ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Wednesday set aside the conviction of Asia Bibi, a Christian woman condemned to death for blasphemy.
Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP)...
LAHORE: The Supreme Court is set to hear a final appeal by Christian woman Asia Bibi against her execution for blasphemy.
A three-judge bench headed...
KABUL: Afghanistan on Wednesday executed five members of a gang involved in kidnapping and murder, as the government of the war-torn nation struggles to...
PESHAWAR: Three terrorists condemned to death by a military court were sent to the gallows on Wednesday morning at a prison in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
The...
RAWALPINDI: A death row prisoner was executed in Adiyala Jail on Tuesday morning over murdering two people, which included a judge, ARY News reported.
According...
ISLAMABAD: A Supreme Court bench on Monday stayed the execution of Imdad Ali, a schizophrenic prisoner convicted in 2002 for killing a cleric.
A three-member...
ISLAMABAD: The authorities issued a death warrant for a mentally ill condemned prisoner on Wednesday after the Supreme Court ruled that his schizophrenia is...
SEOUL: North Korea has put to death a vice premier and sent two other officials away for re-education, South Korea said Wednesday, following media reports of a high profile execution in the secretive state.
KARACHI: An Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) in Karachi on Monday announced execution for former Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM)’s unit in-charge, Syed Asif Shah, in Waqas Shah murder case, ARY News reported.
TEHRAN, IRAN: The country has executed a group of 20 "terrorist" Sunni prisoners for committing several murders and undermining national security, state media reported on Thursday.
CILACAP: Indonesia Thursday rejected appeals from the United Nations and European Union to halt the execution of 14 drug convicts including a Pakistani national and other foreigners.
ISLAMABAD: A human rights group urged Islamabad Monday to try to halt the execution of a Pakistani drug convict in Indonesia after his family was notified he would soon face a firing squad.
BAGHDAD: Iraq executed five convicts on Monday, the justice ministry said, linking the timing of the executions to the Baghdad suicide bombing the previous day that killed more than 200 people.
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Wednesday strongly condemned the execution of the leader of Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), Motiur Rehman Nizami in Bangladesh, while Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan termed the hanging 'inhumane' and a 'violation of international laws'.
WASHINGTON: The US state of Georgia on Thursday executed a man convicted of murder in a fatal beating as a teenager, despite last-ditch appeals to spare his life.