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
- JULY 31, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Mumtaz Ahmed was to be executed in the New Central...
Mumtaz Ahmed was to be executed in the New Central Jail of Bahawalpur on August 10
- JULY 31, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
An Additional District and Sessions Judge in Lahore...
An Additional District and Sessions Judge in Lahore handed out the death sentence to Muhammad Tayyab for murdering his brother
- JULY 31, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A Special Anti-Terrorist Court handed down the death...
A Special Anti-Terrorist Court handed down the death sentence to Khushi Muhammad and Bashir Ahmad for rape
- JULY 14, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A Dubai Court confirmed the death sentences passed...
A Dubai Court confirmed the death sentences passed on two Pakistani nationals [identified only as] N
- JULY 12, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
An Additional District and Sessions Judge in Lahore...
An Additional District and Sessions Judge in Lahore meted out the death sentence to Haji Azam for the murder of Karamat Ali on May 25,1998
- JULY 10, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A Division Bench of the Lahore High Court converted...
A Division Bench of the Lahore High Court converted the death sentence into life imprisonment for juvenile defendants Mohammad Arif and Ghulam Dastiger for committing gang rape on Rehana Kausar, 9, at Faisalabad on November 9, 1998
- JULY 10, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Saudi Arabia executed Mir Afzal Omar Shah, a Pakistani...
Saudi Arabia executed Mir Afzal Omar Shah, a Pakistani national, for drug smuggling
- JULY 5, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A prisoner involved in a double murder case was hung...
A prisoner involved in a double murder case was hung to death at the central jail in Multan
- JULY 1, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
President Rafiq Tarar promulgated the "Juvenile Justice...
President Rafiq Tarar promulgated the "Juvenile Justice System Ordinance 2000" abolishing the death penalty for children under 18 years of age and empowering provincial governments to establish juvenile courts for their trial
- JUNE 30, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Additional District and Sessions court in Lahore sentenced...
Additional District and Sessions court in Lahore sentenced Zulifqar Ali Bhutto to death, and Nadeem Abbas to life imprisonment, for shooting dead Tariq Mehmood, the manager of a utility store who had intervened in their dispute with the store's security g
- JUNE 29, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A convict in a murder case washung to death at the...
A convict in a murder case washung to death at the Kot Lakhpat Jail in Lahore
- JUNE 28, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
An Additional Session court in Chashma handed out a...
An Additional Session court in Chashma handed out a death sentence to Kafait Ullah for several murders and possession of illegal weapons
- JUNE 23, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Shahid Saeed was condemned to death for murder
Shahid Saeed was condemned to death for murder
- JUNE 22, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A division bench of the Lahore High Court upheld the...
A division bench of the Lahore High Court upheld the death sentences imposed on Fitrat Nabi Noor, alias Saqa Moser, and Humayun Raza, alias Humma, for murdering Mohammad Ilyas and his wife Abida Parveen on resistance during a dacoity attempt
- JUNE 22, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A Special Judge Anti Terrorist Court in Lahore handed...
A Special Judge Anti Terrorist Court in Lahore handed down a death sentence to Mushtaq Ahmad for a dacoity cum murder case
- JUNE 21, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A teacher in Lahore was given the death sentence for...
A teacher in Lahore was given the death sentence for hacking to death a ten-year-old pupil
- JUNE 20, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Akbar Sain was condemned to death by an Additional...
Akbar Sain was condemned to death by an Additional District and Sessions court in Lahore for murdering [a person identified only as] Nasir over a money dispute in the Audit Officer Colony of Gulberg on July 13 ,1997
- JUNE 19, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
An Additional District and Sessions court in Lahore...
An Additional District and Sessions court in Lahore Zawar Ahmad meted out deathsentences to Muhammad Khan Chachar and Yousaf Bogio for firing on Imran Aziz, son of Supreme Court Judge Rashid Aziz Khan and murdering his assistant Ghulam Mustafa
- JUNE 17, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Three accomplices, Waheed alias Tadi, Shakeel alias...
Three accomplices, Waheed alias Tadi, Shakeel alias Shahjee and Zahid, were condemned to death for a double murder during a robbery by an additional district and session court in Faisalabad
- JUNE 12, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A murder convict whose black warrants had been issued...
A murder convict whose black warrants had been issued was pardoned by the heirs of the deceased and set free by the District and Sessions Judge in Gujranwala
- JUNE 11, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Abdul Hameed was condemned to death for shooting dead...
Abdul Hameed was condemned to death for shooting dead Abdul Hamid of Chak in a dispute over water in March 1997
- MAY 30, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
An Additional District and Sessions court in Okara...
An Additional District and Sessions court in Okara has imposed death sentence on one and gave life imprisonment to two others
- MAY 30, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A convict soldier was hung to death at the Kot Lakhpat...
A convict soldier was hung to death at the Kot Lakhpat Jail, while the hanging of his accomplicewas deferred for a month
- MAY 30, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Saudi Arabia executed a Pakistani man, Zeinullah Khan...
Saudi Arabia executed a Pakistani man, Zeinullah Khan Arjoun Khan, for smuggling heroin into the kingdom
- MAY 29, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Abdul Hameed was condemned to death for murdering his...
Abdul Hameed was condemned to death for murdering his sister-in-law Sameena
- MAY 29, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Additional District and Sessions Judge Tariq Iftikhar...
Additional District and Sessions Judge Tariq Iftikhar Ahmed gave the death sentence to Abid Manzoor for murdering Doctor Shamsuzaman
- MAY 23, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Ahmed Yar, a convict in Pakpattan, wasto be hung at...
Ahmed Yar, a convict in Pakpattan, wasto be hung at the Sahiwal Central Jail on June 6
- MAY 19, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Mazhar Shah was condemned to death by a District and...
Mazhar Shah was condemned to death by a District and Sessions court in Lala Musa, for gunning down Latif Shah, son of a religious scholar Syed Yaqoob Shah
- MAY 18, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Ahmad Yara was given a death sentence by the District...
Ahmad Yara was given a death sentence by the District and Session court in Jhang for killing [a person identified only as] Noora for disclosing his guilt of theft
- MAY 18, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A Division Bench of the Lahore High Court gave death...
A Division Bench of the Lahore High Court gave death sentences to Mohammad Ali, Bashir and Abdur Rasheed for killing four people in Pattoki over an old enmity in 1996