Events from the year 2020 in

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January

*January 1 – February 28 –

Bangladeshi cricket team in Pakistan in 2019–20 The Bangladesh cricket team toured Pakistan in January and February 2020 to play one Test match and three Twenty20 International (T20I) matches against the Pakistan cricket team. The Test series formed part of the inaugural 2019–2021 ICC World ...

. *January 10 ** January 2020 Quetta bombing. ** January 2020 lunar eclipse

February

* February 1 – The

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declared a

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to protect crops and help

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. * February 9 – 16 – 2020 Kabaddi World Cup (Circle style). * February 12 –

Hafiz Saeed Hafiz Muhammad Saeed ( ur, , born 5 June 1950) is a Pakistani Islamism, Islamist who co-founded Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), a Pakistan-based Islamist militant organization that is List of designated terrorist groups, designated as a terrorist grou ...

was convicted of two counts of

terrorist Terrorism, in its broadest sense, is the use of criminal violence to provoke a state of terror or fear, mostly with the intention to achieve political or religious aims. The term is used in this regard primarily to refer to intentional violen ...

financing and was sentenced to five-and-a-half years in prison. * February 17 – February 2020 Quetta bombing. * February 20 –

2020 Pakistan Super League 2020 Pakistan Super League (also known as PSL 5 or for sponsorship reasons as HBL PSL 2020) was the fifth season of the Pakistan Super League, a franchise Twenty20 cricket league which was established by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) in 2015. ...

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. * February 26 – The first two cases of

COVID-19 Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by a virus, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The first known case was COVID-19 pandemic in Hubei, identified in Wuhan, China, in December ...

are reported in Pakistan. * February 28 – Press reports state that

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

may send flocks of ducks to Pakistan to fight locusts.

March

* March 10 –

2020 Tablighi Jamaat COVID-19 hotspot in Pakistan A Tablighi Jamaat religious congregation that took place in Lahore's Raiwind Markaz in early March 2020 was a COVID-19 super-spreader event with more than 539 confirmed cases linked to the event being reported across the country. Science and Te ...

May

* May 21 – Islamabad High Court ordered that the elephant

Kaavan Kaavan ( ur, ; born 1985) is a male Asian elephant known as the "world's loneliest elephant" since his partner, 22-year-old Saheli, died in 2012. Kaavan was gifted by the government of Sri Lanka to Pakistan in 1985. He remained at the Islamaba ...

should be immediately relocated to a different

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following a four-year campaign by popular

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since 2016 demanding for the release of Kaavan from Islamabad Zoo. * May 22 –

Pakistan International Airlines Flight 8303 Pakistan International Airlines Flight 8303 was a scheduled domestic flight from Allama Iqbal International Airport in Lahore to Jinnah International Airport in Karachi, Pakistan. On 22 May 2020, the Airbus A320 crashed into Model Colony, a de ...

crashed in

Karachi Karachi (; ur, ; ; ) is the most populous city in Pakistan and 12th most populous city in the world, with a population of over 20 million. It is situated at the southern tip of the country along the Arabian Sea coast. It is the former cap ...

Sindh Sindh (; ; ur, , ; historically romanized as Sind) is one of the four provinces of Pakistan. Located in the southeastern region of the country, Sindh is the third-largest province of Pakistan by land area and the second-largest province ...

, killing 97 of the 99 people on board as well as one on the ground.

June

* June 6 – Govt appoints Muhammad Sadiq as country's first special representative for

Afghanistan Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,; prs, امارت اسلامی افغانستان is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. Referred to as the Heart of Asia, it is bordere ...

. * June 19 – The Supreme Court of Pakistan has quashed a presidential reference filed against Justice Qazi Faiz Esa. * June 29 –

Pakistan Stock Exchange attack On 29 June 2020, Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) militants attacked the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) building in Karachi with grenades and by firing indiscriminately. At least three security guards and a police sub-inspector were killed, wh ...

- A mass shooting in Karachi left at least 8 people dead including 4 perpetrators. * June 30 – Nigar Johar becomes the

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's first female lieutenant general.

