahi, who was abducted in Peshawar city on September 22, 2008, was recovered on Saturday.
Confirming Farahi's recovery, his relatives and Afghan diplomats said, "Taliban militants handed over Haji Abdul Khaliq Farahi to his close relatives in Khost, bordering Waziristan, on Saturday." To relatives said Farahi was on way home to Kabul.
However, no details of the deal enabling Farahi's release after a period of

PESHAWAR: Abducted vice chancellor of the Islamia University, Professor Ajmal Khan, on Sunday appealed to the government to expedite efforts to secure his release.
In his second video message, the abducted professor said his captors had given November 20 deadline and "if the government failed to come to the negotiation table before that, they will kill me". He said that the government should initiate efforts for his liberation, as he was in poor health.
Khan said it was