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A Muslim woman has been sentenced to death in Pakistan after she was convicted of sending a text message and a cartoon that "defamed the name of the Prophet Muhammad" via WhatsApp. Anika Atiq, 26, was arrested in May 2020, and charged with publishing "blasphemous materials" on WhatsApp, according ...

JAMMU, Jan 15: Authorities in Jammu and Kashmir have blacklisted 10 contractors for poor execution of works in Doda district, an official spokesman said on Saturday.Quoting an order issued by the Rural Development Department (Superintendent Engineer REW Jammu), the spokesman said the contractors have been banned for one year ...

Chief Secretary, A K Mehta chairing a meeting on Friday. 44 Aspirational Blocks e-inaugurated* Directs YSS, S&T, Estates to complete targeted works by MarchExcelsior CorrespondentJAMMU, Dec 31: The Chief Secretary, Dr. Arun Kumar Mehta today directed the Rural Development Department to gear up to meet annual capex targets for ...

WASHINGTON -- The death toll from the partial collapse of a 12-story residential building in the U.S. beachside town of Surfside, southeastern state Florida, has risen to five, authorities said on Saturday. "Today our search and rescue teams found another body in the rubble," Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine ...

Saudi Arabia has executed a man for offences rights groups say he allegedly committed while under the age of 18. Mustafa Hashem al-Darwish was arrested in May 2015 and charged with protest-related offences, many of which occurred when he was 17. He was executed on Tuesday in Dammam, a ...

A 3-member Bench of the Islamabad High Court on May 5 resumed hearing of the petition by Pakistan’s Ministry of Law and Justice seeking appointment of a lawyer for Kulbhushan Jadhav A top Pakistani court hearing the case of death row convict Kulbhushan Jadhav has asked India to cooperate ...

NewsThe committee expressed disappointment with recent results, but admitted that the Covid-19 pandemic had created a challenge Misbah ul Haq, alongside Pakistan's coaching staff, has earned a stay of execution, with the Pakistan cricket committee opting against making any changes following the disappointing tour of New Zealand, resolving instead ...

Islamabad, Pakistan – In a landmark verdict, Pakistan’s Supreme Court has ruled that imposing the death penalty on prisoners living with a serious mental illness, particularly those who do not understand the nature of the punishment, “will not meet the ends of justice”. The ruling was issued by the ...

#Pakistan News Supreme Court orders Kanizan Bibi and Imdad Ali to be transferred to a mental health facility and asks for the case of Ghulam Abbas, a third inmate facing execution, to be reviewed in a landmark judgment hailed by rights groups. Some 518 people have been executed in Pakistan ...

Pakistan's Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that certain mentally ill prisoners with a certification by a medical board will be exempted from the death penalty. "If a condemned prisoner, due to mental illness, is found to be unable to comprehend the rationale and reason behind his/her punishment, then carrying ...