title: 2021 in Pakistan
text: # 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
  