ISLAMABAD -Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on Sunday visited the Central Jail Mianwali and ordered to release five prisoners confined for non-payment of "Diyat" forthwith. All the five prisoners brought into the notice of the Chief Justice that they were facing confinement due to ...

RAWALPINDI - In a recent screening test, conducted by Punjab Aids Control Program (PACP) in Adyala Jail, 40 male and female prisoners have been diagnosed with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV/Aids), TheNation learnt on Wednesday.  According to sources, 8 inmates had already been registered as ...

LAHORE  - An Accountability Court on Wednesday sentenced Muhammad Falik Sher, father of former DG Haj Rao Shakeel to 5-years jail in illegal land allotment case. National Accountability Bureau (NAB) had moved a reference against Falik Sher and his son by submitting that the accused had ...

NEW DELHI: Bollywood superstar Sanjay Dutt, who is in jail for arms possession, is being held in a cell built for militants where he cannot see daylight and wants to be transferred, a report said Saturday. Dutt, 53, surrendered on Thursday to serve out the remaining three-and-a-half years of a ...

MUMBAI - Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt surrendered Thursday to serve three-and-a-half years in jail for illegal possession of weapons, in a case linked to deadly bombings in Mumbai 20 years ago.Accompanied by family and friends, the 53-year-old was greeted by a crowd of journalists at the gates of his ...

NEW DELHI: A defendant on trial over a fatal gang-rape in New Delhi last December is critically ill after being attacked in prison, his lawyer said Wednesday, weeks after the main accused died in the same jail. Vinay Sharma was rushed to the state-runLokNayakHospitalinNew Delhion Tuesday with chest ...

NEW DELHI: India’s highest court Friday rejected a plea by Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt to review his conviction and five-year jail term for possessing arms supplied by plotters of the deadly 1993 Mumbai blasts.The muscular, tattooed 53-year-old was convicted by an anti-terrorism court in 2006 ...

RIYADH The Saudi government warned on Friday that illegal foreign workers risk being slapped with prison sentences and fines after a three-month grace period runs out on July 3.Additionally, employers or those who shelter illegal workers will be liable to up to two years in prison, the interior and ...

The Indian Supreme Court on Friday rejected Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt's plea seeking review of its March 21 judgement upholding his conviction under the Arms Act and sentencing him to five years in jail in 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case.A bench of P Sathasivam and BS Chauhan, which had delivered ...

A Pakistani prisoner who was attacked in an Indian jail died on Thursday, hospital officials said."His condition was extremely critical. He died early morning," a senior doctor at a government hospital in Chandigarh told AFP on condition of anonymity.Sanaullah Ranjay suffered massive head injuries ...

RAWALPINDI  - Accountability Court (AC) Rawalpindi Number 1 on Tuesday awarded former Chairman OGRA Tauqir Sadiq three years imprisonment in absentia for not appearing before the court despite notices in Rs 82 billion scam.AC No 1 Judge Shahid Hafeez gave three years imprisonment to Tauqir ...

  LAHORE   The Prison department has transferred senior officers of Kot Lakhpat jail, following the death of Indian spy, Sarabjit Singh who was critically injured in an attack by his jail fellows, said sources in Prison department on Sunday. They said that jail superintendent, Mohsin ...

Lahore - In what appeared to be a tit-for-tat assault, a 52-year old Pakistani prisoner, Rana Sanaullah Haq, serving a life term in a jail in Jammu, was brutally attacked by Indian inmates on Friday.There is outrage across Pakistan over the horrific assault on Sanaullah, as protests erupted in ...

The trial of former President Pervez Musharraf in judges’ detention case will be conducted at his farmhouse sub-jail in Islamabad.A notification in this regard has been issued by Islamabad authorities, citing security concerns.Judges will hear the case today at Chak Shahzad sub-jail.Musharraf ...

islamabad - The Islamabad High Court (IHC) Monday turned down a petition challenging the notification of Islamabad Capital Territory Administration (ICTA) declaring Pervez Musharraf’s farmhouse as sub-jail. IHC judge Justice Riaz Ahmad declared the action of Chief Commissioner Islamabad as ...

