2021 in Pakistan explained

Events from the year 2021 in Pakistan.

Incumbents

National government

Photo	Post	Name
	President of Pakistan	Arif Alvi
	Prime Minister of Pakistan	Imran Khan
	Chief Justice of Pakistan	Gulzar Ahmed
	Chairman of the Senate	Sadiq Sanjrani
	Speaker of the National Assembly	Asad Qaiser
	Chief Election Commissioner of Pakistan	Sikandar Sultan Raja
	Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee	Nadeem Raza

Provincial governments

Province	Governor	Chief Minister	Party	Government Type	Chief Justice
Balochistan	Amanullah Khan Yasinzai (until 7 July); Syed Zahoor Ahmad Agha (starting 7 July)	Jam Kamal Khan (until 7 July); Abdul Quddus Bizenjo (starting 7 July)	BAP	Collision	Naeem Akhtar
Gilgit-Baltistan	Raja Jalal Hussain Maqpoon	Khalid Khurshid	PTI	Majority	Muhammad Ajmal Gondal
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa	Shah Farman	Mahmood Khan	PTI	Majority	Qaiser Rashid Khan (Peshawar High Court)
Punjab	Chaudhry Mohammad Sarwar	Sardar Usman Buzdar	PTI	Collision	Muhammad Ameer Bhatti (Lahore High Court)
Sindh	Imran Ismail	Syed Murad Ali Shah	PPP	Majority	Ahmed Ali Sheikh

Events

January and February

• 2 January
  • 23 year-old Usama Satti was shot to death in his car by Islamabad Police.^{[1] [2]}
  • Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi was arrested in Lahore, on terrorism-financing charges.^{[3] [4]}
• 3 January - Machh attack
• 5 January - The Supreme Court ordered that the Shri Paramhans Ji Maharaj Samadhi temple in Teri, Karak District, be rebuilt by the government after it was destroyed by a mob in December 2020.^[5]
• 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.^[6]
• 11 January - 9 countries appointed new ambassadors to Pakistan: Nepal, Tapas Adhikari; Belarus, Andrei Metdlitsa; South Korea, Sush Sangpyo; Cuba, Zener Javier; Mali, Dianguinadit Yaya Doucoure; Ireland, Ms Sonya McGuinness; Sierra Leone, Alie Kamara; Cambodia, Ung Sean; Kosovo, Ilir Dugolli.^[7]
• 12 January - Two gunmen attacked a team of polio vaccine handlers in Karak, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, killing a policeman who was escorting them.^[8]
• 28 January – A Malaysian court ordered the immediate release of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) plane which was seized on 15 January, at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport, over a lease dispute.^{[9] [10]}
• 22 February - Ippi shooting

March and April

• 21 March – Janikhel protest
• 24 March - 2021 Chaman bombings
• 11 April - 20 April - 2021 Pakistani protests
• 21 April - Quetta Serena Hotel bombing

May and June

• 21 May - 2021 Chaman bombings
• 31 May - May 2021 Balochistan attacks
• 7 June - 2021 Ghotki rail crash
• 23 June - 2021 Lahore bombing

July and August

• 14 July - Dasu bus attack
• 21 July - Raghagan Dam incident
• 25 July - 2021 Azad Kashmiri general election
• 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
• 14 August - Karachi grenade attack
• 17 August - Vandalism of Maharaja Ranjeet Singh's statue in Lahore
• 20 August - Gwadar suicide attack
• 26 August - August 2021 Balochistan attacks

September and October

• 5 September - 2021 Quetta suicide attack
• 7 October - 2021 Balochistan earthquake
• 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, Pakistani film actor

April

• 2 April - Shaukat Ali, Pakistani singer.

May

• 14 May - Farooq Qaiser

July

• 1 July - Anwar Iqbal
• 14 July - Mamnoon Hussain, 12th President of Pakistan (b. 1941)
• 16 July - Sultana Zafar
• 17 July - Naila Jaffri, Pakistani actress.

February

• 18 February - Mushahid Ullah Khan, Pakistani politician

August

• 12 August - Durdana Butt

October

• 2 October - Umer Shareef
• 10 October - Abdul Qadeer Khan, Father of Pakistan's nuclear program

November

• 13 November - Sohail Asghar

See also

Country overviews

• Pakistan
• History of Pakistan
• History of modern Pakistan
• Outline of Pakistan
• Government of Pakistan
• Politics of Pakistan
• Years in Pakistan

Related timelines for current period

• 2021
• 2021 in politics and government
• 2020s
• 21st century

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2 January 2021. Post-mortem report of Usa offers new details into Islamabad shooting. 5 January 2021. Dunya News.
2. Web site: Shams. Shamil. 3 January 2021. Killing of 22-year-old student by police sparks outrage in Pakistan. 5 January 2021. Deutsche Welle.
3. Web site: Tanveer . Asim . 2 January 2021 . Pakistan arrests key militant on terror financing charges . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20210104113819/https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-2008-mumbai-attacks-counterterrorism-mumbai-india-aa6214946a60375bcd0bd7a60ae193db . 4 January 2021 . 4 January 2021 . Associated Press.
4. Web site: Bukhari . Mubasher . Peshimam . Gibran . 2 January 2021 . Russell . Ros . Pakistan arrests alleged militant group leader Zaki ur Rehman Lakhvi on terrorism financing charge . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20210102130311/https://www.reuters.com/article/pakistan-arrest-mumbai-idUSKBN2970C2 . 2 January 2021 . 4 January 2021 . Reuters.
5. News: Pakistani top court orders rebuilding of destroyed Hindu temple . . January 6, 2021.
6. Web site: Pakistan power cut plunges country into darkness. 10 January 2021. BBC. 12 January 2021. 28 January 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150128091415/http://bigstory.ap.org/article/ef6f4fc131d24f208fce031cbe70bc84/officials-scramble-after-massive-power-outage-hits-pakistan. dead.
7. News: Nine countries appoint new ambassadors to Pakistan. The News. January 11, 2021.
8. News: Pakistan: Gunmen target polio workers, kill policeman . . "Two gunmen came on a motorcycle and attacked our colleague Junaid Ullah while he was escorting the polio team. They opened fire on the van carrying polio workers," Muhammad Ishaq Khan, a police official in Karak, told DW. . Haroon . Janjua.
9. Web site: Latif. Aamir. 27 January 2021. Malaysian court orders release of Pakistani plane. 29 January 2021. Anadolu Agency.
10. News: Sipalan. Joseph. Hepher. Tim. Shahzad. Asif. 27 January 2021. Malaysian court releases Pakistan national carrier's grounded plane. Reuters. Potter. Mark. Fernandez. Clarence. 29 January 2021.