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The events listed below are both anticipated and scheduled for the year2023 inPakistan.

Incumbents

Federal government

S. No	Photo	Name	Office
1		Arif Alvi	President of Pakistan
2		Anwar ul Haq Kakar	Prime Minister of Pakistan
3		Sadiq Sanjrani	Chairman of the Senate
4		Raja Pervaiz Ashraf	Speaker of the National Assembly
5		Qazi Faez Isa	Chief Justice of Pakistan
6		Sikandar Sultan Raja	Chief Election Commissioner of Pakistan
7		Dissolved	National Assembly
8		14th Senate of Pakistan	Senate of Pakistan

Provincial government

Province	Governor	Chief Minister			Government Type	Chief Justice
Balochistan	Abdul Wali Kakar	Ali Mardan Khan Domki			Caretaker	Naeem Akhtar (BHC)
Gilgit-Baltistan	Mehdi Shah	Gulbar Khan		PTI	Coalition	Shamim Khan (SACGB)
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa	Ghulam Ali	Arshad Hussain Shah			Caretaker	Muhammad Ibrahim Khan (PHC)
Punjab	Baligh Ur Rehman	Mohsin Naqvi				Ameer Bhatti (LHC)
Sindh	Kamran Tessori	Maqbool Baqar				Ahmed Ali Sheikh (SHC)

State government

Province	President	Prime minister			Government Type	Chief Justice
Azad Kashmir	Sultan Mehmood Chaudhry	Chaudhry Anwarul Haq		PTI	Coalition	Raja Saeed Akram Khan (SCAJK)

Services chief


S. No	Photo	Name	Office
1		Asim Munir	Chief of Army Staff
2		Zaheer Ahmad Babar	Chief of Air Staff
3		Naveed Ashraf	Chief of Naval Staff
4		Sahir Shamshad Mirza	Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee

Events

January

2 January –New Zealand tour to Pakistan^[1]
3 January –
- Twointelligence officers, including the director of the provincialcounterterrorism department, are shot dead outside a restaurant inKhanewal,Punjab, by suspectedPakistani Taliban gunmen.^[2]^[3]
- Thegovernment orders the closure of allshopping malls andretail markets by 8:30 p.m. (PKT) daily as part of anenergy conservation plan to offsetincreasing energy prices.^[4]
5 January – Pakistan was shaken by a 5.8-magnitude earthquake, according to theNational Seismic Monitoring Center, and the tremors were felt inGilgit,Jhelum,Chakwal,Pakpattan,Lakki Marwat,Nowshera,Malakand,Azad Kashmir, and other areas of the country.^[5]^[6]
9 January – TheGovernment of Pakistan and theUnited Nations co-hosted one-dayInternational Conference on Climate Resilient Pakistan inGeneva,Switzerland to aid Pakistani people after thedevastating floods in 2022. Under the presidency of Shehbaz Sharif, the Prime Minister of Pakistan, andAntonio Guterres, theSecretary-General of the United Nations, Pakistan raised more than$10 billion for recovery and rehabilitation process in flood effecting areas.^[7]^[8]
13 January –Sarband police station attack inPeshawar,Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
14 January – The17th Provincial Assembly of the Punjab is dissolved after 48 hours had passed sinceChaudhry Pervaiz Elahi, theChief Minister of Punjab, had sent a summary toMuhammad Baligh Ur Rehman, theGovernor of Punjab.^[9]
15 January – Polling for thesecond phase of Sindh local government elections were held in the 16 districts ofKarachi and Hyderabad.^[10]^[11]
18 January –Haji Ghulam Ali, theGovernor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, dissolved the11th Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, on the advice ofMahmood Khan, theChief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.^[12]
19 January – Threepolice officers are killed in asuicide bombing at a police outpost in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.^[13]
20 January – A bombingderails apassenger train in Peshi village,Kachhi District,Balochistan, injuring eight people.^[14]
21 January –Muhammad Azam Khan was sworn in as theCaretaker Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.^[15]
22 January –Mohsin Raza Naqvi was sworn in as theCaretaker Chief Minister of Punjab.^[16]
23 January – A majorpower outage in Pakistan leaves nearly 220 million people without electricity after a failure at the nationalpower grid. Earlier this month, Shehbaz Sharif had ordered a reduction of energy consumption as the country faces a severe energy crisis.^[17]
27 January – It is announced that at least 18 people have been killed in the past two weeks by toxic chemicals from factories inKarachi,Sindh.^[18]
29 January –
- 2023 Lasbela bus crash: At least 41 people are killed and two others are injured when abus plunges off a bridge and bursts into flames inLasbela District, Balochistan.^[19]
- Tanda Dam boat disaster: Fifty one people are killed when their boat capsizes inTanda Dam,Kohat District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.^[20]^[21]
30 January –2023 Peshawar mosque bombing: 84 people are killed and over 200 others are injured when aJamaat-ul-Ahrar suicide bomberdetonates hisexplosive vest in amosque in Peshawar.^[22]

