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Life sentences for 24 in 2020 murder of six Dalit youths

by Mahesh KC in The Kathmandu Post, Dec 6, 2023Rukum West: In a landmark verdict, the West Rukum District Court on Tuesday sentenced 24 individuals to life imprisonment on murder charges, and two others to two years in prison and a fine of Rs50,000 each on charges of practising caste-based discrimination and untouchability. A single bench of Judge Khadga Bahadur KC of the district court gave the sentencing in relation to the killing of six…

Case against Imran, Qureshi under Official Secrets Act: IHC stresses need for caution as offence entails death penalty, life term

By Awais Yousafzai in The News, Nov 19, 2023ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) has observed that the sections applied to the cipher case against Imran Khan involve death and life-term penalties, and the case against co-accused Shah Mehmood Qureshi will also be seen in the same context. The court issued a detailed decision on Saturday, rejecting the bail of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Vice Chairman Shah Mehmood Qureshi in the cipher case. IHC Chief Justice Aamir…

Suicide attack in Nangarhar kills one, injures another:

By Fidel Rahmati in The Khaama Press Online, November 16, 2023Local officials in Nangarhar province report that as a result of an explosion involving explosive materials in the vicinity of this province, one person has lost their life, and another individual has been injured. Abdul Basir Zabuli, the spokesperson for the Nangarhar provincial administration, has said in a statement that this incident occurred on Thursday near the Naghark Bridge in the Surkh Rod district of…

Repatriated Afghan girls face bleak futures

by Wisal Yousafzai in the Express Tribune, Nov 15, 2023PESHAWAR:As schoolchildren across the country eagerly await growing up and pursuing their dream careers, Afghan girls deported back home to life under the extremist Taliban government resent the cruelty of maturing. They bid farewell not only to their friends and neighborhoods but also to their hopes of living an accomplished life. For ten-year-old Palwasha, a third-generation Afghan immigrant born and raised in Azad Kashmir, Pakistan was…

Peshawar resident gets life sentence for burning Holy Quran

Report in Dawn, Sept 17th, 2023PESHAWAR: A court has sentenced a man here to life imprisonment after convicting him of desecrating the Holy Quran in Khazana area around five years ago. Additional district and sessions judge Mohammad Sher Ali Khan ruled that the prosecution had proved the charge of Quran burning against the accused “without any shadow of doubt.” He extended the benefit of Section 382-B of the Code of Criminal Procedure to the convict…

SC seeks report on Imran’s jail life

report in The Express Tribune, Aug 25, 2023ISLAMABAD: The apex court on Thursday ordered Attorney General for Pakistan (AGP) Mansoor Awan to file by August 28 a report on the living conditions of former prime Imran Khan at the Attock Jail cell where he has been languishing since his conviction on August 5. A three-member special bench led by Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Umar Ata Bandial issued this order while hearing the PTI chief’s…

Rising to the occasion

by Inam Ul Haque in The Express Tribune, Jan 26, 2023.The writer is a retired major generalHe is a senior retired civilian officer from defence establishment with deep family links to the armed forces. A friend for life, and a relatively level-headed amongst many; so, it was strangely weird to hear him complain about the moorings of this country, and his innate desire to emigrate elsewhere even in these twilight years of life. For being…

Militants attack KP’s Dera police station

Report in Dawn, January 10th, 2023DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Unknown militants attacked the Yarik police station here on Sunday night with gunfire and ‘missiles’. However, no loss of life was reported. A police spokesman, Syed Yaqoob Shah, told Dawn on Monday that militants surrounded the Yarik police station at around 1am and fired missiles at the building. He said the police retaliated to the attack and an exchanged fire with the attackers took place, which lasted…

Measles outbreak shows gaps in Nepal’s vaccination programme

by Arjun Poudel in The Kathmandu Post, Jan 10, 2023On Monday, a six-year-old boy from Ward-7 of Nepalgunj Sub-metropolitan City was taken to a nearby health facility for immunisation. When health workers inquired about his vaccination status, his parents said that their son has never had any vaccine in his life. “We were not surprised,” Rajan Shahi, a public health inspector, who has been deployed in wards of the Sub-metropolis to study the status of…