Timeline of

Pakistani history
(1947–present)

Pakist an declared as a count ry on 14 August 1947

1947

June 3: Brit ish Government decides t o separat e Brit ish India, int o t wo sovereign Dominions of
India and Pakist an.

July 8: Const it uent Assembly of Pakist an approves t he design of Pakist an.

July 26: The Gazet t e of India publishes t hat t he first Const it uent Assembly of Pakist an was
given shape wit h 69 members (lat er on t he membership was increased t o 79), including one
female member.

14 August Pakist an came int o exist ence.

Quaid-a-Azam t ook oat h as first Governor General of Pakist an.

Liaqat Ali Khan t ook oat h as first Prime minist er of Pakist an.

Sept ember 30: Pakist an becomes a member of t he UN by a unanimous vot e of t he Securit y

Council.
 Oct ober 27: Indian Air t roops land in Kashmir as t he Maharajah declares accession of Kashmir
t o India.

1948

January 1: UNO cease-fire orders t o operat e in Kashmir. War st ops accordingly.

May 1: Indo-Pakist ani War of 1947, Pakist an ent ers war on behalf of Kashmir against India.

1 July: Quaid-e-Azam inaugurat ed t he St at e Bank of Pakist an.

July 9: Pakist an's first post age st amp is issued.

Sept ember 11: Founding fat her of nat ion Quaid-e-Azam dies in Karachi due t o st roke.

Sept ember 11:India occupied Hyderabad Deccan and Junaghar.

Sept ember 14: Khwaja Nazimuddin becomes Governor-General of Pakist an.

1949

January 1 : Unit ed Nat ions Cease-fire Line est ablished bet ween Pakist ani Kashmir and Indian-
held Kashmir.

February 8 : Azad Kashmir Government shift s it s capit al.

March 12 : Object ives Resolut ion passed by Liaquat Ali khan .

1950–1959

1950
January 4: Pakist an recognises t he People's Republic of China

April 8: Liaquat -Nehru pact is signed in New Delhi on measures t o deal wit h major Int er-
Dominion problems.

May 18: The Peshawar Universit y comes int o being.

July 11: Pakist an joins t he Int ernat ional Monet ary Fund and World Bank.

Sept ember 6: General Mohammad Ayub Khan, t he first Pakist ani, is appoint ed C-in-C of
Pakist an Army.

1951
 May 11: Universit y of Karachi is est ablished.

June 14: Hearing of Rawalpindi Conspiracy Case begins in Hyderabad Jail.

Oct ober 16: Prime Minist er Liaquat Ali Khan is assassinat ed at Rawalpindi.

Oct ober 17: Malik Ghulam Muhammad becomes Governor-General, Khwaja Nazimuddin assumes
charge of Prime Minist er.

1952
February 21: The st udent s of t he Universit y of Dhaka, wit h t he support of t he general public,
arranged massive rallies and meet ings. On 21 February 1952, police opened fire on rallies.
Salam, Barkat , Rafiq, Jabbar and Shafiur died, wit h hundreds of ot hers injured. This is one of t he
very rare incident s in hist ory, where people had t o sacrifice t heir lives for t heir mot her t ongue.

March 12: Princely st at es of Kalat , Makran, Las Bela and Kharan agree, wit h t he concurrence of
t he Cent ral Government , t o int egrat e t heir t errit ories int o Balochist an.

August 21: Pakist an and India agree on t he boundary pact bet ween East Bengal and West
Bengal.

August 22: A 24-hour t elegraph t elephone service is est ablished bet ween East Pakist an and
West Pakist an.

December 24: UN Securit y Council adopt s t he Anglo-American Resolut ion on Kashmir urging
immediat e demilit arizat ion t alks bet ween India, Pakist an.

December 31: Pakist an Nat ional Scout s inst it ut ed.

January 12 : Pakist an Indust rial Development Corporat ion (PIDC), Headed by Founder Chairman
Ghulam Faruque

In 1952, PPL discovered a huge nat ural gas field at Sui in Bugt i t ribal area. It was t he sevent h
largest gas field in t he world and t he biggest in Pakist an at t hat t ime. From t hat day t he
nat ural gas got name and fame as "Sui gas" all over t he count ry.

1953
April 17: Muhammad Ali Bogra is sworn as prime minist er.

July 14: Wazir Mansion Karachi, t he birt hplace of Quaid-e-Azam, is declared prot ect ed nat ional
monument .

August 16: Kashmir Mart yrs' Day observed t hroughout Pakist an.

November 22: Sayed Sulaiman Nadvi,

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well-known scholar and hist orian, died in Karachi.

1954
April  : Urdu made Nat ional language

July 31: K2, t he world's second highest mount ain, is conquered by an It alian expedit ion led by
Ardit o Desio.

August 7: Government of Pakist an approves t he Nat ional Ant hem, writ t en by Abu Al-Asar
Hafeez Jalandhari and composed by Ahmed G. Chagla.

August 17: Pakist an defeat s England by 24 runs at Oval during it s maiden t our of England.

Sept ember 21: Const it uent Assembly unanimously passes t he resolut ion in favour of Urdu and
Bengali as nat ional languages.

Oct ober 7: Foreign Minist er Ch.Zafarullah Khan becomes a member of t he Int ernat ional Court
of Just ice.

Oct ober 24: Ghulam Muhammad dissolved first const it ut ional assembly.

1955
January 1: Pakist an Int ernat ional Airlines comes int o being.

January 17: Not ed short st ory writ er, Saadat Hasan Mant o dies in Lahore.

March 15: The biggest post -independence irrigat ion project , Kot ri Barrage is inaugurat ed.

April 18–24: Pakist an part icipat es in t he Bandung Conference.

August 7: PM Mohammad Ali Bogra resigns aft er t he elect ion of Chaudhri Mohammad Ali.

Oct ober 6: Governor-General Ghulam Mohammad's resignat ion is succeeded by Iskander Mirza.

1956
February 21: Const it uent Assembly decides t he count ry shall be a Federal Republic known as
Islamic Republic of Pakist an.

May 14: PM Abiha Abdul Majeed present s t he first five-year plan.

March 23: 1956 Const it ut ion is promulgat es on Pakist an Day. Major-General Iskander Mirza
sworn in as first President of Pakist an.

