Pakistan hangs 17 death row prisoners across the country

Pakistan on Tuesday hanged 17 prisoners, the highest number of executions on a single day since reversing of the country's self-imposed moratorium on the death penalty in December after the Taliban......

Two charged with Sarabjit's murder in Pakistan

Two death row prisoners have been indicted in Pakistan for the murder of Indian national Sarabjit Singh at a jail in Lahore. An additional district and sessions judge held trial at the Central......

Explore if Bhagat Singh can be declared martyr: CIC to MHA

The Central Information Commission has recommended to the home ministry that it should explore whether the status of martyr can be accorded to Bhagat Singh. It has also said that in case it cannot......

Sarabjit Singh dies; Pakistan to hand over body to India

Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh died in a Lahore hospital in the wee hours on Thursday after being comatose for nearly a week following a brutal assault by other inmates of a high-security......