2020 in Pakistan

Events from the year 2020 in Pakistan.

January

 * January 1 – February 28 – Bangladeshi cricket team in Pakistan in 2019–20.
 * January 10
 * January 2020 Quetta bombing.
 * January 2020 lunar eclipse
 * 2020 Neelum Valley avalanche

February

 * February 1 – The government declared a national emergency to protect crops and help farmers.
 * February 9 – 16 – 2020 Kabaddi World Cup (Circle style).
 * February 12 – Hafiz Saeed was convicted of two counts of terrorist financing and was sentenced to $5 1/2$ years in prison.
 * February 17 – February 2020 Quetta bombing.
 * February 20 – 2020 Pakistan Super League: Final.
 * February 26 – The first two cases of COVID-19 are reported in Pakistan.
 * February 28 – Press reports state that China may send flocks of ducks to Pakistan to fight locusts.

March

 * March 10 – 2020 Tablighi Jamaat COVID-19 hotspot in Pakistan

May

 * May 21 – Islamabad High Court ordered that the elephant Kaavan should be immediately relocated to a different sanctuary following a four-year campaign by popular pop singer Cher since 2016 demanding for the release of Kaavan from Islamabad Zoo.
 * May 22 – Pakistan International Airlines Flight 8303 crashed in Karachi, Sindh, 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.
 * June 19 – The Supreme Court of Pakistan has quashed a presidential reference filed against Justice Qazi Faiz Esa.
 * June 29 – Pakistan Stock Exchange attack - A mass shooting in Karachi left at least 8 people dead including 4 perpetrators.
 * June 30 – Nigar Johar becomes the Pakistan Army's first female lieutenant general.

July
8 July 23 – Pakistan at the 2020 Summer Olympics
 * July 1 – Pakistan temporarily bans popular online 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 has become the first international female vice president of the biology and medicine section at Germany's prestigious Max Planck Society.
 * 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 grenade attack on a Jamaat-i-Islami rally in the Gulshan-e-Iqbal 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.
 * August 13 - Killing of Hayat Baloch
 * August 24 - Pakistan at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
 * August 25 - 2020 Karachi floods

September

 * September 7 – Mohmand Marble Mine Incident - 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 banned short video-sharing application TikTok because of immoral videos.
 * October 16
 * An attack kills least 7 soldiers and 7 security guards in Balochistan.
 * A bomb kills at least 6 members of the Army in North Waziristan.
 * 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 explosion at an apartment building in Karachi.
 * October 27 - 2020 Peshawar school bombing - Eight students were killed in a bombing at a school in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
 * 28 October- Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) sealed cellular Sim company Jazz head office after they did not pay 25 billions rupees in 2018.

November

 * 15 November
 * 2020 Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly election

December

 * December 30 - 2020 Karak temple attack

Economy

 * 2019–20 Pakistan federal budget
 * 2020–21 Pakistan federal budget

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, cricketer (b. 1935).

February

 * February 5 – Mohammad Shafiq, politician.
 * February 6 – Malik Ata Muhammad Khan, feudal lord and politician (b. 1941).
 * February 10 – Waqar Hasan, cricketer (b. 1932).
 * February 15
 * Shahnaz Ansari, politician (b. 1970).
 * Naeemul Haque, political advisor (b. 1949).
 * February 20 – Usman Ullah Khan, Olympic boxer (b. 1974).
 * February 21 – Lal Khan, Marxist political theorist (b. 1956).
 * February 25 – Naimatullah Khan, politician (b. 1930).

March

 * March 6 – Amanullah, actor (b. 1950).
 * March 14 – Mubashir Hassan, politician (b. 1922).

May

 * May 22 – Zara Abid

June

 * June 26 – Munawar Hasan, former Ameer Jamat E Islami (b. 1941).
 * June 22 – Allama Talib Jauhari, Islamic scholar (b. 1939).
 * June 20 – Mufti Muhammad Naeem, cleric (b.1958).
 * June 17 – Tariq Aziz, television host (b. 1936)
 * June 13 – Sabiha Khanum, actress (b. 1935).

August

 * 20 August - Mir Hasil Khan Bizenjo (born 1958), veteran politician and National party president
 * 26 August- Muzaffar Hussain Shah (born 1945), former Chief Minister of Sindh
 * 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, Judge.
 * 5 December – Suhail Zaheer Lari, historian, author.
 * 16 December – Firdous Begum
 * 31 December – Total 10105+ Persons were died due to COVID-19 during February to 31 December 2020.

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