July

* July 1 – Pakistan temporarily bans popular

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game PUBG. * July 3 – US donates 100 ventilators to support Pakistan's COVID-19 response. * July 6 – PM Imran Khan inaugurates country's first ever indigenously made ventilators at National Radio and Telecommunication Corporation (NRTC) in Haripur. * July 11 – Pakistan-born scientist

Asifa Akhtar Asifa Akhtar is a Pakistani biologist who has made significant contributions to the field of chromosome regulation. She is Senior Group Leader and Director of the Department of Chromatin Regulation at the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and E ...

has become the first international female vice president of the biology and medicine section at Germany's prestigious Max Planck Society. 8 July 23 –

Pakistan at the 2020 Summer Olympics Pakistan competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Originally scheduled to take place from 24 July to 9 August 2020, the Games were postponed to 23 July to 8 August 2021, because of the COVID-19 pandemic. It was Pakistan's eighteenth appearan ...

* July 29 – In terrorist attack, a soldier is killed at Bajaur security post.

August

* August 5 – At least 39 people were injured in an RGD-1

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attack on a Jamaat-i-Islami rally in the

Gulshan-e-Iqbal Gulshan-e-Iqbal ( ur, ) is a large middle-class to upper middle class (Block 15,16,17,18) residential and commercial neighborhood in the Karachi East district of Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. It was previously administered as part of the Gulshan To ...

neighborhood of Karachi. The Sindhudesh Revolutionary Army claimed responsibility for the attack. * August 10 – A bomb killed at least 5 people and several others were injured in Chaman,

Balochistan Balochistan ( ; bal, بلۏچستان; also romanised as Baluchistan and Baluchestan) is a historical region in Western and South Asia, located in the Iranian plateau's far southeast and bordering the Indian Plate and the Arabian Sea coastline. ...

. * August 13 - Killing of Hayat Baloch * August 24 - Pakistan at the 2020 Summer Paralympics * August 25 -

2020 Karachi floods The 2020 Karachi floods ( ur, ) were the worst flooding Karachi had seen in almost a century, and killed at least 41 people across Pakistan. The floods were caused by record monsoon rains, which were inadequately drained by poorly maintained dr ...

September

* September 7 –

Mohmand Marble Mine Incident The Mohmand marble mine landslide happened on 7 September 2020. At least 18 people were killed and more than 20 people injured by a landslide at a marble mine in Mohmand District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan Pakistan ( ur, ), officiall ...

- A mine disaster left at least 19 people dead and another 20 were injured. * September 10 – PM Pakistan Launches "Roshan Digital Account" For Overseas Pakistanis.

October

* October 9 - Pakistan

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short

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application

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because of immoral videos. * October 16 ** An attack kills least 7 soldiers and 7

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s in Balochistan. ** A bomb kills at least 6 members of the Army in

North Waziristan North Waziristan District ( ps, شمالي وزیرستان ولسوالۍ, ur, ) is a district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan. It is the northern part of Waziristan, a mountainous region of northwest Pakistan, bordering Afghanist ...

. * October 20 - Pakistan after 10 days hiatus, Pakistan banned TikTok. * October 21 - At least 5 people were killed and 27 others were injured in an

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at an apartment building in Karachi. * October 27 - 2020 Peshawar school bombing - Eight students were killed in a

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at a school in

Peshawar Peshawar (; ps, پېښور ; hnd, ; ; ur, ) is the sixth most populous city in Pakistan, with a population of over 2.3 million. It is situated in the north-west of the country, close to the International border with Afghanistan. It is ...

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (; ps, خېبر پښتونخوا; Urdu, Hindko: خیبر پختونخوا) commonly abbreviated as KP or KPK, is one of the Administrative units of Pakistan, four provinces of Pakistan. Located in the Geography of Pakistan, ...

. *28 October-

Federal Board of Revenue The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) ( ur, ), formerly known as Central Board of Revenue (CBR), is a federal law enforcement agency of Pakistan that investigates tax crimes, suspicious accumulation of wealth, money-laundering make regulation of ...

