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
- SEPTEMBER 27, 2005IndiaDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. COURT UPHOLDS SARABJIT SINGH'S DEATH SENTENCE
Pakistan's Supreme Court upheld a death sentence imposed on Sarabjit Singh, an alleged Indian spy, for a bombing that killed four people in 1990, court officials said.
- SEPTEMBER 20, 2005PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. MAN HANGED FOR RAPE AND MURDER OF SEVEN-YEAR-OLD GIRL
Niaz Ahmed, a man sentenced to death for raping and killing a seven-year-old girl, was executed in eastern Pakistan after President Gen. Pervez Musharraf turned down his plea for clemency.
- SEPTEMBER 17, 2005PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. LASHKAR-I-JHANGVI ACTIVIST GETS DEATH SENTENCE
the Multan No-1 court, an anti terrorist court in Pakistan, awarded a death sentence on two counts to Abu Bakr alias Usman, a hitman of the banned Lashkar-i-Jhangvi activist group, and two life terms to his accomplice Dilawar on charges of killing two riv
- SEPTEMBER 15, 2005IndiaDEATH PENALTY
India. Pakistan court says Indian ‘spy’ deserved death
the death sentence handed to Sarabjit Singh, an Indian national convicted of spying and carrying out a series of bomb attacks, was "well deserved", Pakistan's top court said in its detailed judgement upholding the penalty. Singh was convicted in 1991 by a
- SEPTEMBER 14, 2005PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. FAMILY OF 6 TO BE EXECUTED
Manzoor Ahmad and his son Muhammad Ishaq, Ghulam Mustafa also known as Papoo, Muhammad Ilyas, Muhammad Anwar and Javed Obal, all members of the same family, were due to be executed in prison within the day’s end for shooting three of their relatives to de
- SEPTEMBER 14, 2005PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Arshad Mughal alias Papu was hanged at Kotlakhpat Jail in front of a magistrate and jail authorities.
Arshad Mughal alias Papu was hanged at Kotlakhpat Jail in front of a magistrate and jail authorities.
- SEPTEMBER 13, 2005IndiaDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. PAKISTAN SAYS DEATH-ROW INDIAN SPY'S FATE DEPENDS ON MERCY
it was reported that Pakistan's Foreign Minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri told the Hindi news channel Aaj Tak that the fate of Sarabjit Singh, an Indian national on death row in Pakistan convicted as a spy and for setting bombs that killed several people, c
- SEPTEMBER 10, 2005IndiaDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. PRESIDENT EXAMINING CASE OF INDIAN NATIONAL ON DEATH ROW SARABJIT SINGH
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said he had taken no decision yet on the fate of an Indian national sentenced to hang on spying and bombing charges but added he was examining the case
- SEPTEMBER 6, 2005IndiaDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. INDIAN NATIONAL ON DEATH ROW IN PAKISTAN TO BE SPARED, REPORT
Islamabad assured New Delhi that Sarabjit Singh, an Indian sentenced to be hanged in Pakistan on bombing and spying charges, would be reprieved, the Hindu newspaper said.
- SEPTEMBER 5, 2005IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. JAMA MASJID IMAM URGES PAKISTAN’S MUSHARRAF TO FREE DEATH ROW INMATE SARABJIT SINGH
the Imam of New Delhi's Jama Masjid, Syed Abdullah Bukhari and his son Syed Yahaya Bukhari, who is the President of the Jama Masjid United Front, appealed to Pakistan's President General Pervez Musharraf to release Indian death row inmate Sarabjit Singh o
- AUGUST 30, 2005IndiaDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. INDIAN DIPLOMATS VISIT DEATH ROW PRISONER
Indian diplomats met Sarabjit Singh, a prisoner held on death row in Pakistan on bombing and spying charges, saying afterwards that they were hopeful of resolving the case. Islamabad accused Sarabjit of being an Indian agent who carried out four bomb atta
- AUGUST 26, 2005IndiaDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. INDIA GRANTED CONSULAR ACCESS TO "SPY" ON DEATH ROW
Islamabad agreed to allow Indian diplomats to visit Sarabjit Singh, one of their nationals on death row on charges of being a spy, Indian Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran said. Pakistan had Singh of being an Indian spy who carried out four bomb attacks, but
- AUGUST 26, 2005PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. FIVE SENTENCED TO HANG FOR MUSHARRAF PLOT
Pakistan sentenced five men, including a soldier, to hang for their role in an al Qaeda-inspired assassination attempt on President Pervez Musharraf in late 2003, a military spokesman said. Musharraf, one of the West's main allies in a global war on terro
- AUGUST 25, 2005IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. 5,000 RALLY FOR ALLEGED INDIAN SPY FACING DEATH IN PAKISTAN
nearly 5,000 people held a rally as shops and businesses shut down in the home town of Sarabjeet Singh, an Indian facing death by hanging in Pakistan, demanding clemency and his immediate return home. In New Delhi, India's External Affairs Minister Natwar
- AUGUST 24, 2005PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Muhammad Asghar, Ahmad Sher and Falak Sher were hanged in Pakistan for murder.
