2021 in Pakistan
# 2021 in Pakistan

Events from the year 2021 in Pakistan.

## Incumbents

### National government

| 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 7july); 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.
   * Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi was arrested in Lahore, on terrorism-financing charges.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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 vaccine handlers 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 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

## 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
