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 29, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
UNITED NATIONS. UN EXPERT SEEKS END TO DEATH PENALTY FOR CHILDREN
countries where capital punishment is practiced should exempt children under 18 -- or adults convicted while minors -- from the death penalty, a UN human rights expert report said.
- SEPTEMBER 25, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS MUSHARRAF PLOT DEATH SENTENCES
Pakistan's Supreme Court upheld the death sentences handed down to 12 men convicted of taking part in two al Qaeda inspired assassination attempts on President Pervez Musharraf in December 2003.
- SEPTEMBER 21, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. TWO MEN HANGED FOR MURDER
two condemned prisoners were hanged in Pakistan’s central Multan Jail and the Dera Ghazi Khan District Jail. Tahir Saleem had shot dead his uncle Muhammad Latif when he recognised him during a robbery attempt on October 12, 1996.
- SEPTEMBER 21, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. FOUR MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KIDNAPPING
an anti terrorism court in Karachi, Pakistan, sentenced to death Asif Patel, Faisal Ansari...
- SEPTEMBER 20, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. FOUR MEMBERS OF A FAMILY HANGED IN BHAWALPUR JAIL
Pakistani authorities hanged four men from the same family who had been convicted of murdering local rivals over a small chunk of land, jail superintendent Tariq Babur Khan said.
- SEPTEMBER 18, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. TRIBESMAN EXECUTED BY PRO-TALIBAN MILITANTS
pro-Taliban militants executed a tribesman in a restive Pakistani tribal area bordering Afghanistan after convicting him of double murder, officials and witnesses said.
- SEPTEMBER 18, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN TO EXECUTE FOUR PAKISTANIS FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
the Zahedan revolutionary court in south-eastern Iran’s Sistan-Baluchestan province sentenced four Pakistanis and one Iranian man to death for drug trafficking.
- SEPTEMBER 1, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. COURT CONVICTS SHIITE MILITANT
a Pakistan court convicted and sentenced to death a Shiite Muslim militant of organizing the bombing of a Sunni gathering that killed 39 people in 2004.
- AUGUST 18, 2006IndiaDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE FOR ‘INDIAN SPY’
Pakistan's Supreme Court upheld the death sentence awarded to Sarabjit Singh, alleged to be an agent of India’s Research and Analysis Wing and involved in five bomb blasts in Pakistan.
- AUGUST 16, 2006United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. THIRD EXECUTION DELAY FOR MAN ON DEATH ROW
PAKISTAN. THIRD EXECUTION DELAY FOR MAN ON DEATH ROW August 16, 2006: Mirza Tahir Hussain, on death row in Pakistan for killing a taxi driver, was granted a stay of execution till October 1. Hussain, 36, had spent half his life in jail after being con
- AUGUST 16, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. MAN HANGED FOR MURDER
Mushtaq Ahmed, 58, was hanged in New Central Prison, Pakistan, for murder.
- AUGUST 9, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. CONVICTED SUNNI MILITANT EXECUTED
a Sunni extremist convicted of killing a Shia political leader ten years ago was executed in in Pakistan's central Punjab province.