(FBR) sealed cellular Sim company

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head office after they did not pay 25 billions rupees in 2018.

November

* 15 November **

2020 Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly election The 2020 Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly elections were held on 15 November 2020. Elections will be held in 24 constituencies, each electing one member to the 3rd Gilgit-Baltistan Legislative Assembly. 330 candidates will contest these elections, eithe ...

December

2020 Karak temple attack On December 30, 2020 the Samadhi of Shri Paramhans Ji Maharaj, a revered Hindu saint and the Krishna Dwara temple situated in the Teri village in the Karak District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan was attacked and burned, by a mob o ...

Arts

Cinema

Economy

2019–20 Pakistan federal budget The Federal budget 2019–20 is the federal budget of Pakistan for the fiscal year beginning from 1 July 2019 and ending on 30 June 2020. It was presented by Revenue Minister Hammad Azhar on 11 June 2019 at the National Assembly In politi ...

2020–21 Pakistan federal budget The Federal budget 2020–2021 is the federal budget of Pakistan for the fiscal year beginning from 1 July 2020 and ending on 30 June 2021. The budget was presented in the Parliament by the Federal Minister Hammad Azhar. It is also called Corona b ...

Deaths

January

*January 7 – Fakhruddin G. Ebrahim, judge and former Chief Election Commissioner (b. 1928). *January 19 – Ali Mardan Shah, politician (b. 1957). *January 28 –

Mohammad Munaf Mohammed Munaf ( ar, محمد مناف, full name Mohammad Munaf Mohammad al-Amin, born November 29, 1952) is an Iraqi–American terrorist convicted in 2008 for his role in the March 2005 kidnapping of three Romanian journalists in Iraq. He wa ...

, cricketer (b. 1935).

February

*February 5 –

Mohammad Shafiq Lieutenant General Mohammad Shafiq (born April 1934) is a retired three-star rank army general of the Pakistan Army. He also served as the Governor of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa from 1999 to 2000. He was appointed to that position on 21 October 1999 ...

, politician. *February 6 –

Malik Ata Muhammad Khan Malik Ata Muhammad Khan (Urdu, pnb, , 25 October 1937 – 6 February 2020), popularly known as Prince Malik Ata was a Pakistani feudal lord and politician. He was the chief of Kot Fateh Khan in Attock District of North Western Punjab, Pakista ...

, feudal lord and politician (b. 1941). *February 10 –

Waqar Hasan Waqar Hasan Mir ( ur, وقارحسن; 12 September 1932 – 10 February 2020) was a Pakistani cricketer who played in 21 Test matches from 1952 to 1959, and the last surviving member of Pakistan's inaugural Test squad. He scored 1,071 runs in T ...

, cricketer (b. 1932). *February 15 ** Shahnaz Ansari, politician (b. 1970). ** Naeemul Haque, political advisor (b. 1949). *February 20 –

Usman Ullah Khan Usman Ullah Khan (29 September 1974 – 20 February 2020) was a Pakistani boxer. He competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics and the 2000 Summer Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known ...

, Olympic boxer (b. 1974). *February 21 – Lal Khan, Marxist political theorist (b. 1956). *February 25 –

Naimatullah Khan Naimatullah Khan (1 October 1930 – 25 February 2020) was a Pakistani politician who served as the City Nazim (Mayor) of Karachi from August 2001 to June 2005. Early life and career He graduated from Punjab University with a Masters in Jour ...

, politician (b. 1930).

March

*March 6 –

Amanullah Amanullah or Amanallah is a male Muslim given name ( ar , أمان الله ) meaning the trust or protection of God. It may refer to: * Amānullāh Khān (1892–1960), ruler of Afghanistan from 1919 to 1929 *Amanullah Khan (disambiguation), seve ...

, actor (b. 1950). *March 14 –

Mubashir Hassan Mubashir Hassan ( ur, ; 22 January 1922 – 14 March 2020), was a Pakistani politician, humanist, political adviser, and an engineer who served in the capacity of Finance Minister in Bhutto administration from 1971 until 1974. In 1967, Hass ...