Sept ember 12: Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy assumes office of appoint ed Prime Minist er.
 Oct ober 1: The Elect orat e Bill is int roduced in t he Nat ional Assembly providing for Joint
Elect orat e in East Pakist an and Separat e Elect orat e in West Pakist an.

1957
February 2: President Iskandar Mirza laid down t he foundat ion-st one of Guddu Barrage.

March 8: President Iskandar Mirza lays t he foundat ion-st one of t he St at e Bank of Pakist an
building in Karachi.

July 11: Spirit ual leader of Shia imami Ismaili Muslims and one of t he founders of Muslim
League and first president of All India Muslim League, Aga Khan, dies.

Governor-Raj is lift ed in West Pakist an aft er four mont hs.

July 24: Maulana Bhashani forms Nat ional Awami Part y.

December 16: Malik Firoz Khan Noon is sworn in as sevent h Prime Minist er of Pakist an.

1958
February 14: Sardar Abdul Rab Nisht ar, vet eran leader of Pakist an Movement dies in Karachi.

April 23: Jalal Baba became Int erior Minist er.

June 25: President Rule is proclaimed in East Pakist an.

July 17: First Nigar Film Awards held.

Oct ober 7: Mart ial Law is declared t hroughout t he count ry. General Ayub Khan is chief Mart ial
Law Administ rat or.

Oct ober 24: General Ayub sworn in as Prime minist er by Iskander Mirza t o sat isfy Ayub, on 27t h
Ayub makes his resign t o become t he president

Oct ober 27: Ayub forces Iskander Mirza t o st ep down, General Ayub khan himself becomes
President

November 2: Iskander Mirza is exiled.

1959
March 21: Mart ial law aut horit ies enforce PRODA t o disqualify polit icians.

April 18: Government t akes over dailies The Pakist an Times, Imroze and weekly Lail-o-Nihar.

July 12: Shukriya Niaz Ali becomes first woman pilot of Pakist an.

Sept ember 16: Government est ablishes Islamic Research Inst it ut e.

 Oct ober 26: Basic Democracies by Ayub Khan

Oct ober 27: President General Ayub Khan becomes Field Marshal.

1960–1969

1960
February 24: President ial Cabinet decides t o name t he new Capit al as Islamabad.

March 23: Foundat ion of Minar-e-Pakist an is laid.

July 31: Foundat ion st one of Mazar-i-Quaid (Mausoleum of M.A. Jinnah) is laid.

August 1: Islamabad is declared t he principal seat of t he Government of Pakist an.

Sept ember 9: Pakist an achieved it s first Gold Medal in 1960 Olympics, defeat ing India in
hockey by 1–0 at Rome.

1961
January 1: Decimal coinage int roduced in Pakist an.

April 22: Government inst it ut es Film Awards.

June 14: Government t akes over news agency, Associat ed Press of Pakist an (APP).

July 15: Jasmine is chosen as t he nat ional flower of Pakist an.

August 16: Maulvi Abdul Haq dies in Karachi.

1962
February 3: Prominent poet and Pakist an's Guinness world record holder Dr. Muhammad Saeed
Fazal Karim Beebani born in Rawalpindi. He wrot e Ghair Munqoot Naat ia poet ry book
'Mumdooh-e-Kirdigar' and Ghair Munqoot Hamdia poet ry book 'Alhumdulillah'.

June 8: 1962 Const it ut ion is promulgat ed.

April 27: Vet eran st at esman of Pakist an, A. K. Fazlul Huq dies in Dhaka at age 89.

June 1: Soviet Union awards Lenin Prize t o Faiz Ahmed Faiz for his lit erary cont ribut ion.

June 7: SUPARCO launches Pakist an's first weat her rocket , Rehbar-I from Sonmiani.

June 8: Nat ional Assembly elect ed and begins it s first session. Ayub Khan t akes oat h of first
President of Pakist an under new const it ut ion.

1963
 January 5: First t rade agreement is signed bet ween Pakist an and China.

January 24: Z. A. Bhut t o becomes Foreign Minist er.

March 2: Pakist an and China sign a border agreement in Peking (Beijing).

April 21: The Council of Pakist an Newspaper Edit ors adopt s code of Press Et hics.

Oct ober 29: Sir Zafrullah Khan is replaced by Syed Amjad Ali as Pakist an's permanent
represent at ive t o Unit ed Nat ions.

1964
July 31: Pakist an, Iran and Turkey agree t o est ablish Regional Cooperat ion for Development .

Sept ember 17: Fat ima Jinnah filed her paper as candidat e for t he President ial elect ion.

Oct ober 22: Khwaja Nazimuddin dies in Dhaka.

Oct ober 28: Pakist an's hockey t eam wins silver medal in Tokyo Olympic games.

November 26: President Ayub Khan inaugurat es Pakist an Television Lahore St at ion.

1965
January 2: President ial elect ion held. Field Marshal Ayub Khan re-elect ed as president .

January 2: Ayub Khan's son at t acked on Mohajirs neighbourhoods in Karachi leading a

procession of armed people from NWFP, killed a number of Mohajirs, ablazed t heir homes.
President Ayub fully support ed t he at t ackers

March 21: Nat ional Assembly elect ions held. Out of 150, Pakist an Muslim League wins 120
seat s.

June 30: Pakist an and India sign accord on Rann of Kut ch.

Sept ember 6: Second war bet ween India and Pakist an over Kashmir.

Sept ember 23: A cease-fire bet ween India and Pakist an comes int o force.

1966
January 10: Tashkent Declarat ion signed bet ween India and Pakist an.

February 12: Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, chief of Awami League, announces his six point s in Karachi.

June 17: Z. A. Bhut t o t hen foreign minist er, resigns.

Sept ember 17: General Yahya Khan becomes C-in-C of Pakist an Army. General Musa Khan
appoint ed Governor General of West Pakist an.
 November 13: Punjab cit y of Mont gomery renamed Sahiwal.

1967
July 9: Moht arma Fat ima Jinnah dies in Karachi.

August 24: Pakist an's first st eel mill is inaugurat ed at Chit t agong.

November 18: Pakist an awards Sit ara-i-Imt iaz t o Egypt ian vocalist Umm-i-Kulsoom for singing
t he poet ry of Allama Iqbal.

November 26: Malik Amir Muhammad, Nawab of Kalabagh is shot dead.

