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
- 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 PENALTY
PAKISTAN: 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.
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 19, 2019PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: THREE MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPING GIRL IN SANGHAR
Three men were handed death sentences on 24 May 2019 by an additional sessions court in Sanghar for the gang rape of a student of class nine.
- JUNE 11, 2019PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: TWO TOP RANKING ARMY OFFICERS AND A CIVILIAN SENTENCED ON ESPIONAGE CHARGES AND LEAKING SENSITIVE INFORMATION
Pakistan Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa has endorsed the death sentence to a retired army officer and a civilian and rigorous imprisonment to one army officer on charges of "espionage/leakage of sensitive information to foreign agencies pre
- JUNE 10, 2019PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: 2 LASHKAR-E-JHANGVI MILITANTS HANDED DOWN DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING LAWYER
An anti-terrorism court (ATC) on 23 May 2019 sentenced 2 Lashkar-e-Jhangvi militants to death in an eight-year-old case of a lawyer’s killing in a sectarian attack outside a former judge’s residence.
MAY 28, 2019PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: DEATH CONVICT SENT TO GALLOWS IN MIANWALI
A death convict who had killed 3 persons was hanged in Central jail Mianwali on 4 May 2019.
MAY 17, 2019PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE OF THREE CONVICTS
The Lahore High Court (LHC) on 16 May 2019 upheld the death sentence of three convicts and acquitted two others in the lynching and burning alive of a Christian couple who were accused of blasphemy in Kasur’s Kot Radha Kishan in the year 2014.
MAY 13, 2019PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: SHC COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCES FOR SHAHRUKH JATOI, SIRAJ TALPUR IN SHAHZEB MURDER CASE
The Sindh High Court on 13 May 2019 commuted the death sentences handed to Shahrukh Jatoi and Siraj Talpur in the Shahzeb Khan murder case into life imprisonment as it announced its verdict on their appeals against conviction in the case.
- MAY 8, 2019PakistanDEATH PENALTY
ASIA BIBI, CHRISTIAN CLEARED OF BLASPHEMY CHARGES, LEAVES PAKISTAN FOR CANADA
A Pakistani Christian woman who spent eight years on death row in Pakistan after being found guilty of blasphemy — a conviction that was later overturned — has arrived in Canada, her lawyer said on 8 May 2019.
APRIL 19, 2019PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: 78% DEATH PENALTY CASES OVERTURNED BY SC
Criminal law barrister at Doughty Street Chambers Timothy Moloney QC and UK-based non-governmental organisation ‘Reprieve’ Director Maya Foa met Federal Minister for Law and Justice Barrister Dr Muhammad Farogh Naseem on 19 April 2019 and presented a repo