The events listed below are both anticipated and scheduled for the year 2023 in Pakistan.
Incumbents
Federal government
Provincial government
State government
Services chief
Events
January
- 2 January â New Zealand tour to Pakistan
- 3 January âÂÂ
- Two intelligence officers, including the director of the provincial counterterrorism department, are shot dead outside a restaurant in Khanewal, Punjab, by suspected Pakistani Taliban gunmen.
- The government orders the closure of all shopping malls and retail markets by 8:30 p.m. (PKT) daily as part of an energy conservation plan to offset increasing energy prices.
- 5 January â Pakistan was shaken by a 5.8-magnitude earthquake, according to the National Seismic Monitoring Center, and the tremors were felt in Gilgit, Jhelum, Chakwal, Pakpattan, Lakki Marwat, Nowshera, Malakand, Azad Kashmir, and other areas of the country.
- 9 January â The Government of Pakistan and the United Nations co-hosted one-day International Conference on Climate Resilient Pakistan in Geneva, Switzerland to aid Pakistani people after the devastating floods in 2022. Under the presidency of Shehbaz Sharif, the Prime Minister of Pakistan, and Antonio Guterres, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Pakistan raised more than $10 billion for recovery and rehabilitation process in flood effecting areas.
- 13 January â Sarband police station attack in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
- 14 January â The 17th Provincial Assembly of the Punjab is dissolved after 48 hours had passed since Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi, the Chief Minister of Punjab, had sent a summary to Muhammad Baligh Ur Rehman, the Governor of Punjab.
- 15 January â Polling for the second phase of Sindh local government elections were held in the 16 districts of Karachi and Hyderabad.
- 18 January â Haji Ghulam Ali, the Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, dissolved the 11th Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, on the advice of Mahmood Khan, the Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
- 19 January â Three police officers are killed in a suicide bombing at a police outpost in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
- 20 January â A bombing derails a passenger train in Peshi village, Kachhi District, Balochistan, injuring eight people.
- 21 January â Muhammad Azam Khan was sworn in as the Caretaker Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
- 22 January â Mohsin Raza Naqvi was sworn in as the Caretaker Chief Minister of Punjab.
- 23 January â A major power outage in Pakistan leaves nearly 220 million people without electricity after a failure at the national power grid. Earlier this month, Shehbaz Sharif had ordered a reduction of energy consumption as the country faces a severe energy crisis.
- 27 January â It is announced that at least 18 people have been killed in the past two weeks by toxic chemicals from factories in Karachi, Sindh.
- 29 January âÂÂ
- Tanda Dam boat disaster: Fifty one people are killed when their boat capsizes in Tanda Dam, Kohat District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
- 30 January â 2023 Peshawar mosque bombing: 84 people are killed and over 200 others are injured when a Jamaat-ul-Ahrar suicide bomber detonates his explosive vest in a mosque in Peshawar.
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
Unknown dates
Arts
Cinema
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
Country overviews
Related timelines for current period
References