December 1: Pakist an Peoples Part y comes int o being.

1968
January 6: Agart ala conspiracy case for secession of East Pakist an, uneart hed. 28 involved
persons arrest ed.

Sept ember 25: Pakist an Television Dhaka St at ion is inaugurat ed.

Oct ober 26: Pakist an becomes Olympic hockey champion, winning over Aust ralia 2–1.

November 7: St udent s' demonst rat ions st art t hroughout t he count ry t hat lat er led t o
resignat ion of General Auyb Khan.

December 7: Mir Waiz Yousaf Shah, Grand Muft i of Kashmir, dies in Rawalpindi.

1969
March 6: All court cases against st udent s are wit hdrawn in West Pakist an.

March 25: East Pakist an uprising forces Ayub Khan t o resign and hand over power t o Army
Chief General Yahya Khan. Mart ial law is proclaimed and assemblies are dissolved.

July 4: Pakist an and India sign t he final maps of t he Rann of Kut ch in Islamabad.

Sept ember 24: Indian official delegat ion excluded from Islamic Summit Conference following
Pakist an's demand.

December 1: 300 Class I gazet t ed officers, allegedly involved in corrupt ion, are suspended.

1970–1979

1970
March 1: Air Marshal Asghar Khan forms new polit ical part y, Tehrik-i-Ist aqlal.
 April 6: First ordinance fact ory is inaugurat ed at Ghazipur.

July 1: One-unit of West Pakist an abolished, provinces rest ored.

December 7: First General elect ions held. Awami League and Pakist an People Part y emerge as
leading part ies in East and West Pakist an.

December 19: Pakist an wins gold medal in Asian Games hockey, beat ing India 1–0.

1971
January 30: An Indian Airlines aeroplane, hijacked by t wo Kashmiri separat ist s, lands at Lahore
airport .

February 16: Korakoram Highway, linking China and Pakist an, opened.

March 26: Pakist an Army launched Operat ion Searchlight

August 29: Rashid Minhas awarded Nishan-i-Haider, Pakist an's highest gallant ry award.

Oct ober 24: Pakist an wins World Hockey Cup defeat ing Spain 1–0 at Barcelona.

November 22: India launches full-scale at t ack on East Pakist an.

December 6: Major Shabbir Sharif Shaheed was killed by a direct hit in t he aft ernoon.

December 16: Dhaka falls and Bangladesh comes int o being.

December 20: General Yahya Khan hands over power t o Z. A. Bhut t o, who t akes over as
President and Chief Mart ial Law Administ rat or.

East Pakist an become an independent count ry named Bangladesh

1972
Karachi labour unrest of 1972

January 8: Sheikh Mujibur Rehman is released uncondit ionally.

January 20: Zulfikar Ali Bhut t o called a secret meet ing at Mult an, and launches t he programme
on nuclear weapons development .

January 30: Pakist an snaps t ies wit h Commonwealt h on recognizing Bangladesh.

March 14: New educat ion policy enforced. Free educat ion in all privat e and public schools.

April 14: First session of Nat ional Assembly. Bhut t o elect ed president .

April 21: Mart ial Law lift ed; const it ut ional rule is rest ored in t he count ry. Hamoodur Rahman is
sworn in as Chief Just ice of Pakist an.
 May 1: Labour Day is celebrat ed for t he first t ime in Pakist an.

July 2: Simla Agreement is signed bet ween President Bhut t o and Prime Minist er Indira Gandhi.

July 8: Riot s in Karachi over Sindhi language bill. Dozens of Urdu speakings killed by forces.

Oct ober 28: President Bhut t o inaugurat es Karachi Nuclear Power Plant (KANUPP).

1973
February 13: Begum Rana Liaquat Ali becomes first woman t o assume office of Sindh Governor.

April 10: 1973 Const it ut ion of Pakist an enact ed by t he Nat ional Assembly.

August 11: Chaudhry Fazal Ilahi is elect ed as president .

August 14: Const it ut ion of Pakist an 1973 promulgat ed

August 28: Ret urn of Pakist an POWs (prisoners of war) accord signed in New Delhi.

December 30: Z. A. Bhut t o lays foundat ion st one of Pakist an St eel Mills.

1974
February 21: Pakist an recognizes Bangladesh.

February 22: Islamic Summit Conference st art s in Lahore; 22 heads of st at e part icipat e.

Sept ember 7: Resolut ion passed about t hat Ahmadis and all groups of Ahmadis are Non-
Muslim. Resolut ion made by Allama Shah Ahmed Noorani Siddiqui Ahle Sunnat Barelvi and
leader.

1975
April 10: Not ed scholar and VC of Karachi Universit y Dr. Mehmood Hussain dies.

July 27: Council of Islamic Ideology recommends t o abolish Riba and int roduce Zakat .

Oct ober 5: Pakist an and Bangladesh agree t o est ablish diplomat ic t ies.

Oct ober 25: Renowned journalist Agha Shorish Kashmiri dies in Lahore.

December 27: 1976 is declared Quaid's Cent ury year.

1976
March 1: General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq becomes Chief of Army St aff.

April 8: Sardar syst em is abolished in Balochist an.

July 24: Lahore-Amrit sar t rain service, Samjhot a Express st art s.

 July 31: A.Q. Khan research laborat ories est ablished.

August 6: Z. A. Bhut t o lays t he foundat ion-st one of Port Qasim.

1977
January 10: Nine opposit ion part ies form joint elect ion forum, Pakist an Nat ional Alliance (PNA).

March 7: General elect ions are held in t he count ry. PPP wins 155, PNA 35 seat s out of 200.

July 1: Friday is announced weekly holiday, replacing Sunday.

July 5: General Zia-ul-Haq enforces Mart ial Law. Const it ut ion suspended; polit ical act ivit ies
banned.

Sept ember 17: Z. A. Bhut t o arrest ed under Mart ial Law orders.

1978
February 1: Allama Iqbal's Lahore house is declared nat ional monument .

March 18: Lahore High Court awards deat h sent ence t o Bhut t o along wit h four ot hers.

April 6: First of t he 13-volume exhaust ive Urdu Dict ionary is published by Taraqqi-i-Urdu Board.

June 11: Alt af Hussain forms All Pakist an Muhajir St udent s Organizat ion (APMSO).

Sept ember 16: General Zia-ul-Haq is sworn in as president .

