Pakistan 2004
Death penalty and prisoners' rights · Archive since 1999
News on Pakistan in 2004
- MAY 16, 2004PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf called on religious...
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf called on religious scholars to re-examine strict Islamic laws which discriminate against women and non-Muslims
- APRIL 21, 2004PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Pakistan voted against the resolution on the death...
Pakistan voted against the resolution on the death penalty at the 60th UN Commission on Human Rights
- APRIL 20, 2004PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Mohammad Wahab Widad, a Pakistani convicted of smuggling...
Mohammad Wahab Widad, a Pakistani convicted of smuggling heroin, was executed in the Red Sea city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
- APRIL 13, 2004PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The executions of Dossa and Naseer Ahmed were adjourned...
The executions of Dossa and Naseer Ahmed were adjourned for a month on the orders of the President of Pakistan
- APRIL 13, 2004PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Zaman Shah was hanged in the Central Jail in Sahiwal,...
Zaman Shah was hanged in the Central Jail in Sahiwal, Pakistan, after being convicted of killing his brother in law Sabir Shah in Okara on October 30, 1994
- APRIL 12, 2004PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The death penalty is imposed for several crimes
The death penalty is imposed for several crimes
- APRIL 10, 2004PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Dad Allah and Faizullah were sentenced to death in...
Dad Allah and Faizullah were sentenced to death in Pakistan by an Anti Terrorist Court (ATC) after being convicted of robbery and murder under section 7 (A) of the ATC Act
- MARCH 29, 2004PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A court in Karachi, Pakistan, convicted and sentenced...
A court in Karachi, Pakistan, convicted and sentenced to death Zulfiqar Ali for fatally shooting two police officers outside the US consulate in Karachi
- MARCH 25, 2004PakistanDEATH PENALTY
An Indian court in Bhuj town in Gujarat state sentenced...
An Indian court in Bhuj town in Gujarat state sentenced four Pakistani men to death for "waging war" against India after they were caught smuggling the deadly explosive RDX into the country in 1999
- MARCH 15, 2004PakistanDEATH PENALTY
seven people accused of kidnapping and murder...
seven people accused of kidnapping and murder...
- MARCH 14, 2004PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Qaumi Lashkar (tribal force) executed publicly eight abductors
Qaumi Lashkar (tribal force) executed publicly eight abductors
- MARCH 6, 2004PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Suhail alias Lali was sentenced to death fine of Rs...
Suhail alias Lali was sentenced to death fine of Rs 50,000 in Lahore, Pakistan, by Additional District and Sessions Judge Najam-ul-Hassan Bukhari for murdering a property dealer
- MARCH 6, 2004PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Umer Shahid was sentenced to death sentence with a...
Umer Shahid was sentenced to death sentence with a fine of Rs
- MARCH 6, 2004PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Tahir Waseem was sentenced to death with a fine of Rs
Tahir Waseem was sentenced to death with a fine of Rs
- MARCH 4, 2004PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Shaikh Amjad was hanged till death in Karachi Central...
Shaikh Amjad was hanged till death in Karachi Central Prison, Pakistan, on the orders of the Anti-Terrorism Court in Karachi
- MARCH 2, 2004PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Mohamad Abdul Hafeez, a Pakistani sentenced to death...
Mohamad Abdul Hafeez, a Pakistani sentenced to death in Indonesia for attempting to smuggle 995 grams of heroin into the country from Karachi in May 2001, said his death sentence was too harsh
- MARCH 1, 2004PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Dhafer Iqbal Qadhi Kalim, a Pakistani convicted of...
Dhafer Iqbal Qadhi Kalim, a Pakistani convicted of smuggling an undisclosed amount of heroin, was beheaded by the sword in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, the Saudi interior ministry said, announcing the first execution in the country this
- FEBRUARY 20, 2004PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The Additional District and Session Court of Daska,...
The Additional District and Session Court of Daska, Pakistan, awarded a death sentence on four counts with a fine of Rs
- FEBRUARY 1, 2004PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The widow of Daniel Pearl, the murdered journalist,...
The widow of Daniel Pearl, the murdered journalist, called for hmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, the British-born Islamic militant behind his killing, to be executed in Pakistan
- JANUARY 27, 2004PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Two Pakistani nationals were executed in Kuwait, in...
Two Pakistani nationals were executed in Kuwait, in the second hanging in a week
- JANUARY 23, 2004PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A Pakistani court sentenced three Islamic militants...
A Pakistani court sentenced three Islamic militants to death after finding them guilty of killing four women as they prayed at a church near Islamabad
- JANUARY 20, 2004PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Kuwaiti authorities publicly displayed the corpse of...
Kuwaiti authorities publicly displayed the corpse of Fazel Shirin Mohammad Sherif, 35, a Pakistani heroin trafficker who was hanged in front of the interior ministry in Kuwait City in the fourth execution of a drug dealer since the introduction in 1995 of
- JANUARY 13, 2004PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A Pakistani anti terrorism court sentenced to death...
A Pakistani anti terrorism court sentenced to death Atta Ullah and Mohammed Azam, two leaders of an outlawed Islamic militant group, for killing a minority Shiite Muslim