2005 in Pakistan

Events from the year 2005 in Pakistan.

Federal government

 * President: Pervez Musharraf
 * Prime Minister: Shaukat Aziz
 * Chief Justice: Nazim Hussain Siddiqui (until 29 June), Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry

Governors

 * Governor of Balochistan – Owais Ahmed Ghani
 * Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa – Iftikhar Hussain Shah (until 15 March); Khalilur Rehman (starting 15 March)
 * Governor of Punjab – Khalid Maqbool
 * Governor of Sindh – Ishrat-ul-Ibad Khan

May

 * 1 May – Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi leaves Pakistan after two days of talks with President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz – the first by a Japanese PM for five years. At the conclusion of the trip a joint declaration between the two nations announces their commitment to cooperate.

October

 * 5 October – Perpetrators of the racially motivated murder of Glasgow teenager Kriss Donald, extradited to the United Kingdom to face trial in a one-off agreement negotiated with Pakistan.
 * 8 October – The 7.6 Kashmir earthquake strikes with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), leaving 86,000–87,351 people dead, 69,000–75,266 injured, and 2.8 million homeless.
 * 10 October – The president of Pakistan appeals for international help following the earthquake, saying the country cannot deal with crisis on its own.

November

 * 3 November – Pakistan announces that the official death toll from the quake is over 73,000.

December

 * England complete their tour of Pakistan with a victory against the Pakistan cricket team at Rawalpindi.