Important Events 2021

April – June
Terrorism / Extremism /
S/N Political Economy Protest / Dharna Miscellaneous
Blasphemy
Date Event Date Event Date Event Date Event Date Event
April 2021
NA Speaker
Teachers And sent letters to
The Punjab CTD
Private-School more than 100
Pakistan Seen As Prices of arrested 7
Owners Protest Muslim
Repeating ‘Pyrrhic petroleum suspected terrorists 21-04-
1. 01-04-2021
Victory’ In
01-04-2021
products cut by
07-01-2021
after raiding a
05-04-2021 Against 2021
countries
Ongoing School urging them
Afghanistan up to 2.5% militant hideout in to raise the
Closures In
Sargodha. issue of
Pakistan
Islamophobia.
Reviewing the Private School
IMF programme Workers And
Ex-PPP minister and the Owners In
Shaukat Tarin to head controversial
2. 01-04-2021
economic advisory
01-04-2021
State Bank of
08-04-2021 Pakistan
Protest
- -
board Pakistan
amendment bill Coronavirus
2021 Restrictions
Pakistani Police
CTD Sindh
New FIRs registered Clash With
arrested a terrorist
against Jahangir Inflation edged Protesters After
3. 01-04-2021
Tareen &Ali Tareen,
02-04-2021
upto 9.1 %
28-01-2021 Zaytoon Brigade,
traced network
12-04-2021
Arrest Of - -
family in sugar scam Radical Islamist
financing Daesh.
Leader
Terrorist shot dead, Anti-French
Pakistan Business
PM briefed on 5 arrested in Shah Protesters Clash
Council wants
4. 01-04-2021 electronic voting
machine
04-04-2021
IMF deal
09-02-2021 Latif Town
operation by Sindh
13-04-2021 With Police For
Second Day In
- -
renegotiated
CTD. Pakistan
The scrutiny
committee of the
A cop Sheraz Pakistan To
Election Commission
Khan, killing case Ban Radical
of Pakistan (ECP) has Domestic debt
5. 02-04-2021
found PML-N, PPP
06-04-2021
goes up by 11.7%
20-02-2021 registered under
anti-terrorism law
14-04-2021 Islamist Party
Behind Anti-
- -
were maintaining
in KHI. French Rallies
several undeclared
bank accounts.

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 Student’s
Lynching For
New MQM- Blasphemy Still
Swiss bank accounts World Bank put London target Haunts
6. 02-04-2021 case against Zardari to
be reopened.
07-04-2021 Pakistan growth
rate at 1.3 %
12-03-2021 killers’ teams
active in Karachi,
14-04-2021 Pakistani
University. The
- -
warns CTD. day is etched in
Mukhtar
Alam’s memory
Supreme Court
rejected the PTI’s France Advises
appeal against the Whopping Rangers claimed Citizens To
Election Commission Rs1.27tr hike in arresting three TTP Leave Pakistan
7. 03-04-2021
of Pakistan’s (ECP)
09-04-2021
taxes committed
14-03-2021
and Daesh
15-04-2021
Due To - -
decision to hold re- with IMF terrorists in KHI. ‘Serious
election in the entire Threats’
Daska constituency.
PDM has decided to
Pakistan
part ways with PPP ATC Judge Aftab
Temporarily
ANP and form a new Inaction may Afridi among four
Blocks Social
8. 03-04-2021 alliance of five
opposition parties
11-04-2021 double circular
debt
05-04-2021 killed in 'targeted
attack' near Ambar
16-04-2021
Media Apps - -
After Violent
having 27 members in Interchange in KP.
Protests
the Senate.
Three People
Killed As
Lahore gamer Bilal
Govt set Pakistani Police
The UK government opens fire on
economic growth Clash With
9. 03-04-2021 put Pakistan on the
“red list”
14-04-2021
target at 4.2pc for
05-04-2021 family over drug
use, killed four
18-04-2021
Group - -
FY22 Demanding
persons.
French Envoy's
Expulsion
PDM secretary general
UK puts Pakistan Pakistani PM
issued show-cause
on high-risk Pleads With
notice to PPP and the
Petroleum prices countries list over Radicals To
10. 06-04-2021 ANP for nominating
Yousuf Raza Gilani as
16-04-2021
cut by up to 2.5pc
13-04-2021
money laundering
19-04-2021
Stop Violent - -
and terror Anti-France
the opposition leader
financing. Campaign
in the Senate
The CTD
Russian FM met PM Journalists In
UAE to roll over Peshawar arrested
IK, COAS and agreed Pakistan's
11. 08-04-2021
to boost cooperation in
20-04-2021 $2bn loan to
Pakistan
17-04-2021 Aftab, an Afghan
national and
26-04-2021
Balochistan - -
diverse areas including Province
alleged member of

