Events from the year 2020 in

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Events

January

*January 1 – February 28 – Bangladeshi cricket team in Pakistan in 2019–20. *January 10 **

January 2020 Quetta bombing On 10 January 2020, a suicide bombing inside a Taliban-run mosque killed at least 15 people in Quetta, Pakistan. At least 19 others were injured. Background Earlier, on 7 January 2020, a motorcycle bombing took place near a Frontier Corps v ...

. **

January 2020 lunar eclipse A penumbral lunar eclipse occurred at the Moon’s Lunar node, ascending node of orbit on Friday, 10 January 2020, with an umbral Magnitude of eclipse, magnitude of −0.1146. A lunar eclipse occurs when the Moon moves into the Earth's shadow, ca ...

* 2020 Neelum Valley avalanche

February

* February 1 – The

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declared a

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to protect crops and help

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. * February 9 – 16 – 2020 Kabaddi World Cup (Circle style). * February 12 –

Hafiz Saeed Hafiz Muhammad Saeed (born 5 June 1950) is a Pakistani militant and religious preacher convicted of terrorism. He co-founded Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), a Pakistan-based Islamist militant organization that is designated as a terrorist group by the ...

was convicted of two counts of

terrorist Terrorism, in its broadest sense, is the use of violence against non-combatants to achieve political or ideological aims. The term is used in this regard primarily to refer to intentional violence during peacetime or in the context of war aga ...

financing and was sentenced to years in prison. * February 17 –

February 2020 Quetta bombing On 17 February 2020, a suicide bombing occurred in Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan. The attacker was on a motorcycle and detonated his bomb as police tried to stop him entering a Sunni extremist religious rally near a press club. At least 10 pe ...

. * February 20 –

2020 Pakistan Super League 2020 Pakistan Super League (also known as PSL 5 or for sponsorship reasons as HBL PSL 2020) was the fifth season of the Pakistan Super League, a franchise Twenty20 cricket league which was established by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) in 2015. ...

Final Final, Finals or The Final may refer to: *Final examination or finals, a test given at the end of a course of study or training *Final (competition), the last or championship round of a sporting competition, match, game, or other contest which d ...

. * February 26 – The first two cases of

COVID-19 Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. In January 2020, the disease spread worldwide, resulting in the COVID-19 pandemic. The symptoms of COVID‑19 can vary but often include fever ...

are reported in Pakistan. * February 28 – Press reports state that

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may send flocks of ducks to Pakistan to fight locusts.

March

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

May

* May 21 –

Islamabad High Court The Islamabad High Court (IHC) is the senior court of the Islamabad Capital Territory, Pakistan, with appellate jurisdiction over the following District courts of Pakistan, district courts: * Islamabad District Court (East) * Islamabad Distr ...

ordered that the elephant

Kaavan Kaavan (; born 1985) is a male Asian elephant known as the "world's loneliest elephant" since his partner, 22-year-old Saheli, died in 2012. Kaavan was gifted by the government of Sri Lanka to Pakistan in 1985. He remained at the Islamabad Zoo u ...

should be immediately relocated to a different

sanctuary A sanctuary, in its original meaning, is a sacred space, sacred place, such as a shrine, protected by ecclesiastical immunity. By the use of such places as a haven, by extension the term has come to be used for any place of safety. This seconda ...

following a four-year campaign by popular

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singer

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since 2016 demanding for the release of Kaavan from

Islamabad Zoo Islamabad Zoo (), previously Marghazar Zoo, was an zoo in Islamabad Capital Territory. It was opened in 1978, and was under the administration of Capital Development Authority (Islamabad), Capital Development Authority of Pakistan before its clo ...

. * May 22 –

Pakistan International Airlines Flight 8303 On 22 May 2020, Pakistan International Airlines Flight 8303, a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Lahore to Karachi, crashed while on approach to Jinnah International Airport, killing 97 out of the 99 people on board as well as an additio ...

crashed in

Karachi Karachi is the capital city of the Administrative units of Pakistan, province of Sindh, Pakistan. It is the List of cities in Pakistan by population, largest city in Pakistan and 12th List of largest cities, largest in the world, with a popul ...

Sindh Sindh ( ; ; , ; abbr. SD, historically romanized as Sind (caliphal province), Sind or Scinde) is a Administrative units of Pakistan, province of Pakistan. Located in the Geography of Pakistan, southeastern region of the country, Sindh is t ...

, killing 97 of the 99 people on board as well as one on the ground.

June

* June 6 – Govt appoints Muhammad Sadiq as country's first special representative for

Afghanistan Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. It is bordered by Pakistan to the Durand Line, east and south, Iran to the Afghanistan–Iran borde ...

