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A court in Pakistan has caused outrage after it freed a convicted rapist when he agreed to marry his victim.Dawlat Khan, 25, had been sentenced to life imprisonment in May by the district court of Buner, in north-western Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, for the rape of a young deaf woman.After ...

A Pakistani court has reportedly dropped its life prison sentence against a man because he agreed to wed the woman he assaulted A convicted rapist in Pakistan has reportedly gotten out of a prison sentence by agreeing to marry the 36-year-old deaf woman whom he assaulted and impregnated in ...

Islamabad, Pakistan CNN  —  A court in Pakistan on Monday freed a convicted rapist after it was “agreed” he would marry his victim, his lawyer said, enraging rights activists who say the ruling risks normalizing sexual violence in the South Asian country. Daulat Khan, 23, was convicted in May ...

Three women including a friend of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni were killed on Sunday when a man pulled out a gun and opened fire at a meeting of residents of an apartment block in Rome.Four others were wounded — at least one seriously — when the gunman opened ...

Jammu: After almost 30 years, MBBS and BDS colleges will observe reserved quotas for those students who are victims of terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir. The policy will be applied to the central pool MBBS/BDS Seats.A notice released by the Jammu and Kashmir board of professional entrance examinations stated ...

Happy Birthday Manmohan Singh: From Victim Of Partition To Becoming Accidental PM Of India, Here's A Look At His Life | Manmohan Singh, an Indian politician, economist, and statesman, was born on September 26, 1932. He served as India's 13th prime minister from 2004 to 2014. After Indira Gandhi ...

Described as a devoted family man, good community worker and lover of cricket, Shakeel Ashraf is being remembered in the Milton community where he was fatally shot in a GTA shooting rampage on Monday. Ashraf, 39, was killed at the workplace he owned Monday afternoon by the same gunman ...

NEW DELHI: Former prime minister Imran Khan’s party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has launched nationwide protests against the “minus-one formula”, a term widely used in the nation to describe attempts by the "establishment" to turn a political party against its own leader, usually in return for a survival guarantee. The ...

A Muslim woman who was gang-raped when pregnant during communal violence in India in 2002 has issued a statement via her lawyers criticizing the Gujarat state government for releasing her attackers earlier this week.  Bilkis Bano, who is now in her 40s, was the only person in a group of ...

Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot met family members of Kanhaiya Lal, the tailor who was brutally murdered in Udaipur on Tuesday. The visit came even as curfew continued in the city and mobile internet services also remained suspended on Thursday.Gehlot was accompanied by senior officials, including bureaucrats and police ...