EXECUTIONS BY PROVINCE
Since the lifting of the moratorium on the death penalty more than 87 percent of executions have been
carried out in the Province of Punjab. Within the province of Punjab the highest number of executions
have been recorded in the provincial capital of Lahore (52), with 46 in Faisalabad and 39 in Rawalpindi.
Sind, the province with the second highest number of executions, accounts for merely 4.3 percent of the
total execution. The lowest number of executions were recorded in Balochistan (7) and Azad Jammu and
Kashmir (4).
Punjab
Lahore
Faisalabad
Rawalpindi
Bahawalpur
Sahiwal
Multan
Attock
Sialkot
Mianwali
Gujrat
Gujranwala
Sarghoda
Jhang
52
46
39
33
31
25
18
17
17
16
14
13
9
Dera
Ghazi Khan
9
Vehari
8
Toba
Tek Singh
6
Kasur
Jhelum
Total
Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa
Sindh
6
6
365
10
Karachi
5
Sukkur
Hyderabad 2
1
Larkana
18
11
7
Peshawar 2
Timergara 1
Kohat
Haripure
21
7
Azad Jammu
And Kashmir
Mirpur
4
7
4
Balochistan
Machh
A “MOST SERIOUS CRIME”:
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