Anti Terrorism  Court (ATC) Rawalpindi has ordered for sending  former president Pervez Musharraf to jail on 14 days judicial remand in Benazir Bhutto assassination case.Pervez Musharraf was to be produced in the court on Tuesday on expiry of 4-day physical remand in this case but it was ...

Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday dismissed a petition challenging the notification issued by Islamabad Capital Territory Authority (ICTA) declaring Pervez Musharraf’s farmhouse as sub-jail.IHC judge Justice Riaz Ahmad Khan heard the petition in which Chief Commissioner Islamabad Capital ...

Lahore - A high-profile condemned prisoner, Sarabjit Singh, who is an Indian citizen, was shifted to a local hospital in a critical condition on Friday evening after he was attacked by two inmates. Sarabjit had been awarded death sentence by a Pakistani court on terrorism and spy charges. On the ...

ISLAMABAD - The dark clouds are likely to keep prevailing over the former dictator’s fate as a fresh writ petition challenging the notification of declaring Pervez Musharaf’s farmhouse as sub-jail was filed in Islamabad High Court (IHC) here on Monday.It was also requested in the ...

Islamabad High Court has admitted a petition challenging sub-jail status given to farm house of former military ruler Pervez Musharraf.Petitioner Advocate Muhammad Ashraf Gujjar had challenged the notification issued by Chief Commissioner Islamabad, which declared the former president’s Chak ...

SAO PAULO: Twenty-three Brazilian police were sentenced to 156 years in jail each on Sunday for their role in the killing of 111 inmates in 1992 during Brazil’s deadliest-ever prison uprising.The policemen, most of them now retired, were accused of killing 15 prisoners in Sao Paulo’s ...

ISLAMABAD -Former military dictator and President Pervez Musharraf would enjoy almost all luxuries of life at his Chak Shahzad sub-jail house, but for the first time in his life the former four-star general will have to seek prior permission from Islamabad Commissioner to meet anyone ...

Islamabad administration on Saturday declared the farmhouse of former President Gen (retd.) Pervez Musharraf a sub-jail.The decision comes a few hours after an anti-terrorism court (ATC) sent the former president to jail on 14-day judicial remand till May 4 in connection with judges’ ...

Islamabad - Islamabad High Court Thursday saw a high drama after the court ordered the arrest of former military ruler Pervez Musharraf, who promptly sped off to his villa on the edge of Islamabad as scores of law enforcement agents just watched him.Dozens of riot police carrying shields and batons ...

PML-N President Mian Nawaz Sharif said that former military ruler Pervez Musharraf should have been sent to jail immediately after the court's order.Talking to media Friday, the PML-N chief said that Musharraf committed great crimes. he said why was he kept in his house? He should have been sent to ...

NEW DELHIAFP India’s top court granted Bollywood’s Sanjay Dutt four weeks of freedom before he must return to prison for firearms offences, but refused him more time to meet filming commitments. Dutt, who was convicted for possessing arms supplied by the plotters of Mumbai blasts in ...

MANDI BAHAUDDIN - Justice Farukh Irfan Khan paid a visit to District Jail here and inspected food, barracks, hospital, security arrangements and death cells. District and Sessions Judge Sohail Ikraam, Senior Civil Judge Tariq Saleem, Superintendent Jail and other officers accompanied him. Viewing ...

MANDI BAHAUDDIN - Justice Farukh Irfan Khan paid a visit to District Jail here and inspected food, barracks, hospital, security arrangements and death cells. District and Sessions Judge Sohail Ikraam, Senior Civil Judge Tariq Saleem, Superintendent Jail and other officers accompanied him. Viewing ...

ISTANBUL - An Istanbul court on Monday slapped world-renowned pianist Fazil Say with a 10-month suspended jail term for blasphemy. The court handed down the sentence after finding Say guilty of "insulting religious values of a part of the population" in a series of tweets that critics said insulted ...

ISLAMABAD - Former Pakistani military ruler Pervez Musharraf, facing a barrage of legal cases over his time in power, said Monday he had done nothing wrong but was ready to go to jail if the courts ordered it.The retired general, who returned to Pakistan last month to run for parliament in the May ...