diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 3abafaa25ffa66d0585e767dfc64449ba072af6b..ac6a90177080aa515f7b0a4256b65dbe88036f48 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 - Assert and abort will trigger a SEGV to try to display the backtrace
 - Check if downloaded karas are matroska files (only the magic number)
 - In case of restart get the klkt instance launched by the previous lektord
+- The 'pause' command may take one argument to force the 'paused' state of lektord
 - Add window icon
 - Add the Klkt client (notification for desktops) to the lektor project
 - Add AppImage builds for lektord, lkt and klkt
@@ -14,7 +15,7 @@
 - Add the \_\_flat command to set all priorities to 1 in the queue
 - Add MPD commands: seek, seekid, seekcur, delete (partial), playlistid
 - Alias list\* commands as find
-- lkt handle the playlistid (queue id) and \_\_flat (queue flatten) commands
+- lkt handle the playlistid (queue id) and \_\_flat (queue flatten), pause, unpause commands
 - lkt shuffle works the same way as klkt, it doens't force the 'play' command but unpause, i.e it doesn't replay the kara
 - Remove archlinux package support (replaced by AppImage)
 - Fix dl process with the repo module
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 915d9f5e7a1741a2994179951758b537b15ff164..43209ff4cab96583a017132c489bac612736d8b6 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ For the compatibility column, the possible values are the following:
 | `replay_gain_mode {mode}`                 |                                       |       | not implemented                                   |
 | `replay_gain_status`                      |                                       |       | not implemented                                   |
 | `next`                                    | `next`                                | +     |                                                   |
-| `pause {state}`                           | `pause {state}`                       | CHECK | check compat state                                |
+| `pause {state}`                           | `pause {state}`                       | +     |                                                   |
 | `play [songpos]`                          | `play [songpos]`                      | +     | if no `songpos` passed, defaults to `0`           |
 | `playid [songid]`                         | `playid {songid}`                     | +     | get the first found `songid` in the queue         |
 | `previous`                                | `previous`                            | +     |                                                   |
diff --git a/man/lkt.template b/man/lkt.template
index 3c3073f304c40b16837344931cf6ebcc26134035..07ff2e42353a84e0ac9ba3a10ab25c3f8daf7c0f 100644
--- a/man/lkt.template
+++ b/man/lkt.template
@@ -28,26 +28,32 @@ Here are the \fBlkt\fP commands:
 \fBcurrent\fP
 Prints informations about the currently playing kara. Can be used to
 display the current kara in a status bar like \fBxmobar\fP or in the
-\fBi3 panel\fP
+\fBi3 panel\fP.
 .TP
 \fBplay\fP [index]
 Toggle play/pause state. If the playback is stopped, start at a possibly
-specified index
+specified index.
+.TP
+\fBpause\fP
+For lektord to be paused, don't do anything is lektord is already paused.
+.TP
+\fBunpause\fP
+Unpause lektord, don't do anything if lektord is already playing or if it is
+stopped. In that case use the \fBplay\fP command.
 .TP
 \fBnext\fP
-Play next kara in the queue
+Play next kara in the queue.
 .TP
 \fBprevious\fP
-Play the previous kara in the queue
+Play the previous kara in the queue.
 .TP
 \fBshuffle\fP
-Shuffle the queue. If the state was stoppped, play from the first kara
-in the queue. If lektor was already playing a kara, it will play it
-from the begening. The current kara will be placed in first position
-in the queue.
+Shuffle the queue. If lektord was paused it will unpause but if it was stopped
+it won't start. If it exists, the current kara will be placed in the first
+place in the queue.
 .TP
 \fBstatus\fP
-Prints information about the state of lektor and the currently playing kara
+Prints information about the state of lektor and the currently playing kara.
 .TP
 \fBstop\fP
 Stop the playback and reading the queue, the state is now \fIstopped\fP.
diff --git a/src/main/lkt.c b/src/main/lkt.c
index 8f9ada2a1006104b9737bc4843423544073ec15f..67cf1a8b51388d2b1c16f62834519e00be188dfe 100644
--- a/src/main/lkt.c
+++ b/src/main/lkt.c
@@ -309,6 +309,8 @@ just_send(queue_crop__,     "crop\n")
 just_send(next__,           "next\n")
 just_send(prev__,           "previous\n")
 just_send(stop__,           "stop\n")
+just_send(pause__,          "pause 1\n")
+just_send(unpause__,        "pause 0\n")
 just_send(shuffle__,        "shuffle\npause 0\n")
 just_send(queue_flatten__,  "__flat\n")
 #undef just_send
@@ -1212,6 +1214,8 @@ queue__(struct cmd_args *args)
 static struct cmd_opt options_[] = {
     { .name = "current",  .call = current__  },
     { .name = "play",     .call = play__     },
+    { .name = "pause",    .call = pause__    },
+    { .name = "unpause",  .call = unpause__    },
     { .name = "next",     .call = next__     },
     { .name = "previous", .call = prev__     },
     { .name = "queue",    .call = queue__    },