Public Executions

Public Hanging ISLAMABAD: The Senate rejected a bill advocating public execution for rape convicts with a majority vote on Monday, as lawmakers deemed it a “counter-effective measure in deterring sexual …

ISLAMABAD: The Senate’s Standing Committee on Human Rights, with a majority of members present, rejected any proposed statutory amendments advocating public execution for capital offenses. During a meeting at the …

“These criminals were convicted of many crimes, including murdering innocent men, women and children,” SPA stated.

On Thursday, a mine explosion in Nangarhar province of Afghanistan killed Mangal Bagh, a Chief of Lashkar-i-Islam (LI), one of Khyber district’s banned organizations. “Mangal Bagh, also known as Mangal …