Events from the year 2021 in

Pakistan Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by population, fifth-most populous country, with a population of over 241.5 million, having the Islam by country# ...

Incumbents

National government

Provincial governments

Events

January and February

* 2 January ** 23 year-old Usama Satti was shot to death in his car by

Islamabad Islamabad (; , ; ) is the capital city of Pakistan. It is the country's tenth-most populous city with a population of over 1.1 million and is federally administered by the Pakistani government as part of the Islamabad Capital Territory. Bu ...

Police The police are Law enforcement organization, a constituted body of Law enforcement officer, people empowered by a State (polity), state with the aim of Law enforcement, enforcing the law and protecting the Public order policing, public order ...

. **

Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi (, born 30 December 1960) is a Pakistani Islamist militant and co-founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba. One of the prime perpetrators of the 2008 Mumbai attacks, he is featured on India's NIA Most Wanted list. In January 2021, he wa ...

was arrested 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 ...

, on

terrorism 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 charges. * 3 January -

Machh attack On 3 January 2021, a group of Islamic State – Pakistan Province, Islamic State (IS) militants killed 11 Hazaras, Hazara coal miners after kidnapping them in Machh, Balochistan, Pakistan, Balochistan, Pakistan. The attack The miners were on t ...

* 5 January - The

Supreme Court In most legal jurisdictions, a supreme court, also known as a court of last resort, apex court, high (or final) court of appeal, and court of final appeal, is the highest court within the hierarchy of courts. Broadly speaking, the decisions of ...

ordered that the Shri Paramhans Ji Maharaj Samadhi temple in Teri,

Karak District Karak District (, ) is a district in Kohat Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan. It is situated to the south of Kohat District and on the north side of Bannu and Lakki Marwat districts on the main Indus Highway between Peshawar ...

, be rebuilt by the government after it was destroyed by a mob in December 2020. * 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. * 11 January - 9 countries appointed new ambassadors to Pakistan:

Nepal Nepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mainly situated in the Himalayas, but also includes parts of the Indo-Gangetic Plain. It borders the Tibet Autonomous Region of China Ch ...

, Tapas Adhikari;

Belarus Belarus, officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east and northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Belarus spans an a ...

, Andrei Metdlitsa;

South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the southern half of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and borders North Korea along the Korean Demilitarized Zone, with the Yellow Sea to the west and t ...

, Sush Sangpyo;

Cuba Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is an island country, comprising the island of Cuba (largest island), Isla de la Juventud, and List of islands of Cuba, 4,195 islands, islets and cays surrounding the main island. It is located where the ...

, Zener Javier;

Mali Mali, officially the Republic of Mali, is a landlocked country in West Africa. It is the List of African countries by area, eighth-largest country in Africa, with an area of over . The country is bordered to the north by Algeria, to the east b ...

, Dianguinadit Yaya Doucoure;

Ireland Ireland (, ; ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe. Geopolitically, the island is divided between the Republic of Ireland (officially Names of the Irish state, named Irelan ...

, Ms Sonya McGuinness;

Sierra Leone Sierra Leone, officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country on the southwest coast of West Africa. It is bordered to the southeast by Liberia and by Guinea to the north. Sierra Leone's land area is . It has a tropical climate and envi ...

, Alie Kamara;

Cambodia Cambodia, officially the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country in Southeast Asia on the Mainland Southeast Asia, Indochinese Peninsula. It is bordered by Thailand to the northwest, Laos to the north, and Vietnam to the east, and has a coastline ...

, Ung Sean;

Kosovo Kosovo, officially the Republic of Kosovo, is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe with International recognition of Kosovo, partial diplomatic recognition. It is bordered by Albania to the southwest, Montenegro to the west, Serbia to the ...

, Ilir Dugolli. * 12 January - Two gunmen attacked a team of

polio vaccine Polio vaccines are vaccines used to prevent poliomyelitis (polio). Two types are used: an inactivated vaccine, inactivated poliovirus given by injection (IPV) and a attenuated vaccine, weakened poliovirus given by mouth (OPV). The World Healt ...

handlers in Karak,

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 ...

