Pakistan Beheading Case

A Pakistani court has sentenced to death the scion of a prominent industrialist family, after finding him guilty of brutally beheading his childhood friend and daughter of a former diplomat last year after she apparently denied his marriage proposal.

Lawyers representing Pakistan's former military ruler Pervez Musharraf in a landmark treason case said on Wednesday they had been threatened with beheading and urged a new venue for the trial.

The Supreme Court wants to know if the government will take the case of two Indian soldiers who were killed and mutilated on January 8 by Pakistani troops to the International Court of Justice at The Hague. One of the two soldiers was found decapitated.

India on Monday said it was "little premature" to assume that the beheading of an Indian soldier by the Pakistan Army was the end of the unfortunate incident, but asserted efforts were on to ensure that bilateral ties are not affected due to such incidents.

A Pakistani court has sentenced to death the scion of a prominent industrialist family, after finding him guilty of brutally beheading his childhood friend and daughter of a former diplomat last year after she apparently denied his marriage proposal.

Lawyers representing Pakistan's former military ruler Pervez Musharraf in a landmark treason case said on Wednesday they had been threatened with beheading and urged a new venue for the trial.

The Supreme Court wants to know if the government will take the case of two Indian soldiers who were killed and mutilated on January 8 by Pakistani troops to the International Court of Justice at The Hague. One of the two soldiers was found decapitated.

India on Monday said it was "little premature" to assume that the beheading of an Indian soldier by the Pakistan Army was the end of the unfortunate incident, but asserted efforts were on to ensure that bilateral ties are not affected due to such incidents.