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
- APRIL 12, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. COURT ADMITS APPEALS IN MUSHARRAF ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT CASE
the Pakistan Supreme Court admitted for regular hearing the appeals of four junior Air Force officers and a civilian against their death sentences for their involvement in an assassination attempt on President General Pervez Musharraf in 2003.
- APRIL 9, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR SERIAL KILLINGS, RAPE
an anti-terrorism court in the central Pakistani town of Bahawalpur sentenced convicted serial killer and rapist Abdul Razzaq to death, the Daily Times newspaper reported.
- APRIL 4, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. FIVE MILITANTS SENTENCED TO DEATH
a Pakistani anti-terrorism court sentenced five militants from an Al-Qaeda-linked group to death for a 2002 attack on a prison van which killed a policeman and a prisoner.
- APRIL 4, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. LOCAL LASHKAR-E-JHANGVI LEADER SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
an anti-terrorism court in eastern Punjab province, Pakistan, sentenced to death Naveed Akhtar, local leader of the banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi group, after finding him guilty of killing a Shia leader and his son.
- MARCH 30, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. CONVICTION OF LJ ACTIVISTS IN SECTARIAN KILLING CASE SET ASIDE
the Sindh High Court (SHC), Pakistan, set aside the convictions to four activists of the banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi group after acquitting them of charges of sectarian killing. Mohammad Ajmal alias Akram Lahori, Attaullah, Mohammad Azam and Malik Tassaduq H
- MARCH 28, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCES IN MUSHARRAF'S ATTACK CASE
a court in Pakistan rejected appeals of four air force employees against their death sentences...
- MARCH 26, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. EXECUTION BY TALIBAN UNDER SHARIA
local Taliban in South Waziristan, Pakistan, executed a 25-year-old man under Islamic law (Sharia) for killing a taxi driver. The execution was the first case tried under Sharia in the tribal areas
- MARCH 22, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. SHRINE BOMBERS SENTENCED TO DEATH
Abdul Halim and Muhammad Aslam, two men who carried out a bombing which killed 47 people at a Shia shrine in Pakistan in 2005, were sentenced to death.
- MARCH 14, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. COURT UPHOLDS DEATH PENALTY IN MUSHARRAF ATTACK CASE
the Lahore High Court, Pakistan, upheld the death sentence handed down to Mushtaq Ahmed by the Anti Terrorism Court for planning two suicide attacks on Pakistan President General Musharraf in December 2003.
- MARCH 13, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. HIGH COURT COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCES OF TWO MEN, MAINTAINS PENALTY FOR A THIRD IN TRIPLE MURDER CASE
the Sindh High Court in Karachi, Pakistan, commuted the sentence of two men facing death for triple murder but maintained the death sentence for a third accomplice.
- MARCH 9, 2006IndiaDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. COURT REJECTS 'SPY' PLEA
Pakistan's Supreme Court rejected a review appeal by Manjit Singh, an Indian on death row for spying. He had been convicted of spying and carrying out a series of bombings in 1990 which killed 14 people. His family said he was Sarabjit Singh - a farmer wh
- MARCH 6, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. COURT SENTENCES MILITANT CHIEF, DEPUTY TO DEATH
a Pakistani court sentenced to death Atta-ur Rahman, the chief of the Jundullah organization, and his deputy Shahzad Bajwa after convicting them of shooting and throwing a grenade at a military pickup truck in the southern city of Karachi in March 2004, k