February

3 February – At least seventeen people are killed when a bus and a truck crash in ahead-on collision inKohat District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.^[23]
6 February –Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif orders the ban onWikipedia to be lifted, three days after the website was banned for allegedanti-Muslim andblasphemous content.^[24]
10 February – Two people are killed and three others are injured when aroadside bomb hits a vehicle inKohlu District, Balochistan.^[25]
13 February –2023 Pakistan Super League^[26]
13 February –Lynching of Muhammad Waris:Police inPunjab, arrest 50 men for thelynching of a blasphemy suspect at apolice station inNankana Sahib District two days ago.^[27]
14 February – ThreePakistani Taliban members are killed by fellow militants who were trying to free them while being transported fromMiranshah toBannu, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa bycounter-terrorism officers. Four of the attackers are also killed in the ensuing shootout.
20 February –February 2023 Kallar Kahar bus accident: Fourteen people are killed and 63 others are injured when abus crashes and overturns nearKallar Kahar,Chakwal District, Punjab.^[28]
20 February –2023 Barkhan incident
22 February –Jail Bharo Tehreek
25 February – Thirteen people are killed and several others are injured when a bus collides with a van inRahim Yar Khan, Punjab.^[29]
26 February –2023 Barkhan bombing: Four people are killed and 14 others are injured in a bombing at a market inBarkhan, Balochistan.^[30]

March

3 March –Harnai coal mine explosion
6 March –Bolan suicide bombing - At least nine police officers are killed and 16 other people are injured in Bolan,Kachhi District, Balochistan, when a suicide bomber riding on a bike strikes a police vehicle.^[31]
20 March –Haripur rocket attack
21 March –2023 Afghanistan–Pakistan earthquake, Parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan were hit by a strong earthquake measuring 6.8 on theRichter scale, resulting in casualties and property damage. At least 11 people died in Pakistan, and a total of ten deaths were reported in Afghanistan and Pakistan combined as a result of the earthquake.^[32]^[33]
29 March –2023 Lakki Marwat terrorist attack: Four people are killed and six others are injured by tworoadside bombings targeting police inLakki Marwat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.^[34]
30 March - TheLahore High Court rules that Pakistan'ssedition law is unconstitutional, on the grounds that it violatesfree speech.^[35]
31 March –2023 Pakistan ration distribution stampedes: Eleven people are killed whencrushed in a crowd which gathered to collect food outside a factory inKarachi,Sindh.^[36]

April

1 April -2023 Kech District attack
7 April -
- Pakistan arrests the founder of theBaloch Nationalist Army in the country's southwest.
- 2023 Yar Hussain grenade attack
8 April -2023 Khyber bombing: animprovised explosive device (IED) strikes a security forces vehicle, which results in the deaths of two soldiers and injury to four others in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa'sKhyber District.^[37]
9 April -Kacha Operation
12 April -2023 Karachi factory fire
18 April -2023 Torkham landslide: a landslide nearTorkham on theAfghanistan-Pakistan border kills at least three people.^[38]
24 April -2023 Kabal explosions
27 April -2023 Karachi Express train fire

May

4 May -Parachinar school shooting
9 May -Arrest of Imran Khan
15 May -2023 PDM sit-in
18 May -2023 Peshawar blast
19 May -2023 Zhob suicide attack
21 May - A terrorist attack at theIran–Pakistan border kills some Iranian border guards.^[39]
27 May -2023 Astore avalanche

