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t. e. Indirect Presidential elections were held in Pakistan on 9 March 2024 to select the 14th President of Pakistan, who is the country's head of state. Asif Ali Zardari of the Pakistan People's Party was elected as President, defeating Mahmood Khan Achakzai of the PTI -backed Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC) alliance. [2]
January 4 – War in North-West Pakistan. A United States airstrike kills 8 Uzbek people claimed to be linked with al-Qaeda. [1] The Pakistan Air Force strikes Pakistani Taliban positions in Khyber Agency killing 31 militants. [1] A bomb detonates at a volleyball match in Orakzai Agency killing four people and injuring eight. [2] January 10.
Mass shooting, rocket attack. Deaths. 9+. Injured. 40+. Perpetrators. Tehrik-i-Taliban. The 2012 Bacha Khan International Airport attack was a coordinated assault on Bacha Khan International Airport and the adjacent Pakistan Air Force Base Peshawar on 22 December 2012 by Tehrik-i-Taliban terrorists in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan .
1949 – Music for the "Qaumī Tarānah" is composed by the Pakistani musical composer, Ahmad G. Chagla (running time: 80 seconds). 1950 – anthem, without lyrics, was performed for the first time for a foreign head of state on the state visit of the Shah of Iran to Pakistan in Karachi on 1 March 1950 by a Pakistan Navy band.
Factories in Pakistan 's two largest cities of Karachi and Lahore caught fire on 11 September 2012. The fires occurred in a textile factory in the western part of Karachi and in a shoe factory in Lahore. The fires are considered to be the most deadly and worst industrial factory fires in Pakistan's history, [3] killing 289 people and seriously ...
Urdu is the national language and the lingua franca of Pakistan, and while sharing official status with English, it is the preferred and dominant language used for inter-communication between different ethnic groups. [3] [4] Numerous regional languages are spoken as first languages by Pakistan's various ethnolinguistic groups.
India were the opponents in the semifinal, but Pakistan lost 8–0 and were thus eliminated. In this tournament, Mehwish Khan became the first ever goal-scorer for Pakistan (in the match against Maldives). As a result of these official matches, Pakistan entered the FIFA Women's World Rankings for the first time on 18 March 2011. It stood 121 in ...
The story of history of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan began on 14 August 1947 when the country came into being in the form of Dominion of Pakistan within the British Commonwealth as the result of Pakistan Movement and the partition of India. While the history of the Pakistani Nation according to the Pakistan government's official chronology ...