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
- 2,092
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 2,092 news items on Pakistan, from 1999 to today.
Latest news
- JANUARY 17, 2007Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Saudi Arabia executed two pakistani men for possessing, selling and smuggling drugs, the interior ministry said.
Saudi Arabia executed two pakistani men for possessing, selling and smuggling drugs, the interior ministry said.
- JANUARY 17, 2007PakistanDEATH PENALTY
RAPISTS AWARDED DEATH PENALTY
a Pakistan court sentenced rapists Karim Baksh Haider and Taj Wali to death, and ordered them to pay the victim Rs. 50,000 each.
- JANUARY 17, 2007PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Sharif Chushti was hanged in Pakistan for murder.
Sharif Chushti was hanged in Pakistan for murder.
- JANUARY 9, 2007PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN’S FIRST EXECUTION OF THE YEAR 2007
the first execution of 2007 was carried out in Faisalabad jail where a condemned prisoner Waheed Iqbal, 40, was hanged.
- JANUARY 1, 2007PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The death penalty is imposed for several crimes...
The death penalty is imposed for several crimes...
- DECEMBER 27, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. CONVICT EXECUTED IN ADIALA JAIL
a man convicted of murder was hanged in the Adiala Central Jail in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
- DECEMBER 21, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. SHC DISMISSES APPEAL OF ACTIVIST, COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCE
the Sindh High Court, Pakistan, dismissed the appeal filed by an activist of the banned Harkatul Mujahideen Al Alami group for murder but commuted his death sentence into life imprisonment.
- DECEMBER 19, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. DEATH PENALTY FOR KIDNAP COMMUTED
the Sindh High Court, Pakistan, dismissed the appeal of Syed Nayer Raza Zaidi for kidnapping but commuted his death sentence into life imprisonment.
- DECEMBER 19, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. DEATH PENALTY FOR MURDER COMMUTED
a man identified as Umer had his appeal against a murder...
- DECEMBER 16, 2006Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI ARABIA EXECUTES PAKISTANI FOR DRUG PEDDLING
Nur-eddin Ghulam Suroor
- DECEMBER 15, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. DEATH SENTENCE COMMUTED IN MURDER CASE
the Sindh High Court, Pakistan, dismissed the appeal of Mohammad Jumman for murder but commuted his death sentence into life in prison.
- DECEMBER 12, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. TWO HANDED DEATH SENTENCE IN MURDER CASE
two men were sentenced to death for murder by a District and Sessions court in Jacobabad, Pakistan.
- DECEMBER 11, 2006BahrainDEATH PENALTY
BAHRAIN. THREE FOREIGN NATIONALS EXECUTED BY FIRING SQUAD
three foreign nationals convicted of murder were executed by firing squad at Jaw prison, Bahrain. It was reported that Pakistani Mohammed Hanif Atta Mohammed, aged 37, was allowed to meet his three-year-old son for the first time just one day before he
- DECEMBER 7, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. APEX COURT DISMISSES APPEALS OF CONVICTED ARMY OFFICERS
the Pakistan Supreme Court dismissed appeals of six army officers and a civilian who were convicted by military courts for their involvement in assassination attempts against President Pervez Musharraf.
- DECEMBER 1, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
MUSHARRAF APPROVES PAKISTAN RAPE LAW CHANGES
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf signed into law a bill amending the country's Islamic rape legislation, despite protests by religious parties.
- NOVEMBER 29, 2006United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTY
UAE. COURT UPHOLDS DEATH PENALTY FOR MAN WHO MURDERED LOVER
the Criminal Appeal Court in Ras Al Khaimah, the northern most emirate of the UAE, upheld the death penalty pronounced by the emirate's Criminal Court on Mohammad Asad, a 27-year-old Pakistani illegal immigrant convicted of murdering his lover with an axe
- NOVEMBER 28, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. DEATH SENTENCE COMMUTED FOR THREE ACCUSED OF KIDNAP
the Sindh High Court, Pakistan, commuted into life the death sentence handed down to three men by the anti-terrorism court (ATC) on December 15, 2003 for kidnapping a man for ransom.
- NOVEMBER 24, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. SINDH HIGH COURT COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCE FOR MURDER
a Division Bench of the Sindh high court, Pakistan, set aside the death sentence awarded to Attaullah alias Qasim by an anti- terrorism court in Karachi
- NOVEMBER 23, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. SENATE APPROVES RAPE LAW REFORM BILL
Pakistan's Senate overcame opposition from hard-line Muslim lawmakers and amended the rape law to make it easier to prosecute sexual assault cases.
- NOVEMBER 21, 2006BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
KUWAIT HANGS THREE ASIANS, ONE STATELESS RESIDENT
two Pakistani nationals convicted of drug trafficking and a Bangladeshi and a stateless resident found guilty of premeditated murder were hanged in Kuwait, officials said.
- NOVEMBER 21, 2006Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI ARABIA. PAKISTANI AND NIGERIAN BEHEADED FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
a Pakistani and a Nigerian convicted of drug trafficking were beheaded by the sword in the western Saudi city of Mecca.
- NOVEMBER 20, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. DEATH PENALTY AWARDED TO 16 CONVICTS IN JACOBABAD
a District and Sessions Court in Jacobabad, Pakistan, sentenced to death 16 people under the Terrorist Act for killing 11 members of the same family in 1993 after setting ablaze their house in a village in Kashmore
- NOVEMBER 17, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. SHC UPHOLD DEATH SENTENCES OF LJ ACTIVISTS IN SECTARIAN KILLING CASE
the Sindh High Court, Pakistan, dismissed the appeal of Attaullah and Mohammad Azam...
- NOVEMBER 16, 2006United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCE FOR BRITON: OFFICIAL
President Pervez Musharraf has commuted the death sentence for a British man who has been in jail in Pakistan for the past 18 years for a murder he says he didn't commit, Pakistan's interior minister said.
- NOVEMBER 15, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. PARLIAMENT APPROVES CHANGES TO ISLAMIC RAPE LAW
Pakistan's parliament approved amendments to an Islamic-based law on rape, dropping the death penalty and flogging for those convicted of consensual sex outside marriage, officials said.
- NOVEMBER 15, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. MAN HANGED FOR MURDER
Mureed Hussain, 35, resident of Noorpur, was hanged in Faisalabad District Jail, Pakistan. The accused had reportedly attempted to develop “illicit ties” with a married woman and had killed her son Ehsanullah, 7, on August 30, 1993.
- NOVEMBER 14, 2006Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI ARABIA. PAKISTANI EXECUTED FOR MURDER
Saudi Arabia executed a Pakistani for murder.
- NOVEMBER 14, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. TWO MEN HANGED FOR MURDER
two Pakistanis convicted of separate murders were hanged after President Pervez Musharraf turned down their pleas for clemency, jail officials said.
- NOVEMBER 13, 2006YemenDEATH PENALTY
YEMEN. TWO MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR DRUG SMUGGLING
the Specialised Criminal Appeals Court, Yemen, approved the death penalty for Berkhan Akhredi Yar Hussein, a Pakistani national, who was convicted on charges of smuggling drugs into Yemen.
- NOVEMBER 8, 2006Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI ARABIA. THREE PAKISTANIS EXECUTED FOR DRUG SMUGGLING
Saudi Arabia executed three Pakistanis, including two women, for drugs smuggling, taking to 20 the number of reported executions in the conservative kingdom in 2006.