Important Events 2021

January – March
Terrorism / Extremism /
Sr.No. Political Structure Economy Protest / Dharna Miscellaneous
Blasphemy
Date Event Date Event Date Event Date Event Date Event
January 2021
Seven projects 22 year-old Usama
Pakistani Shi’a Demand
PTM activists Said under way to Satti was shot to
1. 04-01-2021
Alam arrested
01-01-2021
promote tourism
02-01-2021
death in his car by
04-01-2021 Justice After Killing Of
Coal Miners.
- -
in coastal areas Islamabad Police
China to provide
$100 million LeT Leader
PDM held an anti-
grant for Zakiur Lakhvi
Announcement Civil government rally in
2. 20-01-2021
Services Reforms
01-01-2021 rehabilitation of
highway between
02-01-2021 arrested in Lahore,
on terrorism-
06-01-2021
Bannu calling on PM - -
To Resign
Hala and Moro in financing charges.
Sindh.
Machh attack - Pakistani Doctors,
Economy likely to
Pakistan coal Students Protest
Turkish FM visited boost more than
3. 13-01-2021
Pakistan
04-01-2021
the consensus of
03-01-2021 miners kidnapped
and killed in IS
07-01-2021 Blacklist Of Uzbek,
Kyrgyz Medical
- -
2-3 %
attack Schools
SC ordered
PTM worker Sanna Action plan rebuilding of Pakistani Government
Ijaz Detained, From ordered to check Hindu temple after Employees Demand
4. 17-01-2021
Pakistani Province
05-01-2021
sugar, cooking oil
05-01-2021
it was destroyed by
12-01-2021
Raise In Line With - -
(Baluchistan) prices a mob in Inflation
December 2020.
Zain Hassan
Effendi, the great-
Pakistan will not
grandson of Sindh
be able to grow
Madressatul Islam Residents Of Pakistani
Opposition Rally maximum
founder Hassan Ali Tribal District Protest
5. 19-01-2021 against the sitting govt
in Islamabad
06-01-2021 economic benefits
if it does not link
06-01-2021
Effendi and
13-01-2021
Against 'Illegal' - -
maternal cousin of Detentions
CPEC to other
Asif Ali Zardari,
countries
was shot dead by
five attackers.

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 Moody’s Forecast
of Pakistan Pakistan court
RSF Denounces Dozens Of Pakistani
Economy by sentences three
6. 25-01-2021 Brazen Censorship by
Pakistani authority
06-01-2021
1.5% during
08-01-2021
men to death for
14-01-2021 Police Sanctioned Over
Hindu Temple Attack
- -
current financial blasphemy.
year.
World Bank Two gunmen Pakistan Urged To Stop
Forecast 2% attacked a team of Online 'Hate
7. - - 06-01-2021
growth rate for
12-01-2021
polio vaccine
15-01-2021
Campaigns' Against - -
2021-2022 handlers in Karak Critical Journalists
Two ‘IS-inspired
State Bank set militants’ get life
Students demanded
8. - - 06-01-2021 growth rate target
1.5-2.1%
12-01-2021 imprisonment in
Navy officer’s
18-01-2021
Virtual Exams - -
killing case

New textile policy

Three Pakistani PDM to march to ECP
envisions trillion-
soldiers were killed Islamabad for 'decision'
9. - - 07-01-2021 rupee subsidies
for exporters till
14-01-2021
in shootout with
19-01-2021
on PTI foreign funding - -
Militants in NW. case
year 2025

