Pakistan
Death penalty and prisoners' rights · Archive since 1999
Data card
- Legal status
- Retentionist
- Executions recorded in 2026
- 0
- Executions recorded in 2025
- 0
- First news item in the archive
- JANUARY 1, 1999 · In December 1998, the Government set up military trial...
- News items in the archive
- 2,105
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
Pakistan is classified as Retentionist in the Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026. In 2026 the association recorded 0 executions in the country, against 0 the year before. The archive holds 2,105 news items on Pakistan, from 1999 to today.
In Pakistan the death penalty applies to a very wide list of offences, from murder to terrorism to blasphemy, and the method is hanging. The country observed a de facto moratorium for some years, broken after the attack on the school in Peshawar in 2014.
Pakistan's death row is among the most populated in the world. The archive follows executions, sentences, appeals and the cases of people with mental disabilities.
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- MAY 21, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTY
a Pakistani militant group, Lashkar-i-Islam...
a Pakistani militant group, Lashkar-i-Islam...
- MAY 14, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: MAN GETS DEATH SENTENCE IN KIDNAPPING, MURDER CASE
the Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) in Karachi, Pakistan, handed down a double death sentence to a man for kidnapping an eight year old girl for ransom and later killing her in cold blood.
MAY 14, 2008IranDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN. GHOLAM HAIDAR BALOCH FACES RISK OF EXECUTION IF TRANSFERRED TO IRAN
Balochistan Human Rights Watch reported that Gholam Haidar Baloch, a Pakistan
MAY 14, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN. INTERIOR MINISTRY OPPOSED TO CHANGING DEATH PENALTY
the Pakistani Ministry of Interior strongly opposed the proposal to change the death penalty
- MAY 9, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: FOUR AWARDED DEATH SENTENCES FOR DRUG SMUGGLING
in Multan, Pakistan, Additional District & Session Judge Mian Masood Hussain awarded the death sentence and fines of Rs.0.5 million each to four men for drug smuggling.
- MAY 1, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI ARABIA. 3 PAKISTANIS EXECUTED FOR HASHISH SMUGGLING
Zargar Sadajan, Roajan Sodajar, and Naik Mohammed Malak Mohammed, all Pakistanis, were
- MAY 1, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: ONE GETS DEATH PENALTY IN KIDNAPPING AND KILLING CASE
an Anti-Terrorism Court sentenced to death a man and awarded life imprisonment to a co-defendant woman after finding them guilty of kidnapping a businessman for ransom and later killing him. M Sohail, 21, and Ms. Zainab, 21, were prosecuted for kidnapping
- APRIL 30, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. TRIBAL ELDERS URGED TO HELP STOP EXECUTIONS IN MOHMAND AGENCY
fearing yet another public execution of an alleged outlaw, tribesmen in Machinai locality
- APRIL 29, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: SARABJIT’S EXECUTION PROCEDURALLY DELAYED BY 14-21 DAYS
the execution of Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh in Pakistan was procedurally delayed by 14 to 21 days, Dawn News reported.
- APRIL 29, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. SC SEEKS AG’S EXPLANATION
a three member bench of the Pakistani Supreme Court directed the attorney general to report whether
- APRIL 28, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: DEATH PENALTY CANNOT BE AWARDED FOR HIGH TREASON
capital punishment cannot be awarded for high treason under Article 6 of the Constitution because of a lacuna in the High Treason Punishment Act, 1973, Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Senator Dr Babar Awan said.
- APRIL 28, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. MILITANTS BEHEAD 'SPY' IN TRIBAL AREA
pro-Taliban militants in the Pakistan's tribal areas beheaded a 35 year old policeman in Peshawar, accusing
- APRIL 27, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTANI TALIBAN PUBLICLY EXECUTE ALLEGED CRIMINAL
Pakistani Taliban militants publicly executed an alleged criminal involved in kidnappings for ransom in a tribal area bordering Afghanistan, witnesses said
APRIL 25, 2008Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI BEHEADS PAKISTANIS, SYRIAN FOR DRUG SMUGGLING
two Pakistanis and a Syrian convicted of smuggling drugs were beheaded by the
- APRIL 24, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTY
BROTHERS HANGED FOR KILLING RELATIVES
four brothers were hanged in Pakistan's eastern Punjab province for murdering their relatives eight years ago.
- APRIL 19, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN TO COMMUTE DEATH SENTENCES TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT - OFFICIAL
the new Pakistani government will commute all death sentences to life imprisonment in line with the policy of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP), Prime Minister's Adviser on Interior Rehman Malik said.
- APRIL 19, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTANI TALIBAN PUBLICLY EXECUTE THREE PEOPLE IN TRIBAL REGION
in the country's South Waziristan tribal region, the Pakistani Taliban publicly executed 3 people who were held responsible for the killing of a local tribesman.
- APRIL 18, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: RISING EXECUTION RATE WORRIES RIGHTS ACTIVIST
I.A. Rehman, director of the independent Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, commented on Pakistan’s 61 percent increase in executions in 2007.
- APRIL 18, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN POSTPONES HANGING OF INDIAN NATIONAL - PAPER
Pakistan postponed the hanging of Sarabjit Singh to June 1, hours after External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee appealed to Islamabad to give the "unfortunate human being" clemency on humanitarian grounds
- APRIL 17, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN SIGNS THREE UN HR CONVENTIONS
Pakistan, in a significant and a long-awaited step, has ratified the International
- APRIL 15, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH SIX TIMES FOR MADRASSA ATTACK
an anti-terrorism court in Quetta, Pakistan, sentenced a man to death six times for killing six madrassa students in Qila Saifullah, Geo News reported.
- APRIL 15, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Waqar Ahmad Kayani was hanged in Pakistan for murder.
Waqar Ahmad Kayani was hanged in Pakistan for murder.
- APRIL 10, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI ARABIA. PAKISTANI BEHEADED FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
Moazzam Khan, a Pakistan national who was convicted in a drug trafficking case
APRIL 8, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA. PAKISTANI MAN BEHEADED FOR BEATING COMPATRIOT TO DEATH
the official Saudi Press Agency said authorities beheaded a Pakistani man convicted of beating a fellow citizen to death.
- APRIL 5, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: MAN GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR DRUG SMUGGLING
in Pakistan, Additional District and Sessions Judge Iqbal Malik awarded the death sentence and Rs 0.5 million fine to Awal Khan for possessing 42kg of hashish
APRIL 4, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN. LAW MINISTER TAKES NOTE TO INCIDENT OF A COUPLE STONING TO DEATH
the Federal Minister for Law and Justice Farooq H. Naik in Pakistan took strong
- MARCH 31, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. COUPLE STONED TO DEATH IN FATA
a man and a woman were stoned to death by militants in Pakistan's Khwezai-
MARCH 31, 2008United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTYEMIRATI SAVES TWO PRISONERS FROM CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
an Emirati man's charity gave a new lease on life to two prisoners sentenced to
- MARCH 30, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. 134 PEOPLE HANGED IN 2007
Releasing its annual report on the state of human rights in 2007, the Human Rights
- MARCH 29, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: TWO SENTENCED TO DEATH
two murder convicts were awarded the death sentence for killing a rickshaw driver two years ago in Okara, Pakistan. Sarfraz and Liaqat Ali killed rickshaw driver Mushtaq.