Muhammad Asghar, Ahmad Sher and Falak Sher were hanged in Pakistan for murder.
- AUGUST 24, 2005PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Abdul Ghaffar was hanged in Pakistan for murder.
Abdul Ghaffar was hanged in Pakistan for murder.
- AUGUST 23, 2005IndiaDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. INDIAN LEADER TO QUESTION PAKISTAN'S MUSHARRAF ABOUT CONDEMNED ‘SPY’
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said he would speak to Pakistan's president about Sarabjit Singh, an alleged Indian spy handed the death sentence in Pakistan.
- AUGUST 22, 2005IndiaDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. INDIAN FAMILY THREATENS SUICIDE IF ‘SPY’ IS EXECUTED
relatives of Manjit Singh, an Indian man sentenced to hang in Pakistan for spying, threatened to kill themselves if the execution was carried out.
- AUGUST 22, 2005PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE OF THREE CONVICTS
a two-member bench of the Pakistan Supreme Court upheld the death sentence of three convicts convicted of killing five people in Jhang district in 1995.
- AUGUST 20, 2005PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. SOLDIER WHO PLOTTED TO KILL MUSHARRAF HANGED
Islam Siddiqui, a soldier convicted of plotting to assassinate Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf, was executed by hanging.
- AUGUST 12, 2005PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. CONVICTED OF BLASPHEMY, WRITER SENTENCED TO LIFE
a Pakistani writer, author of a book considered blasphemous due to its affirmation that several key figures in the Koran, the four Imams, were Jewish, and that the stoning to death of an adulteress is not a punishment prescribed by the Koran, was sentence
- AUGUST 6, 2005PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. CAPITAL PUNISHMENT FOR TWO MEN CONVICTED OF CHILD MURDER, 2 ACCOMPLICES SENTENCED TO 7 YEARS RIGOROUS IMPRISONMENT
an Anti-terrorist Court (ATC) in Faisalabad, Pakistan, sentenced to death Muhammad Ashfaq Shah and Muhammad Umair on charges of abduction for ransom and murder of a six year old boy.
- AUGUST 3, 2005PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. PRESIDENT STAYS EXECUTION OF SIX CONVICTED OF MURDER
President of Pakistan General Pervez Musharaf stayed the simultaneous execution of six criminals accused of murder till 17th of August and asked for a report on the matter. The orders had sent waves of joy amongst the relatives.
- AUGUST 2, 2005PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. MAN HANGED IN SAHIWAL JAIL
Iqbal Bali, a man whose execution had been postponed on July 6, was hanged in Sahiwal Central jail, Pakistan.
- JULY 16, 2005Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI ARABIA. PAKISTANI BEHEADED FOR MURDERING COMPATRIOT
Mohammad Zadeh Sawali, a Pakistani national, was beheaded by the sword in the northern Saudi town of Arar after being convicted of killing a compatriot residing in the kingdom, the Saudi interior ministry announced.
- JULY 10, 2005Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI ARABIA. TWO SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR HEROIN SMUGGLING
the semi-official Saudi Ukaz daily said a tribunal in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah had sentenced a Pakistani and an Afghan to death for smuggling heroin into the country.
- JULY 7, 2005BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH. COURT SENTENCES TWO PAKISTANIS TO DEATH FOR SMUGGLING HEROIN
a lower court in Dhaka sentenced to death two Pakistani nationals, Rais Khan of Karachi and Alekjan of Peshwar after finding them guilty of smuggling 24 kg of heroin into the country on September 20, 1999.
- JULY 3, 2005Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI ARABIA. TWO PAKISTANIS BEHEADED FOR KILLING AUNT
two Pakistani brothers convicted of murdering their aunt were beheaded by the sword in the western Saudi town of Yanbu, the interior ministry announced.
- JUNE 28, 2005PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. COURT BACKS RAPE VICTIM, RE-ARREST ORDEREDFOR MEN ACQUITTED OF ATTACK
Pakistan's highest court delivered a legal victory to Mukhtaran Bibi, a woman who accused 13 men of orchestrating her gang rape three years previously.
- JUNE 21, 2005PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. MAN EXECUTED FOR MURDER
Irshad alias Achoo was hanged to death in Gujranwala Central Jail, Pakistan, after being convicted of killing Rasheed Ahmed over a minor dispute at Jaton, in the in Gujranwala area, in 1994.