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 ProvinceGovernorChief MinisterParty Government TypeChief JusticeBalochistanAmanullah Khan Yasinzai (until 7 July); Syed Zahoor Ahmad Agha (starting 7 July)Jam Kamal Khan (until 7 July); Abdul Quddus Bizenjo (starting 7 July)BAPCollisionNaeem AkhtarGilgit-BaltistanRaja Jalal Hussain MaqpoonKhalid KhurshidPTIMajorityMuhammad Ajmal GondalKhyber PakhtunkhwaShah FarmanMahmood KhanPTIMajorityQaiser Rashid Khan (Peshawar High Court)PunjabChaudhry Mohammad SarwarUsman BuzdarPTICollisionMuhammad Ameer Bhatti (Lahore High Court)SindhImran IsmailSyed Murad Ali ShahPPPMajorityAhmed Ali Sheikh
Events
January and February 2 January 23 year-old Usama Satti was shot to death in his car by Islamabad Police. Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi was arrested in Lahore, on terrorism-financing charges. 3 January - Islamic State (IS) terrorists killed 11 Hazara coal miners in 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. 9 January – A blackout in Pakistan left as much as 90 percent of the country without electricity at its height as officials rushed to restore power. 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. 12 January - Two gunmen attacked a team of polio vaccinators in Karak, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, killing a policeman who was escorting them. 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. 22 February - Ippi murder of four female aid workers
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, film actor
April 2 April - Shaukat Ali, singer
May 14 May - Farooq Qaiser, artist, puppeteer
July 1 July - Anwar Iqbal, actor 14 July - Mamnoon Hussain, 12th President of Pakistan (b. 1941) 16 July - Sultana Zafar, actress 17 July - Naila Jaffri, actress
February 18 February - Mushahid Ullah Khan, politician
August 12 August - Durdana Butt, actress
October 2 October - Umer Shareef, actor, comedian 10 October - Abdul Qadeer Khan, Father of Pakistan's nuclear program
November 13 November - Sohail Asghar, actor
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
References