A Pakistani appeals court on Monday acquitted the brother of a social media star who was murdered in an "honor killing," lawyers said. Qandeel Baloch was strangled in 2016 after becoming famous for her suggestive and defiant social media posts. The case became Pakistan's most high profile "honor killing" of recent years — ...
Author: By ASIM TANVEER | AParticle author: APID: 1644850523496976200Mon, 2022-02-14 14:40 MULTAN: A Pakistani man sentenced to life in prison in 2019 for strangling his sister, a model on social media, was acquitted of murder Monday after his parents pardoned him under Islamic law, an attorney for the man’s family said. Waseem ...
Mir Shakil-ur-Rehman was arrested over allegations of corruption in a real estate deal involving the purchase of land.Islamabad, Pakistan – A Pakistani court acquitted the owner and editor-in-chief of the country’s largest independent news conglomerate in a case related to an alleged violation of regulations in a real estate ...
LAHORE: A Pakistani court on Monday acquitted the owner and editor-in-chief of the country's largest independent group of newspapers and television stations in a 35-year-old case related to allegations of tax evasion in a real estate purchase. Mir Shakilur Rehman was arrested in 2020 after authorities accused him of ...
In a setback to the National Investigation Agency (NIA), the Kerala high court on Thursday acquitted two prime accused in 2006 Kozhikode (north Kerala) twin blasts. A trial court had sentenced the two, Thadiyantavida Nazeer and S Shafaz, to double life imprisonment in 2012.A division bench of Justices Vinod ...
The Lahore High Court on Saturday set aside a trial court’s conviction and acquitted six senior leaders of Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed’s banned Jamat-ud-Dawah (JuD) in a terror financing case Saeed-led JuD is the front organisation for the proscribed Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), the terror outfit responsible for carrying out ...
Issued on: 04/03/2021 - 12:41Modified: 04/03/2021 - 14:02 A French court on Thursday acquitted former prime minister Edouard Balladur on corruption charges after he was accused of using kickbacks from an arms deal but handed a suspended jail term to his former defence minister. The verdict by the Law ...
Sawan Masih was on death row for the past six years after being convicted of blasphemy by a lower court in Lahore.Islamabad, Pakistan – A Pakistani appeals court has acquitted a Christian man who spent about seven years in jail on the accusation of blasphemy, a charge that led ...