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Pakistan Among World's Harshest Users Of Death Penalty: Report
Pakistan's use of the death penalty is among the harshest in the world, accounting for 26 per cent of the global death row population, according to data released by a non-profit group on Thursday.
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Pakistan's Supreme Court Upholds Musharraf's Death Penalty A Year After His Death
Pakistan's Supreme Court today upheld late former military ruler General Pervez Musharraf's death penalty handed out to him by a special court in 2019 in the high treason case.
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Pervez Musharraf's Appeal Against Death Penalty In Court Months After His Death
Pakistan's Supreme Court on Friday decided to hear an appeal by now-dead former military dictator Pervez Musharraf against the special court majority judgment that handed him a death sentence on treason charges in 2019.
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Pakistan Tightens Blasphemy Laws That Already Carry Death Penalty
The punishment for insulting the prophet's wives, associates, or close family members under the new law is ten years in prison or life in prison and a fine of ten lakh Pakistani rupees.
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9/11 Prosecutors In Plea Talks To Avert Mastermind's Death penalty: Report
Lawyers for the 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and federal prosecutors are in talks to negotiate a potential plea agreement for the Pakistani terrorist and four other co-defendants that could drop the possibility of death penalty for them.
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Consular Access To Kulbhushan Jadhav "According To Our Laws": Pakistan
Pakistan will grant consular access to Indian national Kulbhushan Jadhav according to the Pakistani laws, for which modalities are being worked out, the Foreign Ministry said in a late night statement.
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Expect Consular Access To Kulbhushan Jadhav, Order Binding: Centre
A day after the International Court of Justice ordered Pakistan to review the death penalty to Indian national Kulbhushan Jadhav, New Delhi on Thursday said the verdict is binding upon Islamabad and now it is time for them to act and provide consular access to the retired navy officer.
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Pakistan's Army General Given Life Sentence On Spying Charges
Pakistan's army has sentenced a general to life imprisonment for spying and ordered the death penalty for a brigadier and a civilian officer convicted in the same case, a military statement said on Thursday.
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Pak Sufi Singer's Killers, Among "Hardcore" Terrorists, Given Death Penalty
Pakistan Army Chief Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa today approved death penalty for 10 "hardcore terrorists" including those who shot dead Amjad Sabri, one of the country's renowned Sufi Qawwals.
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Kulbhushan Jadhav Was Under Stress; Wife And Mother Had To Change For Meeting: India
A day after the family of Kulbhushan Jadhav, the Indian man sentenced to death in Pakistan, met him in Islamabad, India called the exercise "lacking any credibility" and said the "overall atmosphere of the meeting was intimidating". Mr Jadhav's mother and wife were forced to change their clothes, not allowed to speak in their mother-tongue, and his...
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After Visiting Kulbhushan Jadhav In Pak Jail, Family Meets Sushma Swaraj
Back from Pakistan after meeting Kulbhushan Jadhav, the man facing death penalty, his wife and mother met foreign minister Sushma Swaraj this morning. A number of officials from the foreign ministry, including foreign secretary S Jaishankar, attended the meeting.
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Pak Tweets Jadhav Family Meet, Plays Another Video In New Propaganda
A brief meeting on Monday between Kulbhushan Jadhav, sentenced to death in Pakistan, and his family, became a propaganda tool for Islamabad which tweeted photos, played a video of Mr Jadhav "thanking" Pakistani officials and repeated old allegations that India has strongly rubbished
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Pakistan Abducts Own Citizens, Muzzles Rights Watchdog: UN
Pakistan must address a catalogue of human rights failings including state-sponsored abductions and a death penalty that amounts to torture, but its national watchdog is muzzled, the UN Human Rights Committee said on Thursday.
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Pakistan Uses Executions As Political Weapon: Rights Group
A human rights watchdog on Friday accused Pakistan of using executions as a "political tool" - and even a means to deal with prison overcrowding.
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Pakistan 5th Most Prolific Executioner In World: Rights Group
Pakistan has executed 465 prisoners since lifting a moratorium on death penalty in 2014, becoming the "fifth most prolific executioner" in the world, according to an organisation working for prisoners' rights.