November 24: Pakist an wins Hockey Champion Trophy at Lahore, defeat ing Aust ralia.

1979
Hudood Ordinance enact ed

February 6: Supreme Court upholds Bhut t o's convict ion in Muhammad Ahmad Khan murder
case.

April 4: Z. A. Bhut t o hanged in Rawalpindi jail.

Sept ember 1: Pakist an is admit t ed t o Non-Aligned Movement (NAM).

Oct ober 15: Dr. Abdus Salam, eminent Pakist ani scient ist , is awarded Physics Nobel Prize.

Oct ober 16: General Zia-ul-Haq put t of polls indefinit ely, polit ical part ies dissolved, press
censorship imposed.

1980–1989

1980
 May 10: Pakist an boycot t s Moscow Olympics.

May 26: Est ablishment of Federal Shariat Court is announced.

June 21: Government st art s collect ing Zakat .

December 2: Former PM, Chaudhry Muhammad Ali, dies in Karachi.

December 3: Shirin Bai, sist er of Quaid-i-Azam, dies in Karachi.

1981
January 1: Int erest -free banking int roduced.

January 3: Int ernat ional Islamic Universit y st art s funct ioning.

January 3: Jalal abad, vet eran Muslim leader died.

March 1: Nat ional populat ion census st art s t hroughout t he count ry.

March 2: A PIA Boeing 720 wit h 148 passengers hijacked t o Kabul.

August 31: Pakist an St eel Mills st art s funct ioning.

1982
January 3: Pakist an defeat s Germany 3–1 in World Cup Hockey in Bombay.

January 11: General Zia-ul-Haq inaugurat es first session of Federal Council (Shoora) in
Islamabad.

February 22: Not ed Urdu poet , Josh Malihabadi, dies in Islamabad.

April 8: Jahangir Khan wins Brit ish Open Squash Championship.

December 21: Writ er of Pakist an's nat ional ant hem, Hafeez Jalandhari dies.

1983
January 15: First t hree F-16 jet s reach Pakist an.

January 25: Wifaqi Moht asib (Ombudsman) Order is promulgat ed. Just ice Sardar Iqbal is named,
WM.

March 11: Nuclear t est s: Kirana-I is carried out . The t est s are not announced unt il 2000.

March 28: Government lift s censorship from periodicals.

March 29: Foundat ion-st one of Sat ellit e Eart h St at ion is laid near Rawalpindi.

April 2: Weat her Report : Pleasant rainfall bloomed up t he cit y of Karachi.

 July 5: Est ablished Dera Bugt i

Sept ember 29: First phase of local bodies elect ion st art s.

1984
February 9: Government imposes ban on all st udent s unions.

March 18: Alt af Hussain forms MQM.

April 27: Ban imposed on use of Islamic nomenclat ure by Ahmadis.

November 20: Renowned poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz dies.

December 19: General Zia-ul-Haq holds president ial referendum.

1985
February 25: Part yless nat ional elect ions held.

March 23: Muhammad Khan Junejo sworn in as Prime Minist er and General Zia as president .

April 15: Deat h of Bushra Zaidi, a universit y st udent , engenders a series of riot s.

Oct ober 16: Nat ional Assembly adopt s Eight h Amendment Bill.

December 31: Mart ial Law is lift ed, amended 1973 Const it ut ion revived.

1986
April 10: Benazir Bhut t o ret urns t o homeland.

June 6: President Zia lays foundat ion st one of Al-Shifa Trust Eye Hospit al in Rawalpindi.

July 8: Peshawar Dry Port is inaugurat ed.

Sept ember 5: Hijacked Pan Am Flight 73 is freed aft er commando act ion in Karachi.

Oct ober 12: England beat s World Champions Pakist an 3–1 in semi-final of World Cup Hockey.

1987
February 21: President Zia makes a surprise t o India, met Premier Rajiv Gandhi.

Oct ober 15: Qazi Hussain Ahmed becomes Amir of Jamat -i-Islami.

Oct ober 21: Jan Sher Khan wins World Open Squash Championship for t he first t ime.

November 30: Local bodies elect ion held t hroughout t he count ry.

December 18: Benezir Bhut t o marries Asif Ali Zardari.

1988
 April 10: Army ammunit ion blown up in Ojheri camp, Rawalpindi; more t han 100 people died.

April 20: Jahangir Khan wins sevent h Squash t it le in a row.

May 29: President General Zia dissolves Nat ional Assembly and Junejo cabinet .

June 15: President General Zia promulgat es Shariat Ordinance making Sharia supreme law of
t he land.

August 17: General Zia-ul-Haq is killed in a plane crash near Bahawalpur.

Oct ober 6: Eight polit ical part ies form Islamic Jamhori It ehad (IJI).

November 16: General elect ions held. PPP wins 92, IJI secures 54.

December 2: Benazir Bhut t o is sworn in as first woman Prime Minist er of Pakist an.

1989
January 19: St udent s unions are rest ored in Punjab & won by IJT (Islami Jamiat -e-Talaba).

May 26: ISI Chief Lt . Gen. Hameed Gul is replaced by Shamsur Rahman Kallu.

Oct ober 1: Pakist an rejoins Commonwealt h.

Oct ober 20: SAF Games open in Islamabad.

November 1: No-Confidence move against Prime Minist er Benazir Bhut t o failed.

1990–1999

1990
Feb 5: Kashmir Solidarit y Day observed for t he first t ime

August 6: President Ghulam Ishaq Khan dissolves Nat ional Assembly and dismisses Benazir
Government . Ghulam Must afa Jat oi becomes care-t aker prime minist er.

Sept ember 23: Sandak project signed bet ween Pakist an and China at Beijing.

Oct ober 24: General elect ions held. IJI get s 104 and PDA wins 45 seat s.

November 6: Nawaz Sharif elect ed Prime Minist er, securing 153 vot es.

December 12: Pakist an becomes 37t h count ry t o send expedit ion t o Ant arct ica.

1991
April 25: Jahangir Khan creat es hist ory by winning Brit ish Open Squash t it le for t he record t ent h
consecut ive t ime.
 May 16: Nat ional Assembly adopt s Shariat Bill.

July 17: Pakist an unveils first bat t le t ank Al-Khalid manufact ured joint ly by Pakist an and China.

