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
- FEBRUARY 1, 2004PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The widow of Daniel Pearl, the murdered journalist,...
The widow of Daniel Pearl, the murdered journalist, called for hmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, the British-born Islamic militant behind his killing, to be executed in Pakistan
- JANUARY 27, 2004PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Two Pakistani nationals were executed in Kuwait, in...
Two Pakistani nationals were executed in Kuwait, in the second hanging in a week
- JANUARY 23, 2004PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A Pakistani court sentenced three Islamic militants...
A Pakistani court sentenced three Islamic militants to death after finding them guilty of killing four women as they prayed at a church near Islamabad
- JANUARY 20, 2004PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Kuwaiti authorities publicly displayed the corpse of...
Kuwaiti authorities publicly displayed the corpse of Fazel Shirin Mohammad Sherif, 35, a Pakistani heroin trafficker who was hanged in front of the interior ministry in Kuwait City in the fourth execution of a drug dealer since the introduction in 1995 of
- JANUARY 13, 2004PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A Pakistani anti terrorism court sentenced to death...
A Pakistani anti terrorism court sentenced to death Atta Ullah and Mohammed Azam, two leaders of an outlawed Islamic militant group, for killing a minority Shiite Muslim
- DECEMBER 26, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The Pakistan Supreme Court upheld the death sentences...
The Pakistan Supreme Court upheld the death sentences passed on three defendants in a murder case
- DECEMBER 12, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A Kuwaiti criminal court sentenced 'Akhtar', a Pakistani...
A Kuwaiti criminal court sentenced 'Akhtar', a Pakistani national, to death on charges of smuggling heroin into the country
- DECEMBER 5, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
An Anti Terrorist Court in Pakistan sentenced five...
An Anti Terrorist Court in Pakistan sentenced five people to death on two counts after convicting them in two separate murders
- NOVEMBER 11, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Niaz Ahmed, a Muslim, was sentenced to death in Pakistan...
Niaz Ahmed, a Muslim, was sentenced to death in Pakistan for insulting Islam's Prophet Mohammad
- NOVEMBER 2, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The Additional District and Sessions Court in Daska,...
The Additional District and Sessions Court in Daska, Pakistan, sentenced Sajjad Ahmad to death for murder
- OCTOBER 22, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Mohammad Ramadan Sardar and Dhaher Shah bin Faqir Shah,...
Mohammad Ramadan Sardar and Dhaher Shah bin Faqir Shah, two Pakistani nationals sentenced to death for heroin smuggling, were beheaded by sword in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
- OCTOBER 17, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Alfjan Mohammad Akbar Khan, a Pakistani found guilty...
Alfjan Mohammad Akbar Khan, a Pakistani found guilty of drug trafficking, was beheaded by the sword in the town of Huta Bani Tamim, in the Riyadh region of Saudi Arabia