. * June 19 – The Supreme Court of Pakistan has quashed a presidential reference filed against Justice Qazi Faiz Esa. * June 29 – Pakistan Stock Exchange attack - A

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in Karachi left at least 8 people dead including 4 perpetrators. * June 30 – Nigar Johar becomes the

Pakistan Army The Pakistan Army (, ), commonly known as the Pak Army (), is the Land warfare, land service branch and the largest component of the Pakistan Armed Forces. The president of Pakistan is the Commander-in-chief, supreme commander of the army. The ...

's first female lieutenant general.

July

* July 1 – Pakistan temporarily bans popular

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game PUBG. * July 3 – US donates 100 ventilators to support Pakistan's COVID-19 response. * July 6 – PM Imran Khan inaugurates country's first ever indigenously made ventilators at National Radio and Telecommunication Corporation (NRTC) in Haripur. * 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. 8 July 23 – Pakistan at the 2020 Summer Olympics * July 29 – In terrorist attack, a soldier is killed at Bajaur security post.

August

* August 5 – At least 39 people were injured in an RGD-1

grenade A grenade is a small explosive weapon typically thrown by hand (also called hand grenade), but can also refer to a Shell (projectile), shell (explosive projectile) shot from the muzzle of a rifle (as a rifle grenade) or a grenade launcher. A mod ...

attack on a Jamaat-i-Islami rally in the

Gulshan-e-Iqbal Gulshan-e-Iqbal () is a large middle-class to upper middle class (Block 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19) residential and commercial neighborhood in the Karachi East district of Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. It was previously adminis ...

neighborhood of Karachi. The Sindhudesh Revolutionary Army claimed responsibility for the attack. * August 10 – A bomb killed at least 5 people and several others were injured in

Chaman Chaman (Pashto and ) is the capital city of the Chaman District in Balochistan, Pakistan, Balochistan, Pakistan. It is located near the Durand Line, Afghanistan-Pakistan border. The city is situated south of the Wesh–Chaman border crossing with ...

Balochistan Balochistan ( ; , ), also spelled as Baluchistan or Baluchestan, is a historical region in West and South Asia, located in the Iranian plateau's far southeast and bordering the Indian Plate and the Arabian Sea coastline. This arid region o ...

. * August 13 - Killing of Hayat Baloch * August 24 -

Pakistan at the 2020 Summer Paralympics Pakistan competed at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan, from 24 August to 5 September 2021. It sent two athletes, one of either gender to compete in athletics (discus throw). Medalists Athletics One Pakistani male athlete, Haider ...

* August 25 - 2020 Karachi floods

September

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

October

* October 9 - Pakistan

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short video-sharing application

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because of immoral videos. * October 16 ** An attack kills least 7 soldiers and 7

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s in Balochistan. ** A bomb kills at least 6 members of the Army in

North Waziristan North Waziristan District (, ) is a Districts of Pakistan, district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan. It is the northern part of Waziristan, a mountainous region of northwest Pakistan, bordering Afghanistan and covering . The capital ...

. * October 20 - Pakistan after 10 days hiatus, Pakistan banned TikTok. * October 21 - At least 5 people were killed and 27 others were injured in an

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at an apartment building in Karachi. * October 27 - 2020 Peshawar school bombing - Eight students were killed in a

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at a school in

Peshawar Peshawar is the capital and List of cities in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa by population, largest city of the Administrative units of Pakistan, Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. It is the sixth most populous city of Pakistan, with a district p ...

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (; ; , ; abbr. KP or KPK), formerly known as the North West Frontier Province (NWFP), is a Administrative units of Pakistan, province of Pakistan. Located in the Northern Pakistan, northwestern region of the country, Khyber ...

. *28 October-

Federal Board of Revenue The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) (), formerly known as Central Board of Revenue (CBR), is a federal law enforcement agency of Pakistan that investigates tax crimes, suspicious accumulation of wealth, money-laundering make regulation of collec ...

(FBR) sealed cellular Sim company

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head office after they did not pay 25 billions rupees in 2018.

November

* 15 November **

2020 Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly election The 2020 Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly elections were held on 15 November 2020. Elections were held in 24 constituencies, each electing one member to the 3rd Gilgit-Baltistan Legislative Assembly. 330 candidates contested these elections, either re ...

December

* December 30 -

2020 Karak temple attack On December 30, 2020 the Samadhi of Shri Paramhans Ji Maharaj, a revered Hindu saint and the Krishna Dwara temple situated in the Teri village in the Karak District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan was attacked and burned, by a mob o ...

Arts

Cinema

Economy

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

Deaths

January

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

February

*February 5 –

Mohammad Shafiq Mohammad Shafiq (born April 1934) is a retired three-star rank army general of the Pakistan Army. He also served as the governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa from 1999 to 2000. He was appointed to that position on 21 October 1999 ...

