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
- AUGUST 20, 2005PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. SOLDIER WHO PLOTTED TO KILL MUSHARRAF HANGED
Islam Siddiqui, a soldier convicted of plotting to assassinate Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf, was executed by hanging.
- AUGUST 12, 2005PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. CONVICTED OF BLASPHEMY, WRITER SENTENCED TO LIFE
a Pakistani writer, author of a book considered blasphemous due to its affirmation that several key figures in the Koran, the four Imams, were Jewish, and that the stoning to death of an adulteress is not a punishment prescribed by the Koran, was sentence
- AUGUST 6, 2005PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. CAPITAL PUNISHMENT FOR TWO MEN CONVICTED OF CHILD MURDER, 2 ACCOMPLICES SENTENCED TO 7 YEARS RIGOROUS IMPRISONMENT
an Anti-terrorist Court (ATC) in Faisalabad, Pakistan, sentenced to death Muhammad Ashfaq Shah and Muhammad Umair on charges of abduction for ransom and murder of a six year old boy.
- AUGUST 3, 2005PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. PRESIDENT STAYS EXECUTION OF SIX CONVICTED OF MURDER
President of Pakistan General Pervez Musharaf stayed the simultaneous execution of six criminals accused of murder till 17th of August and asked for a report on the matter. The orders had sent waves of joy amongst the relatives.
- AUGUST 2, 2005PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. MAN HANGED IN SAHIWAL JAIL
Iqbal Bali, a man whose execution had been postponed on July 6, was hanged in Sahiwal Central jail, Pakistan.
- JULY 16, 2005Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI ARABIA. PAKISTANI BEHEADED FOR MURDERING COMPATRIOT
Mohammad Zadeh Sawali, a Pakistani national, was beheaded by the sword in the northern Saudi town of Arar after being convicted of killing a compatriot residing in the kingdom, the Saudi interior ministry announced.
- JULY 10, 2005Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI ARABIA. TWO SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR HEROIN SMUGGLING
the semi-official Saudi Ukaz daily said a tribunal in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah had sentenced a Pakistani and an Afghan to death for smuggling heroin into the country.
- JULY 7, 2005BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH. COURT SENTENCES TWO PAKISTANIS TO DEATH FOR SMUGGLING HEROIN
a lower court in Dhaka sentenced to death two Pakistani nationals, Rais Khan of Karachi and Alekjan of Peshwar after finding them guilty of smuggling 24 kg of heroin into the country on September 20, 1999.
- JULY 3, 2005Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI ARABIA. TWO PAKISTANIS BEHEADED FOR KILLING AUNT
two Pakistani brothers convicted of murdering their aunt were beheaded by the sword in the western Saudi town of Yanbu, the interior ministry announced.
- JUNE 28, 2005PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. COURT BACKS RAPE VICTIM, RE-ARREST ORDEREDFOR MEN ACQUITTED OF ATTACK
Pakistan's highest court delivered a legal victory to Mukhtaran Bibi, a woman who accused 13 men of orchestrating her gang rape three years previously.
- JUNE 21, 2005PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. MAN EXECUTED FOR MURDER
Irshad alias Achoo was hanged to death in Gujranwala Central Jail, Pakistan, after being convicted of killing Rasheed Ahmed over a minor dispute at Jaton, in the in Gujranwala area, in 1994.
- JUNE 14, 2005IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
INDONESIA. PAKISTANI SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
an Indonesian court sentenced Zulfikar Ali, a Pakistani national, to death for drug trafficking. Judges at a district court in Tangerang, southwest of Jakarta, ruled that Ali was guilty of trafficking 300 grams (10.5 ounces) of heroin.