Two men in Pakistan sentenced to have nose and ears chopped off for doing the same to a woman...

A court in Pakistan's most liberal city has ordered two men to have their noses and ears chopped off as punishment for inflicting similar injuries on a woman they abducted, an official says.

An anti-terrorism court headed by judge Khalid Naveed Dar handed down the ruling in the eastern city of Lahore on Monday, sentencing the two men to life in prison and fining them each 700,000 rupees (about $A9,400).

"The court ordered that the nose and ears of Sher Mohammad and Ammanat Ali be chopped off as part of an Islamic punishment of a nose for a nose and ears for ears," court official Azhar Ameen told AFP on Tuesday. More...

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