Pakistan 2008
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News on Pakistan in 2008
- APRIL 24, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTY
BROTHERS HANGED FOR KILLING RELATIVES
four brothers were hanged in Pakistan's eastern Punjab province for murdering their relatives eight years ago.
- APRIL 19, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN TO COMMUTE DEATH SENTENCES TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT - OFFICIAL
the new Pakistani government will commute all death sentences to life imprisonment in line with the policy of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP), Prime Minister's Adviser on Interior Rehman Malik said.
- APRIL 19, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTANI TALIBAN PUBLICLY EXECUTE THREE PEOPLE IN TRIBAL REGION
in the country's South Waziristan tribal region, the Pakistani Taliban publicly executed 3 people who were held responsible for the killing of a local tribesman.
- APRIL 18, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: RISING EXECUTION RATE WORRIES RIGHTS ACTIVIST
I.A. Rehman, director of the independent Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, commented on Pakistan’s 61 percent increase in executions in 2007.
- APRIL 18, 2008IndiaDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN POSTPONES HANGING OF INDIAN NATIONAL - PAPER
Pakistan postponed the hanging of Sarabjit Singh to June 1, hours after External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee appealed to Islamabad to give the "unfortunate human being" clemency on humanitarian grounds
- APRIL 17, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN SIGNS THREE UN HR CONVENTIONS
Pakistan, in a significant and a long-awaited step, has ratified the International
- APRIL 15, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH SIX TIMES FOR MADRASSA ATTACK
an anti-terrorism court in Quetta, Pakistan, sentenced a man to death six times for killing six madrassa students in Qila Saifullah, Geo News reported.
- APRIL 15, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Waqar Ahmad Kayani was hanged in Pakistan for murder.
Waqar Ahmad Kayani was hanged in Pakistan for murder.
- APRIL 10, 2008Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI ARABIA. PAKISTANI BEHEADED FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
Moazzam Khan, a Pakistan national who was convicted in a drug trafficking case
- APRIL 8, 2008Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI ARABIA. PAKISTANI MAN BEHEADED FOR BEATING COMPATRIOT TO DEATH
the official Saudi Press Agency said authorities beheaded a Pakistani man convicted of beating a fellow citizen to death.
- APRIL 5, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: MAN GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR DRUG SMUGGLING
in Pakistan, Additional District and Sessions Judge Iqbal Malik awarded the death sentence and Rs 0.5 million fine to Awal Khan for possessing 42kg of hashish
- APRIL 4, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. LAW MINISTER TAKES NOTE TO INCIDENT OF A COUPLE STONING TO DEATH
the Federal Minister for Law and Justice Farooq H. Naik in Pakistan took strong
- MARCH 31, 2008United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTY
EMIRATI SAVES TWO PRISONERS FROM CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
an Emirati man's charity gave a new lease on life to two prisoners sentenced to
- MARCH 31, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. COUPLE STONED TO DEATH IN FATA
a man and a woman were stoned to death by militants in Pakistan's Khwezai-
- MARCH 30, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. 134 PEOPLE HANGED IN 2007
Releasing its annual report on the state of human rights in 2007, the Human Rights
- MARCH 29, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: TWO SENTENCED TO DEATH
two murder convicts were awarded the death sentence for killing a rickshaw driver two years ago in Okara, Pakistan. Sarfraz and Liaqat Ali killed rickshaw driver Mushtaq.
- MARCH 29, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: COMMUTE DEATH PENALTY TO LIFE FOR FOREIGN PRISONERS: BURNEY
leading human rights activist Ansar Burney urged Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gillani to commute the death sentence of Indian national Sarabjit Singh and other foreigners languishing in Pakistani jails to life imprisonment.
- MARCH 20, 2008IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has delayed by 30 days the execution of
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has delayed by 30 days the execution of
- MARCH 12, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. CHRISTIAN HANGED DESPITE CLEMENCY APPEAL
a Christian man was hanged in Pakistan, after being
- MARCH 5, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTY
a Pakistani tribunal sentenced Anwarul Haq to death...
a Pakistani tribunal sentenced Anwarul Haq to death...
- FEBRUARY 27, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Iqrar Hussain and Shabbir Billa were executed in Pakistan for murder.
Iqrar Hussain and Shabbir Billa were executed in Pakistan for murder.
- FEBRUARY 20, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. MURDER CONVICT HANGED IN KARACHI JAIL
a murder convict was hanged in the Karachi Central Jail in Pakistan
- FEBRUARY 14, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. DEATH SENTENCE TO TWO CONVICTS
in Daska, Paklistan, Additional District & Session Judge Khawaja
- FEBRUARY 4, 2008Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI ARABIA. THREE FOREIGNERS BEHEADED
Saudi Arabia beheaded an Indian, an Iraqi and a Pakistani after they were
- JANUARY 29, 2008Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI ARABIA. NIGERIAN WOMAN AND PAKISTANI BEHEADED
a Nigerian woman and a Pakistani man were executed in the Muslim holy city of
- JANUARY 19, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTY
THREE ON DEATH ROW TO BE EXECUTED IN LARKANA CENTRAL JAIL
the Larkana Central Jail administration, in Pakistan...
- JANUARY 10, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: MAN GETS DEATH SENTENCE FOR MURDERING WIFE
Additional District and Sessions Judge Rana Nisar Ahmad Khan awarded the death sentence to Abdul Khaliq, a resident of Murree, Pakistan, who axed his wife to death on a family dispute in 2006.
- JANUARY 4, 2008IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN EXECUTES MAN FOR DRUG SMUGGLING
Iranian authorities handed over the body of Abdul Qayyum to Taftan police
- JANUARY 3, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: MAN EXECUTED FOR SLAUGHTERING WIFE, DAUGHTERS
Abdul Shakoor, convicted of slaughtering of his wife and two minor daughters, was executed in New Central Jail in Bahawalpur, Pakistan.
- JANUARY 1, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The death penalty is imposed for several crimes...
The death penalty is imposed for several crimes...