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The lawyers' community has strongly condemned the brutal murder of Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer, labeling it a terror plot and a conspiracy to destabilize the democratic government. Taseer's murder has been described by lawyers as a plan to paralyze the democratic system, disturb law and order, and
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More than 500 religious scholars from the Barelvi school of thought in Pakistan have paid rich tributes to the assassin of Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer, urging Muslims across the country to boycott the funeral ceremony. The Barelvi scholars have taken a hardline stance against the governor, who was killed for
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The Anti-Terrorism Court in Karachi, presided over by Judge Syed Hassan Shah Bukhari, delivered a severe verdict on December 29, 2010. The court sentenced to death a convict who had kidnapped and killed a five-year-old girl in July 2010. The convict, Sher Khan, was also given a life imprisonment sentence
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Taj Muhammad, the principal of Assu Goth Malir Monotechnic College, was kidnapped from the New Lyari area of Surjani by unidentified armed men, believed to be a result of an old enmity. Meanwhile, two persons were murdered in separate incidents in Karachi, with the decomposed body of a man recovered
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Clashes erupted in Kunda and other areas of Pratapgarh following the arrest of Samajwadi Party MP Kaushambi Shailendra Kumar, independent MLA from Kunda Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiyya, Bihar (Pratapgarh) MLA Vinod Saroj, and MLC Akshay Pratap Singh by police on Sunday. The arrest is linked to an FIR
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Raghuraj Pratap Singh, a mafia-turned-politician and independent MLA, and 12 others were arrested on Sunday morning in connection with an alleged kidnapping attempt and assault on a BSP-backed candidate's supporters. The incident occurred in the Kunda constituency, 150 km from the state capital, where Raghuraj's men
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Eboni Thompson, a 31-year-old Tampa woman, had her bail denied on Saturday after being accused of murdering her 4-month-old daughter, Markala, on Tuesday. On the same day, Terra Jean Richardson, a 34-year-old woman from Sun City Center, died in a fatal car accident on Interstate 75. Additionally, an arson incident
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The Larkana circuit bench of the Sindh High Court has granted three-week protective bail to seven police officers, including five former SHOs of Qambar-Shahdadkot district, who were nominated in a case of triple murder of the relatives of folk singer Urs Chandio. The officers, accused by Ghulam Murtaza Chandio, Urs&
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Shrien Dewani, the British businessman accused of orchestrating the murder of his Swedish wife, Anni, on their honeymoon in Cape Town, has been granted £250,000 bail. Despite claims of "significant new evidence" against him, Dewani was released from Wandsworth jail after a judge dismissed the appeal by
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John Walsh, 45, was on bail when he brutally killed John McManus, 25, in October 2008, inflicting over 100 separate injuries. Walsh had addresses in Ballinlough, Cork and Mitchelstown, Co Cork, and had been convicted of 12 previous crimes, including assault causing harm. When he killed McManus, Walsh was awaiting
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A city court in Delhi has convicted four men for the murder and robbery of two practicing Supreme Court women lawyers, Swarana Malhotra and her daughter Anuradha Malhotra, who were living alone in their residence in south Delhi's Ashram area. The court held the accused guilty under various
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A gruesome murder has shaken Peru's penitentiary system, with a Dutch inmate confessing to killing his Peruvian girlfriend on visiting day in August. Jackson Sanford Staing, an inmate at Lima's Lurigancho prison, admitted to murdering Leslie Dayana Paredes Silva and burying her body in his cell.