August 14: Nawaz Sharif lays foundat ion-st one of Bab-i-Pakist an at Walt on Lahore.

August 16: Chief of Army St aff General Mirza Aslam Baig ret ires. General Asif Nawaz assumes
command.

Local bodies elect ion held in Pakist an.

December 27: Pride of Pakist an Air Force Farooq Ahmad born in Farooqabad.

1992
January 12: Lahore-Islamabad Mot orway project launched.

February 22: Nawaz Sharif int roduces yellow-cab t axi scheme.

March 25: Pakist an wins Cricket World Cup, defeat ing England by 22 runs in Melbourne,
Aust ralia.

April 26: Pakist an's Alam Channa ent ers Guinness Book of World Records as t he t allest man in
t he world.

June 19: Milit ary operat ion against MQM st art s in.

Sept ember 7: 1992 India - Pakistan Floods was a deadliest flood caused by five-day-long
heavy monsoon rains in nort hern areas of Pakist an.

1993
January 8: General Asif Nawaz dies of heart at t ack in Rawalpindi.

April 18: President Ghulam Ishaq Khan dissolves Nat ional Assembly, dismisses Nawaz Sharif
government . Balkh Sher Mazari becomes care-t ake prime minist er.

May 26: Supreme Court rest ores Nat ional Assembly and Prime Minist er Nawaz Sharif.

July 18: President Ghulam Ishaq Khan and Prime Minist er Nawaz Sharif quit t heir offices.

Oct ober 6: General elect ions held. PPP wins 86; PML (N) secures 72 seat s.

Oct ober 19: Benazir Bhut t o is elect ed prime minist er by 121 vot es.

November 13: Farooq Laghari elect ed eight h president of Pakist an.

1994
January 15: Pakist an Television t ransmission get s access t o 38 count ries via sat ellit e.
 January 25: Benazir Bhut t o inaugurat es count ry's first women police st at ion in Islamabad.

April 14: Pakist an's celebrat ed scient ist Dr. Salimuzzaman Siddiqui dies in Karachi.

December 4: Pakist an regains World Hockey Championship t it le aft er 12 years, beat ing Holand
4–3.

December 26: Renowned poet Perven Shakir killed in a road accident in Islamabad.

1995
April 25: Vet eran polit ician, G. M. Syed dies in Karachi.

July 4: Sindh Government lift s ban on six Karachi evening newspapers.

July 8: WAPDA announces record increase of 14.5 percent in elect ricit y rat es.

December 6: Lahore High Court dismisses appeal against arrest of Maj. Gen. Zaheerul Islam
Abbasi in Khilafat Conspiracy Case.

1996
January 13: General Jahangir Karamat becomes chief of army st aff.

February 11: Cricket World Cup joint ly host ed by Pakist an, India and Sri Lanka.

April 25: Imran Khan launches new polit ical part y, Pakist an Tehrek-e-Insaf (PTI).

Sept ember 20: Mir Murt aza Bhut t o assassinat ed in Karachi.

November 5: Farooq Ahmed Leghari dissolves Nat ional Assembly sacking Premier Benazir
Bhut t o. Malik Mairaj Khalid becomes care-t aker prime minist er.

1997
January 29: Supreme Court upholds President 's proclamat ion dissolving t he Nat ional Assembly
and dismissing Benazir Government .

February 3: Nat ion goes t o t he polls. PML secures 135 seat s.

February 17: Nawaz Sharif sworn in as 19t h Prime Minist er.

February 23: Nawaz Sharif launches "Qarz ut aro Mulk sanwaro". He declared Sunday as a public
holiday and convert Friday int o half day.

May 21: Saeed Anwar slams world record score of 194 runs against India.

August 16: Not ed Pakist ani singer, Nusrat Fat eh Ali Khan died at t he age of 49.

1998
 January 1: Rafiq Tarrar is sworn in as President of Pakist an

March 8: Populat ion census begins in t he count ry.

May 28: Pakist an conduct s nuclear t est s in Chagai hills in Balochist an.

May 29: St at e Bank bans opening of new foreign currency account s and suspends wit hdrawals.

June 4: UN Securit y Council deny nuclear power st at us t o Pakist an and India.

1999
January 31: A classic Test mat ch as Pakist an defeat India by t welve runs.

February 20: Pakist an Crushed India by 46 runs in inaugural Asian t est championship

February 21: Lahore Declarat ion is signed by Nawaz Sharif and A. B. Vajpayee.

15 March: Pakist an beat s Sri Lanka in t he final of t he inaugural Asian t est championship.

April 15: Pakist an conduct s t est of a nuclear-capable short -range ballist ic missile, Shaheen.

16 April: Pakist an won Coca-Cola Cup final at Sharjah crushing India by 8 wicket s

June 20: Aust ralia defeat s Pakist an in World Cup Cricket by 8 wicket s.

July 26: Kargil War ends bet ween Pakist an and India.

Oct ober 12: Nawaz Sharif is oust ed from power and placed under house arrest aft er
at t empt ing t o sack General Pervez Musharraf.

2000–2009

2000
April 6: Nawaz Sharif sent enced t o life imprisonment on charges of hijacking and t errorism.

May 12: Supreme Court validat ed t he Oct ober 1999 coup and grant ed General Pervez
Musharraf execut ive and legislat ive aut horit y for t hree years. In June t he ISI chief Maj Amir
says in int erview we first drone at t ack on bajur in 2000 and t hen we operat ion is st art in 2001.

August 14: President Musharraf int roduces Local Government Ordinance.

December 10: Nawaz Sharif along wit h family, sent int o exile in Saudi Arabia.

December 24: Famous singer, Noor Jahan dies in Karachi.

2001
 May 2: Maulana Abdul Sat t ar Khan niazy a vet eran Polit ician and t orch bearer of Nizam-e-
Must afa Tehrik died on Wednesday. He was born on Oct ober 5, 1915

June 21: General Pervez Musharraf assumes office of president while remaining Chief of Army
St aff.

July 15: Agra Summit st art s. President Pervez Musharraf and Indian Prime Minist er Vajpayee
holds t alks over long-st anding issues.

August 14: New Local Government syst em inst alled, aft er holding of elect ions in t hree phases.

Sept ember 16: US Secret ary of St at e Powell t old t hat Pakist an's President Musharraf had
agreed t o support t he U.S. ant i-t errorist campaign.

