Events of the year 2022 in

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January

* 8 January –

2022 Murree snowstorm On 7 January 2022, a snowstorm occurred in Murree, Murree District, in the Punjab province of Pakistan, dropping more than of snow, killing 23 domestic tourists who had visited to see the snowfall. Many died as temperatures fell to around minus ...

kills 23 domestic

tourists Tourism is travel for pleasure, and the Commerce, commercial activity of providing and supporting such travel. World Tourism Organization, UN Tourism defines tourism more generally, in terms which go "beyond the common perception of tourism as ...

. * 20 January – 2022 Lahore bombing near

Anarkali Bazaar Anarkali Bazaar (Punjabi language, Punjabi, ) is a major bazaar in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan, Punjab, Pakistan. Anarkali also serves as a neighbourhood and union council of Data Gunj Buksh Town, Data Gunj Buksh Tehsil of Lahore. It is situated in ...

kills at least 3 people and injures 20+. * 20-23 January - 2022 Pakistan landslides * 25 January – 2022 Kech District attack * 26 January – 2022 Karachi protests * 27 January – 27 February:

2022 Pakistan Super League 2022 Pakistan Super League (referred to as HBL PSL 7 for sponsorship reasons) was the seventh season of the Pakistan Super League, a franchise Twenty20 cricket league which was established by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) in 2015. The tournam ...

commences with

Karachi Kings Karachi Kings (; ) is a Pakistani professional franchise Twenty20 cricket team that competes in the Pakistan Super League (PSL). The team is based in Karachi, the provincial capital of Sindh, and was formed in 2015 by the Pakistan Cricket Boar ...

Multan Sultans Multan Sultans is a Pakistani professional Twenty20 franchise cricket team representing Multan, a city in southern Punjab, in the Pakistan Super League (PSL). The team was founded in 2017 as an additional sixth team added to the PSL with contra ...

February

* 2 February ** Lumpy skin disease outbreak in Karachi ** 2022 Panjgur and Naushki raids * 4 February – Pakistan at the 2022 Winter Olympics * 12 February – Lynching of Mushtaq Ahmed * 27 February ** Huqooq-e-Sindh March ** PPP long march

March

* 1 March – 2022 heat wave in India and Pakistan * 2 March **

2021–22 Pakistan Cup The 2021–22 Pakistan Cup was a List A cricket competition that took place in Pakistan in March and April 2022. In February 2022, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) confirmed the fixtures for the tournament. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa were the defending ...

** March 2022 Quetta bombing * 3 March – 2022 Sibi suicide bombing * 4 March **

Australian cricket team in Pakistan in 2021–22 The Australian cricket team toured Pakistan in March and April 2022 to play three Tests, three One Day Internationals (ODIs) and one Twenty20 International (T20I) match. The Test series formed part of the 2021–2023 ICC World Test Championship, ...

2022 Peshawar mosque attack On 4 March 2022, the Islamic State – Khorasan Province attacked a Shia mosque at Qissa Khwani Bazaar in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The suicide attack, carried out by an Afghan man who was a long-term resident of Pakistan, kille ...

* 8 March –

No-confidence motion against Imran Khan In April 2022, a no-confidence motion against Imran Khan led to his removal as the prime minister of Pakistan. Based largely on the Westminster system of legislature, the prime minister commands confidence of the majority of the lower house of ...

* 9 March – Mian Channu incident * 10 March – Parliament Lodges operation * 11 March – 14 March:

Pashtun National Jirga The Pashtun National Jirga (PNJ; ) or Pashtun National Court (), also known as the Khyber Jirga (), commenced on 11 October 2024 under the leadership of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) in the Khyber District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The ...

