2021 in Pakistan

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Events from the year 2021 in Pakistan.

Incumbents

National government

Photo	Post	Name
	President of Pakistan	Arif Alvi
	Prime Minister of Pakistan	Imran Khan
	Chief Justice of Pakistan	Gulzar Ahmed
	Chairman of the Senate	Sadiq Sanjrani
	Speaker of the National Assembly	Asad Qaiser
	Chief Election Commissioner of Pakistan	Sikandar Sultan Raja
	Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee	Nadeem Raza

Provincial governments

Province	Governor	Chief Minister	Party	Government Type	Chief Justice
Balochistan	Amanullah Khan Yasinzai (until 7 July); Syed Zahoor Ahmad Agha (starting 7 July)	Jam Kamal Khan (until 7july); 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

January and February

2 January
- 23 year-old Usama Satti was shot to death in his car by Islamabad Police.^[1]^[2]
- Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi was arrested in Lahore, on terrorism-financing charges.^[3]^[4]
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

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

21 May - 2021 Chaman bombings
31 May - May 2021 Balochistan attacks
7 June - 2021 Ghotki rail crash
23 June - 2021 Lahore bombing

Arts

Cinema

Economy

Deaths

March

1 March - Ejaz Durrani, Pakistani film actor

April

2 April - Shaukat Ali, Pakistani singer.

May

14 May - Farooq Qaiser

July

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

18 February - Mushahid Ullah Khan, Pakistani politician

August

12 August - Durdana Butt

October

2 October - Umer Shareef
10 October - Abdul Qadeer Khan, Father of Pakistan's nuclear program

November

13 November - Sohail Asghar

References

^ "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.

[1] "Post-mortem report of Usa offers new details into Islamabad shooting". Dunya News. 2 January 2021. Retrieved 5 January 2021.

[2] Shams, Shamil (3 January 2021). "Killing of 22-year-old student by police sparks outrage in Pakistan". Deutsche Welle. Retrieved 5 January 2021.

[3] 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.

[4] 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.

[5] "Pakistani top court orders rebuilding of destroyed Hindu temple". Al Jazeera English. January 6, 2021.

[6] "Pakistan power cut plunges country into darkness". BBC. 10 January 2021. Archived from the original on 28 January 2015. Retrieved 12 January 2021.

[7] "Nine countries appoint new ambassadors to Pakistan". The News. January 11, 2021.

[8] 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.

[9] Latif, Aamir (27 January 2021). "Malaysian court orders release of Pakistani plane". Anadolu Agency. Retrieved 29 January 2021.

[10] 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.

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2021 in Pakistan

Incumbents

National government

Provincial governments

Events

January and February

March and April

May and June

July and August

September and October

November and December

Arts

Cinema

Economy

Deaths

March

April

May

July

February

August

October

November

See also

Country overviews

Related timelines for current period

References