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Pakistani court hands down 55-year sentences to 86 Islamists
ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Pakistani court has sentenced 86 members of a radical Islamist party to 55-year prison terms each for taking part in violent rallies in 2018 over the acquittal of a Christian woman in a blasphemy case, a party official said Friday. The verdicts, unusually harsh for Pakistan, were...
Pakistan arrests 71-year-old man in 2005 killing of UK woman
ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Pakistani man has been arrested in the 2005 killing of a British woman police officer who was gunned down as she responded to a robbery in the city of Bradford in 2005, police in the U.K. said. The 71-year-old suspect, Piran Ditta Khan, who was taken in custody earlier this week,...
Pakistani air force jet crashes in training, 2 pilots killed
MULTAN, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan's air force said one if its aircraft crashed during training Tuesday in the eastern Punjab province, killing the two pilots. The FT-7 jet trainer went down in an open area and caused no damage on the ground, the air force statement said. It said an investigation had been...
Pakistan issues health IDs for trans people to improve care
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan began issuing special health ID cards for transgender people on Tuesday as way to lessen health care discrimination. Trans people have often been denied treatment in Pakistan because doctors could not decide whether to treat them in a male or female ward, and have even died for...
Pakistan arrests 5 al-Qaida operatives in nighttime raid
MULTAN, Pakistan (AP) — Five al-Qaida operatives were arrested in a raid overnight in eastern Pakistan, an official with the country's counterterrorism department said Friday. According to the official, Muhammad Imran, the raid in Punjab province was carried out in collaboration with the country's top...
Kashmir border shootings kill 2 Pakistani, 2 Indians
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan and India traded fire in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir, with the latest exchang es killing two Pakistani troops, an Indian soldier and a civilian woman, officials on both sides said Thursday. The Pakistani military said in a statement that its troops came under attack...
Pakistan to fire judge who wants Musharraf's body hanged
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan's government said Thursday it will seek to remove a judge who demanded while sentencing former ruler Pervez Musharraf to death that his body be publicly hanged for three days if he should die before being arrested. Musharraf was sentenced to death in absentia Tuesday in a treason...
Pakistan writes to UN, says India placed missiles in Kashmir
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan's foreign minister said Thursday he has written to the United Nations to warn the world body of what he says are actions by New Delhi to position missile launchers in the Indian-controlled Kashmir. In the letter Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said he wrote earlier this...
Musharraf sees "personnel vendetta" behind his conviction
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan's ailing former dictator on Wednesday said the death sentence given to him by a court in a treason case is based on a “personnel vendetta”. it was Pervez Musharraf's first reaction to Tuesday's court verdict, which had already been denounced by the country's powerful...
Pakistan sentences former dictator to death in treason case
ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Pakistani court on Tuesday sentenced the country's former military ruler Gen. Pervez Musharraf to death in a treason case related to the state of emergency he imposed in 2007 while in power, officials said. It's the first time in Pakistan's history that a former army chief and ruler of...
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