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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- 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
- DECEMBER 26, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The Pakistan Supreme Court upheld the death sentences...
The Pakistan Supreme Court upheld the death sentences passed on three defendants in a murder case
- DECEMBER 12, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A Kuwaiti criminal court sentenced 'Akhtar', a Pakistani...
A Kuwaiti criminal court sentenced 'Akhtar', a Pakistani national, to death on charges of smuggling heroin into the country
- DECEMBER 5, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
An Anti Terrorist Court in Pakistan sentenced five...
An Anti Terrorist Court in Pakistan sentenced five people to death on two counts after convicting them in two separate murders
- NOVEMBER 11, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Niaz Ahmed, a Muslim, was sentenced to death in Pakistan...
Niaz Ahmed, a Muslim, was sentenced to death in Pakistan for insulting Islam's Prophet Mohammad
- NOVEMBER 2, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The Additional District and Sessions Court in Daska,...
The Additional District and Sessions Court in Daska, Pakistan, sentenced Sajjad Ahmad to death for murder
- OCTOBER 22, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Mohammad Ramadan Sardar and Dhaher Shah bin Faqir Shah,...
Mohammad Ramadan Sardar and Dhaher Shah bin Faqir Shah, two Pakistani nationals sentenced to death for heroin smuggling, were beheaded by sword in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
- OCTOBER 17, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Alfjan Mohammad Akbar Khan, a Pakistani found guilty...
Alfjan Mohammad Akbar Khan, a Pakistani found guilty of drug trafficking, was beheaded by the sword in the town of Huta Bani Tamim, in the Riyadh region of Saudi Arabia
- OCTOBER 13, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Saudi Arabia beheaded a Pakistani man for smuggling...
Saudi Arabia beheaded a Pakistani man for smuggling heroin into the conservative Gulf Arab state, the Interior Ministry said in a statement
- OCTOBER 7, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Khan Waley ben Sayed Mir Jan, a Pakistani national,...
Khan Waley ben Sayed Mir Jan, a Pakistani national, was beheaded by the sword in Saudi Arabia's city of Jeddah
- OCTOBER 3, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Muhammad Shafiq, Arshad Ali and Muhammad Sarwar, alias...
Muhammad Shafiq, Arshad Ali and Muhammad Sarwar, alias Taina, were sentenced to death by an Additional Sessions Court in Pakistan after being convicted of raping a newly wed woman
- OCTOBER 2, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Amanullah alias Shahbaz had his death sentence for...
Amanullah alias Shahbaz had his death sentence for murder reduced to ten years rigorous imprisonment by a division bench of the Sindh High Court in Pakistan
- OCTOBER 2, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Mushtaq Ahmed and Jind Wadda were sentenced to death...
Mushtaq Ahmed and Jind Wadda were sentenced to death by the No
- SEPTEMBER 30, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Shaggier Ahmed was sentenced to death on three counts...
Shaggier Ahmed was sentenced to death on three counts by a District and Sessions court in Pakistan for murdering his wife, his father-in-law and his mother-in-law in 2002
- SEPTEMBER 27, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Fadl Mullah Nour Mohammad, Pakistani found guilty of...
Fadl Mullah Nour Mohammad, Pakistani found guilty of drug trafficking heroin, was beheaded by the sword in the Saudi Arabia
- SEPTEMBER 24, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Daher Shah Arab Khan, a Pakistani national, was beheaded...
Daher Shah Arab Khan, a Pakistani national, was beheaded by sword in the Saudi Arabia city of Jeddah, after admitting that "he smuggled a quantity of heroin into the kingdom," a statement issued by the Saudi Interior Ministry said
- SEPTEMBER 8, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Pakistani national Habibullah Gholam, convicted of...
Pakistani national Habibullah Gholam, convicted of smuggling heroin into Saudi Arabia, was publicly beheaded in the Saudi city of Jeddah
- SEPTEMBER 2, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A government-appointed commission in Pakistan called...
A government-appointed commission in Pakistan called for the abolition of strict Islamic laws, which rights activists say discriminate against women