June

10 Jun -2023 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa rains and storms
June - A terrorist attack at the Iran-Pakistan border in which some Pakistan border patrol officers were killed.^[40]

July

August

5 August –Imran Khan is arrested for the second time.^[42]
6 August –2023 Hazara Express derailment
10 August –President Arif Alvi dissolved theNational Assembly on the advice ofPrime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.^[43]
11 August –Kamran Tessori, theGovernor of Sindh, dissolved the15th Provincial Assembly on the advice ofMurad Ali Shah, theChief Minister of Sindh.^[44]
12 August –Abdul Wali Kakar, theGovernor of Balochistan, dissolved the11th Provincial Assembly of Balochistan, on the advice ofAbdul Quddus Bizenjo, theChief Minister of Balochistan.^[45]
12 August -Anwaar ul Haq Kakar was sworn in as the eighthCaretaker Prime Minister of Pakistan.
13 August –Kashmir Premier League (Pakistan)^[46]^[47]
17 August –Maqbool Baqar is sworn in as theCaretaker Chief Minister of Sindh.^[48]
18 August –Ali Mardan Khan Domki is sworn in as theCaretaker Chief Minister of Balochistan.^[49]
19 August –2023 North Waziristan landmine attack
29 August – TheIslamabad High Court reverses alower court's three-year imprisonment verdict against formerprime minister Imran Khan forgraft, while granting himbail.^[50]

September

2 September –2023 Asia Cup^[51]^[52] Babar azam scored 151 against nepal on 31/08/2023
29 September –
- Hangu mosque bombing
- 2023 Mastung bombing: At least 50 people are killed and more than 50 others are injured by asuicide bombing at areligious gathering inMastung, Balochistan.^[53]

October

16 October –Pakistani Foreign Minister Jalil Abbas Jilani has condemned the Israeli bombing onGaza, calling the actions “genocide”.^[54]
21 October – Former Pakistani Prime MinisterNawaz Sharif returns to Pakistan after four years in self-imposedexile inLondon.^[55]
23 October – TheSupreme Court of Pakistan declares thecourts-martial of civiliansunconstitutional, moving the trials of over 100 pro-Imran Khan protesters tocivilian criminal courts.^[56]

November

3 November –
- 2023 Dera Ismail Khan bombing: Five people are killed and 20 others injured by amotorcycle bomb at a bus stop inDera Ismail Khan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, when apolice bus carrying officers passed the area.^[57]
- 2023 Gwadar ambush
4 November –Mianwali air base attack: NineTehreek-e-Jihad gunmen are killed during ashootout withsoldiers when trying to storma training air base inMianwali, Punjab.^[58]
6 November -2023 Tirah shooting

December

2 December -Chilas bus shooting
12 December –Daraban police station attack: ATehreek-e-Jihad militantblows himself up with acar bomb outside apolice station being used by thearmy inDaraban,Dera Ismail Khan District,Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, before six gunmenopen fire, killing at least 23 people and wounding 34 others.^[59]
15 December –2023 Tank district attack
20 December – Sarfraz Bungulzai, leader of theseparatist Baloch Nationalist Army, surrenders to authorities alongside 70 othermilitants inBalochistan.^[60]
21 December – Police beat and arrest several protestors during a march towardIslamabad fromTurbat,Kech District, after about 200 people planned to rally in the capital to draw attention to the killing of a man in police custody inBalochistan in November.^[61]

Unknown dates

International Urdu Conference^[62]^[63]

Arts

Cinema

Main article:List of Pakistani films of 2023

Deaths

5 February -Pervez Musharraf, former president and army chief
13 February -Zia Mohyeddin, television actor and director
26 February -Shahida Raza, field hockey and football player
22 March -Salim Khatri, religious leader
27 May -Seemin Jamali, medical doctor
1 August -Shams Buneri, Pashto poet
17 August -Kunwar Naveed Jamil, politician
8 September -Shoukat Ali Laleka, politician
12 September -Rana Maqbool Ahmad, Senator
11 November -Muhammad Azam Khan, Caretaker Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

See also

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