A Paris court on Thursday sentenced a Pakistani man to 30 years in jail for attempting to murder two people outside the former offices of Charlie Hebdo in 2020 with a meat cleaver.

A Pakistani national Zaheer Mahmood was sentenced to 30 years in prison for attempted murder and 'terrorist conspiracy' by a French court in Paris on Friday (local time), Euro News reported.Mahmood ...

The court had earlier heard how Mahmood was influenced by radical Pakistani preacher Khadim Hussain Rizvi, who had called for the beheading of blasphemers. Mahmood was convicted of attempted ...

Mahmood had been influenced by the hardline Pakistani cleric Khadim Hussain Rizvi — who founded the Islamist Tehrik-i-Labaik Pakistan party — the court head. The party backs Pakistan's controversial ...