The overall
Pashtun Rights
pension spending
Activist Sanna Pakistani University
reached 18.7 % as
10. - - 07-01-2021
of FY20, almost
17-01-2021 Ejaz Detained,
Expelled From
22-01-2021 Students Rally To
Demand Online Exams
- -
double the level a
Balochistan.
decade earlier
PM greeted Teachers In Islamabad
PTM Leader Alam
economic team on Protest Transfer Order
11. - - 08-01-2021
increase of
18-01-2021 Mahsud arrested in
DI Khan.
25-01-2021
Separating Them From - -
exports Families
Government
requested the
World Bank for a RSF Denounces
loan of $600 Pakistani Military ‘Brazen Censorship’
12. - - 11-01-2021 million to roll out
an innovative
18-01-2021 Kills Taliban
Suspects in SW.
25-01-2021 After BBC Withdraws
News Show From
- -
hybrid social Pakistani TV
protection
scheme.
PM launched FC man sentenced
Tribesman Demand
13. - - 11-01-2021 Raast Payment
System
21-01-2021 to death for killing
student in Turbat
28-01-2021
Compensation For - -
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 Houses Destroyed In
Northwestern Pakistan
Pakistan seeks to
Chinese firm to
block US-based
14. - - 16-01-2021 set up first steel
plant in Rashakai
21-01-2021
website of minority - - - -
Ahmadis.
10 economic
SC orders release
zones planned
of prime accused
15. - - 17-01-2021 across KP under
public-private
28-01-2021
in Daniel Pearl - - - -
murder.
partnership
0.85m tonnes
Lashkar-e-Islam
sugar to be
Head Mangal Bagh
16. - - 17-01-2021 imported tax-free
to avoid price
28-01-2021
killed in - - - -
Afghanistan.
hike
Domestic debt
17. - - 19-01-2021 raised to Rs24.11
trillion
- - - - - -
Foreign
investment drops
18. - - 19-01-2021
by 30pc in first - - - - - -
half of FY21
ECC allows
19. - - 21-01-2021 800,000 tons of
sugar import
- - - - - -
China to export
500,000 doses of
a coronavirus
20. - - 23-01-2021
vaccine to - - - - - -
Pakistan by
January 31.
Japan provided
$4.57 million
21. - - 28-01-2021 grant to help
procure polio
- - - - - -
vaccine
ADB to provide
$5.4bn assistance
22. - - 29-01-2021
to Pakistan in - - - - - -
three years
Balochistan to get
23. - - 29-01-2021
£3.5 million for - - - - - -
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 nutrition support
from UK
Food inflation
24. - - 31-01-2021 higher in rural
areas
- - - - - -
February 2021
Blasphemy cases
Pakistan’s Opposition Pakistan’s Opposition
Pakistan's have inflated in
At A Crossroads After At A Crossroads After
1. 01-02-2021
PM Refuses To Step
01-02-2021 inflation eased to
5.65% in January
05-02-2021 2020, by The
Center for Social
01-02-2021
PM Refuses To Step - -
Down Down
Justice (CSJ).
Exports crossed
Gen Bajwa, ISI chief UN report Displaced Pakistani
$2 billion mark
meet PM Imran Khan recognizes Tribesmen Demand
2. 01-02-2021
for the fourth time in
02-02-2021 for fourth
consecutive
07-02-2021
Pakistan's fight
04-02-2021
Return Of Government - -
40 days against terrorism. Allowances
month
Pakistani Journalists
Pakistani PM Wins No Rs250bn tax cases Pakistan slams Demand Reopening Of
3. 06-02-2021 Confidence Vote from
Parliament
03-02-2021 settled in first half
of fiscal year
15-02-2021 killing of 13 Turks
in Iraq.
08-02-2021 News Channel
Following Suspension
- -
Of License
Former TTP
Khalilzad met Gen. Industrial
spokesman State Employees
Qamar Bajwa stressed activities boomed
4. 08-02-2021
on Afghan Peace
06-02-2021
as duty-free
18-02-2021 Ehsanullah Ehsan
allegedly threatens
15-02-2021 Protest Privatization
Plans In Pakistan
- -
process imports surge
Malala on Twitter.
In FY20, the
KP Law Minister Ippi shooting – Protesters From
country’s trade
Sultan Muhammad Four aid women Pakistan's Baluch
deficit had
5. 10-02-2021 steps down for alleged
involvement in Senate
09-02-2021
narrowed to
22-02-2021 shot dead in North
Waziristan car
18-02-2021 Minority Demand
Release Of Missing
- -
$23.099bn from
votes attack. Relatives
$31.820bn

Russian, Chinese, U.S. Four women

Basmati exports Thousands Protest
Navies Participate In vocational trainers
6. 12-02-2021
Pakistan's Aman 2021
09-02-2021 dropped by 38%
in 1st half of 2021.
23-02-2021
shot dead in
22-02-2021 Across Pakistan For
Missing Persons
- -
Exercises Waziristan.

IMF approved TTP commander

$500million Nooristan
7. 23-02-2021 PM visited SriLanka 16-02-2021 under Extended
Fund Facility
26-02-2021 responsible for
killing 50 soldiers
- - - -
Programme eliminated: ISPR

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 FATF gave Pakistan Pakistan Given
an extension until June Extension till Missing ANP
For Removal From June 2021 For leader Asad Khan
8. 26-02-2021
Terror-Financing
26-02-2021
Removal From
28-02-2021
Achakzai found - - - -
Watch List To Address Terror-Financing dead in Quetta.
'Deficiencies' Watch List
9. - - - - - - - - - -
March 2021
PTM
leader
Protesters In Karachi , three
Sadiq Sanjrani, PM approved Blasphemy suspect 16-
Condemn Killing Of others
1. 12-03-2021 became Senate 05-03-2021 cross border yarn 02-03-2021 gets bail over four 03-03-2021
Ethnic Baluchis On
03-
booke
Chairman. import years after arrest 2021
Pakistan-Iran Border d for
treaso
n.
8 terrorists
Pakistan’s first
including 3 TTP Roadblock Erected As
Nadeem Babar asked food security
commanders killed Anger Boils Over After
2. 26-03-2021 to resign as SPAM on
Energy.
17-03-2021 dialogue
inaugurated by
06-03-2021
in North
26-03-2021
Teen Killings In - -
Waziristan IBOs: Northwest Pakistan
PM
ISPR
Syed Yousuf Raza
Gilani became
3. 26-03-2021
opposition leader in - - - - - - - -
senate.
Pakistani Police Block
Govt removes Hafeez Class 7th student
Protest Caravan
Shaikh, appoints dies mysteriously
4. 29-03-2021
Hammad Azhar as - - 15-03-2021
in Peshawar police
28-03-2021 Sparked By Killing Of
Teenage Boys In
- -
new finance minister custody.
Former Tribal Region
Chinese liquor Janikhel incident –
company gets license, Kiling of four
5. 29-03-2021
to manufacture in - - 21-03-2021
teenage boys in - - - -
Pakistan. Bannu.
Nine killed, 27
6. - - - - 24-03-2021 injured in Chaman
bomb blast.
- - - -
6 killed, 7 injured
in gun attack on
7. - - - - 25-03-2021
passenger vehicle - - - -
in GB's Naltar.

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 Man axed to death
over blasphemy
8. - - - - 26-03-2021
allegations in - - - -
Punjab's Jhang

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