Pakistan 2005
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News on Pakistan in 2005
- DECEMBER 30, 2005PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. AIRMAN HANGED FOR KILLING SIX COLLEAGUES
Nasir Ali Bangash, a Pakistan air force technician, was hanged after being convicted of killing six colleagues more than three years ago.
- DECEMBER 29, 2005PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. PETITION CHALLENGING DEATH SENTENCE IN GANG RAPE CASES ADJOURNED
the Shariat Appellate Bench of the Supreme Court, Islamabad, Pakistan, adjourned the hearing on a petition challenging the death sentences of four convicts for gang rape under Section 10 (4) of the Zina Ordinance.
- DECEMBER 23, 2005PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
the Sialkot Additional District and Sessions Court, Pakistan, sentenced to death Muhammad Akram
- DECEMBER 21, 2005PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. SUPREME COURT STAYS EXECUTION OF FOUR CONVICTS
the Shariat Appellate Bench of Pakistan’s Supreme Court stayed the execution of four convicts who had been sentenced to death for raping a Christian girl, Saima Bibi, in Faisalabad in 1999.
- DECEMBER 16, 2005PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR DOUBLE MURDER
the Shakargarh Additional District & Session Court, Pakistan, sentenced Abdul Shakoor alias Shoka to death on two counts with a fine of Rs. 200,000 for killing Aslam and Allah Rakha of Bara Bhai-Shakargarh village over an argument in 2003.
- DECEMBER 15, 2005PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. FSC DISMISSES PETITION CHALLENGING DEATH SENTENCE IN RAPE CASES
a full bench of the Federal Shariat Court (FSC) in Pakistan dismissed a Shariat petition stating that death sentence awarded in rape cases were contrary to the injunctions of the Holy Quran and the Hadith and challenging the trial of rapists in Anti-Terro
- DECEMBER 9, 2005PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. TWO MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
the Sialkot Additional District and Sessions Court, Pakistan, sentenced to death Shehzad Khan and Faryad Khan on two counts and imposed on them a fine of Rs.200,000 each.
- DECEMBER 7, 2005PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. SUPREME COURT OVERTURNS LIFE SENTENCE FOR MURDER AND IMPOSES CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
the Supreme Court of Pakistan set aside a verdict of the Peshawar High Court transforming the sentence of life imprisonment handed to Khurram for murder into the death penalty.
- NOVEMBER 30, 2005PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. SIX PEOPLE FROM SAME FAMILY HANGED FOR MURDER
six men from the same family were hanged in Pakistan for the 1989 killing of three men they believed had insulted some of their womenfolk.
- NOVEMBER 29, 2005PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. FIVE TRIBAL MILITANTS SENTENCED TO DEATH
a Pakistani court sentenced five tribal militants to death for killing six people in an attack in southwestern Pakistan.
- NOVEMBER 23, 2005PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. BLASPHEMY RETHINK URGED
the UK's Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, on a visit to Pakistan, asked President Pervez Musharraf to look at the nation's blasphemy law.
- NOVEMBER 8, 2005PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. FATHER AND SON SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
the Additional Sessions court in Moro, in Pakistan’s Noushehro Firoz district, sentenced ‘Rajab and his son Wali Muhammad Machhi’ to death in a double murder case.
- OCTOBER 31, 2005IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. PAKISTANI SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR INDIA FORT ATTACK
a Delhi court sentenced to death Mohammad Ashfaq, a Pakistani, over a militant attack at New Delhi's famous 17th Century Red Fort in December 2000.
- OCTOBER 29, 2005RussiaDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. 'RUSSIAN PLOTTER' PASSPORT PROBE
it was reported that Russia was seeking consular access to Akhlas Ahmed Akhlak, a Russian man who Pakistan had sentenced to death for allegedly plotting to kill President Pervez Musharraf.
- OCTOBER 27, 2005PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. HIGH COURT COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCE TO LIFE
the Peshawar High Court, Pakistan, commuted Said Mehmood’s sentence from death to life and acquitted his son Bakhtiar, co-accused in the murder case.
- OCTOBER 24, 2005PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The death penalty is imposed for several crimes
The death penalty is imposed for several crimes
- OCTOBER 14, 2005PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. ATC AWARDS CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
Taj Muhammad was sentenced to death by the Special Anti Terrorist Court in Sibi, Pakistan.
