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Events from the year 2021 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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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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This section needs to be updated. Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. (March 2021)

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### January and February

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* 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

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* 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

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* 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

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* 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

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* 5 September - 2021 Quetta suicide attack
* 7 October - 2021 Balochistan earthquake
* 22 October - October 2021 Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan protests

### November and December

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* 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

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### Cinema

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Main article: List of Pakistani films of 2021

## Economy

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* 2020–21 Pakistan federal budget
* 2021–22 Pakistan federal budget

## Deaths

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### March

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* 1 March - Ejaz Durrani, Pakistani film actor

### April

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* 2 April - Shaukat Ali, Pakistani singer.

### May

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* 14 May - Farooq Qaiser

### July

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* 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

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* 18 February - Mushahid Ullah Khan, Pakistani politician

### August

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* 12 August - Durdana Butt

### October

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

### November

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* 13 November - Sohail Asghar

## See also

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Wikinews has related news:

* Pakistan

* Pakistan portal
* Current events portal
* Asia portal
* Modern history portal

### Country overviews

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* 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

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* 2021
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## References

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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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