Pakistan's Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the death penalty for a man who beheaded his girlfriend after the case sparked outrage from women's rights activists in the country, reported AFP news agency ...

ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Wednesday reserved a verdict on the appeals on the punishment awarded to the convicts and acquittal of co-accused in the Noor Mukadam murder case. The ...

“It’s brought me some closure,” said Shafaq Zaidi, a school friend of Noor Mukadam, reacting to the Supreme Court’s May 20 verdict upholding both the life sentence and death penalty for Noor’s killer, ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed the review petition filed by Zahir Jaffer, the principal convict in the murder of Noor Mukadam, and upheld its earlier verdict maintaining his death sentence.

Zahir Jaffer Sunday filed a plea in the Supreme Court of Pakistan against the Islamabad High Court’s (IHC) verdict in the Noor Mukadam case which upheld the death penalty awarded to him by a trial ...

Pakistan, June 4 -- Pakistan's Supreme Court has rejected the review petition filed by convicted murderer Zahir Jaffer in the high-profile murder case of Noor Mukadam, upholding his death sentence and ...

The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Wednesday not only upheld the death sentence of Zahir Jaffer in the Noor Mukadam murder case, but also converted his 25-year jail term into another death penalty. A ...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Pakistani court sentenced a man from a prominent industrialist family to death on Thursday, after finding him guilty of beheading a childhood friend who had refused to marry him.

The Supreme Court on Saturday fixed April 8 for hearing the review petition filed by Zahir Jaffer, who was convicted in the high-profile murder of Noor Mukadam. According to a cause list published by ...