Tag: Sentenced

Jamaat-e-Islami(JI) chief Munawar Hasan said the fact that US and the NATO forces had claimed killing Osama bin Laden a victory was proof...

An accountability court on Wednesday sentenced former Habib Bank Limited (HBL) officer Khalid Mahmood for five years and imposed fine worth Rs 3.44 million...

A US soldier accused of killing Afghan civilians was sentenced to three years in prison on Friday after pleading guilty to involuntary manslaughter in...

As the Lahore Sessions Court on Friday passed a death sentence for Khalid Amin, resident of Lahore, the family digested the news with mixed...

An Indian court has sentenced an actress and her naval officer boyfriend in connection with the killing of TV executive Neeraj Grover in 2008....

A Tunisian court sentenced former president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali in absentia on Monday to 35 years in jail, six months after his overthrow...

Additional District and Sessions Judge Ghulam Murtaza awarded death sentence to a murderer, Akram and life imprisonment to his accomplice, Riaz. Reportedly, both of...

WASHINGTON - A Pakistani-American man was sentenced Monday to 23 years in prison for plotting attacks on subway stations around the US capital with people he believed were Al-Qaeda affiliates.
Farooque Ahmed, a naturalized US citizen who lived in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, admitted photographing stations in 2010 to plan simultaneous bomb attacks.
The 35-year-old pleaded guilty to charges of attempting to provide material support to a designated terrorist

WASHINGTON - A Pakistani-American man was sentenced Monday to 23 years in prison for plotting attacks on subway stations around the US capital with people he believed were al-Qaeda affiliates. Farooque Ahmed, a naturalized US citizen who lived in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, admitted photographing stations in 2010 to plan simultaneous bomb attacks. The 35-year-old pleaded guilty to charges of attempting to provide material support to a designated terrorist organization and

KASUR - Additional District and Sessions Judge Jazeela Aslam awarded death sentence to six accused and life imprisonment to two accused in a triple-murder case. Reportedly, the accused shot dead Haji Saabbaar Hussain, Haider Ali and Sher Muhammad while injured four people by firing at village Bakar Kay in the jurisdiction of Khudian Police Station.
The judge awarded death sentence to six people Rehmat, Sarja, Ahmad Din, Munir Hussain, Hassan Ali and Sujja while two people Hassan

KASUR - Additional District and Sessions Judge Jawad-ul-Hassan awarded death sentence, life imprisonment and Rs 400,000 fine to three double-murder accused. Muhammad Din, Jamil Ahmed and Mushtaq killled Sadiq and Munir in the Ganda Singh police area two years ago over an old enmity. The convicts will have to undergo eight months imprisonment if they fail to pay the fine.
HOUSE ROBBED OF CASH, VALUABLES: Robbers looted cash and gold ornaments from a house at Khara Road in the

KARACHI - An anti terrorism court (ATC) on Friday handed down death sentences to four men charged with kidnapping a minor boy for ransom.
ATC-III Judge Anand Ram Hotwani - on the last day of his contractual service - after hearing both sides, convicted Irshad Ahmed, Moar Buriro, Arz Muhammad alias Jalal Gorchani and Muhammad Hasan for abducting Arsh Nabi, 3, from Defence Housing Authority in January 2010 and sentenced them to death.
The court also ordered to confiscate the

GUJRANWALA - Additional District and Sessions Judge Raja Arshad Mahmood has awarded capital punishment to the two killers and molesters of a boy. The convicts will also have to face rigorous imprisonment of seven years and Rs 420,000 fine to each. Rehmat alias Goga, Irfan and Faryad of Mominpura Kamoke on July 12, 2009, sodomised a boy, Faraz, and stabbed him to death to hide their crime. City Kamoke Police arrested all of them later and presented
challan in the court.
The

TEHRAN: There is a "good chance" that the life of an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery could be spared, the head of Iran's High Human Rights Council said in an interview aired on Monday.
"Our judiciary made a lot of efforts (in reviewing the case) and we think there is a good chance her life could be saved," Mohammed Javad Larijani told Iran's English-language Press TV.
Larijani, who was speaking in English, did not give details of the judiciary's

LAHORE: A mother of two has become the first Christian woman in Pakistan to be sentenced to death for blasphemy, Pakistan Today has learnt.
Aasia, a field labourer in her late thirties, was handed the sentence and a fine of Rs 100,000 by a sessions court in Sheikhupura on Monday. She was found guilty of committing blasphemy against her fellow farm workers in the village of Ittanwali in Nankana Sahib district on June 19 last year on her refusal to renounce her faith.