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Events from the year 2020 in Pakistan.

## Incumbents

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### National government

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Photo  | Post  | Name

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| 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

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Province  | Governor  | Chief Minister  | Party  | Government Type  | Chief Justice

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Balochistan | Amanullah Khan Yasinzai | Jam Kamal Khan (until Oct 24 2021) Mir Abdul Qudoos Bizenjo (Since 29 October 2021)  | BAP | Collision  | Naeem Akhtar
Gilgit-Baltistan | Raja Jalal Hussain Maqpoon | Hafiz Hafeezur Rehman (until 18 August): Khalid Khurshid (starting 1 December)  | PML (N) (until 18 August): PTI (starting 1 December)  | 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

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* January 1 – February 28 – Bangladeshi cricket team in Pakistan in 2019–20.[citation needed]
* January 10
* January 2020 Quetta bombing.
* January 2020 lunar eclipse[1]
* 2020 Neelum Valley avalanche

### February

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* February 1 – The government declared a national emergency to protect crops and help farmers.[2]
* February 9 – 16 – 2020 Kabaddi World Cup (Circle style).[3]
* February 12 – Hafiz Saeed was convicted of two counts of terrorist financing and was sentenced to 5+1⁄2 years in prison.[4]
* February 17 – February 2020 Quetta bombing.[5]
* February 20 – 2020 Pakistan Super League: Final.[6]
* February 26 – The first two cases of COVID-19 are reported in Pakistan.[7]
* February 28 – Press reports state that China may send flocks of ducks to Pakistan to fight locusts.[8]

### March

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* March 10 – 2020 Tablighi Jamaat COVID-19 hotspot in Pakistan

### May

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* May 21 – Islamabad High Court ordered that the elephant Kaavan should be immediately relocated to a different sanctuary following a four-year campaign by popular pop singer Cher since 2016 demanding for the release of Kaavan from Islamabad Zoo.[9][10]
* May 22 – Pakistan International Airlines Flight 8303 crashed in Karachi, Sindh, killing 97 of the 99 people on board as well as one on the ground.[11][12]

### June

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* June 6 – Govt appoints Muhammad Sadiq as country's first special representative for Afghanistan.[13]
* June 19 – The Supreme Court of Pakistan has quashed a presidential reference filed against Justice Qazi Faiz Esa.[13]
* June 29 – Pakistan Stock Exchange attack \- A mass shooting in Karachi left at least 8 people dead including 4 perpetrators.[14]
* June 30 – Nigar Johar becomes the Pakistan Army's first female lieutenant general.[13]

### July

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* July 1 – Pakistan temporarily bans popular online game PUBG.[13]
* July 3 – US donates 100 ventilators to support Pakistan's COVID-19 response.[13]
* July 6 – PM Imran Khan inaugurates country's first ever indigenously made ventilators at National Radio and Telecommunication Corporation (NRTC) in Haripur.[13]
* July 11 – Pakistan-born scientist Asifa Akhtar has become the first international female vice president of the biology and medicine section at Germany's prestigious Max Planck Society.[13]

8 July 23 – Pakistan at the 2020 Summer Olympics

* July 29 – In terrorist attack, a soldier is killed at Bajaur security post.[15]

### August

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* August 5 – At least 39 people were injured in an RGD-1 grenade attack on a Jamaat-i-Islami rally in the Gulshan-e-Iqbal neighborhood of Karachi. The Sindhudesh Revolutionary Army claimed responsibility for the attack.[16]
* August 10 – A bomb killed at least 5 people and several others were injured in Chaman, Balochistan.[17][18][19]
* August 13 - Killing of Hayat Baloch
* August 24 - Pakistan at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
* August 25 - 2020 Karachi floods

### September

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* September 7 – Mohmand Marble Mine Incident \- A mine disaster left at least 19 people dead and another 20 were injured.[20]
* September 10 – PM Pakistan Launches "Roshan Digital Account" For Overseas Pakistanis.[21]

