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Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Hanged To Death, Didn't Get Fair Trial: Pak Supreme Court
Pakistan's Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that former Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who was hanged 44 year ago after being convicted of murder, didn't get a fair trial.
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Fear Pakistan May Hang Kulbhushan Jadhav Before Decision, Says India: 10 Facts
There is an "immediate threat" that Indian national Kulbhushan Jadhav will be executed by Pakistan even before a decision of the International Court of Justice, India on Monday said at an open hearing at The Hague in Netherlands. Mr Jadhav, a former navy officer, was sentenced to death by a Pakistani military court last month after being convicted ...
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Pakistan Executes 4 Hardcore Terrorists Convicted By Military Courts
Pakistan today hanged four more "hardcore" Taliban terrorists convicted of "heinous" terrorism-related offences by controversial military courts, taking the number to over 160 since the Peshawar terror attack in 2014.
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4 Pakistan School Massacre Militants Hanged: Officials
Pakistan today hanged four militants linked to a Taliban massacre at a school in the northwestern city of Peshawar, the first time it has executed anyone convicted in the attack, which killed more than 150 people.
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Execution of Disabled Pakistani Man Delayed for Fourth Time
A disabled Pakistani murder convict was given a fourth stay of execution late Tuesday just hours before he was due to be hanged, as rights activists slammed Islamabad for a executions spree on track to see 300 deaths in under a year.
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Amid Protests, Pakistan Executes Man Who Was Convicted as a Teenager
Pakistan on Tuesday hanged a man whose case triggered an international outcry after his lawyers said he was arrested as a juvenile and tortured into confessing to a murder.
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Despite Protests, Pakistani Convict set to be Hanged Today
Pakistan is preparing today to hang a convicted killer whose case has attracted international protests because family members say he was a juvenile at the time of the crime.
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Pakistan Stays Execution of Party Activist After Video 'Confession'
Pakistani authorities today delayed by three days the hanging of a political activist convicted of murder, as a video of him emerged claiming his party chief had ordered him to carry out killings.
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Pakistan Convict Was Dressed in White for Hanging When Execution Was Stayed
A Pakistani man charged as a child with murder was dressed in a white uniform, ready for hanging, and told to write his will before the execution was postponed, his family said today.
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'Don't Deprive Me of My Child': Pakistan Death Row Convict's Mother Pleads for Mercy
The family of a Pakistani man charged as a child with murder and due to be hanged made heartrending appeals to the government on Wednesday, complaining of a flawed justice system that allowed months of torture to extract a confession.
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Pakistan Hangs 9 as Death Row Convict's Mother Begs for Mercy
Pakistan hanged nine death row convicts today, media said, as the mother of a man charged as a child with murder and due to be hanged this week begged the president for mercy.
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Pakistan Hangs Militants Convicted of Murder
Pakistan on Thursday hanged two militants convicted of murder, bringing to 18 the number of executions it has carried out since it lifted a six-year moratorium on the death penalty in terror related cases following a school massacre last month.
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Pakistan vows to execute militants despite Taliban threats
Pakistan will hang two convicted militants next week, officials said on Wednesday, despite a Taliban warning that it would regard the execution of any of its members as a "declaration of war".
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Pakistan set to end moratorium on executions
Pakistan's five-year-old moratorium on executions will end with the hanging of four convicts, including three high-profile terrorists, this month, a senior official said today.
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Pakistan's Parliament passes resolution against Afzal Guru's hanging
Pakistan's parliament today passed a resolution condemning the hanging of 2001 Parliament Attack convict Afzal Guru and demanded the return of his body to his family.
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Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Hanged To Death, Didn't Get Fair Trial: Pak Supreme Court
Pakistan's Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that former Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who was hanged 44 year ago after being convicted of murder, didn't get a fair trial.
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Fear Pakistan May Hang Kulbhushan Jadhav Before Decision, Says India: 10 Facts
There is an "immediate threat" that Indian national Kulbhushan Jadhav will be executed by Pakistan even before a decision of the International Court of Justice, India on Monday said at an open hearing at The Hague in Netherlands. Mr Jadhav, a former navy officer, was sentenced to death by a Pakistani military court last month after being convicted ...
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Pakistan Executes 4 Hardcore Terrorists Convicted By Military Courts
Pakistan today hanged four more "hardcore" Taliban terrorists convicted of "heinous" terrorism-related offences by controversial military courts, taking the number to over 160 since the Peshawar terror attack in 2014.
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4 Pakistan School Massacre Militants Hanged: Officials
Pakistan today hanged four militants linked to a Taliban massacre at a school in the northwestern city of Peshawar, the first time it has executed anyone convicted in the attack, which killed more than 150 people.
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Execution of Disabled Pakistani Man Delayed for Fourth Time
A disabled Pakistani murder convict was given a fourth stay of execution late Tuesday just hours before he was due to be hanged, as rights activists slammed Islamabad for a executions spree on track to see 300 deaths in under a year.
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Amid Protests, Pakistan Executes Man Who Was Convicted as a Teenager
Pakistan on Tuesday hanged a man whose case triggered an international outcry after his lawyers said he was arrested as a juvenile and tortured into confessing to a murder.
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Despite Protests, Pakistani Convict set to be Hanged Today
Pakistan is preparing today to hang a convicted killer whose case has attracted international protests because family members say he was a juvenile at the time of the crime.
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Pakistan Stays Execution of Party Activist After Video 'Confession'
Pakistani authorities today delayed by three days the hanging of a political activist convicted of murder, as a video of him emerged claiming his party chief had ordered him to carry out killings.
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Pakistan Convict Was Dressed in White for Hanging When Execution Was Stayed
A Pakistani man charged as a child with murder was dressed in a white uniform, ready for hanging, and told to write his will before the execution was postponed, his family said today.
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'Don't Deprive Me of My Child': Pakistan Death Row Convict's Mother Pleads for Mercy
The family of a Pakistani man charged as a child with murder and due to be hanged made heartrending appeals to the government on Wednesday, complaining of a flawed justice system that allowed months of torture to extract a confession.
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Pakistan Hangs 9 as Death Row Convict's Mother Begs for Mercy
Pakistan hanged nine death row convicts today, media said, as the mother of a man charged as a child with murder and due to be hanged this week begged the president for mercy.
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Pakistan Hangs Militants Convicted of Murder
Pakistan on Thursday hanged two militants convicted of murder, bringing to 18 the number of executions it has carried out since it lifted a six-year moratorium on the death penalty in terror related cases following a school massacre last month.
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Pakistan vows to execute militants despite Taliban threats
Pakistan will hang two convicted militants next week, officials said on Wednesday, despite a Taliban warning that it would regard the execution of any of its members as a "declaration of war".
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Pakistan set to end moratorium on executions
Pakistan's five-year-old moratorium on executions will end with the hanging of four convicts, including three high-profile terrorists, this month, a senior official said today.
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Pakistan's Parliament passes resolution against Afzal Guru's hanging
Pakistan's parliament today passed a resolution condemning the hanging of 2001 Parliament Attack convict Afzal Guru and demanded the return of his body to his family.
