MAIDAN SHAH, Afghanistan: An Afghan army colonel has been arrested by the government for illegally handing over prisoners to a man working with a US special forces team that was accused of torture and killings, three sources have told Reuters.The rare arrest of a senior military officer underlines ...

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 ...

BAKU : The Azerbaijani parliament on Tuesday approved a prisoner amnesty proposed by the country’s glamorous and powerful first lady that will likely see thousands of convicts released. The move — put forward by Mehriban Aliyeva, the influential wife of strongman President Ilham Aliyev ...

LAHORE - A prisoner on life imprisonment died mysteriously in Kot Lakhpat Jail on Sunday. The jail officials said Haq Nawaz, 45, was found dead on Sunday. The body was shifted to morgue for autopsy.ROBBER KILLED: A robber was killed by a police officer on resistance in Quaid-e-Azam Industrial Area ...

sialkot/new dwlhi/muzaffarabad - our staff reporter/ agencies - Sanaullah Haq, a Pakistani prisoner, died at a hospital in Indian city of Chandigarh on Saturday after being attacked by an inmate at a jail in Held-Kashmir a day ago in what appears to be a retaliatory attack from the neighbouring ...

The Spokesman for Foreign Office Aizaz Ahmed Chaudhry has said the condition of injured Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah is still critical.In a media interview‚ he said that officials of Pakistani High Commission have visited Sanaullah Haq and the team of doctors on Sunday in the hospital.He said ...

A Pakistani prisoner was ruthlessly attacked by Indian inmates in a jail of occupied Kashmir, here in Srinagar on Friday.Sanaullah was rushed to the GMC hospital, reported Indian media, adding that the assailant  was a former army soldier.Local sources said the injured went into coma because ...

David RoseThe last UK prisoner at America’s infamous terror jail camp at Guantanamo Bay is guarding a devastating secret: he witnessed the torture of another detainee in an Afghan interrogation unit which led to the crucial, bogus ‘intelligence’ that sparked Britain and ...

NEW YORK - A 35-year-old Yemeni man, one of dozens of prisoners on hunger strike at the US Guantanamo Bay prison, narrated a horrifying tale of what it’s like to be kept alive through force feedings and the degrading conditions in the detention centre in an article published in the New York ...

RAWALPINDI – A 45-year-old convicted prisoner in murder case languishing in Adyala Jail died under mysterious circumstances, informed sources here on Monday.However, the jail authorities claimed that the prisoner died of cardiac arrest. The deceased was later identified as Tariq Mehmood son ...

GUJRANWALA - A prisoner and a policeman were killed and four others sustained injuries when unidentified armed people ambushed a police mobile van bring a murder accused for a court hearing here on Friday.According to police, the incident took place near district court when unidentified culprits, ...

GUJRANWALA - A prisoner and a policeman were killed and four others sustained injuries when armed men ambushed a police van bring a murder accused for a court hearing on Friday. The incident took place near district court when culprits attacked a police van carrying a prisoner to court for ...

HEBRON (AFP) - Clashes rocked the West Bank on Thursday as thousands attended the funerals of a prisoner and two teenagers shot dead by Israeli troops and Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas said the killings jeopardised US efforts to rekindle peace talks.Israeli soldiers fired rubber bullets in the ...

colombo - A Sri Lankan prisoner who tried to hide his mobile phone during a search of his cell was caught out when guards heard ring tones from his rear-end, a hospital official said Friday. The 58-year-old convict had to be admitted to the national hospital in Colombo where doctors later retrieved ...

LAHORE – A prisoner of the Kot Lakhpat Jail died under mysterious circumstances, an official said on Sunday.The official informed that Shabbir Hussain of Mandi Bahauddin was jailed in different criminal cases. On Sunday, his condition became serious and he was shifted to the prison hospital ...

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has endorsed an Afghanistan-Iran prisoner transfer deal by which citizens of both nations, who are condemned under the other country's laws, will be allowed to finish the prison term in their native country. Afghan Deputy Minister of Justice Sayed Yusuf Halim ...

MOSCOW - A Russian prisoner who last week fled his penal colony in a helicopter had freely arranged his jail break over the Internet and using mobile phones, investigators said Wednesday. Alexei Shestakov had been in prison in the northern Vologda region for murder when he was lifted from the ...

RAMALLAH  - A Palestinian woman freed in a prisoner swap with Israel but later re-arrested has gone on hunger strike, a Palestinian lawyer said on Sunday.Hanaa al-Shalabi has been on hunger strike since the day of her arrest on February 16, when she was ordered detained without trial for six ...

LAHORE – Four hardened criminals involved in multiple cases of killings, kidnappings, and armed robberies escaped from police van on Wednesday while they were being transported to a jail in Sheikhupura, police said. However, police sources claimed that three of the under-trial prisoners were ...

JERUSALEM  - A Palestinian prisoner has ended his 66-day hunger strike over his detention without charge under a deal that will see him released in April, Palestinian and Israeli officials told AFP on Tuesday.“The Israeli court decided to release Khader Adnan on April 17 and based on ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE The Lahore High Court on Tuesday issued notice to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Secretary on a petition seeking inclusion the name of another Indian prisoner, Surjit Singh allegedly confined in Lahore central jail, in the list of foreigner prisoners languishing in ...

NEW DELHI - In yet another faux pas, Indian External Affairs Minister SM Krishna on Thursday got confused about an octogenarian Pakistani doctor lodged in Ajmer jail, saying the government of Pakistan must consider his release on humanitarian grounds, reported PTI. Krishnas strange answer during ...

AS a man with 13 wives, King Mswati III of Swaziland might be expected to take a relaxed view of one who apparently strays from his fold - even if her alleged transgression is with a minister of the crown. The queen, a former Miss Teen Swaziland and the kings twelfth wife, claims she is under ...

LAHORE - In a unique order, the Lahore High Court on Wednesday permitted a condemned prisoner to contract marriage on Central Jail Kot Lakhpat premises in Lahore where he is locked up for years because of his involvement in multiple cases of heinous nature, ranging from kidnap for ransom and ...

NEW YORK - US Justice Department officials have recommended reopening investigations into several prisoner abuse cases, The New York Times reported Monday. Citing a person officially briefed on the matter, the newspaper said Monday the Justice Departments Office of Professional Responsibility has ...

LAHORE - "I call her the 'grey lady' because she is almost a ghost, a spectre whose cries and screams continue to haunt those who heard her. This would never happen to a Western Woman." It was on July 6 this year, when a British journalist Yvonne Ridley, said this while seeking help for a ...

JERUSALEM  - Israel said on Sunday that five Lebanese prisoners, including Samir Kantar jailed for a triple murder, will be freed on Wednesday in exchange for the bodies of two Israeli soldiers captured by Hezbollah in 2006. "Samir Kantar and four other Lebanese prisoners - Khaled Zidan, ...