2021 in Pakistan
Incumbents
=National government=
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| Chief Election Commissioner of Pakistan |
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= Provincial governments =
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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
|PTI |Majority |Muhammad Ajmal Gondal |
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
|PTI |Majority |
Punjab
|PTI |Collision |
Sindh
|PPP |Majority |
Events
{{update section|date=March 2021}}
= 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
= 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
= July and August=
- 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 =
- 5 September - 2021 Quetta suicide attack
- 7 October - 2021 Balochistan earthquake
- 22 October - October 2021 Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan protests
= November and December =
- 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
= Cinema =
{{Main|List of Pakistani films of 2021}}
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
See also
{{Wikinews|Pakistan}}
{{portal|Pakistan|Current events|Asia|Modern history}}
=Country overviews=
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References
{{reflist|30em}}
{{Years in Pakistan}}
{{Year in Asia|2021}}