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 2, 2017PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: MURDER CONVICT SENTENCED TO DEATH
A court awarded death sentence to a murder convict for his involvement in a murder case in Sargodha.
OCTOBER 31, 2017PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: MAN CONVICTED OF MURDER, RAPE EXECUTED IN HYDERABAD
A man charged with murder and rape was executed early in the morning at the Hyderabad Central Prison.
- OCTOBER 20, 2017PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: MAN GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR MURDERING NIECE
A court awarded death sentence to a murder convict in Dera Ghazi Khan. The judgment was announced by District and Sessions Judge Chaudhry Munir ahmed.
OCTOBER 19, 2017PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: MAN GETS DEATH SENTENCE FOR ‘HONOUR-DRIVEN’ MURDER
A court awarded capital punishment to a murderer for killing a man two years ago on suspicion he was having an affair with his sister.
OCTOBER 17, 2017PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: MULTAN WOMAN HANDED DEATH SENTENCE FOR HUSBAND'S MURDER
An anti-terrorism court in Multan sentenced a woman to death on two counts while also handing her a life imprisonment sentence after finding her guilty of murdering her husband.
- OCTOBER 17, 2017PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: AL QAEDA MAN’S DEATH PENALTY COMMUTED
An appellate bench of the Sindh High Court commuted the death penalty of an Al Qaeda militant to life imprisonment.
OCTOBER 4, 2017PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: THREE HARDCORE TERRORISTS HANGED IN KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA PRISON
SEPTEMBER 8, 2017PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: COAS GEN QAMAR BAJWA CONFIRMS DEATH SENTENCE FOR FOUR TERRORISTS
Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa confirmed death sentence for four terrorists.
- JULY 26, 2017PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Sarmad Ali Advocate High Court said that according the Ministry of Interior of Pakistan, there are about 44 women on death row in Pakistan and one of them is about to be executed who is insane.
Sarmad Ali Advocate High Court said that according the Ministry of Interior of Pakistan, there are about 44 women on death row in Pakistan and one of them is about to be executed who is insane.
JULY 20, 2017PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: MAN HANGED TO DEATH IN ATTOCK JAIL
A death row convict was executed in Central Jail Attock in the early morning.
JULY 19, 2017PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: DEATH ROW CONVICT HANGED AT MULTAN JAIL
A death-row prisoner was hanged at Multan Central Jail early.
JULY 18, 2017PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: MURDER CONVICT HANGED
A double murder convict was hanged after spending almost two decades in Central Jail Adiala for killing his brother and sister-in-law in Kallar Syedan.