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
- SEPTEMBER 29, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: ONE GETS DEATH SENTENCE
in Daska, Pakistan, Additional session judge Sheikh Ijaz Ahmed sentenced Imran to death for shooting dead Aslam over a monetary dispute under Saddar police station on May 27, 2008.
- SEPTEMBER 29, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: DEATH SENTENCE CONVERTED TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT
a full bench of the Federal Shariat Court in Pakistan converted the death sentence of two convicts awarded by a session court in a rape case into life imprisonment and set aside their punishment of whipping.
- SEPTEMBER 29, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: ATC AWARDS DEATH SENTENCE TO 3 IN ALLAMA TURABI'S MURDER CASE
Judge Anand Ram of the Special Anti-Terror Court No. 3 in Karachi, Pakistan...
- SEPTEMBER 28, 2010IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: KASAB CHALLENGES DEATH PENALTY IN BOMBAY HIGH COURT
Pakistani national Ajmal Kasab filed an appeal in the Bombay High Court in India challenging the death penalty awarded to him for killing 166 people on November 26, 2008.
- SEPTEMBER 28, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: MAN GETS DEATH FOR KILLING RELATIVE
in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, additional district and sessions judge Judge Sajjad Hussain Sindhar sentenced Mehtab Khan to death and ordered him to pay Rs 200,000 compensation.
- SEPTEMBER 27, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
TALIBAN MILITANTS STONE WOMAN TO DEATH IN PAKISTAN
Taliban militants stoned a woman to death in Orakzai, Pakistan.
- SEPTEMBER 25, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: DEATH SENTENCE AWARDED TO THREE FOR MURDER
in Faisalabad, Pakistan, Additional Sessions Judge Sammundri Rai Hafeez Ullah Khan sentenced Tariq and his brother Abid and Raheel to death for murdering M Ashfaq of Chak No.209-GB over a minor dispute two years ago.
- SEPTEMBER 24, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: MAN GETS DEATH SENTENCE
in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, additional district and sessions judge Raja Pervaiz Akhtar sentenced Khizar Iqbal to death for killing his rival Sajid Mehmood in September 2007 over a family feud and fined him Rs200,000.
- SEPTEMBER 24, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: TWO SENTENCED TO DEATH
in Lahore, Pakistan, an additional district and sessions judge sentenced a man identifed as Ayaz to death for burning his wife to death under the Mustafabad police area in 2008 and fined him Rs50,000.
- SEPTEMBER 21, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH
in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Additional District and Sessions Judge Sajjad Hussain Sindhar sentenced Mohammad Khizar to death for murdering Babar Hussain, 26, and ordered him to pay Rs500,000 compensation to the legal heirs of the deceased.
- SEPTEMBER 18, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: ATC AWARDS DEATH SENTENCE FOR MURDER
in Sargodha, Pakistan, Anti-Terrorist Court Special judge Mian Anwar Nazir sentenced Kafayat Ullah and Abdul Sattar to death and 34 years rigorous jail on four counts and fined them Rs 580,000.
- SEPTEMBER 15, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: MAN AWARDED DEATH IN DOUBLE MURDER CASE
in Chitral, Pakistan, an Additional Sessions judge sentenced Sher Hakim of Terich village to death for murdering his wife Safia Bibi and a relative Shakil Ahmed on July 28, 2009 suspecting them of having illicit relations.