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
NOVEMBER 15, 2022PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: TWO GET DEATH FOR ATTACK TARGETING CHINESE ENGINEERS
A Pakistani anti-terrorism court has awarded death sentences to two men accused of killing 13 people in a suicide attack last year, including nine Chinese engineers working on a hydropower project.
OCTOBER 13, 2022PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: PRESIDENT REJECTS MERCY APPEAL OF DEATH ROW CONVICT
Pakistan’s President Dr Arif Alvi on 13 October 2022 rejected the mercy appeal of a person convicted in murder and bank robbery case.
OCTOBER 3, 2022PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: SON CONVICTED TO DEATH SENTENCE FOR KILLING PARENTS IN DUKKI BALOCHISTAN
A court in Balochistan’s Dukki district convicted a son of the death sentence for killing his parents, Quetta Voice reported on 30 September 2022.
OCTOBER 2, 2022PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPE, MURDER OF MINOR GIRL
An anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Hyderabad on 29 September 2022 awarded death sentence to the prime accused, and 7-years imprisonment to the co-accused in the rape and murder case of a girl child.
- SEPTEMBER 27, 2022PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: 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