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
- MAY 14, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A Pakistani woman sentenced to death by stoning for...
A Pakistani woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery said she had been misled by her lawyers into claiming she was raped
- MAY 14, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The wife of the Governor of North West Frontier Province...
The wife of the Governor of North West Frontier Province (NWFP) Lt
- MAY 14, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The Women's Action Forum (WAF) and the Lahore High...
The Women's Action Forum (WAF) and the Lahore High Court Bar Association (LHCBA) demanded that the government repeal the Hudood (Zina) Ordinance, 1979, and abolish the Federal Sharia Court immediately
- MAY 12, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The stoning-to-death verdict, delivered against a young...
The stoning-to-death verdict, delivered against a young woman, Zafran Bibi, in Kohat by a civil court that found her guilty of adultery, could ironically lead to changes being brought about in some Islamic laws in Pakistan
- MAY 11, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Abdul Qadir was hanged for multiple murder
Abdul Qadir was hanged for multiple murder
- MAY 11, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Two Afghan citizens who were arrested were hanged without...
Two Afghan citizens who were arrested were hanged without being tried in Pakistan
- MAY 10, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Jail authorities in Pakistan hanged a double murderer...
Jail authorities in Pakistan hanged a double murderer in New Central Jail, Multan, for the klling of his son-in-law and grandson in 2000
- MAY 10, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
In Peshawar, as in other districts of Pakistan's North...
In Peshawar, as in other districts of Pakistan's North West Frontier Province (NWFP), protest demonstrations were held against the US Commandos operations in the tribal belt following calls by the Amir Jamiat Ulama-i-Islam (JUI) Maulana Fazl-e-Rehman [Isl
- MAY 9, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Aurat Foundation, Shirkat Gah, Women's Action Forum,...
Aurat Foundation, Shirkat Gah, Women's Action Forum, Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, and Amnesty International in joint statement demanded the transfer of Zafran Bibi from death row to a normal jail ward
- MAY 7, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Pakistan hanged two Afghan men for killing the leader...
Pakistan hanged two Afghan men for killing the leader of an Afghan women's rights group and two of her aides 15 years ago, jail officials said
- MAY 7, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Pakistan's highest religious court halted a death by...
Pakistan's highest religious court halted a death by stoning sentence for a woman convicted of adultery until an appeal is heard, news reports said
- MAY 7, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
After winning a recent presidential referendum, Pakistan's...
After winning a recent presidential referendum, Pakistan's Gen
- MAY 7, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The North West Frontier Province (NWFP) Minister for...
The North West Frontier Province (NWFP) Minister for Law, Parliamentary Affairs and Local Government, Athar Minnallah in a meeting with a 15-strong delegation of female lawyers led by Additional Advocate General NWFP Musarrat Hilali Advocate emphasised hi
- MAY 5, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A court in Pakistan suspended the sentence of stoning...
A court in Pakistan suspended the sentence of stoning to death passed against a woman convicted of adultery
- MAY 4, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A criminal court in Kohat ruled, a fortnight ago, that...
A criminal court in Kohat ruled, a fortnight ago, that Zafran Bibi be stoned to death under the Zina Ordinance (sex-related crimes) for indulging in adultery
- MAY 3, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Justice Majida Rizvi, chairperson of the National Commission...
Justice Majida Rizvi, chairperson of the National Commission on the Status of Women, requested the Governor of North West Frontier Province Lt
- MAY 2, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Nearly 20 female activists protesting the sentencing...
Nearly 20 female activists protesting the sentencing of a raped woman to death by stoning under Islamic laws scuffled with police in the Pakistani capital Islamabad
- MAY 2, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Man named Irshad was given a death sentence at a murder...
Man named Irshad was given a death sentence at a murder hearing in Pakistan recently
- APRIL 30, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Ad hoc Sessions Judge Quetta Jameel Khan Sherani sentenced...
Ad hoc Sessions Judge Quetta Jameel Khan Sherani sentenced Muhammad Ismail, a killer, to capital sentence
- APRIL 25, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Pakistan voted against the resolution 2002/77 on the...
Pakistan voted against the resolution 2002/77 on the death penalty at the 58th UN Commission on Human Rights
- APRIL 24, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A court in Pakistan condemned Mumtaz Ali Buledi to...
A court in Pakistan condemned Mumtaz Ali Buledi to death on two counts of murder
- APRIL 23, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
NGOs working in the field of human rights condemned...
NGOs working in the field of human rights condemned the verdict of stoning to death of a woman by a Kohat court and demanded that proper justice be done to the woman
- APRIL 23, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A woman sentenced to death by stoning in public for...
A woman sentenced to death by stoning in public for adultery by a trial court filed an appeal before Pakistan's Federal Sharia Court
- APRIL 22, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A British-born Islamic militant, Ahmed Omar Sheikh,...
A British-born Islamic militant, Ahmed Omar Sheikh, and three co-defendants pleaded not guilty to the kidnapping and murder earlier this year of the Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl as a Pakistani court began hearing the trial
- APRIL 22, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A British-born Islamic militant, Ahmed Omar Sheikh,...
A British-born Islamic militant, Ahmed Omar Sheikh, and three co-defendants pleaded not guilty to the kidnapping and murder earlier this year of the Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl as a Pakistani court began hearing the trial
- APRIL 22, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Jail authorities in Kohat are not allowing a woman...
Jail authorities in Kohat are not allowing a woman sentenced to death for adultery to receive any visits, saying she is a "dangerous prisoner"
- APRIL 21, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Pakistani lawyers dealing with cases under the Offence...
Pakistani lawyers dealing with cases under the Offence of Zina (Enforcement of Hudood) Ordinance, 1979, under which Zafran Bibi was condemned to death by stoning by the trial court in Kohat, claimed that under this law the punishment cannot be enforced on
- APRIL 18, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The Swiss foreign minister, Joseph Deiss spoke in favour...
The Swiss foreign minister, Joseph Deiss spoke in favour of human rights in Pakistan during talks with the country's justice minister, Khalid Ranjha, in Islamabad
- APRIL 17, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A district court in Pakistan condemned a woman to death...
A district court in Pakistan condemned a woman to death by stoning in a public place for becoming pregnant whilst her husband served a life-term in jail
- APRIL 15, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A court in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, sentenced drug smugglers...
A court in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, sentenced drug smugglers Abdul Rauf and Kitabi Noor to death