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
- AUGUST 9, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. CONVICTED SUNNI MILITANT EXECUTED
a Sunni extremist convicted of killing a Shia political leader ten years ago was executed in in Pakistan's central Punjab province.
- AUGUST 9, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. TWO MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR TERRORISM
the Anti-Terrorism Court Quetta, Pakistan...
- AUGUST 2, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. THOUSANDS AWAIT GALLOWS IN JAILS
more than 7,400 men and 36 women are waiting in 81 Pakistani jails to be hanged, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has confirmed.
- AUGUST 1, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. PEOPLE EXECUTED IN A HURRY
Pakistan has resorted to hurried executions to reduce congestion of overcrowded jails holding death row inmates as also to deal with the spiralling crime rate in the country, a human rights body has claimed.
- AUGUST 1, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. THREE MILITANTS SENTENCED TO DEATH IN IMAMBARGAH FIRING CASE
an Anti terrorism court in Karachi, Pakistan...
- JULY 31, 2006United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. FAMILY OF SLAIN CAB DRIVER DEMAND BRITON’S EXECUTION
the family of a slain Pakistani taxi driver demanded that Mirza Tahir Hussain, the British man convicted of killing him...
- JULY 27, 2006United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. STAY OF EXECUTION FOR DEATH ROW BRITON
Pakistan's president, General Pervez Musharraf, granted a one-month stay of execution to Mirza Tahir Hussain, a British man who was due to be put to death a week later.
- JULY 27, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. MAN HANGED IN KOT LAKHPATT FOR MURDER
Abdul Rehman, a man convicted of murder, was hanged in Kot Lakhpatt jail, Pakistan, at 4:30 am.
- JULY 27, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. RECENT EXECUTIONS ‘BRUTAL’, HRCP
the director of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) said the number of recent executions carried out in Punjab province is "brutal". Rehman told the BBC News website that 37 people had been hanged in 2006 in Punjab alone compared with 52 people
- JULY 26, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
an Additional Sessions Court in Pasrur, Pakistan...
- JULY 22, 2006United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. BRITISH NATIONAL AGAIN ON DEATH ROW
Mirza Tahir Hussain, a British man convicted of killing a taxi driver in Pakistan, has been put on death row for a third time and will be hanged on August 3...
- JULY 22, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
an Additional District and Sessions Court in Pakistan sentenced a man only identified as Rafique to death for murder.
- JULY 18, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. THREE PEOPLE HANGED FOR GANG RAPE
three men, who were convicted of raping a woman in Pakistan's southern Punjab province, were hanged in central city of Lahore, a jail official said.
- JULY 13, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. MAN HANGED FOR MURDER IN 15TH PUNJAB EXECUTION IN TWO WEEKS
Tauseef Munna was hanged till death in the 15th execution in Pakistan's Punjab province in the last two weeks. He had been sentenced to death by an anti-terrorism court in 2002 for killing a four-year old boy. Prosecution lawyers said that the boy was kid
- JULY 12, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. FIVE PEOPLE HANGED FOR GANG RAPE
five people convicted of gang- raping a woman were hanged in the early morning at the district jail in Sialkot, about 125 km north of Lahore, the provincial capital of Punjab, Pakistan, jail Superintendent Abdul Razaq Niazi said.
- JULY 6, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. MURDER CONVICT EXECUTED
a murder convict was hanged to death in Balochistan’s Machh Jail this morning.
- JULY 4, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. THREE PEOPLE HANGED IN GUJRANWALA CENTRAL JAIL
brothers Ilyas and Ghulam Abbas and their cousin Asif were hanged till death at Gujranwala central jail, Pakistan, for the murder of five people.
- JULY 4, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. FIVE PEOPLE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
the Sialkot Additional District and Sessions Court, Pakistan, sentenced five men to death...
- JUNE 30, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. MURDER ACCUSED EXECUTED IN PUBLIC
a man who allegedly killed two people was executed under Taliban’s shariah system in a village near North Waziristan’s regional headquarters of Miramshah, Pakistan. Thirty-year-old Ihsanullah was brought blindfolded to the execution ground by heirs of the
- JUNE 29, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. 4 MEN HANGED FOR GANG RAPE OF CHRISTIAN WOMAN
Shehzad Ahmad, 29, Muhammad Ashraf, 34, Mubarik Ali, 28, and Umer Hayat, 32, were hanged in Pakistan for gang-raping a teenaged Christian girl at gunpoint in the central city of Faisalabad on November 7, 1999.
- JUNE 18, 2006United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTY
UAE. GARDENER SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER OF WOMAN
the Sharjah Sharia Court of First Instance sentenced a Pakistani gardener to capital punishment for stabbing a newly-wed woman to death in Sharjah, UAE. The Sharjah Public Prosecution charged the 22-year-old, identified only as “S.K.”, with the premeditat
- JUNE 15, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. 34 DISMISSED, 24 AWARDED CAPITAL PUNISHMENT FOR FINANCIAL ANOMALIES IN POST OFFICES, NATIONAL ASSEMBLY TOLD
34 employees were dismissed and 24 others awarded capital punishment during the last two years for their involvement in 49 embezzlement cases and financial irregularities in the General Post Office (GPO) and other Post Offices.
- JUNE 14, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. DEATH PENALTY FOR SUNNI MILITANT
Mohammad Aslam, also known as Muawia, was sentenced to death by an anti-terrorism court in Pakistan after being found guilty of killing six Shia Muslims during an attack in 1995. He had pleaded not guilty.
- JUNE 14, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. MAN HANGED FOR MURDER
Mohammad Khan was hanged in Faisalabad District Jail, Pakistan, in the morning hours.
- JUNE 14, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. LAHORE HIGH COURT CONFIRMS DEATH SENTENCE TO MURDER CONVICT
the Lahore High Court, Pakistan, confirmed the death sentence to Mohammad Hussain of Faisalabad...
- JUNE 13, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. THREE PEOPLE TO BE HANGED WITHIN NEXT THREE DAYS
it was reported that three death row convicts were scheduled to be hanged in the following three days
- JUNE 9, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. LAHORE HIGH COURT DIRECTS JAIL AUTHORITIES TO RESCHEDULE PRISONERS’ EXECUTION
a Lahore High Court (LHC) division bench in Pakistan directed jail authorities to reschedule the execution of three condemned prisoners within 15 days.
- JUNE 6, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
a Lahore High Court division bench, Pakistan...
a Lahore High Court division bench, Pakistan...
- JUNE 6, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
the Lahore High Court rejected an application to stay the execution...
the Lahore High Court rejected an application to stay the execution of Muhammad Asif. Asif was to be executed later in the day in the Gujranwala Central Jail.
- JUNE 1, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. TWO CONVICTS TO BE EXECUTED IN CENTRAL JAIL KARACHI
two pakistani, involved in a murder case, will be hanged in Karachi central jail on June 6, and June 8, respectively as an anti terrorist court has issued their black warrants following dismissal of their all the appeals.