A few days before the execution of Yakub Memon on July 30, the NLU had filed a petition before the apex court challenging the TADA court’s death warrant against him.
Omar’s family said in an audio statement released on August 2 that it had not pledged allegiance to Mullah Akhtar Mansur, whom the Taliban has announced as Omar’s successor.
Leolah Brown, a sister of Bobbi Kristina’s father, singer Bobby Brown, exited early from the almost three-hour funeral service at St. James United Methodist Church. Among them, Grammy-winner Monica, Tyler Perry and Atlanta mayor Kasim Reed.
Memon was hanged at a prison in Nagpur in the western state. His petition to the President sought mercy; in the Supreme Court, his lawyers argued that judges had not followed due process when upholding his death sentence earlier this week.
Hurriyat said that the hanging of the Yakub Mamon has reopened the wounds of the Kashmiri nation and today the memories of the Shaheed Mohammad Maqbool Bhat and Mohammad Afzal Gooru are badly striking our hearts and minds who were hanged for no crime and whose dead bodies too...
Taliban insurgent leaders were preparing to attend a second round of negotiations with Afghan officials, prodded by Pakistani authorities amid a thaw in their long-chilly relations with Kabul, and reinforced by a supportive recent statement from the supreme Taliban leader,...
No sooner had the Taliban selected a new chief to replace Mullah Omar than deep fractures emerged on Friday, as the former leader’s son said he rejected the choice of successor.
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leader Salauddin Quader Chowdhury’s death sentence from the war tribunal set up to bring justice to victims during the Liberartion War of 1971 was upheld by the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court.