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, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. MAN HANGED FOR MURDER
Mureed Hussain, 35, resident of Noorpur, was hanged in Faisalabad District Jail, Pakistan. The accused had reportedly attempted to develop “illicit ties” with a married woman and had killed her son Ehsanullah, 7, on August 30, 1993.
- NOVEMBER 14, 2006Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI ARABIA. PAKISTANI EXECUTED FOR MURDER
Saudi Arabia executed a Pakistani for murder.
- NOVEMBER 14, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. TWO MEN HANGED FOR MURDER
two Pakistanis convicted of separate murders were hanged after President Pervez Musharraf turned down their pleas for clemency, jail officials said.
- NOVEMBER 13, 2006YemenDEATH PENALTY
YEMEN. TWO MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR DRUG SMUGGLING
the Specialised Criminal Appeals Court, Yemen, approved the death penalty for Berkhan Akhredi Yar Hussein, a Pakistani national, who was convicted on charges of smuggling drugs into Yemen.
- NOVEMBER 8, 2006Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI ARABIA. THREE PAKISTANIS EXECUTED FOR DRUG SMUGGLING
Saudi Arabia executed three Pakistanis, including two women, for drugs smuggling, taking to 20 the number of reported executions in the conservative kingdom in 2006.
- NOVEMBER 7, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. MILITANTS GET LIFE SENTENCE, DEATH PENALTY FOR 2005 BOMBINGS THAT KILLED 11
a Pakistani court sentenced militant Jan Maqbool to death and another man to life imprisonment after finding them guilty of involvement in two deadly blasts in Lahore on September 22, 2005.
- NOVEMBER 2, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
a court in Pasrur, Pakistan, sentenced to death Muhammad Akram for murder.
- NOVEMBER 2, 2006United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. TWO MEN TO BE EXECUTED FOR RAPE SAVED FOLLOWING PARDON
a Pakistani national identified only as M.A., whose five-year-old daughter was raped and murdered in Sharjah, Pakistan, pardoned two men accused of the crime just before they were scheduled to be executed.
- NOVEMBER 1, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. DEATH AND LIFE FOR BROTHERS CONVICTED OF MURDER
an Additional District and Sessions Court in Chakwal, Pakistan...
- OCTOBER 31, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. TRIPLE-MURDER CONVICT HANGED IN BAHAWALPUR JAIL
Nazir Ahmad was executed in Bahawalpur Central Jail, Pakistan, for the murder of three people in June 1999.
- OCTOBER 31, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. COURT SENTENCES TWO MILITANTS TO DEATH
two Islamist militants were sentenced to death for killing six Shi'ite Muslims in an attack in Pakistan.
- OCTOBER 31, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. 3 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
an Additional District and Sessions Court in Pasrur, Pakistan, sentenced to death on three counts with a fine of Rs.100, 000 each for Babar Maqbool, Khan Wali and Liaqat Ali after convicting them of triple murder.