November 10: US President Bush meet s President Musharraf in New York and assures
addit ional aid of one billion dollar.

2002
January 5: Musharraf st unned Vajpayee by a hand-shake at t he last 11t h SAARC summit in
Kat hmandu.

February 1: Wall St reet Journal report er, Daniel Pearl killed in Karachi.

April 30: Musharraf wins in a referendum.

August 24: President General Musharraf issues t he Legal Framework Order 2002.

Oct ober 10: General elect ion held in t he count ry.

November 23: Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali sworn in as prime minist er.

2003
February 24: Senat e elect ions: Ruling part y wins most seat s in vot ing t o t he upper house.

March 23: AAJ TV, Pakist an's premier channel inaugurat ed.

June 24: President Pervez Musharraf meet s G.W. Bush in Camp David. US announces $3-billion
five-year economic assist ance package for Pakist an.

July 11: Lahore-Delhi bus service resumed aft er suspension of 18 mont hs.

December 14: General Musharraf survived an assassinat ion at t empt in Rawalpindi.

2004
January 1: General Musharraf won a vot e of confidence in t he Senat e, Nat ional Assembly, and
provincial assemblies.
 January 5: Musharraf meet s Vajpayee in Islamabad, discusses Kashmir disput e.

May 22: Pakist an readmit t ed t o Commonwealt h.

June 26: Prime Minist er Zafarullah Khan Jamali st eps down and nominat es Ch. Shujaat Hussain
as his int erim successor.

August 28: Shaukat Aziz becomes Prime Minist er.

2005
July 13: 136 people killed and about 170 injured in a collision of t hree passenger t rains near
Ghot ki.

July 14: NWFP Assembly passes t he Hasba bill wit h a majorit y vot e.

July 19: Government of Pakist an launches count ry-wide crackdown against ext remist
element s.

Oct ober 8: A devast at ing eart hquake in Kashmir and NWFP kills over 80 t housands people.

Oct ober 11: Renowned lit t érat eur, linguist and poet , Shanul Haq Haqqee, dies in Toront o. He
was 88.

2006
January 2: Dr. Shamshad Akht ar assumes office of St at e Bank Governor having t he first woman
Governor of SBP.

May 14: Chart er of democracy (CoD) is signed by t wo former prime minist ers of Pakist an,
Nawaz Sharif and Benazir Bhut t o in London.

April 26: Pervez Musharraf lays foundat ion-st one of Diamir-Bhasha dam.

July 8: Process t o release over 1600 women prisoners from 55 jails across st art s aft er
President ial Ordinance.

July 10: Not ed poet , writ er and columnist , Ahmed Nadeem Qasmi, dies in Lahore. He was 89.

August 26: Akbar Bugt i is killed; his hide-out cave collapsed and killed everyone inside, including
Pakist an Army soldiers t hat had come t here for negot iat ion and t alks wit h Akbar.

2007
March 9: President Musharraf dismissed Chief Just ice of Pakist an, Ift ikhar.

July 20: Ift ikhar rest ored as Chief Just ice of Pakist an.

Oct ober 18: Bhut t o, Benazir ret urned t o Pakist an, aft er exile of about 8 years.
 November 3: Pervez Musharraf imposed emergency, most of t he senior judges of Supreme
Court oust ed.

November 16: Aft er complet ion of 5 years, Nat ional Assembly dissolved, Cat et aker
government of Muhammad Mian Soomro t ook oat h.

November 25: Nawaz Sharif ret urned Pakist an aft er 7 years of forced exile.

December 16: Emergency lift ed, banned civil right s and suspended const it ut ion rest ored.

December 27: Bhut t o, Benazir assassinat ed in a blast /bullet at t ack in Rawalpindi.

2008
January 2: The Elect ion Commission announces elect ions will now be held on February 18.

February 18: Elect ions are held amidst t ight securit y. PPP, PML-N, PML-Q, MQM and ANP win
124, 91, 54, 25 and 13 seat s respect ively.

March 24: Yusuf Raza Gilani is elect ed as t he new prime minist er.

August 18: Pervaiz Musharraf st eps down as President of Pakist an. Mohammadmian Soomro
t akes over as president .

Sept ember 6: Asif Zardari wins president ial elect ion wit h 481 vot es.

Sept ember 9: Asif Zardari t akes oat h as President of Pakist an.

2009
February 16: Taliban form Swat Valley as t heir sanct uary.

March 9: Milit ant s at t ack bus wit h t he t ouring Sri Lankan cricket t eam. All int ernat ional cricket
mat ches in Pakist an are suspended. Pakist an also loses it s st at us as host s for t he cricket
World Cup 2011.

23 May-15 July 2009: Pakist an Army launched Operat ion Rah-e-Rast and cleared Swat Valley
of all Taliban element s. It is regarded as one of t he most successful count er-insurgency
operat ion in modern age

21 June 2009: Pakist an vs Sri Lanka in Final. Pakist an won t he ICC T20 Cricket World Cup in
Lord's London England. Pakist an won by 8 wicket s.

17 May 2009 . Capt ain Bilal zafar Abbasi got shahadat during Operat ion .Rah-e-Rast and
awarded Sit ar-e-Basalat .t he hero of Ghazanosar.

2010–present
2010
April 10: Pakist an adopt s t he 18t h amendment t o t he Const it ut ion, st ripping President Asif Ali
Zardari of key powers.

June: Ext ensive flooding aft er monsoon rains. At least 1,600 people were killed

July 28: Crash of Airblue Flight 202, killed all 152 people on board.

