Kasab execution: Mostly ‘thumbs-up’ on foreign sites
NEW DELHI: A foreign news agency story headlined 'Mumbai attacks gunman Ajmal Kasab hanged' drew over 150 comments by 7pm on Wednesday on the web site of prominent Pakistan daily Dawn. Interestingly,...
View ArticleIndia should end death penalty: rights group
New Delhi, November 21: Hours after Pakistani Ajmal Kasab was hanged in Pune, Human Rights Watch urged India to remove the death penalty from its legal framework. "The hanging of Kasab marks a...
View ArticleAfghanistan should halt executions, says Human Rights Watch
Tweet New York, Nov.21 (ANI): Afghanistan should end its sudden surge of executions and institute a moratorium on further executions, Human Rights Watch said today. The weakness of the Afghan legal...
View ArticleHRW asks Pak to reinstate moratorium on death penalty
New York: A leading Human Rights group Wednesday asked Pakistan, which has some 8,000 prisoners on death row, to reinstate its moratorium on the death penalty. In Pakistan's first execution in four...
View ArticleIndia says execution not end to justice efforts in Mumbai attack
NEW DELHI — India's execution Wednesday of the only surviving gunman in the 2008 attack on Mumbai that killed 166 people won't deter its ongoing effort to bring the planners to justice. Officials in...
View ArticleIn Pakistan, a Muted Reaction to Kasab’s Killing
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan– Initial reaction in Pakistan to India’s execution of Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, a Pakistani citizen whose confessed role in the deadly 2008 attacks in Mumbai had become an awkward...
View ArticleAjmal Amir Kasab's hanging 'a step backwards', says Amnesty
New Delhi, Nov 21: India has taken "a significant step backwards" by hanging Pakistani Ajmal Kasab for his involvement in the Mumbai terror attack, Amnesty International said that today. "Today's...
View ArticleKasab hanging 'a step backwards', says Amnesty
India has taken "a significant step backwards" by hanging Pakistani Ajmal Kasab for his involvement in the Mumbai terror attack, Amnesty International said on Wednesday. "Today's execution means India...
View ArticleUN rights chief dismayed at sudden resumption of executions in Afghanistan
Print 22 November 2012 Â The United Nations human rights chief today expressed serious concern about the sudden execution of 14 prisoners in Afghanistan over the past few days after more than a year...
View ArticleMumbai terror attacks: surviving gunman hanged in India
Mohammad Ajmal Amir Kasab is killed in Pune in India's first use of death penalty since 2004 Mohammad Ajmal Amir Kasab during the attacks on Mumbai in November 2008. Photograph: Sebastian D'souza/AP...
View ArticleIndia frees two death row Kashmiris
NEW DELHI - An Indian court on Thursday acquitted two Kashmiri Muslims sentenced to death for a 1996 car bomb attack in a New Delhi shopping arcade that killed 13 people. The two men, Mirza Nissar...
View ArticleAjmal Kasab hanged day after UN vote on penalty
NEW DELHI: As chance would have it, India hanged Ajmal Kasab a day after opposing a UN resolution on abolition of the death penalty. On...
View ArticleKasab hanged day after UN vote on penalty
NEW DELHI: As chance would have it, India hanged Ajmal Kasab a day after opposing a UN resolution on abolition of the death penalty. On...
View ArticleFeather in the cap of India’s democracy
With the execution of Ajmal Kasab, the sole surviving gunman from the November 26, 2008, terror attacks in Mumbai, it is hoped that the families of the 166 people, who spent years coping with the loss...
View ArticleCongress workers celebrate Kasab's hanging
Chennai, Nov 21 : Congress workers in the city today celebrated the execution of lone surviving accused in the 26/11 Mumbai Terror Attacks Ajmal Kasab. Ajmal Kasab was hanged to death at 0730 hrs...
View ArticlePillay dismayed at resumption of executions in Afghanistan
Friday, 23 November 2012, 10:04 am Press Release: OHCHR Pillay dismayed at sudden resumption of executions in Afghanistan Geneva, 22 November 2012 - The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi...
View ArticleHope rule of law will prevail in Pak in 26/11 case: Khurshid
With the execution of lone surviving Mumbai attacks gunman Ajmal Kasab, India hopes "rule of law" will prevail in Pakistan as well, said External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid even as civil society...
View ArticleIndia hangs lone surviving terrorist from 2008 Mumbai attacks
NEW DELHI — India on Wednesday hanged the lone surviving gunman from the terrorist attack in Mumbai four years ago that left 166 people dead, including six Americans. Ajmal Amir Kasab, a Pakistani...
View ArticleStatins to carry safety warning
Widely used cholesterol-lowering drugs, also known as statins, will have to carry safety warnings stating that they could cause memory loss and could increase blood sugar levels. Following the...
View Article‘Kasab’s execution a dangerous precedent’
Strongly condemning the execution of Ajmal Kasab, human rights activists on Wednesday questioned the “unusual speed” with which his mercy petition was rejected and also the secrecy surrounding the...
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