28
14+ years
0
1 (0.22%)
Data not available
5 (1.11%)
15 (3.33%)
TOTAL
175 (38.80%)
276 (61.20%)
1
This figure is agreed upon by both the non-governmental Human Rights Commission of Pakistan
(see https://www.fidh.org/International-Federation-for-Human-Rights/asia/pakistan/open-letterto-the-pakistani-authorities-on-death-penalty-14009 - last accessed 9/12/2014) and Amnesty
International (see http://www.amnesty.org/en/news/pakistan-death-penalty-2013-07-03 - last
accessed 9/12/2014)
2
Walter Laqueur, The New Terrorism: Fanaticism and the Arms of Mass Destruction, New York:
Oxford University Press, 1999, p. 6
3
Human Rights Watch, ‘Destroying Legality: Pakistan’s crackdown on judges and lawyers’,
December 2007, p. 6; available at: http://www.hrw.org/node/10527/section/6 (last accessed
9/12/2014)
4
Al Jazeera, ‘Pakistan activists upset by new security law’, 13 July 2014; available at:
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2014/07/pakistan-activists-upset-new-security-law201471316625972647.html (last accessed 9/12/2014)
5
For a full analysis, see Amnesty International, ‘PAKISTAN Legalizing the impermissible: The new
antiterrorism law’, September 1997; available at:
http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/ASA33/034/1997/en/d5abe31b-e99a-11dd-b3a1f9ff1fdfb4a5/asa330341997en.pdf (last accessed 9/12/2014)
6
Aziz Siddiqui, Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, 17 August 1997, cited in Amnesty
International, ‘PAKISTAN Legalizing the impermissible: The new antiterrorism law’, September
1997; available at: http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/ASA33/034/1997/en/d5abe31be99a-11dd-b3a1-f9ff1fdfb4a5/asa330341997en.pdf (last accessed 9/12/2014)
7
Justice Project Pakistan and Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic, Yale Law
School, ‘Policing as torture: A report on systematic brutality and torture by the police in
Faisalabad, Pakistan’, March 2014; available at:
http://www.law.yale.edu/documents/pdf/JPP_Launch_Report_050514.pdf (last accessed
9/12/2014)
8
Zulfiqar Hameed, ‘Anti-terrorism Law’, published in Stabilizing Pakistan through Police Reform: A
report by the Asia Society Independent Commission on Pakistan Police Reform,,ed. Hassan Abas,
July 2012, p. 51
9
Human Rights Watch, ‘Pakistan’s dangerous anti-terrorism law’, July 2014; available at:
http://www.hrw.org/news/2014/07/21/pakistan-s-dangerous-anti-terrorism-law (last accessed
9/12/2014)
10
This does not include data for the administrative territories of Federally Administered Tribal
Areas (‘FATA’), Azad Kashmir or Gilgit-Baltistan.
11
See no. 1 supra.