* 15 March – 2022 Sibi IED explosion * 18 March – Protesters storming Sindh House * 22 March – 23 March: 48th

Foreign Ministers In many countries, the ministry of foreign affairs (abbreviated as MFA or MOFA) is the highest government department exclusively or primarily responsible for the state's foreign policy and relations, diplomacy, bilateral, and multilateral re ...

conference * 27 March – Imran Khan rally in Islamabad * 29 March – 2022 MONUSCO helicopter crash 6 Pakistani

UN Peacekeeping Peacekeeping by the United Nations is a role of the United Nations's Department of Peace Operations and an "instrument developed by the organization as a way to help countries torn by conflict to create the conditions for lasting peace". It is ...

soldiers killed in

Democratic Republic of Congo The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), also known as the DR Congo, Congo-Kinshasa, or simply the Congo (the last ambiguously also referring to the neighbouring Republic of the Congo), is a country in Central Africa. By land area, it is t ...

April

* 3 April –

2022 Pakistani constitutional crisis A political crisis, political and constitutional crisis 2020–2022 Pakistani political crises, emerged in Pakistan from, 3 April 2022 to 10 April 2022 when, National Assembly of Pakistan, National Assembly's Deputy Speaker of the National Assem ...

* 10 April –

Imran Khan Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi (born 5 October 1952) is a Pakistani politician, philanthropist, and former cricketer who served as the 19th prime minister of Pakistan from August 2018 until April 2022. He was the founder of the political party Pak ...

is removed from the post of Prime Minister of Pakistan through a

no-confidence motion A motion or vote of no confidence (or the inverse, a motion or vote of confidence) is a motion and corresponding vote thereon in a deliberative assembly (usually a legislative body) as to whether an officer (typically an executive) is deemed fit ...

, adopted by the majority of the parliament. * 11 April –

Shehbaz Sharif Mian Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif (born 23 September 1951) is a Pakistani politician and businessman who has served as the 20th Prime Minister of Pakistan, prime minister of Pakistan since March 2024, having previously been in the role between Ap ...

is sworn-in as the Prime Minister of Pakistan. * 18 April – Dadu village fire * 26 April – 2022 University of Karachi bombing

May

* 13 May – 2022 Cholistan water crisis * 16 May – 2022 Haripur wildfire * 18 May – Sherani District wildfire * 19 May – 2022 Pakistan economic crisis * 24 May – Sri Lanka women's cricket team in Pakistan in 2022 * 25 May – 2022 Azadi march * 29 May – 2022 Balochistan local government elections

June

* 1 June – Federal Shariah Court verdict on interest system in Pakistan * 4 June – Shangla District wildfire * 8 June **

West Indian cricket team in Pakistan in 2022 The West Indies cricket team toured Pakistan in June 2022 to play three One Day International (ODI) matches. Originally, the matches were scheduled to be played in December 2021, but were postponed after multiple cases of COVID-19 were confirm ...

** Killa Saifullah bus crash * 10 June – 2022-2023 Pakistan federal budget * 12 June – 2022 Karachi fire * 14 June – October - 2022 Pakistan floods * 17 June – Pakistan at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships * 21 June –

June 2022 Afghanistan earthquake A deep earthquake measuring Moment magnitude scale, magnitude () 6.2 struck southeastern Afghanistan on 22 June 2022 at 01:24:36 Afghanistan Time, AFT (on 21 June 2022 at 20:54:36 UTC). The earthquake had a maximum Modified Mercalli intensity ...

* 26 June – 2022 Sindh local government elections

July

* 7 July – Pakistan at the 2022 World Games * 12 July – 2022 Sindhi–Afghan strife * 15 July – Pakistan at the 2022 World Athletics Championships * 17 July – 2022 Punjab provincial by-election * 18 July – Sadiqabad boat sinking * 28 July – Pakistan at the 2022 Commonwealth Games

August

* 1 August – ** 2022 Pakistan Army helicopter incident ** The 2022 Census of Pakistan * 2 August – The

Election Commission of Pakistan The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) is an independent, autonomous, permanent and constitutionally established federal body responsible for organizing and conducting elections to the national parliament, provincial legislatures, local g ...

announced verdict of PTI foreign funding case. * 9 August – Pakistan at the 2021 Islamic Solidarity Games * 13 August – 2022 Kashmir Premier League * 14 August ** Celebrations of Pakistan platinum (75th)

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 ...

