2016 in Pakistan - article

This article written by Adam Hanson

The following lists events that happened during 2016 in Pakistan.

Incumbents
Federal government
Nawaz Sharif, Prime Minister, 5 June 2013 – 28 July 2017
Mamnoon Hussain, President, 9 September 2013 – 9 September 2018
Anwar Zaheer Jamali, Chief Justice, 10 September 2015 – 30 December 2016
Mian Saqib Nisar, Chief Justice, 31 December 2016 – present
Governors
Governor of Balochistan – Muhammad Khan Achakzai
Governor of Gilgit-Baltistan – Mir Ghazanfar Ali Khan
Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa – Mehtab Ahmed Khan Abbasi ; Iqbal Zafar Jhagra
Governor of Punjab – Malik Muhammad Rafique Rajwana
Governor of Sindh – Ishrat-ul-Ibad Khan ; Saeeduzzaman Siddiqui
Events
January
The Pakistan and India governments provided one another with a full list of nuclear sites,
military and civilian, in accordance with the 1988 Non-Nuclear Aggression Agreement
A suicide bomb attacker killed 14 people and injured 20 more near a polio centre near the
Pakistani city of Quetta on 13 January.
Brahumdagh Bugti's asylum application was rejected in Switzerland on 17 January. He had been
in Switzerland since he fled Afghanistan in 2010, surviving Al Qaeda, and allegedly Pakistani
government, attempts on his life.
Pervez Musharraf was acquitted on 18 January in the murder trial of Akbar Bugti, the Baloch
tribal leader who died in a military operation in 2006.
Gunmen attacked a university in Charsadda, Pakistan. At least 21 people were reportedly killed.
March
16 March – A bus bomb in Peshawar kills 15 people. and Pakistan played their first match of ICC
WORLD T20 2016 against Bangladesh
25 MARCH-Pakistan Cricket Star SHAHID KHAN AFRIDI Played His last INTERNATIONAL Match for
Pakistan against AUSTRALIA
27 March – 72 people were killed in a suicide bombing in Lahore.
April
20 April
Seven policemen guarding polio team killed on duty.
IED blast in Mohamand agency killing two.
In Punjab, at least 33 people died after eating sweets, accidentally tainted with insecticide. The
mass poisoning occurred in April.
June
Musician Amjad Sabri is killed in a targeted shooting.
October
2016 Pakistan Floods
November
1 November – At least 14 people are killed and 59 burned when a gas cylinder explosion aboard
an oil tanker causes a major fire at the ship breaking yard in Gadani in Pakistan's Balochistan
Province. Dozens other workers remain missing as many injured are transferred to hospitals in
nearby Karachi.
3 November – At least 22 people have been killed and 65 injured following a collision of the
Bahauddin Zakaria Express with a stationary train at Juma Goth Train station, Karachi, Pakistan.
December
7 December – PIA plane PK-661 crashed during flight killing 47 people including Junaid Jumshed
and his wife.
Public holidays
See also
Timeline of Pakistani history
References
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