ISLAMABAD - It’s being just a matter of days now to the coming of a more peace loving civilian regime in Pakistan, Islamabad is hoping a boost to the overall dialogue process with India and it has approached New Delhi for focused discussions on the issue of prisoners.“We hope that ...

ISLAMABADThe seven prisoners, whose illegal detention has been investigated by the Supreme Court, said on Tuesday that tribal officials had sentenced them up to 14 years in prison without any trial.Khyber Pakhtunkhwa authorities on the order of the Supreme Court presented seven prisoners allegedly ...

WASHINGTON: - Guantanamo officials have warned detainees at the widely reviled US prison that they will have to be patted down thoroughly each time they meet their lawyers, an attorney said Friday.The alleged threat comes as more than two thirds of the 166 “war on terror” suspects still ...

The Supreme Court of Pakistan has ordered secret agencies to present seven missing prisoners from Adiala Jail on May 10 in the court.Three-member bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry resumed hearing of the case.During hearing, counsel for secret agencies Raja Irshad told the ...

Pakistan has urged India to ensure protection of Pakistani prisoners languishing in their jails.Foreign Office spokesman Aziz Ahmad Chaudhry in an interview Saturday asked India to arrange safe return of those prisoners who have completed terms of their punishment.He said Pakistan is considering ...

I just read a most serious report by HRCP (Humane Right Commission of Pakistan) about the pitiable condition of women prisoners, in English daily, which shocked me. The HRCP report stated that there are around 1,100 women prisoners in Pakistan jails and they are not being treated well. The women ...

TOKYO   YANGON  - Myanmar on Tuesday pardoned dozens of political prisoners, activists said, a day after the European Union agreed to end almost all sanctions against the former pariah state. At least 59 political prisoners were included in the latest amnesty, Bo Kyi of the Assistance ...

It was on February 5, 2000, that I was rudely jolted into recognising the complexity and intensity of the politico-legal challenges faced by Muslim Americans. It was a bright and beautiful day in the city of Burlingame in Northern California. As reported later in the Washington Report of ...

RAMALLAH - Some 3,000 Palestinians in Israeli jails on Wednesday refused breakfast as part of a one-day hunger strike to mark Prisoners’ Day, an Israeli prison official said.Palestinians across the territories are attending marches and rallies as a show of solidarity with prisoners from the ...

islamabad - After the successful negotiations between two archrivals India and Pakistan, the former has agreed to release 117 Pakistani prisoners who have completed their term in prison, sources in Interior Ministry told TheNation on Wednesday. These Pakistanis were detained on charges of overstay ...

LAHORE - Though Pakistan is trying to facilitate overseas Pakistanis to cast their votes in the coming general elections, jail population which is more than 60,000 in Punjab only is being deprived of their right to vote, said sources in the Punjab Prisons Department on Sunday.They said a very ...

ISLAMABAD - The implementation of death sentence seemed to be abolished due to policies of the PPP-led government as only one convict was hung during the last five years, giving a tacit impunity to criminals.As many as 8,317 criminals including Indian spy Sarbajeet Singh were sentenced to death ...

WASHINGTON - Guards at the Guantanamo Bay prison fired non-lethal shots to quell prisoner unrest Saturday as they relocated inmates into individual cells, US military officials said.Officials at the US-run prison met with resistance from some inmates as they moved before dawn to relocate inmates ...

The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) decided to give prisoners the right to vote in the upcoming general elections.The election commission asked for details of registered voters serving jail terms in different case. According to the ECP, prisoners will also be facilitated to cast votes for ...

RAWALPINDI - More than 80,000 prisoners detained in different jails of Pakistan may not be able to use their right of franchise in the general elections to be held in May this year, said Global Foundation Executive Director Ulfat Kazmi. Kazmi appealed to Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad ...

KARACHI - District and Sessions Judge Malir Muhammad Yameen, who accompanied by Additional District Judge Farzana Iqbal, visited District Jail Malir and ordered release of eight prisoners who had completed the sentence but were languishing there for being unable to fine amount. The judges were ...

LAHORE – The Punjab Prisons Department on the direction of Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has started working on the project of providing telephone facility to prisoners, a senior officer of the department said on Thursday.He said that two pilot projects were underway in Camp Jails of ...

SAHIWAL – Punjab Prisons Inspector General Mian Farooq Nazeer said that jail is an accountability place for criminals and 90 percent of them do not repulse in crime after imprisonment. He said that the religious education was being imparted in all jails of Punjab to make the prisoners aware ...

ABBOTTABAD - Three among four prisoners involved in murder case escaped from central jail, Haripur while one of them was rearrested, police official said on Sunday. Talking to APP, police said that four prisoners namely Safdar, Sohrab, Sher Afsar and Tariq Jamil fled by scaling over the wall of the ...

RAWALPINDI – District and Sessions Judge (DSJ) Ahmed Nazir Ghajana visited Adyala Jail here on Monday. On the occasion, a total of 8 under-trial prisoners (UTPs), involved in petty cases, have been released as their cases were disposed of while four other accused were also released on bail ...

GILGIT - All the prisoners in the District Jail Astore escaped alongwith weapons of the jail officials after a strong protest inside the jail that led to injury to one jail warden on Tuesday.Police said that out of six police personnel deployed on the security of Astore Jail, four policemen went to ...

 KHYBER AGENCY - Three prisoners of a Landi Kotal lockup have started hunger strike against what they called the injustice of administration. According to reports, three prisoners of Landi Kotal lockup including two brothers - Fida Hussein, son of Alam, Akhtar Hussein, son of Mohammad ...

RAWALPIDNI - Punjab Prison Department has started construction work of family rooms in all the larger jails of the province in which the convicted prisoners would be allowed to keep their families for three days after every three months.The construction work of 100 family rooms in Multan Jail was ...

QUETTA - The Chairman of Senate’s Functional Committee on Human Rights Senator Afrasiab Khattak has said that recommendations regarding installation of jammers in all prisons of Balochistan and provision of proper food and health facilities to prisoners would be presented in the Parliament.He ...

The Supreme Court has sought written explanations from the Inter-Services Intelligence and Military Intelligence chiefs, Judge Advocate General (JAG) and Chief Secretary Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Ghulam Dastagir Khan regarding Adiala Jail missing person, asking why the prisoners were not presented on ...

COLOMBO - Sri Lanka freed 1,414 convicts on Saturday to mark the country's 64th anniversary of independence from Britain, a prisons official said. President Mahinda Rajapakse granted an amnesty to convicts serving light sentences, but Sri Lanka's most high-profile prisoner, former army chief and ...

Islamabad  - Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani on Wednesday advised President Asif Ali Zardari to grant special remission in the sentences of prisoners on the occasion of Eid Miladun Nabi on February 5. The special remission will include total remission to women prisoners who are 60 years ...

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court hearing the case of 11 missing prisoners from Adiala Jail on Monday ordered the spymasters to produce the remaining seven prisoners on February 9.According to reports, 11 prisoners were allegedly picked up by the spy agencies after their release from Adiala Jail in ...

A three member bench of the Supreme Court headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammed Chaudhry on Monday heard the case of the eleven missing prisoners of the Adiyala Jail.The prisoners were convicted for attacking army installations including the GHQ.During proceedings the counsel for the army and ...

BISHKEK - Nearly 7,000 prisoners were on a hunger strike Wednesday in Kyrgyzstan with more than 1,000 sewing shut their lips with staples and thread to protest jail conditions, officials said.In all, “1,197 people have sewn shut their lips in support of the hunger strike,” said the ...