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 defence and the banned Jaish Protest Murder
counterterrorism. Mohammad. Of Colleague
Pakistan Tribal
NACTA said more
Some PTI MPs from Foreign direct District
than 19,000 SM
Punjab, showed investment falls Residents Call
12. 08-04-2021
support to Jahangir
20-04-2021
by 35pc in nine
24-04-2021 accounts blocked
for spreading
27-04-2021
For Justice - -
Khan Tareen. months Over Teenagers'
hatred, terrorism.
Killing
The government has Protests
appointed a senior Peshawar Security Continue In
Non-textile
officer of Inland forces foiled South
13. 10-04-2021
Revenue Service Asim
23-04-2021 exports post
paltry growth
26-04-2021
terrorism bid in
28-04-2021
Waziristan - -
Ahmad as new Bajaur operation. After Murder
chairman of FBR. Of Teenagers
CTD set up a new Pakistani
PM asks technology for Watchdog
Eight MNAs, over 10 Economic identification and Reports
14. 10-04-2021 MPAs attend Tareen’s
dinner.
23-04-2021 Advisory Council
to propose relief
29-04-2021 verification of
terrorists on the
30-04-2021 ‘Dramatic’
Worsening Of
- -
measures spot through their Media
smartphones. Environment
The fate of opposition
PDM hangs in the Inflation and
balance as PPP Covid, two main
chairman Bilawal concerns for
15. 12-04-2021
Bhutto-Zardari tore
25-04-2021
global markets in - - - -
apart the show-cause second quarter of
notice issued to it by 2021
the PDM.
Two people were
Punjab seeks
killed and several
$500m World
others, including
16. 12-04-2021
policemen, after the
26-04-2021 Bank loan for
rural water
- - - -
arrest of TLP leader
supply, sanitation
Saad Rizvi.
Fiscal deficit at
3.5pc of GDP in
17. 28-04-2021
eight months of - - - - - -
current fiscal year
Hammad Azhar is
Asian
given energy ministry,
Development
18. 15-04-2021 Shaukat Tarin is made
finance minister,
29-04-2021
Bank puts - - - - - -
Pakistan growth
Khusro Bakhtiar

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 became minister for rate at 2pc this
industries and year
production Fawad
Chaudhry is appointed
as information
minister, Syed Shibli
Faraz is given the
ministry of Science &
Technology, and
Omar Ayub Khan is
allocated the Ministry
of Economic Affairs in
cabinet reshuffle
Over 30 MPA’s and
MNA’s joined JKT
camp and some of the
19. 18-04-2021
proposed to give - - - - - - - -
resign from the
Assemblies.
The government
presented a resolution
in the National
20. 20-04-2021 Assembly on issue of
the French envoy’s
- - - - - - - -
expulsion from
Pakistan.
A full bench of the
Lahore High Court
granted post-arrest bail
21. 22-04-2021 to PML-N president
Shehbaz Sharif in a
- - - - - - - -
money laundering
reference.
The accountability
court has directed the
(SECP) as well as the
relevant authorities to
22. 24-04-2021 sell unclaimed shares
and properties of
- - - - - - - -
Nawaz Sharif and
deposit the proceeds
with the state treasury.
Foreign ministers of
23. 24-04-2021
Pakistan, Turkey and - - - - - - - -
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 Afghanistan urged
Afghan Taliban to
value the Afghan
peace deal.
Supreme Court accepts
review petitions
against presidential
24. 26-04-2021
reference verdict and - - - - - - - -
entire FBR exercise
rendered null and void.
LHC Chief Justice
Mohammad Qasim
Khan blamed the DHA
25. 28-04-2021 for its involvement in
“illegal” occupation of
- - - - - - - -
lands and termed as
land grabbers.
The controversy over
the role of an aide to
the PM in filing of a
reference against a
Supreme Court judge
deepened, Adviser to
26. 28-04-2021 PM Shahzad Akbar
denied that he had
- - - - - - - -
pressured former FIA
DG Bashir Memon
into filing the
reference against
Justice Qazi Faez Isa.
Shahzad Akbar sends
libel notice to former
FIA chief BM stating
27. 28-04-2021
that his ‘libelous - - - - - - - -
statements’ were
‘completely untrue’.
May 2021
The European Peshawar Religious
Rs2.18bn
Parliament adopted a Blast kills several Shopkeepers leaders, govt
economic
resolution calling for a at pro-Palestine Vow To Defy 03-05- reject EU
1. 01-05-2021
review of trade
01-05-2021 package okayed 21-05-2021
rally in southwest
07-05-2021
Government 2021 resolution
for South
relations with Pakistan Pakistan. Coronavirus based on
Waziristan
and ending its Closure Order ignorance of

