Events in the year 2013 in Pakistan.

Incumbents

Federal government

President President most commonly refers to: *President (corporate title) * President (education), a leader of a college or university *President (government title) President may also refer to: Arts and entertainment Film and television *'' Præsident ...

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Asif Ali Zardari Asif Ali Zardari (born 26 July 1955) is a Pakistani politician serving as the 14th president of Pakistan since 2024, having held the same office from 2008 to 2013. He is the president of Pakistan People's Party Parliamentarians and was the ...

* President (September 9 – Present) –

Mamnoon Hussain Mamnoon Hussain (; 23 December 1940 – 14 July 2021) was a Pakistani politician and industrialist who served as the 12th president of Pakistan from 2013 to 2018. He was first appointed Governor of Sindh in June 1999 by President Rafiq Tarar ...

* Prime Minister (June 22, 2012 – March 16, 2013 ) –

Raja Pervaiz Ashraf Raja Pervaiz Ashraf (born 26 December 1950) is a Punjabis, Punjabi Pakistani politician, businessman and agriculturist who served as the 17th Prime Minister of Pakistan, prime minister of Pakistan from June 2012 to March 2013 and as the Speake ...

* Prime Minister (June 5 – Present) –

Nawaz Sharif Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif (born 25 December 1949) is a Pakistani politician and businessman who served as the 12th Prime Minister of Pakistan, prime minister of Pakistan for three non-consecutive terms, first serving from 1990 to 1993, then ...

* Prime Minister – Caretaker (March 25, 2013 – June 4, 2013) –

Mir Hazar Khan Khoso Mir Hazar Khan Khoso (; ) (30 September 1929 – 26 June 2021) was a Pakistani jurist who was the Prime Minister of Pakistan, caretaker prime minister of Pakistan from 25 March to 5 June 2013. Khoso was a judge who previously served as the Chief ...

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* Chief Justice –

Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry (; born 12 December 1948) is a Pakistani jurist who served as the 20th Chief Justice of Pakistan over three non-consecutive terms from 29 June 2005 to 11 December 2013. Chaudhry began practice as an advocate of the S ...

(until December 11),

Tassaduq Hussain Jillani Tassaduq Hussain Jillani (born 6 July 1949) is a Pakistani judge who served as the 21st Chief Justice of Pakistan from 2013 to 2014. He previously served as a justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan from 2004, after being nominated as a just ...

Chief ministers

Here is a list of chief ministers of provinces elected in General Elections 2013, Pakistan * Chief Minister Punjab, Pakistan (June 8 – Present) – Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif * Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (May 31 – Present) – Parvez Khattak * Chief Minister Sind (May 30 – Present) – Qaim Ali Shah * Chief Minister Balochistan (June 7 – Present) – Abdul Malik Baloch * Chief Minister Punjab – Caretaker (March 27, 2013 – June 6, 2013) –

Najam Sethi Najam Aziz Sethi ( Punjabi, Urdu: نجم عزیز سیٹھی; born 20 May 1948) is a Pakistani journalist, businessman and cricket administrator. He is the current chief executive officer (CEO) of Mitchell's. Previously, he served as the Chai ...

Governors

* Governor of Balochistan –

Nawab Zulfikar Ali Magsi Nawab Zulfiqar Ali Magsi (Urdu: ; born 14 February 1954) was the 19th Governor of Balochistan since 28 February 2008 to 9 June 2013 as well as the Chief Executive of Balochistan since 14 January 2013. Magsi also served as Chief Minister of Ba ...

(until 11 June); Muhammad Khan Achakzai (starting 11 June) *

Governor of Gilgit-Baltistan The governor of Gilgit Baltistan is the appointed head of state of the provincial government in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. The governor is designated by the prime minister of Pakistan and is normally regarded a ceremonial post. However, through ...

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Pir Karam Ali Shah Pir Karam Ali Shah (c. 1934 – 2020) was a Pakistani politician who served as governor of Gilgit-Baltistan. He was appointed governor on January 26, 2011, by President of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari. He was succeeded by Governor Chaudhry Mu ...

Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa The Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as Governor of North-West Frontier Province) is the appointed head of state of the provincial government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly North-West Frontier Province, or NWFP), Pakistan. Alth ...

– Syed Masood Kausar (until 10 February);

Shaukatullah Khan Shaukatullah Khan is a Pakistani politician from Bajaur Agency who served as Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa from February 2013 to April 2014. He was appointed by the President of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, on the advice of the Prime Minister ...

(starting 10 February) * Governor of Punjab – Syed Ahmed Mahmud (until 2 August); Mohammad Sarwar (starting 2 August) *

Governor of Sindh The governor of Sindh is the appointed head of the province of Sindh, Pakistan. The office of the governor as the head of the province is largely a ceremonial position; the executive powers lie with the Chief Secretary of Sindh, Chief Secretary ...

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Ishrat-ul-Ibad Khan Ishratul Ibad Khan (, born 2 March 1963) is a British-Pakistani doctor and politician who served as the 30th governor of Sindh, Pakistan. He took up the post of Governor of Sindh, Pakistan on 27 December 2002, becoming the youngest governor to ...

Events

January

* January 10 – A series of terrorist attacks killed more than 100 people in

Quetta Quetta is the capital and largest city of the Pakistani province of Balochistan. It is the ninth largest city in Pakistan, with an estimated population of over 1.6 million in 2024. It is situated in the south-west of the country, lying in a ...

. * January 6 –

Qazi Hussain Ahmed Qazi Hussain Ahmad (; born 12 January 1938 – 5 January 2013) was an Islamic scholar, democracy activist, and former Emir of Jamaat-e-Islami, the socially conservative Islamist political party in Pakistan. He opposed the United States' partic ...

, a political leader and Ameer of Islamic political party

Jamaat-e-Islami Jamaat-e-Islami is an Islamist fundamentalist movement founded in 1941 in British India by the Islamist author and theorist Syed Abul Ala Maududi, who was inspired by the Muslim Brotherhood. It is considered one of the most influential Isla ...

died in Islamabad.

February

March

* March 9 – A Christian, Sawan Masih, 28 is accused of blasphemy against the Islamic prophet Muhammad in a Christian neighborhood in Badami Bagh area. * March 25 –

is appointed as caretaker

Prime Minister of Pakistan The prime minister of Pakistan (, Roman Urdu, romanized: Wazīr ē Aʿẓam , ) is the head of government of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Executive authority is vested in the prime minister and his chosen Cabinet of Pakistan, cabinet, desp ...

, following the completion of the PPP-led government's term in office. Khoso will oversee the

general elections A general election is an electoral process to choose most or all members of a governing body at the same time. They are distinct from by-elections, which fill individual seats that have become vacant between general elections. General elections ...

scheduled in May.

April

May

* May 11 – General Elections 2013 held across Pakistan. * May 25 – A school bus explosion kills 17 children and injures seven more in Gujrat.

June

* June 5 –

is elected

, following the

Pakistan Muslim League (N) The Pakistan Muslim League (N) or (PML(N)) is a Centre-right politics, centre-right, Conservatism in Pakistan, conservative political party in Pakistan. It is currently the third-largest party in the Senate of Pakistan, Senate and the larges ...

's victory in the 2013 general election. * June 26 – June 2013 Karachi bombing

July

* July 30 –

is elected as the 12th President of Pakistan in 2013 Presidential election, he will be sworn in on September 9.

August

* August 6 –

2013 Pakistan–Afghanistan floods In August 2013, Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan experienced heavy rain that led to flash flooding. More than 180 died as a result of the floods. Background Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan are frequently hit by flooding during the monsoon sea ...

* August 14 – People of Pakistan celebrated 67th

independence day An independence day is an annual event memorialization, commemorating the anniversary of a nation's independence or Sovereign state, statehood, usually after ceasing to be a group or part of another nation or state, or after the end of a milit ...

of their country on August 14.

