United Nations Pakistan Executions

BJP chief Amit Shah this morning thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for resolving the Doklam standoff with China and praised Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj for her speech attacking Pakistan over terrorism at the United Nations General Assembly on the weekend, as he highlighted the BJP government's achievements at a meeting of the party's national...

In ordering Pakistan to stay the execution of Kulbhushan Jadhav, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Thursday unanimously accepted Indias contention that there was a real danger to the life of Mr Jadhav, the Indian national sentenced to death by a Pakistan military court last month. The court said the -risk- was real since Pakistan only men...

Pakistan executed a convicted child killer Tuesday, brushing aside a storm of protests from rights groups that his confession had been extracted by torture and he was a minor at the time of the crime.

Pakistan today hanged 11 prisoners, bringing the total number put to death since executions resumed last December to 128, officials said.

Pakistan has rejected calls by the United Nations and the European Union to revive the moratorium on the execution of convicts, saying "capital punishment for terrorists does not violate international law".

UN chief Ban Ki-moon is pressing Pakistan to end capital punishment and restore a moratorium on the death penalty the government lifted in terror cases following a Taliban school massacre.

BJP chief Amit Shah this morning thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for resolving the Doklam standoff with China and praised Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj for her speech attacking Pakistan over terrorism at the United Nations General Assembly on the weekend, as he highlighted the BJP government's achievements at a meeting of the party's national...

In ordering Pakistan to stay the execution of Kulbhushan Jadhav, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Thursday unanimously accepted Indias contention that there was a real danger to the life of Mr Jadhav, the Indian national sentenced to death by a Pakistan military court last month. The court said the -risk- was real since Pakistan only men...

Pakistan executed a convicted child killer Tuesday, brushing aside a storm of protests from rights groups that his confession had been extracted by torture and he was a minor at the time of the crime.

Pakistan today hanged 11 prisoners, bringing the total number put to death since executions resumed last December to 128, officials said.

Pakistan has rejected calls by the United Nations and the European Union to revive the moratorium on the execution of convicts, saying "capital punishment for terrorists does not violate international law".

UN chief Ban Ki-moon is pressing Pakistan to end capital punishment and restore a moratorium on the death penalty the government lifted in terror cases following a Taliban school massacre.