The death toll from China’s coronavirus outbreak jumped on Saturday to 41 from 26 a day earlier as the Lunar New Year got off to a gloomy start, with authorities curbing travel and cancelling public gatherings...
It was not immediately clear if his death was already counted in the official toll of 41, of which 39 were in the central province of Hubei, where Wuhan is located...
The Foreign Office (FO) on Thursday expressed Pakistan's reservations over the death sentences handed to six Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) leaders by Bangladesh's International Crimes Tribunal on Wednesday for committing crimes against humanity during the 1971 war...
He added that the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Jamaat-ul-Ahrar (JuA) and IS are using Afghan soil for attacks in Pakistan...
ISLAMABAD: The European Union (EU) on Thursday expressed concern over increasing executions in Pakistan and demanded of the government to reinstate the moratorium on death penalty and fully respect all of its international obligations...
"Effective implementation of the international conventions is a requirement under the European Union's Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) Regulation," a statement issued by EU delegation...
KARACHI: Germany asked Pakistan on Friday to rethink its stand on death penalty as it would affect both investment opportunities and Islamabad’s image in Europe...
Addressing the representatives of Pakistan German Business Forum (PGBF) and Germany Pakistan Trade and Investment (GPti) at a local hotel, German State Secretary of the Federal Foreign Office, Stephan Steinlein, said Germany was in talks with the Pakistani government on the...
The death penalty in Pakistan is exceedingly used as a political tool, research conducted by the Justice Project Pakistan has found...
Pakistan’s use of the death penalty has failed to deter crime and curb terrorism, it claims...
What is the point of owning a fantastic car if one does not know how to drive?Aasan Internet, a personal internet trainer app that helps first-timers to navigate their way through the internet, answers that specific question, along with numerous others...
SAN FRANCISCO: Pakistan, Indonesia, the Palestinian territories, Bangladesh, and Nepal attract the highest rates of attempted malware attacks, according to Microsoft Corp...
Pakistan, Indonesia, Bangladesh and Nepal were also among locations with the highest threat encounter rates in the first half of 2015...
KARACHI: Pakistan is at the top among a handful of countries which attracted the highest rates of malware attacks in the second half of 2015, reveals the Microsoft Security Intelligence report Volume 20...
“After 3G and 4G were introduced in Pakistan, there has been greater access to the internet because it’s cheaper and people have started accessing it through mobile phones...
ISLAMABAD: President Mamnoon Hussain has said that Pakistan’s decision to lift moratorium on death penalty will act as a deterrent against terrorism...
Mr Hussain said that the country’s policy on death penalty had been made in the light of its constitution and international laws...
ISLAMABAD: Senator Farhatullah Babar said on Tuesday that a wider public debate is needed on the death penalty that engages all sections of society in all provinces, instead of just politician and opinion-makers...
The senator was speaking to participants at a demonstration organised by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) on the international day against the death penalty...
The Pakistan mission at Geneva drew the Foreign Office’s attention to the international community’s growing concern at the excessive use of the death penalty in this country...
The criticism of Pakistan’s conduct in this regard became more and more strident when the country’s performance under the various human rights instruments was discussed by the relevant implementation bodies...
ISLAMABAD: The handing down of death sentences to six militants by the military courts was highlighted on Thursday when the Supreme Court suspended their execution...
“Meanwhile the execution of death sentences that have been awarded or would be awarded by the military courts is suspended,” ordered Chief Justice Nasir-ul-Mulk, as he took up an application filed by rights activist Asma Jahangir on behalf of the Supreme Court Bar...
KARACHI: The Jamaat-i-Islami on Friday announced its full support for former Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi, Ikhwanul Muslimeen leader Mohamed Badei, prominent Islamic scholar Yusuf Al-Qaradawi and other 100 leaders of the Ikhwan who have been awarded the death penalty by military courts of the Egypt judiciary...
ABEPURA: Indonesian President Joko Widodo insisted on Saturday that the death penalty was “positive” for his country after the execution of seven foreign drug convicts by firing squad last month sparked international outrage...
Jakarta put to death two Australians, a Brazilian, and four Nigerians on a prison island, along with one Indonesian, despite worldwide calls for them to be spared and heartrending pleas from their families... ...
CAIRO: Egypt’s ex-president Mohamed Morsi faces being sentenced to death on Tuesday on charges of inciting the killing of protesters in the first verdict against him nearly two years after his fall from power...
He also faces the death penalty in two other trials, including one in which he is accused of spying for foreign powers, and escaping from prison during the 2011 anti-Mubarak revolt...