The following lists events that happened during 1996 in Pakistan.

Incumbents

Federal government

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Farooq Leghari Farooq Ahmad Khan Leghari ( ur, ; 29 May 194020 October 2010), was a Pakistani politician who served as the eighth president of Pakistan from 14 November 1993 until resigning on 2 December 1997. He is the first Baloch to have been elected a ...

Prime Minister A prime minister, premier or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. Under those systems, a prime minister is not ...

Benazir Bhutto Benazir Bhutto ( ur, بینظیر بُھٹو; sd, بينظير ڀُٽو; Urdu ; 21 June 1953 – 27 December 2007) was a Pakistani politician who served as the 11th and 13th prime minister of Pakistan from 1988 to 1990 and again from 1993 t ...

(until 5 November),

Malik Meraj Khalid Malik Meraj Khalid ( ur, ; 1 February 1916 – 13 June 2003), was a Pakistani advocate, left wing politician and Marxist philosopher who served as Caretaker prime minister of Pakistan from November 1996 until February 1997. He was noted as be ...

(starting 5 November) * Chief Justice:

Sajjad Ali Shah Sajjad Ali Shah (born 14 August 1957) is a Pakistani jurist who has been serving as a judge of the Supreme Court of Pakistan since 15 March 2017. Previously, he served as the Chief Justice of the Sindh High Court. References

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Governors

Governor of Balochistan The Governor of Balochistan is the head of the province of Balochistan, Pakistan. The post was established on 1 July 1970, after the dissolution of West Pakistan province and the end of One Unit. Under Pakistan's current parliamentary system, the ...

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Imran Ullah Khan Lieutenant General Imran Ullah Khan (born 3 December 1932) is a retired Pakistan Army general. He remained the Governor of Balochistan province in PPP-led government from May 1994 to May 1997. Early life and education General Imran Ullah Khan ...

Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa The Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is the appointed head of state of the provincial government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly North-West Frontier Province), Pakistan. Although the governor is the head of the province on paper, it is largely a ce ...

– ** until 5 November:

Khurshid Ali Khan Major General (R) Khurshid Ali Khan was the Governor of the North-West Frontier Province from 1993 to 1996. Early life and education He was born on 5 October 1933 to the Swat State Prime Minister Khan Bahadur Hazrat Ali Khan and he was his elde ...

** 5 November-11 November: Said Ibne Ali ** starting 11 November:

Arif Bangash Lieutenant General (R) Muhammad Arif Bangash (1935 – 24 November 2019) was a Pakistan Army three-star general who served as governor of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, North-West Frontier province of Pakistan. Military career He belonged to the fami ...

* Governor of Punjab – ** until 6 November:

Raja Saroop Khan Lieutenant General Raja Saroop Khan ( ur, ) was a career Pakistan Army officer who served as the Governor of Punjab from 1995 to 1996. Raja Saroop Khan was commissioned in the 7th PMA Long Course from Pakistan Military Academy Pakistan ...

** 6 November-11 November: Khalilur Rehman ** starting 11 November:

Khawaja Tariq Rahim Khawaja Ahmad Tariq Rahim is a Pakistani politician who has served as the Governor of Punjab, Pakistan. Previously, he also had been the Federal Minister. Born to Khawaja Abdur Rahim, a prominent civil servant and lawyer, Khawaja received his ear ...

Governor of Sindh The governor of Sindh is the appointed head of the province of Sindh, Pakistan. The office of the governor as the head of the province is largely a ceremonial position; the executive powers lie with the Chief Minister of Sindh, chief minister and t ...

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Kamaluddin Azfar Kamaluddin Azfar ( ur, کمال الدين اظفر) is a politician from Sindh, Pakistan. He was Finance Minister and later Governor of Sindh. Kamal Azfar was elected as a member of Pakistan Peoples Party The Pakistan People's Party ( ur, ...

Events

* Prime Minister

is dismissed for a second time on charges of corruption.

March

* 17 March –

Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...

defeat

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Lahore Lahore ( ; pnb, ; ur, ) is the second most populous city in Pakistan after Karachi and 26th most populous city in the world, with a population of over 13 million. It is the capital of the province of Punjab where it is the largest city. ...

in the finals of the cricket world cup. Sri Lanka's sole success - BBC
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Births

* Syed Ali Mujtaba Shah Bokhari was born in April 5, 1996 in

and is a professional

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who represented

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. He reached a career-high world ranking of World No. 133 in April 2013. * Ahmed Siddiqui was born in 1996 and He is an American of Pakistani descent who described being kidnapped with his mother and two younger siblings in March 2003. The repeated bomb blasts in major cities of Punjab during 1995-1996 terrorized people. During the year 1995–96, this state was in great curse and the government was in several dilemmas. The opposition party of Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif made the situation of law and order. This resulted in dissolution of the assemblies.

Deaths

In 1996, 2,000 people were killed in Karachi. The PPP, with its own government in Sindh, had the unique opportunity to heal the wounds of ethnic violence in Karachi. *

September 20 Events Pre-1600 * 1058 – Agnes of Poitou and Andrew I of Hungary meet to negotiate about the border territory of Burgenland. *1066 – At the Battle of Fulford, Harald Hardrada defeats earls Morcar and Edwin. * 1187 – Saladin ...

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Murtaza Bhutto Ghulam Murtaza Bhutto (; 18 September 1954 – 20 September 1996) was a Pakistani politician and leader of al-Zulfiqar, a Pakistani left-wing militant organization. The son of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the former Prime Minister of Pakistan, he earne ...

, (born 1954), leader of the opposition party

Pakistan Peoples Party (Shaheed Bhutto) The Pakistan Peoples Party (Shaheed Bhutto) ''( sd, پيپلزپارٽي شهيدڀٽو)'' (abbreviated as PPP-SB) is a political party in Pakistan and one of three breakaway factions of the old Pakistan Peoples Party. The party is currently head ...

killed during a gunfight with police. *

November 21 Events Pre-1600 * 164 BCE – Judas Maccabeus, son of Mattathias of the Hasmonean family, rededicates the Temple in Jerusalem, an event is commemorated each year by the festival of Hanukkah. (25 Kislev 3597 in the Hebrew calendar.) * 235 ...

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Abdus Salam Mohammad Abdus Salam Salam adopted the forename "Mohammad" in 1974 in response to the anti-Ahmadiyya decrees in Pakistan, similarly he grew his beard. (; ; 29 January 192621 November 1996) was a Punjabi Pakistani theoretical physicist and a ...

, (born 1926), Pakistani Nobel physicist dies in

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References

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