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 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
- APRIL 19, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Four [unidentified] Pakistani men were sentenced to...
Four [unidentified] Pakistani men were sentenced to death for drug dealing by a United Arab Emirates court
- APRIL 18, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Faisal Maseeh was condemned to capital punishment by...
Faisal Maseeh was condemned to capital punishment by Additional District and Sessions court in Lahore for stabbing to death Muhammad Ashraf while he was sleeping in his house in the Harbanspura area over a minor dispute in 1997
- APRIL 18, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Pakistani prosecutors appealed against the life jail...
Pakistani prosecutors appealed against the life jail term for deposed prime minister Nawaz Sharif, seeking the death sentence for his hijacking and terrorism convictions
- APRIL 17, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Some 50 children on death row may be the immediate...
Some 50 children on death row may be the immediate beneficiaries of the military government's plan to scrap the obsolete juvenile justice system and bring it in line with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, of which Pakistan is a signatory
- APRIL 15, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The District and Session court in Faisalabad gave the...
The District and Session court in Faisalabad gave the death penalty to Afzal Ahmad for a double-murder case
- APRIL 14, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Saudi Arabia executed a Pakistani who killed and robbed...
Saudi Arabia executed a Pakistani who killed and robbed another man, a Saudi Interior Ministry statement said
- APRIL 13, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Munshi Khan and Alam Sher were sentenced to death by...
Munshi Khan and Alam Sher were sentenced to death by the District and Sessions court in Jouharabad
- APRIL 13, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Five men were given the death penalty for a dacoity...
Five men were given the death penalty for a dacoity cum murder case
- APRIL 13, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Additional District and Sessions Judge in Jhang, Sohaib...
Additional District and Sessions Judge in Jhang, Sohaib Ahmed Roomi, condemned Muhammad Afzal to death for murdering pregnantwife, Kausar Bibi
- APRIL 11, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Two kidnappers, Nazar Mohammad and Ajab Khan, were...
Two kidnappers, Nazar Mohammad and Ajab Khan, were given capital punishment by a Special Anti Terrorism Court in Karachi
- APRIL 10, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A Special Court for Suppression of Terroristic Activitiesin...
A Special Court for Suppression of Terroristic Activitiesin Faisalabad handed out a death sentence to Ghulam Murtaza for murder
- APRIL 8, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Additional District and Sessions court in Lahore sentenced...
Additional District and Sessions court in Lahore sentenced to death one [identified only as] Latif in a murder case
- APRIL 6, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A court in Karachi found ousted prime minister Nawaz...
A court in Karachi found ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif guilty of terrorism and hijacking and sentenced him to life imprisonment