Pakistan 2011
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News on Pakistan in 2011
- SEPTEMBER 21, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: DEATH SENTENCE FOR MURDER UPHELD
a federal shariat court bench in Lahore, Pakistan, dismissed the appeals of Qaiser Mehmood and Shaban against their death sentences.
SEPTEMBER 21, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: PAKISTANI MAN EXECUTED ON DRUGS CHARGES
China executed by lethal injection Pakistani man Zahid Husain Shah, 35, in Shanghai. He was
- SEPTEMBER 20, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: DEATH PENALTY FOR MURDER OF WIFE, DAUGHTER
in Pakistan, Faisalabad Anti Terrorist Court No 1 judge Raja Muhammad Arshad sentenced Nasir Iqbal to death for setting his wife Sobia and daughter Kashfa, 10, on fire on April 19, 2011, causing their deaths.
- SEPTEMBER 20, 2011IndiaDEATH PENALTY
LAHORE HIGH COURT DISMISSES PLEA TO STOP SARABJIT'S POSSIBLE CLEMENCY
in Pakistan, the Lahore high court dismissed the petition filed by Rana Ilamuddin Ghazi contending that the President of Pakistan could not commute the death sentence of Indian national Sarabjit Singh into life imprisonment.
- SEPTEMBER 14, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: 3 AWARDED DEATH IN KIDNAPPING CASE
Rawalpindi Anti-Terrorist Court No-II Judge Syed Pervez Ali Shah sentenced Muhammad Naeem...
- SEPTEMBER 10, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: PAKISTANI FAMILY APPEALS TO CHINA OVER DEATH SENTENCE
the family of Pakistani national Zahid Hussain appealed to the Chinese authorities to commute his death sentence for drug trafficking to life imprisonment on humanitarian grounds.
AUGUST 25, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KIDNAPPING
in Faisalabad, Pakistan, Anti Terrorist Court No.1 Judge Raja Muhammad Arshad
AUGUST 24, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: CAPITAL PUNISHMENT FOR MURDER
in Faisalabad, Pakistan, Anti Terrorist Court (ATC) judge Mian Muhammad Nazeer sentenced Muhammad
- AUGUST 17, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: ONE AWARDED DEATH SENTENCE IN MURDER CASE
in Pakistan, District and Sessions Judge Muqarab Khan Niazi sentenced Muhammad Aslam
- AUGUST 12, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTANI SOLDIER SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER FATAL SHOOTING OF TEEN
a Pakistani court sentenced paramilitary soldier Shahid Zafar to death and fined him $2,300 for shooting unarmed teenager Sarfraz Shah in the southern port city of Karachi in June.
- AUGUST 12, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: DEATH FOR RAWALPINDI ATTACK ACCUSED
a former Army man has been sentenced to death by a military court in Pakistan for the attack on the General Headquarters in Rawalpindi in October 2009.
- JULY 30, 2011IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: QASAB APPEALS AGAINST DEATH SENTENCE
Pakistani national Mohammad Ajmal Amir Qasab, 23, appealed his death sentence to the Indian Supreme Court for the November 26, 2008, terror attacks in Mumbai.
- JULY 25, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: SUPREME COURT MOVED TO ABOLISH CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
Barrister Zafarullah Khan of Watan Party, filed a petition in the Supreme Court of Pakistan
- JULY 22, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTY
MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPING DAUGHTER IN PAKISTAN
in Pakistan, Additional District and Sessions Judge Tahir Khan Niazi sentenced Khalid Ameen, a Baghbanpuraa resident, to death for raping his 15-year-old daughter continuously for one month before May 18, 2008. Parveen, Ameen's wife, registered an inciden
- JULY 21, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: MAN GETS DEATH FOR DRUG PUSHING
in Lahore, Pakistan, Additional District and Sessions Judge Abdul Hasnat Zulqarnain sentenced Naseer Ahmad to death and fined him Rs. 200,000 for peddling 120 kilograms of hashish and 10 kilograms of opium.
- JULY 20, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: DEATH FOR KILLING IMPERIAL CINEMA OWNER
in Lahore, Pakistan, Additional District and Sessions Judge Shahzad Kayani sentenced brothers Ali and Nadeem Abbas to death for killing Nasim Sharif, over her ownership of the Imperial Cinema.
- JULY 18, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: 2 GET DEATH SENTENCE
in Sahiwal, Pakistan, Additional District and Sessions Judge Sajjad Hussain Sindhar sentenced Allah Bakhsh and Noor Muhammad to death for murdering Ratti Tibbi of Chak 88/6/R, in the remit Farid Town Police.
- JULY 16, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: THREE GET DEATH
in Pakistan, Liaqatpur Additional District and Sessions Judge Mian Masood Hussain sentenced Karim Bux, Allah Bux, Shafi to death and fined them Rs 500,000 each for shooting dead Zahoor Ahmad over an old enmity.
JULY 15, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: 3 SENTENCED TO DEATH
in Pakistan, Sahiwal Additional District and Sessions Judge Shahbaz Ahmad
- JULY 6, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: FOUR AWARDED DEATH SENTENCE IN DOUBLE MURDER CASE
in Karachi, Pakistan, additional district and sessions judge
- JULY 2, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: INMATE ESCAPES THE GALLOWS SIXTEEN TIMES
the execution of Jalal Morejo in Pakistan is scheduled for July 14, 2011, after the Naushehro Feroz additional district and sessions judge issued the black warrant.
- JUNE 30, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: MAN GETS DEATH SENTENCE
in Pakistan, Rawalpindi Anti-Terrorist Court No-I Judge Malik Muhammad Akram Awan
- JUNE 30, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: MAN GETS DEATH SENTENCE
in Pakistan, Rawalpindi Additional District And Sessions Judge Muhammad Nazir Chaudhry sentenced Nasir Khan to death and fined him Rs200,000. RA Bazaar Police Station registered a case against him for killing Mir Afzal on July 7, 2009.
- JUNE 28, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: 3 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
in Pakistan, Kasur Additional district & sessions Judge Syed Khursheed
- JUNE 27, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: DEATH SENTENCE FOR KILLING 10
in Faisalabad, Pakistan, ATC No.1 Judge Raja Muhammad Arshad
- JUNE 25, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: MAN GETS DEATH FOR MOLESTING, KILLING BOY
in Chakwal, Pakistan, Additional District and Sessions Judge Mohammad Asghar Khan sentenced Mohammad Yaqub, a resident of Dera Ghazi Khan
- JUNE 22, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: MAN AWARDED DEATH SENTENCE FOR KILLING WIFE
in Pakistan, Rawalpindi Additional District and Sessions Judge Muhammad Iqbal sentenced Faisal Taj to death and fined him Rs100,000.
JUNE 21, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR BLASPHEMY
an additional district and sessions judge in Talagang, Pakistan, sentenced a man to death
- JUNE 15, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: MAN GETS DEATH FOR ABDUCTING, KILLING BOY
in Pakistan, anti-terrorism court Judge Tahir Pervaiz sentenced Muhammad Abid to death, find him Rs 200,000, and ordered the confiscation of his assets.
- JUNE 15, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
in Pakistan, Sialkot District and Session Judge Manzoor Hussain Dogar sentenced Muhammad Yousaf to death and life imprisonment and fined him seventy thousand rupees.