SHEIKHUPURA An alleged dacoit was tortured to death during interrogation by the Sharqpur Police here the other day. According to details, Marh Bangwan Police-Post In-charge SI Amin Bhatti along with three other constables arrested one Malang Ali alias Malangi on suspicion in a dacoity case ...

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 ...

  SHELDON RICHMAN   “A nonpartisan, independent review of interrogation and detention programs in the years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks concludes that ‘it is indisputable that the United States engaged in the practice of torture’ and that the ...

WINDSOR, UK - The UAE president began a two-day state visit to Britain on Tuesday, during which he will be treated to ceremonial splendour but will also face questions over claims of torture from three British men jailed in Dubai.Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahayan, head of state of the United Arab ...

DUBAI : A UAE court on Monday jailed three Britons for four years each on drugs charges, amid calls for their release and claims they have been tortured in prison. The sentencing of Grant Cameron, Karl Williams and Suneet Jeerth, all 25, came a day ahead of a visit by UAE President Sheikh Khalifa ...

WASHINGTONSPECIAL CORRESPONDENTA prominent US civil rights group said Thursday that an independent review of post-9/11 interrogation and detention programmes, which concludes that "it is indisputable that the United States engaged in the practice of torture" underscores the need to stop the ...

WASHINGTONSPECIAL CORRESPONDENTA prominent US civil rights group said Thursday that an independent review of post-9/11 interrogation and detention programmes, which concludes that "it is indisputable that the US engaged in the practice of torture" underscores the need to stop the "disturbing ...

PESHAWAR - Taking notice of torture on ANP Woman candidate by her opponents in Swabi Najma Hanif, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Caretaker Minister for Information and spokesman of the provincial government Mossarat Qadeem has directed the district administration to take action against the responsible people. ...

CAIRO - Egypt's President Mohamed Mursi and the military have closed ranks to deny charges that soldiers had killed and tortured protesters, following leaks of an inquiry report implicating officers. Defence Minister Abdel Fattah al-Sissi, who is also army chief, denied in a statement aired on ...

SUKKUR  – A District and Sessions Judge on Thursday ordered police to register a case against former Sindh chief minister Qaim Ali Shah, his daughter and others on behalf of a lawyer who was brutally tortured on Wednesday.Khairpur District Bar President Manzoor Hussain Ansari was beaten ...

ROBERT JENSEN - The great American torture debate has been rekindled by the nationwide release of Zero Dark Thirty, the hot new movie about the CIA’s hunt for Osama bin Laden.But all the fussing over whether or not the movie condones, glorifies, and/or misrepresents torture is trivial, ...

 A local court of Lahore on Wednesday acquitted Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif’s son-in-law, Ali Imran, in a case regarding torture of a bakery employee in Lahore.The court said that the complainant and victim of Defence bakery torture case had told a judicial magistrate that Ali ...

TIM KELLYLast week, the Senate Intelligence Committee released a 6,000-page report providing a comprehensive analysis of the CIA’s detention and interrogation policies. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the committee chair, released a statement saying that “the report uncovers ...

SHERGARH - Six armed men subjected a man and his wife to severe torture that resulted in the miscarriage of woman's four-month pregnancy in Village 23/D here the other day. Muhammad Aslam was present on his agricultural land along with his wife when six armed men appeared on the scene and forced ...

HAFIZABAD - The City Police have registered a case against Zahid Iqbal alias Bali, Manager Tarar Travels Hafizabad and his three accomplices on the charge of allegedly torturing Time Keeper Maqsood Bhinder Ansari and broken his two teeth. According to victim, the accused has close links with city ...

LAHORE - The PIA flight purser Ijaz Qadeer, who was accused of torturing an office-bearer of his opposite union, has fled the country after getting bail from a court while his co-accused working in Technical Ground Support Section was arrested by police, said sources in the airlines on Sunday. ...

KABUL - Inmates in the US-run Bagram prison in Afghanistan have faced abuses including torture, beatings and other mistreatment, a government report said Saturday.Publication of the report by the Constitutional Oversight Commission came just days after President Hamid Karzai ordered the transfer of ...

LAHORE - Following special directives of Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, Police Training School DIG Major (r) Mubashir Ullah has reinitiated the inquiry in connection with Basharat torture case, which took place inside Sabzazaar police station three weeks back. During his first visit to the ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER KANGANPUR- Police have registered a case against Line Superintendent (LS) Malik Afzal and four unknown service men of Wapda subdivision Kanganpur on the order of Additional District and Sessions judge Chunian. According to the FIR, Maqsood Ahmad, son of Imdad Ahmad, resident of ...

Our Staff Reporter BAHAWALNAGAR - The torture of a peon at Government High School Jandwala led a minor to alleged mental disability. According to detail, one Mohammad Niaz, a resident of Chak Jandwala submitted a complaint to the District Education Department high-ups that one Mohammad Khan, a peon ...

LAHORE Fiza Batool Gilani, while strongly condemning the police torture on the Lady Health Workers (LHWs) said on Saturday that the God will never forgive those who tortured innocent women. In a statement, she held Punjab government and CM Shahbaz Sharif responsible for the torture on these women. ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER SIALKOT - A bailiff has recovered six people from two private torture cells of police in the areas of Saddar and Kotli Loharaan police stations. However, District Sessions Judge Manzur Hussain Dogar took a notice of the situation and summoned Inspector Azam Dhiloun, the SHO of ...

The American Civil Liberties Union and other organisations have called on President Obama to honour military personnel and civilians who opposed the use of torture in the war on terror. We would support such a gesture by the president, though we consider it unlikely given how often he has said that ...

The killing of Osama bin Laden provoked a host of reactions from Americans: celebration, triumph, relief, closure and renewed grief. One reaction, however, was both cynical and disturbing: crowing by the apologists and practitioners of torture that Bin Ladens death vindicated their immoral and ...

Late last year, former US president George W Bush recounted in his memoir, Decision Points, that when he was asked in 2002 if it was permissible to waterboard a detainee held in secret CIA custody outside the United States, he answered damn right. This decision point led to the waterboarding of ...

ISLAMABAD When nation was still in a state of shock over brutal killing of two youngsters in Sialkot yet another shocking incident took place in the federal capital on Monday where a 12-year-old servant was subjected to callous torture by his masters and even they rolled heated iron on boys body, ...

LAKKI MARWAT Local journalist community have strongly condemned the torturing of a Peshawar-based private TV channel reporter Umair Yaser by police and demanded action against the responsible police officials. The journalist bodies of Lakki Marwat and Naurang held a joint meeting here on Sunday ...

ISLAMABAD The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the Federal Interior Ministry, provincial home departments and Chief Commissioner Islamabad to revive the District Public Safety Commission (DPSC) at the district level throughout the country within a month and make it effective in their respective ...

LONDON (Reuters) - The head of Britains MI5 security service denied on Friday that his agency colluded in torture after a court ruling showed it knew that a detained British resident had been abused by US intelligence officers. In a rare public intervention, MI5 Director-General Jonathan Evans said ...

NEW YORK - A prominent human rights group has accused the British government of complicity in the torture of five British nationals held by the security agencies of Pakistan between 2004 and 2007. The New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in London that a five-year study had provided ...