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
JULY 27, 2006United KingdomDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN. STAY OF EXECUTION FOR DEATH ROW BRITON
Pakistan's president, General Pervez Musharraf, granted a one-month stay of execution to Mirza Tahir Hussain, a British man who was due to be put to death a week later.
- JULY 26, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
an Additional Sessions Court in Pasrur, Pakistan...
- JULY 22, 2006United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. BRITISH NATIONAL AGAIN ON DEATH ROW
Mirza Tahir Hussain, a British man convicted of killing a taxi driver in Pakistan, has been put on death row for a third time and will be hanged on August 3...
- JULY 22, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
an Additional District and Sessions Court in Pakistan sentenced a man only identified as Rafique to death for murder.
JULY 18, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN. THREE PEOPLE HANGED FOR GANG RAPE
three men, who were convicted of raping a woman in Pakistan's southern Punjab province, were hanged in central city of Lahore, a jail official said.
- JULY 13, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. MAN HANGED FOR MURDER IN 15TH PUNJAB EXECUTION IN TWO WEEKS
Tauseef Munna was hanged till death in the 15th execution in Pakistan's Punjab province in the last two weeks. He had been sentenced to death by an anti-terrorism court in 2002 for killing a four-year old boy. Prosecution lawyers said that the boy was kid
JULY 12, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN. FIVE PEOPLE HANGED FOR GANG RAPE
five people convicted of gang- raping a woman were hanged in the early morning at the district jail in Sialkot, about 125 km north of Lahore, the provincial capital of Punjab, Pakistan, jail Superintendent Abdul Razaq Niazi said.
JULY 6, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN. MURDER CONVICT EXECUTED
a murder convict was hanged to death in Balochistan’s Machh Jail this morning.
- JULY 4, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. FIVE PEOPLE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
the Sialkot Additional District and Sessions Court, Pakistan, sentenced five men to death...
JULY 4, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN. THREE PEOPLE HANGED IN GUJRANWALA CENTRAL JAIL
brothers Ilyas and Ghulam Abbas and their cousin Asif were hanged till death at Gujranwala central jail, Pakistan, for the murder of five people.
- JUNE 30, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. MURDER ACCUSED EXECUTED IN PUBLIC
a man who allegedly killed two people was executed under Taliban’s shariah system in a village near North Waziristan’s regional headquarters of Miramshah, Pakistan. Thirty-year-old Ihsanullah was brought blindfolded to the execution ground by heirs of the
JUNE 29, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN. 4 MEN HANGED FOR GANG RAPE OF CHRISTIAN WOMAN
Shehzad Ahmad, 29, Muhammad Ashraf, 34, Mubarik Ali, 28, and Umer Hayat, 32, were hanged in Pakistan for gang-raping a teenaged Christian girl at gunpoint in the central city of Faisalabad on November 7, 1999.