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IHC Statistics

Aggregate statistics computed from the published, reasoned judgments of the Islamabad High Court: 2,900+ judgments spanning caseload composition, most-cited statutes, writ practice, and bench authorship.

This page reports patterns across the IHC's published precedent surface: what proportion of reported judgments are constitutional versus criminal versus civil, which statutes and constitutional articles are cited most often, which government entities are named most often as respondent in writ petitions, and how judgment volume and bench composition have moved over time. Every figure below is an aggregate computed across the corpus; no individual judgment, litigant name, or case-specific detail is reported here.

Data Scope: The statistics below are computed from the reasoned written judgments the Islamabad High Court has published on its public Management Information System portal at mis.ihc.gov.pk. The corpus covers May 2008 to February 2026 and contains 2981 judgments.

These are not all matters the IHC handles. The Court disposes of approximately seven to nine thousand cases each year through procedural orders, adjournments, dismissals for non-prosecution, withdrawals, and short orders that are not authored as detailed written judgments. Only the reasoned judgments the Court has approved for its public portal are included here.

What you are looking at is the published precedent surface of the IHC, not its total caseload. It is the same set of materials any advocate would manually consult when researching a matter, aggregated.

Writ Jurisdiction
1,152
Article 199, the constitutional writ jurisdiction, appears in 1152 judgments. The next most-cited Article appears in 24. The IHC functions, in practice, as the writ court of the Islamabad Capital Territory.
Primary Citations
53% / 21%
53.27% of reported judgments cite the Constitution of Pakistan, 1973. 21.17% cite the Pakistan Penal Code, 1860.
Pages & Duration
7 pgs and 1 yr
The median IHC reported judgment is 7 pages and 2200 words. The median time from filing to written judgment is approximately 1 year(s).
Judicial Authorship
29
29 distinct judges have authored at least one judgment in the corpus.

Caseload Composition by Legal Division

Constitutional (63.5%) Criminal (18.48%) Civil (18.01%)
Caseload composition by legal division across 2981 reported judgments.

Top Cited Statutes

Constitution of Pakistan, 1973 1810 Pakistan Penal Code, 1860 631 Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 531 Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 450 Income Tax Ordinance, 2001 122 Arbitration Act, 1940 105 Contract Act, 1872 86 Industrial Relations Act, 2012 78 National Accountability Ordinance, 1999 75 Specific Relief Act, 1877 72
The ten statutes most frequently cited across reported IHC judgments.

Top Writ Respondents

Federation of Pakistan 425 ICT Administration 52 Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) 47 Capital Development Authority (CDA) 43 ICT Police 36 National Accountability Bureau (NAB) 35 Oil & Gas Regulatory Authority (OGRA) 16 Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) 14 The State 14 Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) 14
The ten government entities most frequently named as respondent in IHC writ petitions. Useful as a prior when drafting Article 199 petitions.

Year-over-Year Judgment Volume

0 125 250 375 500 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 * 2025 * 2026
* Recent years reflect ongoing publishing lag and should not be read as case-volume declines.

Of the judgments with identified authorship, 98.06% were authored by a single judge, 1.69% by a division bench, and 0.25% by a full or larger bench. The IHC's published precedent is overwhelmingly authored by single judges.

Methodology. Judgments captured from mis.ihc.gov.pk. Outcomes classified by pattern matching on the operative paragraph of each judgment. Statute names canonicalised across stylistic variants. Constitutional article and Pakistan Penal Code section frequencies extracted from the cited-statutes field of each judgment. Time-to-disposal computed as judgment year minus case-number filing year, a proxy that does not reflect docket-level filing dates. Years 2025 and 2026 reflect publishing lag and are excluded from trend statements. Corpus last refreshed May 25, 2026.

Methodology note. These are aggregate statistics only, computed from the reasoned written judgments the Islamabad High Court has published on its public Management Information System portal. This page does not link to, quote from, or summarize any individual judgment, and does not describe the internal tooling used to compute these figures. To read case-specific summaries and key holdings, use the Case Law Database.