2021 in Pakistan
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Events from the year 2021 in Pakistan.
Incumbents
[edit]National government
[edit]Provincial governments
[edit]Province | Governor | Chief Minister | Party | Government Type | Chief Justice |
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Balochistan | Amanullah Khan Yasinzai (until 7 July); Syed Zahoor Ahmad Agha (starting 7 July) | Jam Kamal Khan (until 7 July); Abdul Quddus Bizenjo (starting 7 July) | BAP | Collision | Naeem Akhtar |
Gilgit-Baltistan | Raja Jalal Hussain Maqpoon | Khalid Khurshid | PTI | Majority | Muhammad Ajmal Gondal |
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | Shah Farman | Mahmood Khan | PTI | Majority | Qaiser Rashid Khan (Peshawar High Court) |
Punjab | Chaudhry Mohammad Sarwar | Sardar Usman Buzdar | PTI | Collision | Muhammad Ameer Bhatti (Lahore High Court) |
Sindh | Imran Ismail | Syed Murad Ali Shah | PPP | Majority | Ahmed Ali Sheikh |
Events
[edit]This section needs to be updated.(March 2021) |
January and February
[edit]- 2 January
- 3 January - Machh attack
- 5 January - The Supreme Court ordered that the Shri Paramhans Ji Maharaj Samadhi temple in Teri, Karak District, be rebuilt by the government after it was destroyed by a mob in December 2020.[5]
- 9 January – A massive blackout strikes Pakistan, leaving as much as 90 percent of the country without electricity at its height as officials rush to restore power.[6]
- 11 January - 9 countries appointed new ambassadors to Pakistan: Nepal, Tapas Adhikari; Belarus, Andrei Metdlitsa; South Korea, Sush Sangpyo; Cuba, Zener Javier; Mali, Dianguinadit Yaya Doucoure; Ireland, Ms Sonya McGuinness; Sierra Leone, Alie Kamara; Cambodia, Ung Sean; Kosovo, Ilir Dugolli.[7]
- 12 January - Two gunmen attacked a team of polio vaccine handlers in Karak, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, killing a policeman who was escorting them.[8]
- 28 January – A Malaysian court ordered the immediate release of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) plane which was seized on 15 January, at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport, over a lease dispute.[9][10]
- 22 February - Ippi shooting
March and April
[edit]- 21 March – Janikhel protest
- 24 March - 2021 Chaman bombings
- 11 April - 20 April - 2021 Pakistani protests
- 21 April - Quetta Serena Hotel bombing
May and June
[edit]- 21 May - 2021 Chaman bombings
- 31 May - May 2021 Balochistan attacks
- 7 June - 2021 Ghotki rail crash
- 23 June - 2021 Lahore bombing
July and August
[edit]- 14 July - Dasu bus attack
- 21 July - Raghagan Dam incident
- 25 July - 2021 Azad Kashmiri general election
- 28 July - 2021 Islamabad flooding
- 8 August - Pakistan at the 2021 Islamic Solidarity Games
- 9 August - August 2021 Quetta bombing
- 12 August - Pakistan Ordnance Factories explosion
- 14 August - Karachi grenade attack
- 17 August - Vandalism of Maharaja Ranjeet Singh's statue in Lahore
- 20 August - Gwadar suicide attack
- 26 August - August 2021 Balochistan attacks
September and October
[edit]- 5 September - 2021 Quetta suicide attack
- 7 October - 2021 Balochistan earthquake
- 22 October - October 2021 Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan protests
November and December
[edit]- 3 November - Azad Kashmir bus incident
- 8 November - West Indies women's cricket team in Pakistan in 2021–22
- 28 November - Charsadda arson attack
- 3 December - Lynching of Priyantha Kumara
- 17 December - Eighth Extraordinary Session of the Islamic Summit Conference
- 19 December - 2021 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa local elections
Arts
[edit]Cinema
[edit]Economy
[edit]Deaths
[edit]March
[edit]- 1 March - Ejaz Durrani, Pakistani film actor
April
[edit]- 2 April - Shaukat Ali, Pakistani singer.
May
[edit]- 14 May - Farooq Qaiser
July
[edit]- 1 July - Anwar Iqbal
- 14 July - Mamnoon Hussain, 12th President of Pakistan (b. 1941)
- 16 July - Sultana Zafar
- 17 July - Naila Jaffri, Pakistani actress.
February
[edit]- 18 February - Mushahid Ullah Khan, Pakistani politician
August
[edit]- 12 August - Durdana Butt
October
[edit]- 2 October - Umer Shareef
- 10 October - Abdul Qadeer Khan, Father of Pakistan's nuclear program
November
[edit]- 13 November - Sohail Asghar
See also
[edit]Wikinews has related news:
Country overviews
[edit]- Pakistan
- History of Pakistan
- History of modern Pakistan
- Outline of Pakistan
- Government of Pakistan
- Politics of Pakistan
- Years in Pakistan
Related timelines for current period
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Post-mortem report of Usa offers new details into Islamabad shooting". Dunya News. 2 January 2021. Retrieved 5 January 2021.
- ^ Shams, Shamil (3 January 2021). "Killing of 22-year-old student by police sparks outrage in Pakistan". Deutsche Welle. Retrieved 5 January 2021.
- ^ Tanveer, Asim (2 January 2021). "Pakistan arrests key militant on terror financing charges". Associated Press. Archived from the original on 4 January 2021. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
- ^ Bukhari, Mubasher; Peshimam, Gibran (2 January 2021). Russell, Ros (ed.). "Pakistan arrests alleged militant group leader Zaki ur Rehman Lakhvi on terrorism financing charge". Reuters. Archived from the original on 2 January 2021. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
- ^ "Pakistani top court orders rebuilding of destroyed Hindu temple". Al Jazeera English. January 6, 2021.
- ^ "Pakistan power cut plunges country into darkness". BBC. 10 January 2021. Archived from the original on 28 January 2015. Retrieved 12 January 2021.
- ^ "Nine countries appoint new ambassadors to Pakistan". The News. January 11, 2021.
- ^ Janjua, Haroon. "Pakistan: Gunmen target polio workers, kill policeman". Deutsche Welle.
"Two gunmen came on a motorcycle and attacked our colleague Junaid Ullah while he was escorting the polio team. They opened fire on the van carrying polio workers," Muhammad Ishaq Khan, a police official in Karak, told DW.
- ^ Latif, Aamir (27 January 2021). "Malaysian court orders release of Pakistani plane". Anadolu Agency. Retrieved 29 January 2021.
- ^ Sipalan, Joseph; Hepher, Tim; Shahzad, Asif (27 January 2021). Potter, Mark; Fernandez, Clarence (eds.). "Malaysian court releases Pakistan national carrier's grounded plane". Reuters. Retrieved 29 January 2021.