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2021–22 Pakistan Premier League 2021–22 Pakistan Premier League (2021–22 PPL) was to be the 62nd season of Pakistani domestic football and the 13th season of the Pakistan Premier League. Each team was scheduled to play every other team twice, for a total of 22 games. The l ...

* 28 August – ** Pakistan at the

2022 Asia Cup The 2022 Asia Cup (also known as DP World Asia Cup for sponsorship reasons) was the 15th edition of the Asia Cup cricket tournament, with the matches played as Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is) during August and September 2022 in the United Arab Em ...

** 2022 Karachi local elections * 30 August –

2022–23 National T20 Cup The 2022–23 National T20 Cup (also known as Kingdom Valley National T20 Cup 2022-23, for sponsorship reasons) was a Twenty20 domestic cricket competition played in Pakistan. It was the 19th season of the National T20 Cup, with the tournament st ...

September

* 13 September – 2022 Swat blast * 20 September –

English cricket team in Pakistan in 2022–23 The England cricket team toured Pakistan in September and October 2022 to play seven Twenty20 International (T20I) matches as a preparatory series before the 2022 ICC Men's T20 World Cup. The English team returned to Pakistan in December 2022 t ...

* 24 September – Pakistani audio leaks controversy * 27 September –

2022–23 Quaid-e-Azam Trophy The 2022–23 Quaid-e-Azam Trophy was a first-class domestic cricket competition that took place in Pakistan from 27 September to 30 November 2022. In September 2022, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) confirmed the fixtures for the tournament. K ...

October

* 6 October – 2022 Pakistan Junior League * 9 October – The Centaurus mall fire * 10 October – 2022 Swat school van attack * 13 October – Abandoned bodies incident in Nishtar Hospital * 14 October – Pakistan won the New Zealand Tri-Nation Series. * 16 October –

2022 Pakistan by-elections By-elections were held on 8 National Assembly and 3 Punjab Assembly constituencies in Pakistan on 16 October 2022 and 1 National Assembly seat on 30 October 2022. Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf got a landslide victory by winning 7 out of 9 National ...

* 28 October – 2022 Azadi March-II * 28 October – Machar colony incident

November

* 3 November -

Attempted assassination of Imran Khan On 3 November 2022, Imran Khan, a former prime minister of Pakistan and chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) political party, was shot and wounded in an attempted assassination in Wazirabad, Punjab, during the 2022 Azadi March II a ...

* 4 November -

Ireland women's cricket team in Pakistan in 2022–23 The Ireland women's cricket team toured Pakistan in November 2022 to play three Women's One Day Internationals (WODIs) and three Women's Twenty20 Internationals (WT20Is). All of the matches were played at the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore. The WODI ...

* 6 November - 2022 Ghotki attack * 16 November -

2022 Lakki Marwat attack On 16 November 2022, an attack claims the lives of six police officers, including ASI (Assistant Sub-Inspector) in Lakki Marwat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. At least six police officers, including an Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI), died when t ...

* 27 November - 2022 AJK local government elections * 30 November -

November 2022 Quetta bombing Pakistan is one of the two remaining countries in the world where poliomyelitis (polio) is still categorized as an endemic viral infection, the other one being Afghanistan. While it has yet to fully eradicate polio, there has been a major downwards ...

December

* 10 December -

2022–23 Pakistan Cup The 2022–23 Pakistan Cup was a List A cricket competition that took place in Pakistan from 10 December 2022 to 3 January 2023. Balochistan cricket team, Balochistan were the defending champions. Central Punjab cricket team, Central Punjab won ...

* 23 December -

2022 Islamabad suicide attack On 23 December 2022, at least one policeman was killed and several others injured in a suicide attack in Islamabad's sector I-10 Interstate 10 (I-10) is the southernmost transcontinental highway in the Interstate Highway System of the ...

