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
- JUNE 22, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A Special Judge Anti Terrorist Court in Lahore handed...
A Special Judge Anti Terrorist Court in Lahore handed down a death sentence to Mushtaq Ahmad for a dacoity cum murder case
- JUNE 21, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A teacher in Lahore was given the death sentence for...
A teacher in Lahore was given the death sentence for hacking to death a ten-year-old pupil
- JUNE 20, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Akbar Sain was condemned to death by an Additional...
Akbar Sain was condemned to death by an Additional District and Sessions court in Lahore for murdering [a person identified only as] Nasir over a money dispute in the Audit Officer Colony of Gulberg on July 13 ,1997
- JUNE 19, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
An Additional District and Sessions court in Lahore...
An Additional District and Sessions court in Lahore Zawar Ahmad meted out deathsentences to Muhammad Khan Chachar and Yousaf Bogio for firing on Imran Aziz, son of Supreme Court Judge Rashid Aziz Khan and murdering his assistant Ghulam Mustafa
- JUNE 17, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Three accomplices, Waheed alias Tadi, Shakeel alias...
Three accomplices, Waheed alias Tadi, Shakeel alias Shahjee and Zahid, were condemned to death for a double murder during a robbery by an additional district and session court in Faisalabad
- JUNE 12, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A murder convict whose black warrants had been issued...
A murder convict whose black warrants had been issued was pardoned by the heirs of the deceased and set free by the District and Sessions Judge in Gujranwala
- JUNE 11, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Abdul Hameed was condemned to death for shooting dead...
Abdul Hameed was condemned to death for shooting dead Abdul Hamid of Chak in a dispute over water in March 1997
- MAY 30, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
An Additional District and Sessions court in Okara...
An Additional District and Sessions court in Okara has imposed death sentence on one and gave life imprisonment to two others
- MAY 30, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A convict soldier was hung to death at the Kot Lakhpat...
A convict soldier was hung to death at the Kot Lakhpat Jail, while the hanging of his accomplicewas deferred for a month
- MAY 30, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Saudi Arabia executed a Pakistani man, Zeinullah Khan...
Saudi Arabia executed a Pakistani man, Zeinullah Khan Arjoun Khan, for smuggling heroin into the kingdom
- MAY 29, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Abdul Hameed was condemned to death for murdering his...
Abdul Hameed was condemned to death for murdering his sister-in-law Sameena
- MAY 29, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Additional District and Sessions Judge Tariq Iftikhar...
Additional District and Sessions Judge Tariq Iftikhar Ahmed gave the death sentence to Abid Manzoor for murdering Doctor Shamsuzaman