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 14, 1999PakistanDEATH PENALTY
On May 14, 2 Pakistanis, Ashraf Ali Qadir Bakhsh and...
On May 14, 2 Pakistanis, Ashraf Ali Qadir Bakhsh and Shushi Muhammad Taln, were executed in Saudi Arabia for drug offenses
- MAY 13, 1999PakistanDEATH PENALTY
On May 13, Mohammed Saleem was re-arrested for the...
On May 13, Mohammed Saleem was re-arrested for the same crime for which he had been condemned to death in December 1998 and subsequently released in January 1999
- APRIL 29, 1999PakistanDEATH PENALTY
On April 29, President Rafiq Tarar issued an Ordinance...
On April 29, President Rafiq Tarar issued an Ordinance to amend the Anti-Terrorism Act, 1997 and turned special courts into anti-terrorism courts, following the Supreme Court's decision on February 17 to strike down military trial courts
- APRIL 28, 1999PakistanDEATH 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 28 (1999/61)
- APRIL 23, 1999PakistanDEATH PENALTY
On April 23, Ghulam Abbas Ali Nawaz, a Pakistani man,...
On April 23, Ghulam Abbas Ali Nawaz, a Pakistani man, was executed near the Muslim Holy City of Mecca in western Saudi Arabia for smuggling heroin in his intestines into the kingdom
- MARCH 10, 1999PakistanDEATH PENALTY
On March 10, the Pakistan Government denied charges...
On March 10, the Pakistan Government denied charges that it violated human rights or ignored their violation in the country
- MARCH 9, 1999PakistanDEATH PENALTY
On March 9, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan...
On March 9, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) claimed that one out of every five persons convicted in the country is sentenced to death, ranking Pakistan as having one of the world's highest death sentence rates
- FEBRUARY 24, 1999PakistanDEATH PENALTY
On February 24, the Anti-Terrorism Court in Gujranwala...
On February 24, the Anti-Terrorism Court in Gujranwala announced a 7-times death sentence, a 2-times life imprisonment, and a 321-year imprisonment for each of the three agents of the Research and Analysis Wing [RAW] for conducting bomb blasts in Gujranwa
- FEBRUARY 17, 1999PakistanDEATH PENALTY
On February 17, the Supreme Court of Pakistan in a...
On February 17, the Supreme Court of Pakistan in a historic verdict declared the constitution of military trial courts and punishments awarded by them as unconstitutional
- FEBRUARY 1, 1999PakistanDEATH PENALTY
In February, an appellate military court set aside...
In February, an appellate military court set aside the death sentence handed down by a summary military court to Mohammad Saleem, a 13-year- old boy who was among 4 people condemned to death on December 19 for killing 3 policemen in 1997
- JANUARY 23, 1999PakistanDEATH PENALTY
On January 23, Syed Ayub Haider Naqvi alias Chanda,...
On January 23, Syed Ayub Haider Naqvi alias Chanda, a 26-year-old auto-engineer was sentenced to death by a military court in Karachi for his involvement in the murder of Mohammad Ismail Memon, Chairman of the Board of Secondary Education and his driver,
- JANUARY 23, 1999PakistanDEATH PENALTY
On January 23, the Federal Government filed a review...
On January 23, the Federal Government filed a review petition in the Supreme Court urging the Apex Court to vacate its interim decision taken on January 11 that bars executions ordered by military courts established under Art
- JANUARY 16, 1999PakistanDEATH PENALTY
On January 16, Military Court-4 sentenced Ali Nawaz...
On January 16, Military Court-4 sentenced Ali Nawaz Khoso of Shikarpur to death
- JANUARY 11, 1999PakistanDEATH PENALTY
On January 11, the Supreme Court halted executions...
On January 11, the Supreme Court halted executions ordered by military courts in Karachi until it ruled on their validity
- JANUARY 8, 1999PakistanDEATH PENALTY
On January 8, Pakistan's Supreme Court issued an interim...
On January 8, Pakistan's Supreme Court issued an interim order to stop any executions imposed by military courts in from being carried out until the following week
- JANUARY 5, 1999PakistanDEATH PENALTY
On January 5, Rafiuddin Babli, 32, was put to death...
On January 5, Rafiuddin Babli, 32, was put to death for kidnapping with a view to extortion, and for raping a female student in 1997
- JANUARY 1, 1999PakistanDEATH PENALTY
In December 1998, the Government set up military trial...
In December 1998, the Government set up military trial courts (MTC) to try those responsible for "violence and terrorism" in Sindh Province, the capital of which is Karachi, where more than 1,000 people were killed in political and religious violence duri
- JANUARY 1, 1999PakistanDEATH PENALTY
In 1997, the Nawaz Sharif Government introduced the...
In 1997, the Nawaz Sharif Government introduced the death penalty for rapists charged with attacking children under 10 years, and said such cases should be tried in the special courts set up under the anti-terrorism laws
- JANUARY 1, 1999PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or...
The Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions has learned that large scale violations to the right to life are continuing to occur in Pakistan (E/CN
- JANUARY 1, 1999PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The death penalty is imposed for several crimes, including...
The death penalty is imposed for several crimes, including robbery, hijacking, arms trading, drug trafficking, rape, and capital offenses, under Shari'a Law, introduced with governmental decrees, such as sexual relations between partners not married to ea
- JANUARY 1, 1999PakistanDEATH PENALTY
In the capital Islamabad, Senate opposition leader...
In the capital Islamabad, Senate opposition leader Aitzaz Ahsan asked President Rafiq Tarar, in a letter, to refrain from sending to the gallows people sentenced by military courts until the Supreme Court had ruled on their validity
- JANUARY 1, 1999PakistanDEATH PENALTY
In January, former Senator and Millat Party General...
In January, former Senator and Millat Party General Secretary Javed Jabbar criticized the first death sentence passed by a military trial court in Karachi on Ashraf Chakar, 30, who was hanged on December 31, 1998