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Pakistan Among World's Harshest Users Of Death Penalty: Report
Pakistan's use of the death penalty is among the harshest in the world, accounting for 26 per cent of the global death row population, according to data released by a non-profit group on Thursday.
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Pakistan's Supreme Court Upholds Musharraf's Death Penalty A Year After His Death
Pakistan's Supreme Court today upheld late former military ruler General Pervez Musharraf's death penalty handed out to him by a special court in 2019 in the high treason case.
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Pervez Musharraf's Appeal Against Death Penalty In Court Months After His Death
Pakistan's Supreme Court on Friday decided to hear an appeal by now-dead former military dictator Pervez Musharraf against the special court majority judgment that handed him a death sentence on treason charges in 2019.
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Pakistan Tightens Blasphemy Laws That Already Carry Death Penalty
The punishment for insulting the prophet's wives, associates, or close family members under the new law is ten years in prison or life in prison and a fine of ten lakh Pakistani rupees.
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9/11 Prosecutors In Plea Talks To Avert Mastermind's Death penalty: Report
Lawyers for the 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and federal prosecutors are in talks to negotiate a potential plea agreement for the Pakistani terrorist and four other co-defendants that could drop the possibility of death penalty for them.
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Consular Access To Kulbhushan Jadhav "According To Our Laws": Pakistan
Pakistan will grant consular access to Indian national Kulbhushan Jadhav according to the Pakistani laws, for which modalities are being worked out, the Foreign Ministry said in a late night statement.
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Expect Consular Access To Kulbhushan Jadhav, Order Binding: Centre
A day after the International Court of Justice ordered Pakistan to review the death penalty to Indian national Kulbhushan Jadhav, New Delhi on Thursday said the verdict is binding upon Islamabad and now it is time for them to act and provide consular access to the retired navy officer.
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Pakistan's Army General Given Life Sentence On Spying Charges
Pakistan's army has sentenced a general to life imprisonment for spying and ordered the death penalty for a brigadier and a civilian officer convicted in the same case, a military statement said on Thursday.
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Pak Sufi Singer's Killers, Among "Hardcore" Terrorists, Given Death Penalty
Pakistan Army Chief Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa today approved death penalty for 10 "hardcore terrorists" including those who shot dead Amjad Sabri, one of the country's renowned Sufi Qawwals.
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Kulbhushan Jadhav Was Under Stress; Wife And Mother Had To Change For Meeting: India
A day after the family of Kulbhushan Jadhav, the Indian man sentenced to death in Pakistan, met him in Islamabad, India called the exercise "lacking any credibility" and said the "overall atmosphere of the meeting was intimidating". Mr Jadhav's mother and wife were forced to change their clothes, not allowed to speak in their mother-tongue, and his...
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After Visiting Kulbhushan Jadhav In Pak Jail, Family Meets Sushma Swaraj
Back from Pakistan after meeting Kulbhushan Jadhav, the man facing death penalty, his wife and mother met foreign minister Sushma Swaraj this morning. A number of officials from the foreign ministry, including foreign secretary S Jaishankar, attended the meeting.
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Pak Tweets Jadhav Family Meet, Plays Another Video In New Propaganda
A brief meeting on Monday between Kulbhushan Jadhav, sentenced to death in Pakistan, and his family, became a propaganda tool for Islamabad which tweeted photos, played a video of Mr Jadhav "thanking" Pakistani officials and repeated old allegations that India has strongly rubbished
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Pakistan Abducts Own Citizens, Muzzles Rights Watchdog: UN
Pakistan must address a catalogue of human rights failings including state-sponsored abductions and a death penalty that amounts to torture, but its national watchdog is muzzled, the UN Human Rights Committee said on Thursday.
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Pakistan Uses Executions As Political Weapon: Rights Group
A human rights watchdog on Friday accused Pakistan of using executions as a "political tool" - and even a means to deal with prison overcrowding.
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Pakistan 5th Most Prolific Executioner In World: Rights Group
Pakistan has executed 465 prisoners since lifting a moratorium on death penalty in 2014, becoming the "fifth most prolific executioner" in the world, according to an organisation working for prisoners' rights.
