Pakistan
2026
- GOVERNMENT
- federal parliamentary republic
- CONSTITUTION
- April 12, 1973. Suspended and reintroduced several times, last on December 15, 2007. Amended last on April 19, 2010.
- LEGAL SYSTEM
- common law adapted to the Islamic state
- LEGISLATIVE SYSTEM
- bicameral, Senate and National Assembly
- JUDICIAL SYSTEM
- Supreme Court, heads appointed by the president; Federal Islamic Court
RELIGIONS
Muslim majority; Hindu and Christian minorities
From the country
SEPTEMBER 27, 2022PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: DEATH SENTENCE AWARDED IN DOUBLE MURDER CASE
Peshawar Child Protection Court (CPC) has awarded death sentence to a man who brutally killed a seven-year-old girl and a woman in tehsil Shabqadar, district Charsadda, sources said on 25 September 2022.
SEPTEMBER 15, 2022PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: SHC COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCE TO LIFE TERM
The Sindh High Court (SHC), while partially rejecting the appeal of three murder convicts on 14 September 2022, commuted their death sentence into life-imprisonment.
JULY 21, 2022PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: MAN AWARDED DEATH SENTENCE FOR KILLING EX-WIFE, HER FATHER
A sessions court in Faisalabad awarded death sentence on two counts, life imprisonment to a man for killing his ex-wife and her father in the limits of Madina Town police station.
JULY 12, 2022PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: LAHORE COURT SENTENCES CHRISTIAN MAN TO DEATH OVER BLASPHEMY CHARGES
A court in Lahore on 4 July 2022 sentenced Ashfaq Masih to death by hanging.
JULY 5, 2022PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: FOUR SENTENCED TO DEATH TWICE FOR KIDNAPPING, KILLING MINOR BOY IN QUETTA
An Anti-Terrorist Court (ATC) in Quetta on 30 June 2022 awarded a double death sentence to four accused of kidnapping and murdering a minor child.
JUNE 16, 2022PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDERING COP
An anti-terrorism court (ATC) sentenced on 14 June 2022 an accused to death for murdering a police official in the Gulshan-e-Behar neighbourhood in August last year.
JUNE 13, 2022PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE OF CHRISTIAN BROTHERS IN BLASPHEMY CASE
A Pakistani high court has upheld the death sentence of two Christian brothers convicted for uploading blasphemous content on social media in 2011.
- JUNE 1, 2022PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: COP SENTENCED TO DEATH, ANOTHER GETS LIFE TERM FOR MURDERING TEENAGE STUDENT
A district court on 30 May 2022 awarded capital punishment to a police constable and life imprisonment to a volunteer cop for the Police Qaumi Razakar (PQR) for murdering a teenage student and wounding another in an alleged fake encounter in Gulshan-e-Iqb
- APRIL 20, 2022PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: SIX SENTENCED TO DEATH IN KILLING OF SRI LANKAN
A Pakistan court on 18 April 2022 sentenced six people to death and nine others to life in prison after convicting them for their roles in last year’s vigilante killing of a Sri Lankan factory manager accused by workers of committing blasphemy.
MARCH 31, 2022PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: 2 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR PLAN TO BOMB THE SINDH ASSEMBLY
Two terrorists on 30 March 2022 were sentenced to death for their plot to blow up the Sindh Assembly and other government buildings in Karachi, while their three accomplices will serve three rigorous life sentences.
- FEBRUARY 27, 2022PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: PAKISTANI-AMERICAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR BEHEADING GIRLFRIEND
A Pakistan court sentenced the scion of a wealthy industrialist family to death on 24 February 2022, for raping and beheading his girlfriend in a murder that sparked an outcry over the brutalising of women in the deeply patriarchal nation.
- FEBRUARY 23, 2022PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH IN BLASPHEMY CASE
A Pakistani man from the minority Shia community has been sentenced to death by a court in Punjab province for defaming Islam, officials said on 23 February 2022.