, politician. *February 6 –

Malik Ata Muhammad Khan Malik Ata Muhammad Khan (Urdu, , 25 October 1937 – 6 February 2020), popularly known as Prince Malik Ata was a Pakistani feudal lord and politician. He was the chief of Kot Fateh Khan in Attock District of North Western Punjab, Pakistan. He wa ...

, feudal lord and politician (b. 1941). *February 10 –

Waqar Hasan Waqar Hasan Mir (; 12 September 1932 – 10 February 2020) was a Pakistani cricketer who played in 21 Test matches from 1952 to 1959, and the last surviving member of Pakistan's inaugural Test team. He scored 1,071 runs in Test cricket, and pl ...

, cricketer (b. 1932). *February 15 **

Shahnaz Ansari Shahnaz Ansari (10 January 1970 – 15 February 2020) was a Pakistani politician who was a Member of the Provincial Assembly of Sindh from June 2013 until her assassination. Early life and education She was born on 10 January 1970 in Naushahro ...

, politician (b. 1970). **

Naeemul Haque Naeem ul Haque (11 July 1949 – 15 February 2020) was a Pakistani politician who was the Special Assistant to the Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan on Political Affairs. He was also co-founder of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in 1996 ...

, political advisor (b. 1949). *February 20 – Usman Ullah Khan, Olympic boxer (b. 1974). *February 21 –

Lal Khan Lal Khan (born Tanveer Gondal; June 1956 – 21 February 2020) was a Pakistani political activist and Marxist political theorist. He was a physician by profession but ceased practicing medicine in order to devote his time to political activit ...

, Marxist political theorist (b. 1956). *February 25 – Naimatullah Khan, politician (b. 1930).

March

*March 6 – Amanullah, actor (b. 1950). *March 14 –

Mubashir Hassan Mubashir Hassan (; 22 January 1922 – 14 March 2020) was a Pakistani politician, Humanism, humanist, political adviser, and an engineer who served in the capacity of Finance Minister of Pakistan, Finance Minister in Zulfikar Ali Bhutto#Prime M ...

, politician (b. 1922).

May

*May 22 –

Zara Abid Zara Abid (; 4 April 199222 May 2020) was a Pakistani model and actress. She was featured in various photo shoots. She made her film debut in ''Chaudhry'', directed by Azeem Sajjad. She was one of the passengers who died aboard PIA Flight 8303 ...

June

*June 26 –

Munawar Hasan Syed Munawar Hasan (; 5 January 194026 June 2020) was a Pakistani politician who served as the 4th Emir of Jamaat-e-Islami from 2009 to 2014. He was elected as a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from Karachi in 1977. Early life and ...

, former Ameer Jamat E Islami (b. 1941). *June 22 – Allama Talib Jauhari, Islamic scholar (b. 1939). *June 20 –

Mufti Muhammad Naeem Muhammad Naeem (1958 – 20 June 2020) was a Pakistani cleric and Islamic scholar who served as Chancellor of Jamia Binoria. Biography Family background His paternal family came from Surat in Indian Gujarat. His grandfather was born a Parsi wh ...

, cleric (b.1958). *June 17 –

Tariq Aziz Tariq Aziz (, , 28 April 1936 – 5 June 2015) was an Iraq, Iraqi politician who served as the Deputy Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq from 1979 to 2003 and Minister of Foreign Affairs (Iraq), Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1983 ...

, television host (b. 1936) *June 13 –

Sabiha Khanum Sabiha Khanum (; born Mukhtar Begum; 16 October 1935 – 13 June 2020), was a Pakistani film actress. She is also known as the "First Lady of Pakistani Cinema", and is often recognized for her role in Pakistani cinema during the 1950s and 1960s ...

, actress (b. 1935).

July

August

*20 August -

Mir Hasil Khan Bizenjo Mir Hasil Khan Bizenjo (3 February 1958 – 20 August 2020; Urdu: میر حاصل خان بزنجو) was a Pakistani politician who served as Minister for Maritime Affairs, in Abbasi cabinet from August 2017 to May 2018. He previously served a ...

(born 1958), veteran politician and National party president *26 August-

Muzaffar Hussain Shah Syed Muzaffar Hussain Shah () is a Pakistani politician and a member of Senate of Pakistan. He was born in 1945. He is an active partisan of Pakistan Muslim League (F). He was nominated by the President President most commonly refers to: *P ...

(born 1945), former Chief Minister of

*29 August - Shafaullah rokhri (born 1966), Pakistani folk singer and songwriter, music producer

September

13 September Zameer Akhter Naqvi (Islamic Scholar) died

November

* 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

*2 December – Mir

Zafarullah Khan Jamali Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali (1 January 1944 – 2 December 2020) was a Pakistani politician who served as the 13th prime minister of Pakistan from 2002 to 2004. He was the first and only elected prime minister from Balochistan, Pakistan. Born int ...

, 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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