, politician (b. 1922).

May

*May 22 –

Zara Abid Zara Abid ( ur, ; 4 April 199222 May 2020) was a Pakistani model and actress. She was featured in various photo shoots. She made her film debut in ''Chaudhry'', directed by Azeem Sajjad. She was one of the passengers who died aboard PIA Flight ...

June

*June 26 –

Munawar Hasan Syed Munawar Hasan ( ur, سید منور حسن; 5 January 194026 June 2020) was a Pakistani politician who served as the 4th Emir of Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan, Jamaat-e-Islami from 2009 to 2014. He was a elected as a member of the National Ass ...

, former Ameer Jamat E Islami (b. 1941). *June 22 – Allama Talib Jauhari, Islamic scholar (b. 1939). *June 20 –

Mufti Muhammad Naeem Mufti Muhammad Naeem (1958 – 20 June 2020) was a Pakistani cleric and Islamic scholar who served as Chancellor of Jamia Binoria. Biography Family background His paternal family came from Surat in Indian Gujarat. His grandfather was born a P ...

, cleric (b.1958). *June 17 –

Tariq Aziz Tariq Aziz ( ar, طارق عزيز , 28 April 1936 – 5 June 2015) was an Iraqi politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs and a close advisor of President Saddam Hussein. Their association began in the 1950s wh ...

, television host (b. 1936) *June 13 –

Sabiha Khanum Sabiha Khanum ( ur, ; born Mukhtar Begum; 16 October 1935 – 13 June 2020), was a Pakistani film actress. She is also known as the "First Lady of Pakistani Cinema", and is often recognized for her role in Pakistani cinema during the 1950s an ...

, actress (b. 1935).

July

August

*20 August -

Mir Hasil Khan Bizenjo Mir Hasil Khan Bizenjo (3 February 1958 – 20 August 2020; Urdu: میر حاصل خان بزنجو) was a Pakistani politician who served as Minister for Maritime Affairs, in Abbasi cabinet from August 2017 to May 2018. He previously served as ...

(born 1958), veteran politician and National party president *26 August-

Muzaffar Hussain Shah Syed Muzaffar Hussain Shah ( ur, ) is a Pakistani politician and a member of Senate of Pakistan. He was born in 1968. He is an active partisan of Pakistan Muslim League (F). He was nominated by the President President most commonly refers to ...

(born 1945), former Chief Minister of

*29 August - Shafaullah rokhri (born 1966), Pakistani folk singer and songwriter, music producer

September

13 September Zameer Akhter Naqvi (Islamic Scholar) died

November

* 2 November - Hafiz Muhammad Durrab Zafar a young talented Boy from Sahiwal * 13 November 2020 Justice Waqar Ahmed Seth Judge of Supreme Court of Pakistan who Sentenced Death to Ex President of Pakistan General Musharraf. * 20 November - Allama Khadim Hussain Rizvi (born 1966) Political party (Tahreek-e-labbaik Pakistan) millions of people attend the funeral of Allama Khadim Hussain Rizvi. (TJK) https://www.dawn.com/news/1591262 * 25 November 2020 Muhammad Jadam Mangrio Politician Belongs to Pakistan Muslim League Functional

December

*2 December – Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali, 15th Prime Minister of Pakistan. *4 December –

Arshad Malik Air Marshal Arshad Mahmood Malik was a 3 Star retired officer in the Pakistan Air Force and the Chief Executive Officer of Pakistan International Airlines from 2019 to 2022. Career in Pakistan Air Force Before joining PIA, Air Marshal Malik was ...

, Judge. *5 December – Suhail Zaheer Lari, historian, author. *16 December –

Firdous Begum Firdous Begum (born Parveen; 4 August 1947 16 December 2020), known mononymously as Firdous, was a Pakistani film actress known for her role in 1970's ''Heer Ranjha'' film. She appeared in more than 150 uncertain films, including one hundred t ...

*31 December – Total 10105+ Persons were died due to COVID-19 during February to 31 December 2020.

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