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Events from the year 2021 in Pakistan.

Incumbents

President and Prime Minister
President Prime Minister
Arif Alvi Imran Khan

Events
  • January 2
    • 22 year-old Usama Satti was shot to death in his car by the Islamabad Police.The Murderers successfully played with system. Islamabad Police successfully pushed the allegation and murderers managed to escape without any penalty. The Islamabad Police mafia is on the run to sacrifice as much as innocent Pakistans.[1][2]
    • Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi was arrested in Lahore, on terrorism financing charges.[3][4]
  • January 3: Machh attack
  • January 5: The Supreme Court of Pakistan 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.[5]
  • January 9 – 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.[6]
  • January 11 - 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[7]
  • January 12: Two gunmen attacked a team of polio vaccine handlers in Karak, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, killing one policeman who was escorting them.[8]
  • January 28 – 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.[9][10]

Deaths

See also

Country overviews

References
  1. "Post-mortem report of Usama Satti offers new details into Islamabad shooting". Dunya News. 2 January 2021. Retrieved 5 January 2021.
  2. Shams, Shamil (3 January 2021). "Killing of 22-year-old student by police sparks outrage in Pakistan". Deutsche Welle. Retrieved 5 January 2021.
  3. Tanveer, Asim (2 January 2021). "Pakistan arrests key militant on terror financing charges". Associated Press. Archived from the original on 2 January 2021. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
  4. Bukhari, Mubasher; Peshimam, Gibran (2 January 2021). Russell, Ros (ed.). "Pakistan arrests alleged militant group leader Zaki ur Rehman Lakhvi on terrorism financing charge". Reuters. Archived from the original on 2 January 2021. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
  5. "Pakistani top court orders rebuilding of destroyed Hindu temple". Al Jazeera English. January 6, 2021.
  6. "Pakistan power cut plunges country into darkness". BBC. 10 January 2021.
  7. "Nine countries appoint new ambassadors to Pakistan". The News. January 11, 2021.
  8. Janjua, Haroon. "Pakistan: Gunmen target polio workers, kill policeman". Deutsche Welle. "Two gunmen came on a motorcycle and attacked our colleague Junaid Ullah while he was escorting the polio team. They opened fire on the van carrying polio workers," Muhammad Ishaq Khan, a police official in Karak, told DW.
  9. Latif, Aamir (27 January 2021). "Malaysian court orders release of Pakistani plane". Anadolu Agency. Retrieved 29 January 2021.
  10. Sipalan, Joseph; Hepher, Tim; Shahzad, Asif (27 January 2021). Potter, Mark; Fernandez, Clarence (eds.). "Malaysian court releases Pakistan national carrier's grounded plane". Reuters. Retrieved 29 January 2021.
  11. "Poet Naseer Turabi dies". Dawn. January 10, 2021.
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