2021 in Pakistan

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{{Year in Pakistan|2021}}

Events from the year 2021 in Pakistan.

Incumbents

=National government=

= Provincial governments =

class="wikitable sortable"

!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 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

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= January and February =

  • 2 January
  • 23 year-old Usama Satti was shot to death in his car by Islamabad Police.{{Cite web|date=2 January 2021|title=Post-mortem report of Usa offers new details into Islamabad shooting|url=https://dunyanews.tv/en/Pakistan/581184-Post-mortem-report-Usma-Satti-new-details-Islamabad|access-date=5 January 2021|website=Dunya News}}{{Cite web|last=Shams|first=Shamil|date=3 January 2021|title=Killing of 22-year-old student by police sparks outrage in Pakistan|url=https://www.dw.com/en/killing-of-22-year-old-student-by-police-sparks-outrage-in-pakistan/a-56117763|access-date=5 January 2021|website=Deutsche Welle}}
  • Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi was arrested in Lahore, on terrorism-financing charges.{{Cite web |last=Tanveer |first=Asim |date=2 January 2021 |title=Pakistan arrests key militant on terror financing charges |url=https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-2008-mumbai-attacks-counterterrorism-mumbai-india-aa6214946a60375bcd0bd7a60ae193db |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210104113819/https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-2008-mumbai-attacks-counterterrorism-mumbai-india-aa6214946a60375bcd0bd7a60ae193db |archive-date=4 January 2021 |access-date=4 January 2021 |website=Associated Press}}{{Cite web |last1=Bukhari |first1=Mubasher |last2=Peshimam |first2=Gibran |date=2 January 2021 |editor-last=Russell |editor-first=Ros |title=Pakistan arrests alleged militant group leader Zaki ur Rehman Lakhvi on terrorism financing charge |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/pakistan-arrest-mumbai-idUSKBN2970C0 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210102130311/https://www.reuters.com/article/pakistan-arrest-mumbai-idUSKBN2970C2 |archive-date=2 January 2021 |access-date=4 January 2021 |website=Reuters}}
  • 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.{{cite news |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/1/6/pakistani-top-court-orders-rebuilding-of-destroyed-hindu-temple |publisher=Al Jazeera English |title=Pakistani top court orders rebuilding of destroyed Hindu temple |date=January 6, 2021}}
  • 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.{{Cite web|url = http://bigstory.ap.org/article/ef6f4fc131d24f208fce031cbe70bc84/officials-scramble-after-massive-power-outage-hits-pakistan|title = Pakistan power cut plunges country into darkness|date = 10 January 2021|publisher = BBC|access-date = 12 January 2021|archive-date = 28 January 2015|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150128091415/http://bigstory.ap.org/article/ef6f4fc131d24f208fce031cbe70bc84/officials-scramble-after-massive-power-outage-hits-pakistan|url-status = dead}}
  • 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.{{cite news|url=https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/772465-nine-countries-appoint-new-ambassadors-to-pakistan|publisher=The News|title=Nine countries appoint new ambassadors to Pakistan|date=January 11, 2021}}
  • 12 January - Two gunmen attacked a team of polio vaccine handlers in Karak, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, killing a policeman who was escorting them.{{cite news |url=https://www.dw.com/en/pakistan-gunmen-target-polio-workers-kill-policeman/a-56206032 |newspaper=Deutsche Welle |title=Pakistan: Gunmen target polio workers, kill policeman |quote="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. |first=Haroon |last=Janjua}}
  • 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.{{Cite web|last=Latif|first=Aamir|date=27 January 2021|title=Malaysian court orders release of Pakistani plane|url=https://www.aa.com.tr/en/asia-pacific/malaysian-court-orders-release-of-pakistani-plane/2124734#|access-date=29 January 2021|website=Anadolu Agency}}{{Cite news|last1=Sipalan|first1=Joseph|last2=Hepher|first2=Tim|last3=Shahzad|first3=Asif|date=27 January 2021|title=Malaysian court releases Pakistan national carrier's grounded plane|work=Reuters|editor-last=Potter|editor-first=Mark|editor2-last=Fernandez|editor2-first=Clarence|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/pia-malaysia-idINKBN29W0VL|access-date=29 January 2021}}
  • 22 February - Ippi shooting

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Arts

= Cinema =

{{Main|List of Pakistani films of 2021}}

Economy

Deaths

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See also

{{Wikinews|Pakistan}}

{{portal|Pakistan|Current events|Asia|Modern history}}

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References

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