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 eligibility for the GSP facts and
status. false
propaganda
on
blasphemy.
PM Khan
Muttahida Ulema Thousands seeks
Inflation in
PM IK urged OIC to Board to launch Across Pakistan Muslim
double digits 05-05-
2. 03-05-2021 vehemently counter 03-05-2021 24-05-2021 awareness 21-05-2021 Rally In world’s
again after 12 2021
Islamophobia. campaign on Solidarity With voice
months
blasphemy laws. Palestinians against
blasphemy.
Dozens of
Police claimed journalists
Next budget to arresting MQM staged a protest
PM Imran Khan
focus on GDP, hitmen involved in in Islamabad,
3. 07-05-2021 visited Saudi Arabia
(7-9 May 2021)
03-05-2021
inflation, uplift
02-05-2021
killing former
26-05-2021
against an - -
projects Liaquatabad Town attack on
Nazim. blogger Asad
Ali Toor
University
Employees
Lahore High Court
Demand Budget
granted one-time Export of services
Increase In
4. 07-05-2021 permission to Shehbaz
Sharif to travel abroad
09-05-2021 increased to 32pc
in March
- - 27-05-2021
Pakistan's - -
Khyber
for medical treatment.
Pakhtunkhwa
Province
FIA stopped Shehbaz
The decline in
Sharif from leaving the
exports to
country for London,
5. 08-05-2021
created tensions
10-05-2021 Afghanistan is
costing businesses
- - - - - -
between the sitting
and Pakistan
govt. and PMLN.
The Govt. is to
introduced new rules
to meet FATF
conditions. Specialized
New rules in the
agencies to probe
6. 10-05-2021
money laundering
10-05-2021 works to meet
FATF conditions
- - - - - -
cases and special
prosecutors to be hired
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implementation

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 PM directed his legal
88pc work on first
team to ensure fresh
CPEC
7. 10-05-2021 investigation into the
Hudaibya Paper Mills
12-05-2021
hydropower - - - - - -
project completed
case.
Afghan President Rs60bn collateral-
urged Pakistan to help free loan plan for
8. 10-05-2021
achieve durable peace
12-05-2021
SMEs in the - - - - - -
in Afghanistan. works
PM ordered a full- Shaukat Tarin
fledged inquiry into appointed to spur
9. 15-05-2021
the Rawalpindi Ring
12-05-2021
growth, check - - - - - -
Road project scam. inflation:
Rs340bn projects
Interior Ministry has
registered under
10. 17-05-2021 placed Shehbaz Sharif
name on ECL list.
12-05-2021
construction - - - - - -
package
SAPM Zulfi Bukhari
resigned from his Exports to China
11. 17-05-2021
position due to his
17-05-2021
rose by 31pc - - - - - -
name in RRR scam.
Meeting between NSA
Govt raises
Moeed Yusuf and Jake
12. 23-05-2021
Sullivan took place in
20-05-2021 Rs575bn through
T-bills auction
- - - - - -
Geneva,
PM Imran Khan
visited ISI FIA sets up
headquarters for special squad to
13. 24-05-2021
getting his intel-brief
20-05-2021
curb money - - - - - -
on ‘regional security laundering
situation’.
CPEC got a legal
cover with the
unanimous passage of Pakistan’s exports
14. 27-05-2021 the CPEC Authority
Bill by the Senate in
21-05-2021 to Australia have
increased by 30pc
- - - - - -
the absence of the
opposition.
National Assembly
extended the newly External debt
15. 28-05-2021 amended NAB
Ordinance-1999 for
22-05-2021 declines in third
quarter by $806m
- - - - - -
another 120 days.

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 PPP chairman Bilawal Foreign direct
Bhutto-Zardari has investment falls
16. 30-05-2021
ruled out his party’s
22-05-2021
by 32.5pc in - - - - - -
return to PDM. 10MFY21
Pakistan's
economic growth
17. - - 22-05-2021
rate projected at - - - - - -
3.94pc
Textile, clothing
exports post
18. - - 23-05-2021
impressive - - - - - -
growth in April
Rs10bn mega
development
19. - - 23-05-2021
package approved - - - - - -
for Gujrat
SBP fully backs
20. - - 23-05-2021 3.94pc growth
rate estimate
- - - - - -
Upcoming budget
envisages all-
21. - - 23-05-2021 inclusive
sustainable
- - - - - -
economic growth
Growth estimate
22. - - 28-05-2021 for next year set
at 4.8pc
- - - - - -
Govt projects
23. - - 28-05-2021 $28bn export
target for FY22
- - - - - -
CPEC Authority
24. - - 28-05-2021 bill sails through
Senate
- - - - - -
With IMF
consent, govt sets
25. - - 28-05-2021
higher economic - - - - - -
target
PM commends
FBR for
26. - - 30-05-2021 Rs4.143tr revenue
collected in 11
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months

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