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
- FEBRUARY 1, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A division bench of the Lahore High Court rejected...
A division bench of the Lahore High Court rejected the appeal of Muhammad Aziz and Haroon Rashid against their death sentences
- JANUARY 28, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The additional Session Judge Attock Rao Sultan Ali...
The additional Session Judge Attock Rao Sultan Ali Tahir sentenced to death two brothers, Mohammad Sarfaraz and Mohamad Nawaz, and imprisoned their two cousins, Ikhlaq Hussain and Shafqat Hussain, for 10 years
- JANUARY 23, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Additional Sessions Judge Sargodha Zafar Iqbal Ahmad...
Additional Sessions Judge Sargodha Zafar Iqbal Ahmad awarded the death sentence to [a person identified only as] Zulfiqar in a murder case
- JANUARY 22, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Ata Mohammad was hung in New Central jail, Multan
Ata Mohammad was hung in New Central jail, Multan
- JANUARY 22, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Mohammad Amjad Mushtaq was to be hung on January 27...
Mohammad Amjad Mushtaq was to be hung on January 27 in New Central Jail, Multan
- JANUARY 4, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Special Anti Terrorism Judge Zaheeruddin Kakar sentenced...
Special Anti Terrorism Judge Zaheeruddin Kakar sentenced Muhammad Fayyaz to capital punishment
- JANUARY 1, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Pakistani judges handed down a total of more than 4,000...
Pakistani judges handed down a total of more than 4,000 death sentences, in trials that international rights groups complain were often miscarriages of justice
- DECEMBER 25, 1999PakistanDEATH PENALTY
On December 25, in Larkana, a judge of the anti-terrorism...
On December 25, in Larkana, a judge of the anti-terrorism court, Prakash Lal M
- DECEMBER 22, 1999PakistanDEATH PENALTY
On December 22, an Appellate Bench of Sindh High Court,...
On December 22, an Appellate Bench of Sindh High Court, comprising Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar and Justice Wahid Bux Brohi, confirmed Rana Dil Mohammed's death sentence for a double murder in the jurisdiction of Ibrahim Haideri Police on November 11, 1998
- DECEMBER 18, 1999PakistanDEATH PENALTY
On December 18, Pakistan's Supreme Court confirmed...
On December 18, Pakistan's Supreme Court confirmed the death sentence for Haq Nawaz, convicted of murdering Iranian diplomat Sadiq Ganji and injuring his companion Muhammad Ali Mukarram outside the International Hotel in Lahore on December 19, 1990, with
- DECEMBER 16, 1999PakistanDEATH PENALTY
On December 16, Judge Mohammad Aslam Khan awarded the...
On December 16, Judge Mohammad Aslam Khan awarded the death sentence and a fine of Rs one lac to a man identified as Ramzan, for murder
- DECEMBER 15, 1999PakistanDEATH PENALTY
On December 15, District and Sessions Judge Mohammad...
On December 15, District and Sessions Judge Mohammad Aslam Khan handed down the death sentence and a fine of Rs50,000 each to Mohammad Boota and Arshad Kaalo in a murder case registered with thana Chatyana
- DECEMBER 12, 1999PakistanDEATH PENALTY
On December 12, Judge Jhelum Muhammad Akhtar Khan awarded...
On December 12, Judge Jhelum Muhammad Akhtar Khan awarded the death sentence to one of the 12 accused in famous Lallah Town murder, in Pind Dadan Khan
- DECEMBER 8, 1999PakistanDEATH PENALTY
On December 8, District and Sessions Judge Rahimyar...
On December 8, District and Sessions Judge Rahimyar Khan Saifur Rehman awarded the death sentence to Abid Hussain and life imprisonment to Muhammad Iqbal, in the Rana Bazar murder case
- DECEMBER 6, 1999PakistanDEATH PENALTY
On December 6, Additional District and Session Judge...
On December 6, Additional District and Session Judge Syed Akhtar Hussain Zahid sentenced drug pedlar M
- DECEMBER 6, 1999PakistanDEATH PENALTY
On December 6, the Supreme Court said that it would...
