After observing a six-year 'informal' moratorium on capital punishments, Pakistan is all set to hang a death row prisoner on September 18, amid outcry by human rights activists demanding abolition......
The sessions court judge presiding over the trial was appointed to this court just a few months ago.Annoyed at its slow pace, he is cracking the whip on the prosecution. Jyoti Punwani reports.......
Accusing Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf of violating all legal and constitutional boundaries, deposed Supreme Court judge Rana Bhagwandas has said that "days of his authoritarianism are......
Pakistan on Thursday postponed the execution of a man whose family alleged he was 14 at the time of crime and his confession was extracted through torture. The execution of Shafqat Hussain has been......
The Gujarat high court on Tuesday granted bail to three people who were sentenced to life imprisonment in the 2002 Godhra train burning case which had triggered communal riots in the state. A......