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
DECEMBER 26, 2020PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: RAWALPINDI MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPING DIFFERENTLY-ABLED MINOR
A Rawalpindi criminal trial court for gender-based violence sentenced on 19 December 2020 Muhammad Ayub to death for raping a 12-year-old differently-abled girl, ARY News reported.
DECEMBER 21, 2020PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: MURDERER OF SERVICEMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH
A sessions court in Islamabad on 19 December 2020 awarded death sentence to Baitullah and life imprisonment to Gul Siddique for the murder of Major Mohammad Laraib of the Special Services Group (SSG) last year.
DECEMBER 8, 2020PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: THREE AWARDED DEATH PENALTY FOR RAPING WOMAN
A Gilgit court on 7 December 2020 sentenced three accused to death after they were found guilty on subjecting a woman to sexual abuse in Gilgit Baltistan’s Shigar.
DECEMBER 3, 2020PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: DEATH SENTENCE OF 2003 RIMSHA RAPE, MURDER CASE CONVICT UPHELD BY SUPREME COURT
The Supreme Court of Pakistan on 2 December 2020 denied the appeal of the accused in the 2003 case pertaining to the rape and murder of a minor and upheld the death sentence which had previously been awarded to accused Shabaan.
DECEMBER 2, 2020PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: COURT AWARDS DEATH PENALTY TO MURDERER ON FIVE COUNTS
Shujabad District and Sessions Court on 27 November 2020 handed over death sentence on five counts to a killer of five family members.
NOVEMBER 25, 2020PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: COURT AWARDS DEATH SENTENCE TO ACCUSED IN CHILD ABUSE CASE
A court in Rawalpindi on 23 November 2020 awarded death penalty to convict Qari Abdul Hai for sodomizing and murdering a seven-year-old boy in a village of Fateh Jhang.
NOVEMBER 24, 2020PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: PHC COMMUTES CONVICT’S DEATH SENTENCE TO LIFE IN PRISON
The Peshawar High Court on 19 November 2020 commuted the death sentence of the man convicted for the 2017 lynching of university student Mashal Khan, converting it to life imprisonment.
- NOVEMBER 23, 2020PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: COP AWARDED DEATH PENALTY FOR 2018 FAKE ENCOUNTER IN KARACHI
An anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Karachi on 21 November 2020 sentenced a Sindh police officer to death in a case pertaining to the killing of a citizen in a dubious encounter in 2018.
NOVEMBER 21, 2020PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: ‘HABITUAL’ PAEDOPHILE SOHAIL AYAZ SENTENCED TO DEATH
A Rawalpindi trial court on 18 November 2020 sentenced ‘habitual’ paedophile Sohail Ayaz to death on three counts apart from awarding him three sentences of rigorous imprisonment for abducting and raping young boys and for recording and disseminating the
NOVEMBER 16, 2020PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING WARDEN
The Anti-Terrorist Court (ATC) of Rawalpindi on 11 November 2020 awarded three times death sentence to an accused in murder of a traffic warden and a passerby.
NOVEMBER 2, 2020PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: MAN AWARDED DEATH PENALTY FOR MURDERING MOTHER
A court in Attock, Pakistan, on 29 October 2020 awarded death sentence to a man for his involvement in a murder case in Rangoo Police station of Attock besides imposing fine worth Rs0.620 million.
NOVEMBER 1, 2020PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: CHRISTIAN FAMILY FLEES FOR THEIR LIVES AFTER HUSBAND SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR 'BLASPHEMY'
A Pakistani Christian's wife and family have gone into hiding after he was sentenced to death for allegedly committing blasphemy against Islam, CBN News denounced on 28 October 2020.