(The Express Tribune – News Desk) Saudi Arabia’s interior ministry said on Thursday that two Pakistani nationals, a husband and wife, had been executed for heroin smuggling, according to...
(ALJAZEERA – Saba Aziz) At least 690 prisoners were executed in 20 countries in 2018, marking a 31 percent fall from at least 993 the previous year, according to Amnesty...
(THE WASHINGTON POST – Associated Press) ISLAMABAD — A rights group says court-appointed doctors have confirmed that a death row prisoner in Pakistan suffers from chronic schizophrenia and requires regular...
(THE NEW YORK TIMES – The Associated Press) ISLAMABAD — A rights group says court-appointed doctors have confirmed that a death row prisoner in Pakistan suffers from chronic schizophrenia and...
(DAWN – Mohammad Reza Nezafa) Zulfiqar Ali, a 54-year-old terminally-ill Pakistani on death row in Indonesia, passed away on May 31, 2018. He was arrested in 2004 and sentenced to...
(DAWN – Rimmel Mohydin) IT is an election year. You would think that the government would be all over an easy win. Zulfiqar Ali offered that. An innocent Pakistani citizen...
(DAILY TIMES – News Desk) FAISALABAD: The National Commission on Human Rights conducted its Preliminary Investigation into nearly 1,500 cases of torture reported by Justice Project Pakistan in just...
(THE NATION – Ashraf Javed) LAHORE – The fate of thousands of death-row prisoners hangs in the balance as the federal government failed to come up with a clear-cut...
(GEO – Yasal Munim) KARACHI: Overspilling with sewage and inmates, the prisons in Pakistan do little for the rehabilitation of prisoners. Pakistani prisons house 84,287 inmates in jails that only...