- OCTOBER 6, 2005PakistanDEATH PENALTY
it was reported that a Pashtun tribesman...
it was reported that a Pashtun tribesman who fell in love with and "married" a 16-year-old boy provoked outrage among Islamic leaders with his "unholy union".
- OCTOBER 5, 2005PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. FOUR SENTENCED TO DEATH IN MUSHARRAF LIFE ATTEMPT
a Pakistani military court sentenced four air force staff to death and two to life in jail on for their involvement in an al Qaeda-inspired assassination attempt on President Pervez Musharraf in 2003.
- OCTOBER 4, 2005RussiaDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. RUSSIA DEMANDS EXPLANATION OVER CITIZEN FACING DEATH PENALTY IN PAKISTAN
the Russian embassy in Islamabad requested that the Pakistani Foreign Ministry provide an official explanation and organize a meeting between Russian representatives and Akhlak Akhlas, official Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mikhail Kamynin announced.
- OCTOBER 2, 2005KuwaitDEATH PENALTY
KUWAIT. 4 PAKISTANIS HANGED FOR DRUG SMUGGLING
Mohammed Ahmed Khan, 33, Abdul-Basir Abdul Hai Mohammed Ishaq, 50, Faz Mohammed Youseff Khan, 32, and Sayed Mudassar Shah Hekmat, 26, were hanged at a police station in the capital Kuwait City, and the public was later invited to view the strung-up bodies
- SEPTEMBER 28, 2005PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. CONVICTED OF RAPING AND KILLING A 6-YEAR-OLD GIRL EXECUTED
a man convicted of raping and murdering a six-year-old girl was executed in central Pakistan.
- SEPTEMBER 27, 2005IndiaDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. COURT UPHOLDS SARABJIT SINGH'S DEATH SENTENCE
Pakistan's Supreme Court upheld a death sentence imposed on Sarabjit Singh, an alleged Indian spy, for a bombing that killed four people in 1990, court officials said.
- SEPTEMBER 20, 2005PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. MAN HANGED FOR RAPE AND MURDER OF SEVEN-YEAR-OLD GIRL
Niaz Ahmed, a man sentenced to death for raping and killing a seven-year-old girl, was executed in eastern Pakistan after President Gen. Pervez Musharraf turned down his plea for clemency.
- SEPTEMBER 17, 2005PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. LASHKAR-I-JHANGVI ACTIVIST GETS DEATH SENTENCE
the Multan No-1 court, an anti terrorist court in Pakistan, awarded a death sentence on two counts to Abu Bakr alias Usman, a hitman of the banned Lashkar-i-Jhangvi activist group, and two life terms to his accomplice Dilawar on charges of killing two riv
- SEPTEMBER 15, 2005IndiaDEATH PENALTY
India. Pakistan court says Indian ‘spy’ deserved death
the death sentence handed to Sarabjit Singh, an Indian national convicted of spying and carrying out a series of bomb attacks, was "well deserved", Pakistan's top court said in its detailed judgement upholding the penalty. Singh was convicted in 1991 by a
- SEPTEMBER 14, 2005PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. FAMILY OF 6 TO BE EXECUTED
Manzoor Ahmad and his son Muhammad Ishaq, Ghulam Mustafa also known as Papoo, Muhammad Ilyas, Muhammad Anwar and Javed Obal, all members of the same family, were due to be executed in prison within the day’s end for shooting three of their relatives to de
- SEPTEMBER 14, 2005PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Arshad Mughal alias Papu was hanged at Kotlakhpat Jail in front of a magistrate and jail authorities.
Arshad Mughal alias Papu was hanged at Kotlakhpat Jail in front of a magistrate and jail authorities.
- SEPTEMBER 13, 2005IndiaDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. PAKISTAN SAYS DEATH-ROW INDIAN SPY'S FATE DEPENDS ON MERCY
it was reported that Pakistan's Foreign Minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri told the Hindi news channel Aaj Tak that the fate of Sarabjit Singh, an Indian national on death row in Pakistan convicted as a spy and for setting bombs that killed several people, c
- SEPTEMBER 10, 2005IndiaDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. PRESIDENT EXAMINING CASE OF INDIAN NATIONAL ON DEATH ROW SARABJIT SINGH
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said he had taken no decision yet on the fate of an Indian national sentenced to hang on spying and bombing charges but added he was examining the case