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The government orders the closure of all shopping malls and retail markets by 8:30{{nbsp}}p.m. (PKT) daily as part of an energy conservation plan to offset increasing energy prices.
2023-01-3

Security forces and armed locals kill 70 al-Shabaab members in Bahdo, Somalia. Two local children and a cleric are also killed in the fighting.
2022-06-17

Pakistan surpasses one million daily COVID-19 vaccination doses for the first time after the government warned that it may ban unvaccinated people from entering some public places and using some forms of transportation.
2021-08-3

Pakistan blocks Bigo Live and threatens a similar move with the app TikTok over "immoral, obscene and vulgar" content. The Pakistan Telecommunications Authority says in a statement that the two platforms could have "extremely negative effects on the society in general and youth in particular", without elaborating.
2020-07-21

Gunmen kill Sufi devotional singer Amjad Sabri in Pakistan with a faction of the Pakistani Taliban claiming responsibility.
2016-06-22

Canadian BlackBerry Limited announces plans to shut down operations in Pakistan at year's end because it cannot comply with the Pakistani government's monitoring orders which would result in a massive invasion of user privacy.
2015-11-30

The Pakistani Taliban announces that it will not extend a ceasefire with the Pakistani government.
2014-04-17

The Government of Pakistan decides to accord recognition to the Republic of Kosovo.
2012-12-24

The minister of railways in Pakistan, Ghulam Ahmad Bilour, offers a bounty of USD 100,000 to the person who kills the maker of "Innocence of Muslims". The government of Pakistan condemns his act.
2012-09-22

A bomb targeting a bus carrying Government of Pakistan employees kills 32 people.
2012-06-8