ISLAMABAD - Human Rights Watch (HRW) is urging Pakistan to take “immediate and urgent” steps to ensure that prisoners and detainees have access to adequate medical care and protective measures against the coronavirus. The New York-based rights group says Pakistani prisons, jails, ...

SRINAGAR - Indian authorities subject jailed Kashmiris, children and women to torture inside prisons. In occupied Kashmir, Hurriyat leader and chairman of the Democratic Political Movement, Muhammad Shafi Reshi has expressed serious concern over the plight of the illegally detained Kashmiris ...

NEW DELHI - Hundreds of Kashmiri prisoners have been shifted outside Kashmir jails and prisons, International media had reported. Many of thousands of people including politicians, activists and common people who were detained in Indian-administered Kashmir after the Indian government revoked ...

SRINAGAR - Thousands of people have been detained in Indian-occupied Kashmir over fears of unrest since New Delhi stripped the restive region of its autonomy two weeks ago, government sources told *AFP*. A magistrate, speaking to *AFP* on condition of anonymity, said that at least 4,000 people ...

KABUL - President Ashraf Ghani releases dozens of Afghan Taliban inmates from prisons, Afghan media had reported. President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani has set free 35 Taliban inmates from the prison of the National Directorate of Security on the occasion of Eid, Khaama Press has reported. The ...

LAHORE: Mirza Shahid Saleem Baig, the inspector-general (IG) of prisons for Punjab has revealed that Nawaz Sharif is cleaning his own room in Jail as part of rigorous punishment awarded to him. He on Wednesday said that the hard labour being taken from former prime minister Nawaz Sharif in jail ...

Pakistan today handed over a list of 537 Indian prisoners to the Indian High Commission in Islamabad. These include fifty-four civil and four hundred and eighty-three fishermen. The step is consistent with the provisions of the Consular Access Agreement between Pakistan and India, signed on 21 May ...

ISLAMABAD: National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Friday strongly rejected the baseless allegations regarding torture cells in its prisons and said it presented every accused before the court for getting his remand according to the law. NAB spokesman said no one has complained of torture, ...

LAHORE – Punjab Minister for Prisons Zawar Hussain Warraich on Wednesday night made a suspicious visit to the Central Jail Lahore. He visited Central Jail Lahore in ‘sheer violation of the law’, jail authorities have revealed. The jail superintendent, in a letter to the IG Prisons, ...

ISLAMABAD – Pakistan's 1965 war hero who faced extreme torture in Indian prisons during his unlawful detention for 40 years has passed away today. Maqbool Hussain, a soldier of Pakistan Army, breathed his last at Combined Military Hospital, Attock where he was admitted for past few ...