LAHORE –High Court has acquitted a Christian man who was sentenced to death for blasphemy six years ago, lawyers said Thursday. Younis Masih, 34, a labourer, was arrested in September 2005 in Qenchi Amar Siddhu after local residents accused him of interrupting a gathering of Sufi singing to ...

 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 ...

SYDNEY An Australian man who has spent three years behind bars for murdering his model girlfriend by “spear throwing” her from a popular tourist cliff was Friday acquitted on appeal. Gordon Wood was in 2008 convicted by a jury of killing Caroline Byrne by tossing her off Sydney’s ...

BAHAWALNAGAR An additional district and sessions judge has acquitted the former secretary general of the District Bar Association in the 36kg charas case. Zafar Bhotta was arrested red-handed and the charas was recovered from his car. On November 2, 2010, the city police had arrested Zafar Iqbal ...

PESHAWAR (INP) - An Accountability Court in Peshawar on Monday acquitted former Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Inspector General (IG) Malik Naveed and three Frontier Constabulary (FC) officials in an illegal recruitment case. It had been alleged that Malik Naveed made millions, misusing his powers while ...

KARACHI - Shahnawaz alias Ajmal Pahari, allegedly involved in 100 murders, has been acquitted in a murder case by the trial court for want of evidence. After hearing final arguments from both the sides in the hearing held at the Judicial Complex in the premises of Central Prison, District and ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE - An accountability court on Monday acquitted Ghulam Murtaza Khar, the brother of former Governor Malik Ghulam Mustafa Khar, in a reference of willful loan default to the tune of Rs610.926 million because the prosecution could not prove its charges. It is pertinent to ...

KARACHI - A special banking court on Friday acquitted eight suspects involved in a money laundering case after the prosecution failed to prove them guilty. Judge Mir Muhammad Sheikh exonerated four suspects of Khanani & Kalia Group and four bank officers as no evidence was found against them in ...

LAHORE - An anti terrorism court on Saturday acquitted sister of film actress Meera and a lady involved in child ki-dnap case lodged by Asma Zah-ra, wife of actresss brother. Earlier, investigation wing of Defence-A police station submitted a cancellation of case report before the court stating ...

Lahore - A Special Anti-Terrorism Court on Saturday acquitted the accused of Manawan Training Centre attack Hijrat Ullah giving him a benefit of doubt due to insufficient evidence on record. Earlier, Hijrat was awarded 10 years sentence for keeping hand grenades and arms, while in Pir Makki bomb ...

KARACHI - A district and sessions judge on Thursday acquitted all four accused of the Kainat Soomro rape case by giving them benefit of doubt. Four accused Shaban, Roshan, Ahsan and Kaleemullah were booked in the case. District and Sessions Judge (South), Faheem Ahmed Siddiqui, acquitted them on ...

KARACHI - The Judicial Magistrate (West) on Friday acquitted Sindh Minister for Excise and Taxation, Mukesh Kumar Chawla, from land grabbing case after Karachi Building Control Authority (KBCA) withdrew its plea against him. The representative of the complainant Assistant Director KBCA appeared ...

RAWALPINDI - An Additional District and Sessions (ADS) judge Friday exonerated a 90-year-old accused from a rape case after the medical report of the victim confirmed that crime was not committed with the woman. According to the details, ADS judge Malik Sajid Ali Awan acquitted Muhammad Akbar from ...

ISLAMABAD  - The District and Sessions Judge Islamabad here Monday acquitted former Minister of State for Communications Shahid Jamil Qureshi of the charge of murdering a woman of Canadian nationality Kafila Siddiqui. Justice Nisar Baig ordered his acquittal after hearing detailed ...