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
OCTOBER 31, 2016PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: SC STAYS HANGING OF MENTALLY ILL CONVICT IMDAD ALI
Supreme Court stayed the execution of Imdad Ali, a schizophrenic man convicted in 2002 for murdering a
OCTOBER 25, 2016PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: FATHER IS SENTENCED TO DEATH AFTER MURDERING HIS DAUGHTER BECAUSE SHE COULDN'T BAKE 'PERFECT BREAD'
A father has been sentenced to death in Pakistan after he confessed to killing his daughter because she wasn't able to bake perfect bread.
- OCTOBER 21, 2016PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: SUPREME COURT SAYS SCHIZOPHRENIA NOT A MENTAL DISORDER, DISMISSES MERCY PLEA OF DEATH ROW CONVICT
Pakistan's Supreme Court has ruled that schizophrenia is not a mental disorder as per the law of the land,
OCTOBER 13, 2016PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: GENERAL SHARIF SIGNS DEATH WARRANTS OF TEN TERRORISTS
Chief of the Army Staff, General Raheel Sharif signed death warrants of ten terrorists who were tried by military courts.
- SEPTEMBER 27, 2016PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS DEATH PENALTY FOR MENTALLY ILL MAN
An international rights group says Pakistan's Supreme Court has upheld the death penalty against a mentally
SEPTEMBER 18, 2016PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN STAYS EXECUTION OF MENTALLY ILL MAN
A Pakistani official said the Supreme court has temporarily stayed the execution of a mentally ill man.
JULY 27, 2016PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: TWO DEATH ROW CONVICTS EXECUTED IN SAHIWAL, SARGODHA JAIL
Two death row prisoners Ghulam Mustafa and Sibtain were executed in Central jail of Sahiwal and Sargodha’s district jail respectively.
JULY 26, 2016PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: MURDER CONVICT HANGED IN SIALKOT JAIL
A murder convict was hanged in the morning at Sialkot District Jail.
JULY 18, 2016PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: TWO DEATH ROW CONVICTS HANGED IN ADIALA JAIL
Two murder convicts were hanged in the morning in Adiala Jail, Rawalpindi.
JULY 7, 2016PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: THREE SENTENCED TO DEATH WITHOUT HEARING EVIDENCE
A judge in Pakistan's anti-terrorism court heard no hard evidence, yet sentenced a Christian school principal to death under the charges of blasphemy.
- JUNE 27, 2016PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: THREE MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR BLASPHEMY
An Anti-Terrorism Court in Gujranwala sentenced two Christian and one Muslim man to death for
JUNE 16, 2016PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: SC RESTORES DEATH SENTENCE OF PML-N MNA
The Supreme Court restored the death sentence of PML-N MNA Abid Raza in a murder case, saying that a convict sentenced under Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) cannot be acquitted.