ISLAMABAD: The government has proposed amendments in four key provisions of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) of 1860 – a move which could resolve the longstanding issue of murderers pardoned by the heir ...

Before he somehow dodged the terror of Cromwell, Matthew Hale, the Chief Justice of the King’s Bench, put down a list of “Things Necessary” to be remembered as ...

New Delhi: The fate of Indian nurse, Nimisha Priya, currently on death row in Yemen, hangs precariously as the family of the deceased Yemeni man, demand Qisas. Qisas is an Islamic principle of ...

Kerala nurse Nimisha Priya, sentenced to death in Yemen for killing Talal Abdo Mehdi, must undergo 'Qisas', or 'God's law', and nothing more, her brother has averred. Priya was to be executed on ...

The execution of Nimisha Priya – the Indian nurse sentenced to death in Yemen – has been postponed, for now. But the brief reprieve does little to change the fundamental reality of her situation: her ...

THE law of qisas is derived from the primary source of Islamic law: the Quran. The Quran uses the term ‘qisas’ in the sense of ‘equality’. Let us briefly look at the principle of qisas, its objectives ...

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court gave a conclusive judgment on Thursday, ending once and for all the confusion between Qisas and Ta’zir in cases of murder. The law providing for Qisas, which in Islamic ...

The level of violence against women is frighteningly high in Pakistan. Women are killed, maimed, brutally tortured, raped and persecuted to perpetuate patriarchal societal norms, and now in these ...

Nimisha Priya, the Kerala nurse on death row in Yemen, has temporarily been spared execution for murder, but her fate now rests significantly on one word: ‘qisas’. Kerala nurse Nimisha Priya was ...

What looked like a relief for Kerala nurse Nimisha Priya, whose execution in Yemen scheduled to take place on July 16 has been postponed, might turn out to be brief as the victim’s family has put ...

On September 13, 2013, the Supreme Court (SC) of Pakistan, during the hearing of a 2004 murder case in which a compromise had been reached, said that it may form a larger bench on the increase of the ...

Nimisha Priya Case: The scheduled execution of Indian nurse Nimisha Priya in Yemen has been postponed, offering a temporary reprieve. However, the family of her former business partner, Talal Abdo ...