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 21, 2006Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA. PAKISTANI AND NIGERIAN BEHEADED FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
a Pakistani and a Nigerian convicted of drug trafficking were beheaded by the sword in the western Saudi city of Mecca.
- NOVEMBER 20, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. DEATH PENALTY AWARDED TO 16 CONVICTS IN JACOBABAD
a District and Sessions Court in Jacobabad, Pakistan, sentenced to death 16 people under the Terrorist Act for killing 11 members of the same family in 1993 after setting ablaze their house in a village in Kashmore
- NOVEMBER 17, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. SHC UPHOLD DEATH SENTENCES OF LJ ACTIVISTS IN SECTARIAN KILLING CASE
the Sindh High Court, Pakistan, dismissed the appeal of Attaullah and Mohammad Azam...
NOVEMBER 16, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCE FOR BRITON: OFFICIAL
President Pervez Musharraf has commuted the death sentence for a British man who has been in jail in Pakistan for the past 18 years for a murder he says he didn't commit, Pakistan's interior minister said.
NOVEMBER 15, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN. 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 15, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN. PARLIAMENT APPROVES CHANGES TO ISLAMIC RAPE LAW
Pakistan's parliament approved amendments to an Islamic-based law on rape, dropping the death penalty and flogging for those convicted of consensual sex outside marriage, officials said.
- NOVEMBER 14, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI ARABIA. PAKISTANI EXECUTED FOR MURDER
Saudi Arabia executed a Pakistani for murder.
NOVEMBER 14, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN. 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, 2006PakistanDEATH 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, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTYSAUDI 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.