Pak Torture

Videos of Pakistan Army personnel allegedly torturing policemen from the Punjab province have sparked massive outrage on social media even as police brass sought to downplay the incident.

Pakistan's ousted prime minister Imran Khan on Thursday alleged that the state wanted to "torture and kill him in police custody," a day after Punjab police failed to arrest him in a corruption case.

Pakistani journalist Arshad Sharif, who was killed in Kenya, was brutally tortured for hours before being shot dead, a media report said on Thursday citing post-mortem reports.

A group of lawyers in a Pakistani court thrashed the prime suspect who was allegedly involved in the brutal torture and sexual harassment of a medical girl student in the Punjab province.

A college girl in Pakistan's Punjab province was tortured, sexually harassed for refusing to marry her friend's father. The accused shaved her head and her eyebrows and threatened to upload a video of her.

A 10-year-old working as a domestic help in an upscale neighbourhood here in the capital of Pakistan's Punjab province was brutally tortured to death allegedly by his employers for eating fruits from a refrigerator, police said on Tuesday.

Pakistan's Information Minister Marriyum Aurangzeb lambasted the ex-Prime Minister Imran Khan for torturing journalists, kidnapping them from their homes and shutting down their programmes.

A Hindu woman in Pakistan, who was allegedly tortured and forced to marry a man on forged documents to show her as Muslim, was handed back to her parents on Monday on the directions of a local court.

The daughter of Afghanistan's ambassador to Pakistan was briefly kidnapped and mistreated by unknown assailants, the Afghan government said on Saturday.

The Pakistan-backed tribal invasion of Kashmir on October 22, 1947 was the first attack on independent India in which Pakistani terrorists and Army inflicted dreadful torture on people, Union Culture Minister Prahlad Singh Patel said on Thursday.

Soldier Chandu Chavan, who inadvertently crossed into Pakistan in 2016, has said he is quitting the Army due to incessant "harassment" in the force.

Abhinandan Varthaman has disclosed that Pakistani authorities did not physically torture him during the nearly 60 hours he spent in their custody but subjected him to considerable "mental harassment", news agency ANI quoted sources as saying today.

The Indian woman who accused a Pakistani man of forcing her at gunpoint to marry him, returned to India this morning. Uzma, who sought refuge at the Indian High Commission in Islamabad came back via Wagah border, escorted by the officials of the Indian High Commission.

A young woman living in Islamabad who wanted help to get back to India, has filed a case against her husband, saying he forced her to marry him at gunpoint. Twenty-year-old Uzma had approached the Indian High Commission last week asking for help. Her husband Tahir Ali had alleged that the officials had detained her against her will.

Twenty people, including six members of a family, were murdered and four others wounded today at a Pakistani Sufi shrine by its "psychotic and paranoid" custodian, police said. Four women were among those killed at the Shrine of Mohammad Ali Gujjar in Pakistan's Punjab province, according to police, who said they had arrested the shrine's custodian...

Videos of Pakistan Army personnel allegedly torturing policemen from the Punjab province have sparked massive outrage on social media even as police brass sought to downplay the incident.

Pakistan's ousted prime minister Imran Khan on Thursday alleged that the state wanted to "torture and kill him in police custody," a day after Punjab police failed to arrest him in a corruption case.

Pakistani journalist Arshad Sharif, who was killed in Kenya, was brutally tortured for hours before being shot dead, a media report said on Thursday citing post-mortem reports.

A group of lawyers in a Pakistani court thrashed the prime suspect who was allegedly involved in the brutal torture and sexual harassment of a medical girl student in the Punjab province.

A college girl in Pakistan's Punjab province was tortured, sexually harassed for refusing to marry her friend's father. The accused shaved her head and her eyebrows and threatened to upload a video of her.

A 10-year-old working as a domestic help in an upscale neighbourhood here in the capital of Pakistan's Punjab province was brutally tortured to death allegedly by his employers for eating fruits from a refrigerator, police said on Tuesday.

Pakistan's Information Minister Marriyum Aurangzeb lambasted the ex-Prime Minister Imran Khan for torturing journalists, kidnapping them from their homes and shutting down their programmes.

A Hindu woman in Pakistan, who was allegedly tortured and forced to marry a man on forged documents to show her as Muslim, was handed back to her parents on Monday on the directions of a local court.

The daughter of Afghanistan's ambassador to Pakistan was briefly kidnapped and mistreated by unknown assailants, the Afghan government said on Saturday.

The Pakistan-backed tribal invasion of Kashmir on October 22, 1947 was the first attack on independent India in which Pakistani terrorists and Army inflicted dreadful torture on people, Union Culture Minister Prahlad Singh Patel said on Thursday.

Soldier Chandu Chavan, who inadvertently crossed into Pakistan in 2016, has said he is quitting the Army due to incessant "harassment" in the force.

Abhinandan Varthaman has disclosed that Pakistani authorities did not physically torture him during the nearly 60 hours he spent in their custody but subjected him to considerable "mental harassment", news agency ANI quoted sources as saying today.

The Indian woman who accused a Pakistani man of forcing her at gunpoint to marry him, returned to India this morning. Uzma, who sought refuge at the Indian High Commission in Islamabad came back via Wagah border, escorted by the officials of the Indian High Commission.

A young woman living in Islamabad who wanted help to get back to India, has filed a case against her husband, saying he forced her to marry him at gunpoint. Twenty-year-old Uzma had approached the Indian High Commission last week asking for help. Her husband Tahir Ali had alleged that the officials had detained her against her will.

Twenty people, including six members of a family, were murdered and four others wounded today at a Pakistani Sufi shrine by its "psychotic and paranoid" custodian, police said. Four women were among those killed at the Shrine of Mohammad Ali Gujjar in Pakistan's Punjab province, according to police, who said they had arrested the shrine's custodian...