ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday released the written order of the proceedings held on January 28 of a case pertaining to the suspension of former premier Nawaz Sharif’s punishment, awarded…
ISLAMABAD: The National Accountancy Bureau (NAB) has decided to approach the Islamabad High Court (IHC) for an enhancement of the sentence of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif in the Al-Azizia reference case.…
CAIRO: An Egyptian court on Saturday issued death sentences for 75 people, including prominent Islamist leaders, and jailed more than 600 others over a 2013 sit-in which ended with the killing of…
The enemy of my enemy. . . The dust is beginning to settle, well, as much as it can settle with the Sharifs still out of the country. But even with them…
CAIRO: An Egyptian court has sentenced 14 people, including an adviser to an ousted Islamist president, to life in prison for membership in the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood. The state-run Al Ahram news…
A two-year prison sentence was given to four people by a judicial magistrate in Mithi for forcing a 14-year-old Hindu girl to marry a 55-year-old man, a private media outlet reported on Tuesday.…
—Siddiqi says her fight is to revive people’s trust on justice system LAHORE: Lahore High Court (LHC) on Friday heard the appeal filed by convict Shah Hussain in Khadija Siddiqqi case in which…
An Egyptian court on Thursday sentenced 21 suspected extremists to death, including 16 in absentia, on charges of bomb making and planning attacks on public and private infrastructure, judicial sources said. The…
An Egyptian court on Tuesday sentenced 20 people to 10 years in prison for burning a church, official news agency MENA reported. The convicted were also accused of illegal gathering, violence, attempted…
MICHIGAN: Disgraced former USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar faced a sentence of life in prison Wednesday for sexual abuse after a week of gut-wrenching victim impact statements from dozens of girls…
KARACHI: In an unusual punishment, a man named Yousuf Khan has been sentenced to offer the compulsory five-time prayers every day in a congregation, without skipping for the next three years, by a judge…
BANGKOK, THAILAND: Thailand’s Supreme Court sentenced former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra in absentia to five years in prison on Wednesday for mismanaging a rice subsidy scheme that cost the country billions of dollars.…
Jamiat Ulema Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Fazalur Rahman has expressed deep concern over the death sentence of former Egyptian president Muhammad Morsi, saying that such sentence will “fuel extremism and instability in the…
The Supreme Court on Thursday suspended sentence awarded to former interior minister Rahman Malik in a case pertaining to car theft. The three-member bench of the apex court headed by Justice Mian…
A top Iranian official has warned that a death sentence passed on a prominent Shia cleric in Saudi Arabia could escalate tensions and called for the decision be reversed. Nimr al-Nimr, a…
WASHINGTON The United States said on Wednesday the 10-year sentence reduction for Dr Shakil Afridi is a positive step but his jail term is still unjust and unwarranted. State Department spokeswoman Jen…
Lawyers for an elderly Briton sentenced to death in Pakistan for blasphemy filed an appeal on Friday, saying the court had failed to consider “overwhelming” evidence of his mental illness. Mohammad Asghar,…
