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
NOVEMBER 20, 2019PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: KARACHI COURT SENTENCES TWO MEN TO DEATH FOR MURDER
An anti-terrorism court in Karachi sentenced on 30 October 2019 two men to death after they were found guilty of murdering two people.
NOVEMBER 12, 2019PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: KARACHI COURT SENTENCES MUGGER TO DEATH FOR KILLING INSPECTOR
A Karachi court on 9 November 2019 sentenced to death an accused person found guilty of killing an inspector during an armed robbery in 2016.
OCTOBER 30, 2019PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: COURT HANDS DOUBLE DEATH PENALTY TO LAHORE MAN FOR RAPING, MURDERING CHILD
A sessions court in Lahore on 17 October 2019 handed two death penalties, life imprisonment and an Rs700,000 fine to a man for raping and murdering a child.
OCTOBER 16, 2019PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: MAN, SON SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING FOUR WOMEN
An anti-terrorism court has convicted two persons for killing a woman and her three daughters in Peshawar city four years ago and sentenced them to death with fine of Rs1.6 million, Dawn reported on 3 October 2019.
- SEPTEMBER 30, 2019PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: TWO KILLERS OF SHIA DOCTOR AND SHOPKEEPER SENTENCED TO DEATH
An anti-terrorism court on 26 September 2019 sentenced two terrorists involved in targeted murders of two Shia Muslims to death.
SEPTEMBER 19, 2019PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: WOMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDERING HER FAMILY
A sessions judge in Sargodha has awarded the death sentence for five times to a woman for killing her husband, son and three daughters, The Nation reported on 17 September 2019.
SEPTEMBER 18, 2019PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING YOUNG DAUGHTER
A court in Karachi on 27 August 2019 awarded death sentence to a man for killing his daughter for ‘honour’.
JULY 24, 2019PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: MURDERER OF TRANSGENDER PERSON GETS DEATH PENALTY
The killer of a transgender person was sentenced to death by district and session court in Peshawar on 22 July 2019. The judgment was announced by Judge Saadia Andaleeb in the murder case of Alisha, who was brutally gunned down by Fazal Dayan Alias Fazal
- JULY 18, 2019PakistanDEATH PENALTY
WORLD COURT ORDERS PAKISTAN TO REVIEW DEATH SENTENCE OF ALLEGED INDIAN SPY KULBHUSHAN JADHAV
The International Court of Justice ordered Pakistan on 17 July 2019 to review the death sentence for an alleged Indian spy, ruling Islamabad had violated New Delhi’s rights to consular visits after his arrest.
JUNE 24, 2019PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: SC TURNS DEATH SENTENCE TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT IN TERRORISM CASE
The Supreme Court on 21 June 2019 overturned the death sentence awarded to a murder convict by a trial court in 2007, converting the sentence into life imprisonment.
JUNE 20, 2019PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: MURDER CONVICT HANGED IN CENTRAL JAIL HARIPUR
A 45-year-old child rapist, Muhammad Jahanzeb, a resident of Charkha Khel, was hanged in Central Jail Haripur on 19 June 2019.
JUNE 20, 2019PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: MURDERER OF THREE WOMEN HANGED AT KOT LAKHPAT JAIL
Ashraf Noor, convicted of murdering three women, was hanged to death on 19 June 2019 in Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat Central Jail.