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
- MAY 8, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A division bench of Sindh High Court dismissed the...
A division bench of Sindh High Court dismissed the appeal of three against a judgment made by the Anti-Terrorism Court in Karachi in a case involving kidnapping and ransom, but converted their death sentences into life terms
- MAY 7, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A court in Pakistan sentenced a woman to death for...
A court in Pakistan sentenced a woman to death for drugs offences
- MAY 5, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The Special Anti-Terrorism Court sentenced to death...
The Special Anti-Terrorism Court sentenced to death on two counts with a fine of Rs 2 hundred thousand Shabbir Ahmad for murdering a Police Inspector and a Head Constable as they conducted a raid on a house
- MAY 2, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The anti-terrorist court at Hyderabad sentenced to...
The anti-terrorist court at Hyderabad sentenced to death two men named as Aurangzeb and Ashraf and fined them Rs
- APRIL 26, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Three Islamic Sunni militants were sentenced to death...
Three Islamic Sunni militants were sentenced to death by a Pakistani court for the murder of three men from the rival Shiite community in March 2002
- APRIL 26, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The Sialkot Additional District & Session Judge Nazir...
The Sialkot Additional District & Session Judge Nazir Ahmad awarded a death sentence for two counts with a fine of Rs
- APRIL 24, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Pakistan voted against the resolution on the death...
Pakistan voted against the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights, in Geneva
- APRIL 21, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Myan Gul Jan Khan, a Pakistani sentenced to death for...
Myan Gul Jan Khan, a Pakistani sentenced to death for drug trafficking, was publicly executed in a square in Riyadh, the Saudi Arabian capital, declared the Saudi Interior Ministry
- APRIL 18, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A division bench of Lahore High Court accepted the...
A division bench of Lahore High Court accepted the appeals of two convicts Omar Hayat and Muhammad Iqbal and turned their death sentences into life term imprisonment
- APRIL 16, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Mohammed Nawaz, a former employee of Pakistan's Interior...
Mohammed Nawaz, a former employee of Pakistan's Interior Ministry, was sentenced to death for killing seven members of his family because he was angered by his daughter's decision to marry a Christian
- APRIL 14, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
An anti-terrorism court convicted four members of an...
An anti-terrorism court convicted four members of an outlawed Islamic militant group of orchestrating a truck bombing outside the U
- APRIL 11, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A Pakistani anti-terrorism court ordered a man to be...
A Pakistani anti-terrorism court ordered a man to be hanged to death for multiple sectarian murders, court officials said