3–6 August – Riot s in Karachi aft er t he assassinat ion of MP Raza Haider.[1]

14 August : 12 suspect ed milit ant s in Nort h Wazirist an are killed by a suspect ed American
drone at t ack.[2]

1 Sept ember: At least 35 people are killed and more t han 250 ot hers injured, following a series
of bomb at t acks on a Shia Islamic procession in Lahore. The at t acks, t wo of which were said
t o be from suicide bombers t ook place at a commemorat ion of t he deat h of Ali ibn Abi Talib.[3]

7 Sept ember: American act ress Angelina Jolie visit s flood-hit areas of t he count ry as t he UN
launches a renewed appeal for aid.[4]

16 Sept ember: Exiled polit ician Imran Farooq is found murdered near his home in exile in nort h
London having been st abbed several t imes.[5][6] Violence erupt ed in his homet own Karachi
following his murder. Several shops and vehicles were set on fire however no casualt ies were
report ed. MQM called for a 10-day st rike t o mourn Farooq's deat h.[7]

1 Oct ober: Pervez Musharraf launches his new polit ical part y, t he All Pakist an Muslim League,
at a club in London.[8]

22 Oct ober: US Secret ary of St at e Hillary Clint on announces t hat t he American government is
t o give US$2 billion in milit ary aid.[9]

5 November: A bomb explodes in a mosque in Darra Adam Khel in Nort h-West Pakist an, killing
at least 55 people and injuring over 100. Lat er t hat same day a grenade at t ack on anot her
mosque in t he village of Sulemankhel near Peshawar claimed at least t wo lives. Bot h at t acks
occurred during daily prayer sessions.[10]

28 November: Sun Way Flight 4412 crashes.

25 December: A female suicide bomber kills at least 43 people in Khar near t he border wit h
Afghanist an.[11]

2011
 January 4: Salmaan Taseer, t he governor of Punjab, is shot by one of his bodyguards near his
home for opposing Blasphemy law in Pakist an.[12]

January 11: Int ernat ionally acclaimed Pakist ani paint er and Pride of Performance winner Prof.
A. R. Nagori passes away.[13]

January 27: A US diplomat , Raymond Davis, kills t wo men on a mot orbike in Lahore allegedly in
self-defense while a companion of t he diplomat , who is also an American cit izen, crushed t o
deat h a bike rider in a hit -and-run incident .[14]

March 1: The Minist er for Minorit y Affairs, Shahbaz Bhat t i, was assassinat ed in Islamabad

March 30: Pakist an plays ICC 2011 Cricket World Cup against India.[15]

April 22: Int ernat ionally renowned Pakist ani act or, Moin Akht ar, dies at t he age of 60 years in
Karachi aft er suffering from a heart at t ack.

May 2: The US Navy Seals killed Osama bin Laden in t he cit y of Abbot abad.[16]

July – August : Mass t arget killing occurred killing ~344 people t hroughout Karachi.[17]

November 26: A NATO at t ack on t wo Pakist ani border checkpost s in Salala in t he Baizai
subdivision of Mohmand Agency in FATA kill 24 soldiers of t he Pakist an Army.[18]

2012
2 January: India-Pakist an exchange a list of t heir nuclear inst allat ions.[19]

26 February: Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy becomes t he first Pakist ani t o ever win an Oscar at t he
84t h Academy Awards for t he reconst ruct ive surgery of acid at t ack vict ims, Saving Face wins
for Best Document ary (Short Subject ).[20]

22 June: Raja Pervaiz Ashraf is elect ed as Prime Minist er of Pakist an, following t he
disqualificat ion of Yousaf Raza Gillani over a cont empt of court convict ion by t he Supreme
Court of Pakist an.[21]

July 9: A Gunman at t acked a milit ary camp near Wazirabad in Punjab, killing seven securit y
personnel soon aft er reopening for NATO supply lines t o Afghanist an.

August 14: The nat ion celebrat ed it s 65t h Independence Day.

11 Sept ember: Over 314 people die in fact ory fires in Karachi and Lahore.[22]

Oct ober 9: 14-year-old blogger Malala Yousafzai was shot in t he head by t he Pakist ani
Taliban.[23]

6 November: US polls event organised in US embassy in Pakist an.

 9 November: 135t h Iqbal day celebrat ed wit h full zeal across t he nat ion.

2013
January 10: A series of t errorist at t acks killed more t han 100 people in Quet t a.[24]

March 9: A Christ ian, Sawan Masih, 28 is accused of blasphemy against t he Islamic prophet
Muhammad in a Christ ian neighborhood in Badami Bagh area.

March 18: Sibt e Jaffar Hassan Zaidi, a Pakist ani professor and social worker was killed by t wo
people who were on a mot orcycle.

March 25: Mir Hazar Khan Khoso is appoint ed as caret aker Prime Minist er of Pakist an,
following t he complet ion of t he PPP-led government 's t erm in office.[25]

May 11: General Elect ions 2013 held across Pakist an.

May 25: A school bus explosion kills 17 children and injures seven more in Gujrat .[26]

June 5: Nawaz Sharif is elect ed Prime Minist er of Pakist an, following t he Pakist an Muslim
League (N)'s vict ory in t he 2013 general elect ions for t he 3rd t ime.

July 30: Mamnoon Hussain is elect ed as t he 12t h President of Pakist an in 2013 President ial
elect ions.

August 14: People of Pakist an celebrat ed 66t h Independence day.

Sept ember 9: Mamnoon Hussain is sworn in as t he 12t h President of Pakist an.

Sept ember 24: A 7.7 magnit ude eart hquake hit s BalOchist an, at least 825 people are killed and
hundreds injured.[27][28]

Oct ober 10: Malala Yousafzai published her first book "I Am Malala: The Girl Who St ood Up For
Educat ion and Was Shot By The Taliban"

November 1: Hakimullah Mehsud, leader of (TTP) killed by a US drone at t ack.

November 29: Pakist an Chief of Army St aff, General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani ret ires. General
Raheel Sharif becomes t he next COAS.

December 11: Chief Just ice Ift ikhar Muhammad Chaudhry ret ired from his posit ion, he
remained in t he Supreme Court from 2005 t o 2013, Just ice Tassaduq Hussain Jillani becomes
t he next Supreme Court Chief Just ice.

2014
January 9: 14-year-old boy Ait izaz Hassan in Hangu, KPK, is killed st opping a suicide bomber
from ent ering t he school.[29]
January 11: A t en-year-old servant girl is t ort ured t o deat h in Punjab raising concerns about
human right s in Pakist an.

January 20: War st art s in Nort h-West Pakist an.[30]

February 9: Gunmen at t ack an Islamic religious gat hering in Karachi, killing 8 people.

February 17: Former president Pervez Musharraf appeared in front of a civil court for t he first
t ime.

February 21: Pakist an vs India mat ch for ICC World T20.[31]

March 3: Young men wit h guns open fire at a local court in Islamabad, result ing in at least 11
deat hs and 22 injuries.

March 31: A Pakist ani court charges former President Pervez Musharraf wit h high t reason in
relat ion t o t he imposit ion of t he emergency rule in 2007.

