Pakistan
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- 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
- SEPTEMBER 20, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: DEATH PENALTY FOR MURDER OF WIFE, DAUGHTER
in Pakistan, Faisalabad Anti Terrorist Court No 1 judge Raja Muhammad Arshad sentenced Nasir Iqbal to death for setting his wife Sobia and daughter Kashfa, 10, on fire on April 19, 2011, causing their deaths.
- SEPTEMBER 20, 2011IndiaDEATH PENALTY
LAHORE HIGH COURT DISMISSES PLEA TO STOP SARABJIT'S POSSIBLE CLEMENCY
in Pakistan, the Lahore high court dismissed the petition filed by Rana Ilamuddin Ghazi contending that the President of Pakistan could not commute the death sentence of Indian national Sarabjit Singh into life imprisonment.
- SEPTEMBER 14, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: 3 AWARDED DEATH IN KIDNAPPING CASE
Rawalpindi Anti-Terrorist Court No-II Judge Syed Pervez Ali Shah sentenced Muhammad Naeem...
- SEPTEMBER 10, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: PAKISTANI FAMILY APPEALS TO CHINA OVER DEATH SENTENCE
the family of Pakistani national Zahid Hussain appealed to the Chinese authorities to commute his death sentence for drug trafficking to life imprisonment on humanitarian grounds.
AUGUST 25, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KIDNAPPING
in Faisalabad, Pakistan, Anti Terrorist Court No.1 Judge Raja Muhammad Arshad
AUGUST 24, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: CAPITAL PUNISHMENT FOR MURDER
in Faisalabad, Pakistan, Anti Terrorist Court (ATC) judge Mian Muhammad Nazeer sentenced Muhammad
- AUGUST 17, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: ONE AWARDED DEATH SENTENCE IN MURDER CASE
in Pakistan, District and Sessions Judge Muqarab Khan Niazi sentenced Muhammad Aslam
- AUGUST 12, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTANI SOLDIER SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER FATAL SHOOTING OF TEEN
a Pakistani court sentenced paramilitary soldier Shahid Zafar to death and fined him $2,300 for shooting unarmed teenager Sarfraz Shah in the southern port city of Karachi in June.
- AUGUST 12, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: DEATH FOR RAWALPINDI ATTACK ACCUSED
a former Army man has been sentenced to death by a military court in Pakistan for the attack on the General Headquarters in Rawalpindi in October 2009.
- JULY 30, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: QASAB APPEALS AGAINST DEATH SENTENCE
Pakistani national Mohammad Ajmal Amir Qasab, 23, appealed his death sentence to the Indian Supreme Court for the November 26, 2008, terror attacks in Mumbai.
- JULY 25, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: SUPREME COURT MOVED TO ABOLISH CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
Barrister Zafarullah Khan of Watan Party, filed a petition in the Supreme Court of Pakistan
- JULY 22, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTY
MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPING DAUGHTER IN PAKISTAN
in Pakistan, Additional District and Sessions Judge Tahir Khan Niazi sentenced Khalid Ameen, a Baghbanpuraa resident, to death for raping his 15-year-old daughter continuously for one month before May 18, 2008. Parveen, Ameen's wife, registered an inciden