September

* September 6 – Defence Day is celebrated in Pakistan. * September 9 –

is sworn in as the 12th President of Pakistan. * September 24 – A 7.7 magnitude

earthquake An earthquakealso called a quake, tremor, or tembloris the shaking of the Earth's surface resulting from a sudden release of energy in the lithosphere that creates seismic waves. Earthquakes can range in intensity, from those so weak they ...

hits Baluchistan, at least 825 people are killed and hundreds injured. * September 25 – International Conference of Muslim Leaders, under the supervision of

Syed Munawar Hassan 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 ...

, Chief Of

Pakistan, held in Mansoora,

Lahore Lahore ( ; ; ) is the capital and largest city of the Administrative units of Pakistan, Pakistani province of Punjab, Pakistan, Punjab. It is the List of cities in Pakistan by population, second-largest city in Pakistan, after Karachi, and ...

October

In the end of October the prime minister went to Washington DC to have a meeting with US president Barack Obama.

November

November 9 celebrated as Iqbal day in Pakistan * November 1 –

Hakimullah Mehsud Hakimullah Mehsud (born Jamshed Mehsud; − 1 November 2013), also known as Zulfiqar Mehsud, was a Pakistani militant who was the second emir of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan from 2009 to 2013. It was confirmed by TTP that he was killed in a U.S. d ...

, leader of

Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan The Pakistani Taliban, officially the Tehreek-i-Taliban-e-Pakistan (TTP), is an umbrella organization of various Islamist armed militant groups operating along the Durand Line, Afghan–Pakistani border. Formed in 2007 by Baitullah Mehsud, i ...

(TTP) killed by a US drone attack. * November 29 – Pakistan Chief of Army Staff, General

Ashfaq Parvez Kayani Ashfaq Parvez Kayani (Urdu: ; born 20 April 1952), is a retired four-star general of the Pakistan Army who served as the eighth chief of army staff, being appointed on 29 November 2007 after his predecessor Pervez Musharraf retired from his ...

retires. General

Raheel Sharif General Raheel Sharif (Urdu: ; born 16 June 1956) is a retired four-star army general of the Pakistan Army who served as the ninth chief of army staff from 29 November 2013 to 29 November 2016. After his retirement as Pakistan's army chief, h ...

becomes the next COAS.

December

* December 11 – Chief Justice

retired from his position, he remained in the Supreme Court from 2005 to 2013, Justice

becomes the next Supreme Court Chief Justice.

Arts

Cinema

Sport

Cricket

Domestic *

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International * Pakistani cricket team in India in 2012–13 * Pakistani cricket team in South Africa in 2012–13

Deaths

*January 2 –

Maulvi Nazir Maulvi Nazir, also known as Mullah Nazir, or Maulvi Nazir Wazir, (Pashto: مولوي نذیر وزیر) was a prominent commander of the Pakistani Taliban in South Waziristan based in Wana. He was a dual citizen of Afghanistan and Pakistan, and ...

, 37–38, Pakistani militant commander, drone strike. *January 4 – Anwar Shamim, 81, Pakistani Air Force air marshal, Chief of Air Staff (1978–1985). *January 6 – Qazi Hussain Ahmad, 74, Pakistani politician,

Ameer Amir is a title of rulers or military leaders in many Muslim countries, alternatively written as ''Emir''. Amir or Ameer may also refer to: People * Amir (name), people with the given name and surname Amir or Ameer * Amir (singer) (born 1984), ...

(1987–2009), cardiac arrest. * March 18 – Muhammad Mahmood Alam), 77, Pakistan Air Force Air Commodore (retd), Sitara-e-Jurat, died after a protracted illness. * May 9 – Sanaullah Haq, 52?, criminal and terror suspect * June 18 – Imran Khan Mohmand, politician who fell victim to the Mardan funeral bombing * August 5 –

Quraish Pur Quraish Pur, born Zulqarnain Qureshi (1932 – 5 August 2013) was a scholar, writer, novelist, columnist and media expert of Pakistan. He gained fame from hosting the TV program Kasuti (PTV) in the 1970s with Obaidullah Baig.

, 81, scholar, Urdu writer/novelist, columnist and media expert died after a protracted illness.

Public holidays

References

{{Year in Asia, 2013

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