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
- APRIL 9, 2015PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: ANOTHER DEATH ROW PRISONER HANGED IN RAWALPINDI
a murderer was executed at the Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi, bringing the number of executions to 69 since their resumption in December 2014.
APRIL 8, 2015PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: TWO MORE PRISONERS HANGED IN MACHH AND BAHAWALPUR
Another two convicted murderers were hanged to death between April 7 and 8 in Balochistan's Machh jail and Punjab's Bahawalpur Central Jail, bringing the number of executions to 68 since their resumption in December 2014.
APRIL 7, 2015PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: TWO PRISONERS HANGED IN LAHORE AND SAHIWAL
two convicted murderers were hanged to death in Lahore and Sahiwal jails, bringing the number of executions to 66 since their resumption in December 2014.
APRIL 7, 2015PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: CHRISTIAN COUPLE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR BLASPHEMY
Two Pakistani Christians have been sentenced to death for supposedly violating the country’s blasphemy laws.
- APRIL 2, 2015PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: 6 TERRORISTS AWARDED CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IN MILITARY COURT
Six convicted terrorists, who were tried at a Military Court established under National Action Plan (NAP), are sentenced to death, Capital TV reported.
- MARCH 31, 2015PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: ANOTHER FOUR DEATH ROW PRISONERS EXECUTED IN VARIOUS JAILS OF THE COUNTRY
four convicts for murder and kidnapping in separate cases were hanged in jails of Attock, Mianwali, Sargodha and Rawalpindi, taking to 64 the number of executions since the country reversed the self-imposed moratorium on the death penalty in December.
- MARCH 26, 2015PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: ANOTHER MURDER CONVICT HANGED IN FAISALABAD
another murder convict was hanged in Faisalabad's Central Jail after being on death row for around two decades.
- MARCH 25, 2015PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: SIX MORE HANGED IN VARIOUS JAILS ACROSS THE COUNTRY
six more death row prisoners were executed in various jails across Punjab and Sindh provinces, bringing the number of executions to 59 since an unofficial moratorium on capital punishment was lifted in December.
MARCH 24, 2015PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: ANOTHER MURDER CONVICT HANGED IN MULTAN
a murder convict was hanged at the Multan Central Jail, bringing to 53 the number of convicts put to death since Pakistan resumed executions in December 2014 after Taliban militants gunned down 154 people, most of them children, at a military-run school i
MARCH 20, 2015PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR BLASPHEMY
A judge in Pakistan's Lahore District and Sessions court sentenced Liaquat Ali to death for blasphemy.
MARCH 19, 2015PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: FOUR MORE PRISONERS SENT TO THE GALLOWS
four more death row prisoners were executed in Rawalpindi and Mianwali. All convicts had been awarded the death sentence in non-terror related cases.
MARCH 18, 2015PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: NINE MORE CONVICTS HANGED IN PUNJAB JAILS
nine more murder convicts were hanged in six prisons of Pakistan, a day after 12 convicts were sent to gallows, the largest number of people executed on the same day since an unofficial moratorium on capital punishment was lifted in December.