, killing a

policeman A police officer (also called policeman or policewoman, cop, officer or constable) is a warranted law employee of a police force. In most countries, ''police officer'' is a generic term not specifying a particular rank. In some, the use of ...

who was escorting them. * 28 January – A Malaysian court ordered the immediate release of

Pakistan International Airlines Pakistan International Airlines, commonly known as PIA, is the flag carrier of Pakistan. With its primary hub at Jinnah International Airport in Karachi, the airline also operates from its secondary hubs at Allama Iqbal International Airport ...

(PIA) plane which was seized on 15 January, at the

Kuala Lumpur International Airport Kuala Lumpur International Airport is the main international airport serving Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia. It is located in the Sepang District of Selangor, approximately south of downtown Kuala Lumpur and serves the Greater Kuala L ...

, over a lease dispute. * 22 February -

Ippi shooting The Ippi shooting was a mass shooting on 22 February 2021 in North Waziristan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Shooting On 22 February 2021, four female aid workers were inside a car when two gunmen on a motorcycle shot them dead in Ippi village ...

March and April

* 21 March – Janikhel protest * 24 March -

2021 Chaman bombings The 2021 Chaman bombings were two bombing attacks in Chaman, Balochistan, Pakistan, that occurred on 24 March and 21 May. These attacks left 10 people dead and another 27 injured. Background The insurgency in Balochistan is a long-running low ...

* 11 April - 20 April - 2021 Pakistani protests * 21 April - Quetta Serena Hotel bombing

May and June

* 21 May -

* 31 May -

May 2021 Balochistan attacks May is the fifth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. Its length is 31 days. May is a month of spring in the Northern Hemisphere, and autumn in the Southern Hemisphere. Therefore, May in the Southern Hemisphere is the s ...

* 7 June -

2021 Ghotki rail crash On , before dawn, two trains train wreck, collided near Daharki, in the Ghotki District of the southern administrative units of Pakistan, province of Sindh in Pakistan, killing at least 65 people and injuring about 150 others. An express train d ...

* 23 June - 2021 Lahore bombing

July and August

* 14 July -

Dasu bus attack On 14 July 2021, a bus carrying Chinese workers in the Dasu area of Upper Kohistan District, Pakistan, fell into a ravine after an explosion, killing 13 people, including nine Chinese citizens and four Pakistanis, and injuring 28 others. The ...

* 21 July - Raghagan Dam incident * 25 July -

2021 Azad Kashmiri general election General elections were held in Azad Kashmir on 25 July 2021 after the expiry of the 5-year term of the previous Legislative Assembly. The elections were held in 33 constituencies of Azad Kashmir and 12 constituencies of the refugees of Jammu and ...

* 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 On 12 August 2021, an explosion at the Pakistan Ordnance Factory plant in Wah Cantt, Rawalpindi District killed three workers and injured two others. The Pakistan Army Public Relations confirmed that an accident had occurred at the POF plant d ...

* 14 August - Karachi grenade attack * 17 August - Vandalism of Maharaja Ranjeet Singh's statue in Lahore * 20 August -

Gwadar suicide attack On 20 August 2021, a suicide attack on a convoy of Chinese workers on the Gwadar Expressway project, as a result two local children were killed and three were injured in southwestern Pakistan. The bombing The Pakistan interior ministry said ...

* 26 August - August 2021 Balochistan attacks

September and October

* 5 September -

2021 Quetta suicide attack On 5 September 2021, in Quetta, a terrorist on a motorcycle targeted a check post on Mastung Road, killing 4 FC personnel and injuring 20 others. The bombing Police said the attack was carried out by a suicide bomber who drove his motorbike ...

