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
- 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
- MAY 18, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Pakistan military ruler General Pervez Musharraf bowed...
Pakistan military ruler General Pervez Musharraf bowed to pressure from religious groups by withdrawing a move to tighten procedures for police registration of blasphemy complaints
- MAY 17, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The Additional District and Sessions court in Gujranwala...
The Additional District and Sessions court in Gujranwala sentenced to death a convict [identified only as] Nadeem for shooting dead Muhammad Alam Butt
- MAY 17, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Sher Ali was condemned to death twice for the murder...
Sher Ali was condemned to death twice for the murder of his maternal grandfather and aunt
- MAY 16, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Judge Chudhry Munammad Akram of the Special Anti Terrorist...
Judge Chudhry Munammad Akram of the Special Anti Terrorist Courtin Faisalabad sentenced to death Zulfiqar and Muhammad Sidique
- MAY 16, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Saleem Sultan was condemned to capital punishment by...
Saleem Sultan was condemned to capital punishment by the Additional District and Sessions court in Lahore for murdering Muhammad Ijaz over a minor dispute at a race course on April 17, 1995
- MAY 15, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A Special Anti Terrorist Court in Lahore meted out...
A Special Anti Terrorist Court in Lahore meted out the death penalty to [men identified only as] Shahid alias Shada, Akram and Ijaz in a dacoity cum rape case
- MAY 15, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A Pakistani national was executed in Riyad, the Saudi...
A Pakistani national was executed in Riyad, the Saudi Interior Ministry said
- MAY 12, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Ashraf Masih and Nazeer Masih were given capital punishment...
Ashraf Masih and Nazeer Masih were given capital punishment for a dacoity-cum-double-murder case by a Special Judge Anti-Terrorist Court in Lahore
- MAY 9, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Additional District and Sessions court in Lahore sentenced...
Additional District and Sessions court in Lahore sentenced Nasir Masih and Wilson Masih for murder
- MAY 9, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Four persons were hung at the Gujrat District Jail
Four persons were hung at the Gujrat District Jail
- MAY 8, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Additional District and Sessions Judge Syed Iftikhar...
Additional District and Sessions Judge Syed Iftikhar Hussain Shah condemned [two men identified only as] Tariq and Nawaz to death for murdering Zahid Mehmood on September 24, 1995
- MAY 7, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Pakistani Mohammed Akram Bakhsh was publicly beheaded...
Pakistani Mohammed Akram Bakhsh was publicly beheaded in Saudi Arabia for killing a fellow national
- MAY 2, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Syed Ali Asghar Shah, a convict in a murder case was...
Syed Ali Asghar Shah, a convict in a murder case was hung at Gujrat District Jail
- APRIL 30, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Additional District and Sessions court in Jauharabad...
Additional District and Sessions court in Jauharabad condemned Fateh Mohammad and Ali Mohammad to death for a double murder
- APRIL 26, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Pakistan voted against the resolution on the death...
Pakistan voted against the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights on April 26 (no
- APRIL 23, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The District and Sessions court in Dinga condemned...
The District and Sessions court in Dinga condemned [a person identified only as] Shahbaz for shooting dead [a person identified only as] Ansar in the adjoining area of Kunjha in a dispute over a money transaction
- APRIL 21, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Pakistan's military ruler General Pervez Musharraf...
Pakistan's military ruler General Pervez Musharraf said blasphemy laws enacted by former strongman General Zia ul-Haq that were punishable by the death penalty had been grossly abused