The following lists events that happened during 2015 in Pakistan.

Incumbents

Federal government

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: Mamnoon Hussain *

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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 ...

* Chief Justice: **until 16 August: Nasir-ul-Mulk **17 August-10 September: Jawwad S. Khawaja **starting 10 September: Anwar Zaheer Jamali

Events

January

* January 4 –

War in North-West Pakistan The insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, also known as the War in North-West Pakistan or Pakistan's war on terror, is an ongoing armed conflict involving Pakistan and Islamist militant groups such as the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Jun ...

** A

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airstrike kills 8 Uzbek people claimed to be linked with

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. ** The Pakistan Air Force strikes Pakistani Taliban positions in

Khyber Agency Khyber District (, ) is a district in the Peshawar Division of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Until 2018, it was an agency of the erstwhile Federally Administered Tribal Areas. With the merger of FATA with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in ...

killing 31 militants. ** A bomb detonates at a volleyball match in Orakzai Agency killing four people and injuring eight. * January 10 ** A suicide bomb attack on a Shiite mosque in

Rawalpindi Rawalpindi is the List of cities in Punjab, Pakistan by population, third-largest city in the Administrative units of Pakistan, Pakistani province of Punjab, Pakistan, Punjab. It is a commercial and industrial hub, being the list of cities in P ...

kills at least seven people. ** A

traffic accident A traffic collision, also known as a motor vehicle collision, or car crash, occurs when a vehicle collides with another vehicle, pedestrian, animal, road debris, or other moving or stationary obstruction, such as a tree, pole or building. Tr ...

between an oil tanker and passenger coach en route to Shikarpur from Karachi on the Pakistan National Highway Link Road near Gulshan-e-Hadeed, Karachi, results in at least 57 dead and scores injured. * January 25 – A massive blackout strikes Pakistan, leaving as much as 80 percent of the country without electricity at its height as officials rush to restore power.

February

* February 13 – Pakistan announces the arrest of twelve

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 ...

in relation to their alleged involvement in last year's school massacre. * February 13 – Police and gunmen exchange gunfire 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 ...

after an explosion is reported at a nearby

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mosque. * February 17 – A bomb in a

Shi'ite Shia Islam is the second-largest branch of Islam. It holds that Muhammad designated Ali ibn Abi Talib () as both his political successor (caliph) and as the spiritual leader of the Muslim community (imam). However, his right is understood to ...

mosque in the Pakistani city of

kills at least two people and injures six.

March

* March 15 – A bombing of a church in

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 ...

kills at least eleven people with 48 more injured. * March 23 – ** 2015 Pakistan Day Parade ** The Pakistan Army claims to have killed 80 Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan fighters in fighting in

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 ...

in recent days while the Taliban claims to have killed at least six soldiers.

April

* April 5 – Suspected murderer and fugitive Gul Ahmad Saeed kills his fiancé and nine of her relatives. The previous year he had killed his family for objecting to their marriage.

May

* May 13 - Karachi Bus Shooting Massacre ** eight gunmen attacked a bus traveling in Safoora Goth, Karachi, Sindh in Pakistan. The shooting left at least 46 people dead. All of the victims were of the Ismaili Shia Muslim minority, suggesting the attack was a targeted killing of sectarian nature. * May 19 – Zimbabwe Cricket Team toured Pakistan to play International Cricket Series. It was the first tour by a Test-playing nation since the attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in 2009. * May 22 – First T20 Match was played between Pakistan And Zimbabwe at

Gaddafi Stadium Gaddafi Stadium formerly known as Lahore Stadium, is a cricket stadium in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan, Punjab, Pakistan, owned by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB). With a capacity of 34,000, it is the List of cricket grounds in Pakistan, largest c ...

. Tickets for both of the T20 matches sold out within two days, with 60,000 people attending the first game. * 20 May – 2015 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa local elections

June

July

August

* August 14 – People of Pakistan celebrated 69th independence day of their country on 14 August.

September

* September 6 – People of Pakistan celebrated Defense day of their country on 06 Sep.

December

* December 29 – the Mardan suicide bombing killed 26 people and wounded more than 50 others.

Arts

Cinema

Economy

* 2014–15 Pakistan federal budget * 2015–16 Pakistan federal budget

Sport

Cricket

International * Pakistani cricket team in New Zealand in 2014–15 * Zimbabwean cricket team in Pakistan in 2015 Domestic *

2015 Haier Super 8 T20 Cup The Super 8 T20 Cup 2015 was the fourth season of the Haier Super 8 T20 Cup. It was played from May 11 to 18, 2015, at the Iqbal Stadium in Faisalabad. Sialkot Stallions won the final by 74 runs. They beat Lahore Lions in the final. Venue All ...

* 2014–15 Haier T20 Cup

Football

* 2014–15 Pakistan Premier League

Deaths

February 23 Events Pre-1600 * 303 – Roman emperor Diocletian orders the destruction of the Christian church in Nicomedia, beginning eight years of Diocletianic Persecution. * 532 – Byzantine emperor Justinian I lays the foundation stone o ...

– Justice Rana Bhagwandas *

May 12 Events Pre-1600 * 254 – Pope Stephen I succeeds Pope Lucius I, becoming the 23rd pope of the Catholic Church, and immediately takes a stand against Novatianism. * 907 – Zhu Wen forces Emperor Ai into abdicating, ending the ...

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Saulat Mirza Saulat Mirza ( born Saulat Ali Khan; 1971–12 May 2015), was a Pakistani convicted murderer, target killer, and a political activist of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM). In 1997, he was convicted of a triple murder and was awarded a death ...

, murderer (b. 1971; executed)

Public holidays

References

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