* 26 December -

New Zealand cricket team in Pakistan in 2022–23 (December 2022) The New Zealand national cricket team, New Zealand cricket team toured Pakistan in December 2022 and January 2023 to play two Test cricket, Test matches and three One Day International (ODI) matches. The Test matches formed part of the 2021–2 ...

* 31 December - 2022 Islamabad local government elections

Arts

Cinema

Television

* 2022 in Pakistani television

Economy

* 2021–22 Pakistan federal budget * 2022–23 Pakistan federal budget

Deaths

January-March

*17 January -

Rasheed Naz Rasheed Naz (9 September 1948 – 17 January 2022) was a Pakistani film and television actor. He started his television career in 1971 in a Pashto television play and went on to work in several Pashto, Hindko and Urdu-language plays. Life and c ...

, television actor (b. 1948) *18 February - Athar Mateen, producer of

Samaa TV Samaa TV HD () is a Pakistani Urdu language news channel owned by a Pakistani politician, Aleem Khan. The word 'Samaa' ("سما") is Urdu for 'sky' or 'heaven' (ultimately derived from the Arabic "سماء"). It is broadcast simultaneously f ...

*23 February -

Rehman Malik Rehman Malik NI ( Punjabi, Urdu: رحمان ملک; born 12 December 1951 – 23 February 2022) was a Pakistani politician, and a former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) officer, who later served as the federal Interior Minister from 25 Marc ...

, politician *27 February -

Mahmood Ashraf Usmani Mahmood Ashraf Usmani (14 May 1951 – 27 February 2022) was a Pakistani Islamic scholar, jurist and an author and headed the Dar-ul-Ifta at Darul Uloom Karachi. He was an alumnus of Jamia Ashrafia and the Islamic University of Madinah. He rep ...

, Islamic scholar, jurist and an author

April-June

* 15 April - Bilquis Edhi *7 May -

Sardar Ali Haqqani Sardar Ali Haqqani (1970 – 2022) also known as "Tawajju Ustaad" was a Pakistani Islamic scholar from Nowshera district. He was known on social media for his bold speeches in Pashto. He died in a traffic accident on 7 May 2022. Biography He ...

, Islamic scholar *9 June - Aamir Liaquat Hussain, politician

July-September

*13 July -

Tanveer Jamal Tanveer Jamal (30 June 1960 – 13 July 2022) was a Pakistani actor, director and producer. Early life After doing his matriculation in Karachi, he went to France for higher studies, and later worked in Japan as a fashion model. Career He st ...

*20 August -

Nayyara Noor Nayyara Noor (, ; 3 November 1950 – 20 August 2022) was a Pakistani playback singer, considered one of Pakistan's most popular singers. She was known for performing in live ghazal singing concerts in Pakistani TV shows and in concert halls ar ...

, playback singer *29 August -

Manzoor Hussain (field hockey) Manzoor Hussain (28 October 1958 – 29 August 2022), better known as Manzoor Junior, was a Pakistani field hockey player. Manzoor Hussain played in a forward position as a striker between 1975 and 1984 and was capped 175 times with 86 goals t ...

October-December

*23 October -

Arshad Sharif Arshad Sharif (; 22 February 1973 – 23 October 2022) was a Pakistani journalist, writer, and news anchor. He specialized in investigative journalism and covered many political events in the country for national and international news organisa ...

, journalist *19 December –

Ali Ahmed Aslam Ali Ahmed Aslam (; 1 April 1945 – 19 December 2022) was a Pakistani–Scottish chef who is credited with inventing the dish chicken tikka masala. Early and personal life Aslam was born on 1 April 1945 in a small village near Lahore, Punjab, ...

, Pakistani-Scottish chef and restaurateur, credited with inventing

chicken tikka masala Chicken tikka masala is a dish consisting of roasted marinated chicken pieces (chicken tikka) in a spiced sauce (masala (spice), masala). The sauce is usually creamy and orange-coloured. The origins of the dish are debated, with many believ ...

, septic shock and organ failure (b. 1945).

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