* 7 October -

2021 Balochistan earthquake An earthquake struck Pakistan's province of Balochistan near the city of Harnai on 7 October 2021. The moment magnitude 5.9 quake struck in the early morning at 03:01 local time, killing at least 42 people and injuring 300 others. The earthquak ...

* 22 October - October 2021 Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan protests

November and December

* 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

Cinema

Economy

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

Deaths

March

* 1 March -

Ejaz Durrani Ejaz Durrani (18 April 1935 – 1 March 2021), known mononymously as Ejaz, was a Pakistani film actor, director and producer active from 1956 to 1984. He was married to legendary Pakistani actress-singer Noor Jehan. He is mostly remembered for ...

, Pakistani film actor

April

* 2 April -

Shaukat Ali Shaukat Ali, also known as Shaukat Ali Khan, (3 May 1944 – 2 April 2021) was a Pakistani folk singer. Early life and career Born on 3 May 1944, into a family of artists in Malakwal, a town in District Gujrat (now falls in new District Mand ...

, Pakistani singer.

May

* 14 May -

Farooq Qaiser Farooq Qaiser ( Punjabi, ; 31 October 1945 – 14 May 2021) was a Pakistani artist, newspaper columnist, TV show director, puppeteer, script writer, and voice actor. He was known as the creator of the fictional puppet character Uncle S ...

July

* 1 July -

Anwar Iqbal Anwar Iqbal Baloch () (25 December 1949 – 1 July 2021) was a Pakistani television actor and director, who achieved fame with the hit Pakistani drama series ''Shama'' (1976). He later starred in the PTV drama "Akhri Chattan" (آخری چٹا� ...

* 14 July -

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 ...

, 12th President of Pakistan (b. 1941) * 16 July -

Sultana Zafar Sultana Zafar (21 February 1955 – 16 July 2021) was a Pakistani actress. Sultana acted in numerous television dramas and was known for her roles in the dramas ''Munkir'', '' Ana'', '' Zid'' and ''Tanhaiyaan''. She used to run her boutique cal ...

* 17 July -

Naila Jaffri Naila Jaffri was a Pakistani actress and director. She was known for her roles in dramas ''Woh (TV series), Woh'', ''Ek Kasak Reh Gayi'', ''Mausam (TV series), Mausam'', ''Anaya Tumhari Hui'' and ''Tera Mera Rishta''. Early life Naila was born ...

, Pakistani actress.

February

*18 February -

Mushahid Ullah Khan Mushahid Ullah Khan (Urdu:) (30 November 1952 – 18 February 2021) was a Pakistani politician who served as Minister for Climate Change, in Abbasi cabinet from August 2017 to May 2018. A leader of the Pakistan Muslim League (N), Khan had been a ...

, Pakistani politician

August

* 12 August -

Durdana Butt Durdana Butt (9 May 1938 – 12 August 2021) was a Pakistani actress known for her work on Pakistani television. She appeared in a few films as well. Butt is best known for her portrayals in PTV's '' Fifty Fifty'' (1978), ''Aangan Terha'' (1 ...

October

* 2 October -

Umer Shareef Mohammad Umer (19 April 1955 – 2 October 2021), known professionally as Umer Shareef, was a Pakistani actor, host, comedian, director, producer, writer, singer and television personality. Umer began his career at the age of 14 with stand- ...

* 10 October -

Abdul Qadeer Khan Abdul Qadeer Khan (1 April 1936 – 10 October 2021) was a Pakistani Nuclear physics, nuclear physicist and metallurgist, metallurgical engineer. He is colloquially known as the "father of Pakistan and weapons of mass destruction, Pakistan's ...

, Father of Pakistan's nuclear program

November

* 13 November -

Sohail Asghar Sohail Asghar (15 June 1954 – 13 November 2021) was a Pakistani TV, film and theater actor. Career Sohail was born in Multan, Pakistan in 1954. After completing his education he joined Radio Pakistan, Lahore, Pakistan. He worked as a Radio J ...

References

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