death penalty

A district and sessions court had sentenced them to death sentence and fined Rs50,000

Jail figures reveal just one per cent of 252 executions were convicted terrorists

We need to go back to its roots that lie in the tragedy of the Second World War, which resulted in endless killings

Nimr was convicted of sedition, rioting, protesting and robbery in the Eastern Province district of Qatif

British legal aid group says documentary evidence indicated Ansar Iqbal was a child at the time of alleged offence

Bashir had been in prison for last 18 years.

Court awaits officials' response, doctors' assessments to hang wheel-chair bound Abdul Basit

The three prisoners will be hanged at the same prison on September 3

Abdul Basit, 43, is paralysed from waist down as he contracted tuberculosis one year after conviction

The court also imposed a fine of Rs100,000 on the accused

Two were hanged in Lahore's Kot Lakhpat Jail, while third was executed in Gujranwala Central Jail

The court sentenced them to life imprisonment and directed them to pay Rs100,000 fines each

They said the constable had tried to stop them from robbing a house

UK foreign office engaged in court battle over claims that British money could be supporting hangings in Pakistan

Senior govt adviser says Farooq alias Farooqa and Karim Nawaz were hanged in Multan central jail

An analysis of 180 people hanged since December shows that fewer than one in six were linked to militancy

Aasia Bibi, a Christian woman sentenced to death for alleged blasphemy, has been on death row since November 2010

The Pakistani government’s death penalty spree has become a barbaric assembly-line