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.
Latest news
- 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
- APRIL 15, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
An anti-terrorism court convicted four workers of the...
An anti-terrorism court convicted four workers of the banned Lashkar-i-Jhangvi handing down capital punishment to two of them and life imprisonment to the others in five cases of sectarian killings
- APRIL 12, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan condemned seven...
An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan condemned seven activists of the banned Sipah-i-Sahaba Pakistan [militant outfit of Sunni sect] to death for hurling hand-grenades at a religious gathering resulting in the death of a person
- APRIL 6, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
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Pakistani President Gen
- APRIL 5, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The trial of British born Omar Saeed Sheikh and three...
The trial of British born Omar Saeed Sheikh and three alleged accomplices accused of murdering the American reporter Daniel Pearl opened in Karachi amid tight security but was adjourned after just one hour
- APRIL 4, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A Pakistani High Court rejected an appeal for an open...
A Pakistani High Court rejected an appeal for an open court trial of Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, the British-born Islamic militant charged with the murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl
- APRIL 3, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A condemned prisoner involved in the killing of two...
A condemned prisoner involved in the killing of two brothers was executed in the central jail of Gujranwala
- MARCH 31, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A court in Pakistan sentenced to death Falak Sher and...
A court in Pakistan sentenced to death Falak Sher and Allah Ditta for the double murder of Shahbaz and Bashir following a minor dispute
- MARCH 29, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The British-born militant Omar Saeed Sheikh, who was...
The British-born militant Omar Saeed Sheikh, who was charged in Pakistan with the kidnapping and murder of the US journalist Daniel Pearl, told the judge at the closed hearing in court in Karachi that he did not recognise the court, adding: "I request my
- MARCH 29, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Muhammad Ejaz was condemned to death by a Lahore court...
Muhammad Ejaz was condemned to death by a Lahore court for the murder of Maqbool Ahmad on August 10, 1999
- MARCH 29, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
An anti-terrorist court in Pakistan sentenced to death...
An anti-terrorist court in Pakistan sentenced to death a man on four counts of murder
- MARCH 28, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A division bench of the Lahore High Court Rawalpindi...
A division bench of the Lahore High Court Rawalpindi bench comprising Justice Ali Nawaz Chohan and Justice Mian Mohammed Jehangir commuted the death sentence of a man convicted of murder to life imprisonment
- MARCH 27, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The Human Right Commission of Pakistan released its...
The Human Right Commission of Pakistan released its report on the state of human rights in Pakistan, stating that overall the picture of the human rights in the country remained "bleak" as the military government lacked will to achieve what it publicly sa
- MARCH 22, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The Supreme Court rejected an appeal in a murder case...
The Supreme Court rejected an appeal in a murder case and upheld the decision of the Lahore High Court (LHC) condemning Zulfiqar Ali alias Bhutto to death
- MARCH 22, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, the British Islamist who confessed...
Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, the British Islamist who confessed to masterminding the kidnapping of American reporter Daniel Pearl in Pakistan was charged with his murder and faces execution if convicted
- MARCH 14, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A British-Born man was indicted in the US in connection...
A British-Born man was indicted in the US in connection with the kidnapping in Pakistan of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl whose murder was later filmed on video tape
- MARCH 9, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The Additional Session Judge in Rawalpindi, Shahzad...
The Additional Session Judge in Rawalpindi, Shahzad Pervez Abbasi, condemned Dr
- MARCH 2, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The Attock District and Session Judge, Attock Manzoor...
The Attock District and Session Judge, Attock Manzoor Hussain Malik, condemned Ijaz Khan and Babar Zahir to death on separate murder charges