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
- SEPTEMBER 28, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A Kuwaiti court sentenced to death three Pakistanis...
A Kuwaiti court sentenced to death three Pakistanis for drug smuggling
- SEPTEMBER 28, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
An Additional District and Sessions court meted out...
An Additional District and Sessions court meted out the death sentence to Shahid alias Chitta for murder on October 7, 1999
- SEPTEMBER 25, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The hanging of Mohammed Arshad alias Mola, was set...
The hanging of Mohammed Arshad alias Mola, was set for October 14 in the new Central Jail of Bahawalpur
- SEPTEMBER 14, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A Special Anti-Terrorist Court in Karachi condemned...
A Special Anti-Terrorist Court in Karachi condemned Phool Chand, Mohammad Rizwan and Mohammad Shiraz, to death
- SEPTEMBER 13, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Pakistan's Supreme Court upheld the death penalty imposed...
Pakistan's Supreme Court upheld the death penalty imposed Haq Nawaz, convicted of killing Sadiq Ganji, the Director General of the Iranian Cultural Centre in Lahore on December 19, 1990
- SEPTEMBER 4, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A District and Session Court sentenced three brothers,...
A District and Session Court sentenced three brothers, Abraru Hassan, Naeemul Hassan and Asrarul Hassan to death for a triple murder
- AUGUST 29, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A death row prisoner, Muhammad Boota, was to be hung...
A death row prisoner, Muhammad Boota, was to be hung on August 30 at the Central Jail in Sahiwal
- AUGUST 11, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Ahmed Ali was to be hung on August 16 at the Central...
Ahmed Ali was to be hung on August 16 at the Central Jail in Sahiwal
- AUGUST 10, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
An Additional Sessions court in Liaquatpur handed down...
An Additional Sessions court in Liaquatpur handed down the death sentence to Abdul Aziz Baluch for the murder of Mohammad Iqbal Bhatti in Moza Pakkalaran in 1998
- AUGUST 9, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Amanat Ali was given the death sentence for murdering...
Amanat Ali was given the death sentence for murdering Rajab Ali over a petty dispute in 1998 by an Additional District and Sessions court in Arifwala
- AUGUST 5, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Asghar Narejo and Makhan Narejo were condemned to death...
Asghar Narejo and Makhan Narejo were condemned to death by an Anti-Terrorist Court
- AUGUST 5, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A Pakistani court sentenced a 60-year-old man, Mohammad...
A Pakistani court sentenced a 60-year-old man, Mohammad Yousuf Ali, to death for blasphemy after he claimed to be a prophet of God
- AUGUST 4, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
"Pakistan appears to have more prisoners on death row...
"Pakistan appears to have more prisoners on death row than any other country in the world," noted a Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) report
- 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