(THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE – Hasnaat Malik) ISLAMABAD:The Punjab government has challenged the Supreme Court’s judgment that psychiatric disorder like schizophrenia does not subjugate the death sentence. The Punjab government...
Pakistan’s top court has ruled that schizophrenia does not fall within its legal definition of mental disorders, clearing the way for the execution, as soon as next week, of...
(THE NEWS) CILACAP, Indonesia: Indonesia will be “on the wrong side of history” if it proceeds with a fresh round of executions this week, rights groups warned on Wednesday,...
(THE NATION – Monitoring Desk) A Pakistani national, facing imminent execution in Indonesia over drug smuggling charges, has sought help from the government, a private TV channel reported yesterday....
(THE GUARDIAN) The mother of a paraplegic inmate on death row in Pakistan has urged the country’s president to pardon her son. Nusrat Perveen said that president Mamnoon Hussain...
PAKISTAN TODAY – Staff Report The Pakistani president rejected as many as 513 mercy petitions of condemned prisoners over the last five years, an Interior Ministry document revealed on...
THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE LAHORE: Panelists at a discussion organized on Wednesday at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) highlighted major limitations of counter-terrorism measures, legal problems in anti-terrorism legislation,...
DAILYMAIL – AFP Pakistan hanged three convicted murderers on Wednesday, the same day Amnesty International criticised it for becoming the world’s third most prolific executioner after China and Iran....