On December 6, the Supreme Court said that it would start hearing the petition in January 2000 and ordered the army-led government to reply to five lawsuits filed by the Pakistan Muslim League, but did not rule on another request from the party that crimi
- DECEMBER 4, 1999PakistanDEATH PENALTY
On December 4, Saudi Arabia beheaded a Pakistani man...
On December 4, Saudi Arabia beheaded a Pakistani man for stabbing to death an Afghani man following an argument
- DECEMBER 3, 1999PakistanDEATH PENALTY
On December 3, Judge Rahmat Hussain Jafferi of Anti...
On December 3, Judge Rahmat Hussain Jafferi of Anti Terrorism Court-1 sentenced to death Amir Buksh, 28, for killing HC Muhammed Yousuf on October 20, in his desperate bid to avoid arrest by a team of Anti-Dacoity and Robbery Cell (ADRC) in Malir
- NOVEMBER 2, 1999PakistanDEATH PENALTY
On November 2, a special court for the suppression...
On November 2, a special court for the suppression of terrorist activities awarded the death sentence, 30 lashes and a fine of Rs 20,000 to Mohammad Siddique in a hudud case
- NOVEMBER 1, 1999PakistanDEATH PENALTY
In November, Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League (PML)...
In November, Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League (PML) party filed a petition before the Supreme Court against the military action that installed Gen
- NOVEMBER 1, 1999PakistanDEATH PENALTY
In November, the Pakistani representative, speaking...
In November, the Pakistani representative, speaking at the Third Committee of the General Assembly (human rights) under item 116a (death penalty), said the issue of the death penalty pertains to crime prevention and criminal justice
- OCTOBER 20, 1999PakistanDEATH PENALTY
On October 20, Pakistani representative Munawar Saeed...
On October 20, Pakistani representative Munawar Saeed Bhatti, speaking at the Third Committee of the General Assembly on item 107, crime prevention and criminal justice, said that maintenance of societal peace and law and order through an effective crime
- OCTOBER 12, 1999PakistanDEATH PENALTY
On October 12, Army chief Gen
On October 12, Army chief Gen
- SEPTEMBER 24, 1999PakistanDEATH PENALTY
On September 24, a Pakistani man was beheaded in Saudi...
On September 24, a Pakistani man was beheaded in Saudi Arabia for trying to smuggle drugs into the Kingdom in his abdomen
- AUGUST 27, 1999PakistanDEATH PENALTY
On August 27, an Italian delegation composed of the Hon
On August 27, an Italian delegation composed of the Hon
- AUGUST 21, 1999PakistanDEATH PENALTY
On August 21, a special anti-terrorism court in Pakistan...
On August 21, a special anti-terrorism court in Pakistan handed down the death penalty to Mohammad Saeed Alias Bharam and Saleem Alias Denter, two activists of the ethnic party Motahidda Qaumi Movement (MQM), for killing 4 Americans and their Pakistani dr
- AUGUST 13, 1999PakistanDEATH PENALTY
On August 13, Shareef Khan Nasser, a Pakistani man,...
On August 13, Shareef Khan Nasser, a Pakistani man, was executed in Saudi Arabia for smuggling an unspecified quantity of heroin into the Kingdom
- JUNE 24, 1999PakistanDEATH PENALTY
On June 24, the U
On June 24, the U
- JUNE 4, 1999PakistanDEATH PENALTY
On June 4, an anti-terrorist court sentenced 9 activists...
On June 4, an anti-terrorist court sentenced 9 activists from an opposition political party to death for the murder of former Governor of southern Sindh Province Hakim Said and two aides, in October 1998
- JUNE 1, 1999PakistanDEATH PENALTY
On June 1, a Pakistani man 33-year- has been executed...
On June 1, a Pakistani man 33-year- has been executed in the United Arab Emirates for murdering a Pakistani girl, 15-year-old, whose family had refused him her hand in marriage