(DAWN) Five ‘terrorists’ sentenced by military courts were executed at District Jail Kohat on Wednesday, said a statement released by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR). The ISPR statement added...
(THE NEWS – Ansar Abbasi) ISLAMABAD: Transparency International, Berlin’s Global Corruption Barometer survey for Asia Pacific countries for 2016 shows that around 70% of the Pakistanis who came into...
(DAWN – Jamal Shahid) ISLAMABAD: Five police officials allegedly involved in detaining and torturing two teenagers will be dismissed from service in “two to three” days, Senior Superintendent of...
(DAWN) MANILA: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s campaign to bring back the death penalty for drug-related crimes has cleared a major hurdle, with supporters backing it in congress but critics...
(DAWN) Islamabad: The Supreme Court has admitted a petition wherein a juvenile offender, Mohammad Anear, is alleged to have been unlawfully denied the benefit of an inquiry into his...
(THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE – Sehrish Wasif) ISLAMABAD: Around 10 per cent of Pakistan’s death row convicts are feared to be juvenile offenders, who have been sentenced to death in a...
(THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE – Shahzad Anwar) ISLAMABAD: With a number of Pakistanis languishing in jails abroad, the country lacks a codified policy on providing consular support to such prisoners....
(DAWN – AFP) The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Thursday temporarily stayed the execution of a schizophrenic man until January 30, his lawyers said, days before he was set...
(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...
(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,...
