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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...