### October

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* October 9 - Pakistan banned short video-sharing application TikTok because of immoral videos.[22]
* October 16
* An attack kills least 7 soldiers and 7 security guards in Balochistan.[22]
* A bomb kills at least 6 members of the Army in North Waziristan.[22]
* October 20 - Pakistan after 10 days hiatus, Pakistan banned TikTok.[22]
* October 21 - At least 5 people were killed and 27 others were injured in an explosion at an apartment building in Karachi.[23]
* October 27 - 2020 Peshawar school bombing \- Eight students were killed in a bombing at a school in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
* 28 October- Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) sealed cellular Sim company Jazz head office after they did not pay 25 billions rupees in 2018.[24]

### November

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* 15 November
* 2020 Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly election

### December

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* December 30 - 2020 Karak temple attack

## Arts

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### Cinema

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Main article: List of Pakistani films of 2020

## Economy

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* 2019–20 Pakistan federal budget
* 2020–21 Pakistan federal budget

## Deaths

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This section needs to be updated. Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. (May 2020)

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### January

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* January 7 – Fakhruddin G. Ebrahim, judge and former Chief Election Commissioner (b. 1928).[25]
* January 19 – Ali Mardan Shah, politician (b. 1957).[26]
* January 28 – Mohammad Munaf, cricketer (b. 1935).[27]

### February

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* February 5 – Mohammad Shafiq, politician.[28]
* February 6 – Malik Ata Muhammad Khan, feudal lord and politician (b. 1941).[29]
* February 10 – Waqar Hasan, cricketer (b. 1932).[30]
* February 15
* Shahnaz Ansari, politician (b. 1970).[31]
* Naeemul Haque, political advisor (b. 1949).[32]
* February 20 – Usman Ullah Khan, Olympic boxer (b. 1974).[33]
* February 21 – Lal Khan, Marxist political theorist (b. 1956).[34]
* February 25 – Naimatullah Khan, politician (b. 1930).[35]

### March

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* March 6 – Amanullah, actor (b. 1950).[36]
* March 14 – Mubashir Hassan, politician (b. 1922).[37]

### May

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* May 22 – Zara Abid

### June

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* June 26 – Munawar Hasan, former Ameer Jamat E Islami (b. 1941).[38]
* June 22 – Allama Talib Jauhari, Islamic scholar (b. 1939).[citation needed]
* June 20 – Mufti Muhammad Naeem, cleric (b.1958).[39]
* June 17 – Tariq Aziz, television host (b. 1936)[40]
* June 13 – Sabiha Khanum, actress (b. 1935).[citation needed]

### July

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### August

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* 20 August - Mir Hasil Khan Bizenjo (born 1958), veteran politician and National party president[41]
* 26 August- Muzaffar Hussain Shah (born 1945), former Chief Minister of Sindh[42]
* 29 August - Shafaullah rokhri (born 1966), Pakistani folk singer and songwriter, music producer[43]

### September

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13 September Zameer Akhter Naqvi (Islamic Scholar) died

### November

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* 2 November - Hafiz Muhammad Durrab Zafar a young talented Boy from Sahiwal
* 13 November 2020 Justice Waqar Ahmed Seth Judge of Supreme Court of Pakistan who Sentenced Death to Ex President of Pakistan General Musharraf.
* 20 November - Allama Khadim Hussain Rizvi (born 1966) Political party (Tahreek-e-labbaik Pakistan) millions of people attend the funeral of Allama Khadim Hussain Rizvi. (TJK) https://www.dawn.com/news/1591262
* 25 November 2020 Muhammad Jadam Mangrio Politician Belongs to Pakistan Muslim League Functional

### December

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* 2 December – Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali, 15th Prime Minister of Pakistan.
* 4 December – Arshad Malik, Judge.
* 5 December – Suhail Zaheer Lari, historian, author.
* 16 December – Firdous Begum
* 31 December – Total 10105+ Persons were died due to COVID-19 during February to 31 December 2020.

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## References

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2. ^ "Pakistan declares national emergency over locust swarms". Deutsche Welle. 2 Feb 2020.
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