April 9: A bomb blast in a market kills 26 people in t he out skirt s of Islamabad.

May 7: An alleged American FBI agent is arrest ed for carrying ammunit ion while t rying t o board
a flight , which is in violat ion of t heir ant i-t error laws.

May 9: Geo TV t ransmission banned by t he government .[32]

May 21: Pakist an Air Force fight er jet s bomb suspect ed milit ant hideout s in Nort h Wazirist an,
killing approximat ely 60 milit ant s and injuring anot her 30.

June 5: Pakist ani police arrest mult iple people involved in t he st oning of Farzana Parveen,
bringing t he t ot al number of people in cust ody t o 12.[33]

August 13: The process of Long March and Sit -In st art ed by PTI and PAT.

August 14: Pakist an's 67t h dependence day was celebrat ed during Long March from Lahore t o
Islamabad.

Sept ember 1: The Pakist an Television Corporat ion goes off air aft er prot est ers st orm it s
headquart ers.

Sept ember 11: A ban is imposed on Saeed Ajmal by t he ICC.[34]

Oct ober 10: Act ivist Malala Yousafzai becomes t he first Pakist ani t o win t he Nobel Peace
Prize for her st ruggle t o voice girls' right t o educat ion.[35]

November 2: More t han 60 people were killed and more t han 110 people were injured in a
suicide at t ack on t he Pakist an side of t he Wagah border.[36]
 December 16: Taliban gunmen st orm a milit ary-run Army Public Schools massacre in Peshawar,
killing at least 141, including 132 children and nine employees, wit h most of five hundred
st udent s evacuat ed. The shoot ing ends wit h all seven gunmen dead.[37]

2015
January 25: A massive blackout st rikes Pakist an, leaving as much as 80 percent of t he count ry
wit hout elect ricit y at it s height as officials rush t o rest ore power.[38]

February 13: Pakist an announces t he arrest of t welve Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakist an in relat ion t o
t heir alleged involvement in last year's school massacre.[39]

March 15: A bombing of a church in Lahore kills at least eleven people wit h 48 more injured.

May 19: Zimbabwe cricket t eam t oured Pakist an t o play Int ernat ional Cricket Series for t he
first t ime since 2009 at t ack on t he Sri Lanka nat ional cricket t eam.

2016
1 January: The Pakist an and India government s provided one anot her wit h a full list of nuclear
sit es, milit ary and civilian, in accordance wit h t he 1988 Non-Nuclear Aggression Agreement .[40]

18 January: Former president Pervez Musharraf was acquit t ed in t he murder t rial of Akbar
Bugt i, t he Baloch t ribal leader who died in a milit ary operat ion in 2006.[41]

4 February: First season Pakist an Super League

19 March: Pakist an plays against India in 2016 T20 World Cup.[42]

25 March: Pakist an cricket st ar Shahid Afridi played his last int ernat ional T20 mat ch for
Pakist an against Aust ralia.[43]

17 April: In Punjab, 33 people died aft er eat ing sweet s, accident ally t aint ed wit h insect icide.[44]

22 June: Musician Amjad Sabri is killed in a t arget ed shoot ing.[45]

1 November: At least 14 people are killed and 59 burned when a gas cylinder explosion aboard
an oil t anker causes a major fire at t he Gadani ship-breaking yard.[46][47][48]

7 December: PIA plane PK-661 crashed during flight killing 47 people including acclaimed
former singer and religious scholar Junaid Jumshed and his wife.[49]

2017
January 21: A bombing at a veget able market in Parachinar, Pakist an leads t o t he deat h of 25
people.

February 9: The second season of t he Pakist an Super League began.[50]

 February 16: A suicide bombing at t he Shrine of Lal Shahbaz Qalander in Sehwan, Pakist an
result ed in t he deat hs of over 90 people.[51]

March 14: Pakist an's sixt h census begins.[52]

April 19: 16t h Lux St yle Awards's ceremony was held in Karachi and was host ed by At if Aslam.

June 18: Pakist an wins 2017 ICC Champions Trophy defeat ing India in t he finals.[53]

July 28: A unanimous verdict by t he Supreme Court of Pakist an disqualifies Prime Minist er
Nawaz Sharif from office, over t he cont roversy of him and some of his family members names
being in t he Panama Papers, t hus leading t o his disqualificat ion for lifet ime.[54]

August 1: Shahid Khaqan Abbasi is sworn in as Prime Minist er, succeeding Nawaz Sharif.[55]

August 31: Benazir Bhut t o assassinat ion case is complet ed.[56]

2018
25 February - Pakist an at t he 2018 Wint er Olympics

3 March - The 2018 elect ions t o t he Senat e of Pakist an were held.

8 March - First Aurat March held in Karachi, 1000s of women demonst rat e calling for more
account abilit y for violence against women and raising awareness for women's right s.

24–27 May - The t went y-fift h amendment t o t he Const it ut ion of Pakist an was approved by
t he Parliament of Pakist an and t he Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakht unkhwa (KP), giving
way t o t he merger of t he Federally Administ ered Tribal Areas (FATA) int o t he Province of
Khyber Pakht unkhwa(KP).

6 July - Former Prime Minist er Nawaz Sharif, his daught er Maryam Nawaz and son-in-law Safdar
Awan were given prison sent ences of 10, 7 and 1 years respect fully on cont roversial corrupt ion
charges.[1]

25 July: The 2018 Pakist ani general elect ions were held.

17 August -PTI leader Imran Khan t ook oat h as (22nd)(wit hout ignoring care t akers) Prime
Minist er of Islamic republic of Pakist an.

4 Sept ember - The 2018 Pakist ani president ial elect ion were held.

December: former Prime Minist er Nawaz Sharif is sent enced t o seven years

2019
19 January: Sahiwal killings[57]
21 January: Hub accident

27 February: Jammu and Kashmir airst rikes

11 July: Sadiqabad Railway Accident

20 July: Khyber Pakht unkhwa provincial elect ion

30 July: Army milit ary plane crash

24 Sept ember: Pakist an eart hquake

31 Oct ober: Train fire

Oct ober - November Azadi March

11 December: At t ack on Punjab Inst it ut e of Cardiology, Lahore.

17 December: Supreme Court give deat h sent ence verdict on Gen RT. Pervez Musharraf.

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