Sources: The Financial Times
A major power outage in Pakistan leaves nearly 220 million people without electricity after a failure at the national power grid. Earlier this month, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif ordered a reduction in energy consumption as the country faces a severe energy crisis. 2023-01-23
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan receives his first dose of the Sinopharm BBIBP-CorV vaccine. 2021-03-18
A nationwide blackout occurs in Pakistan, leaving more than 200 million people without power. Senator Faisal Javed Khan says that the blackout was apparently caused by a "sudden frequency drop in the power transmission system". Power is gradually being restored in some parts of the country. 2021-01-9
A power outage plunges the Belgian capital of Brussels into darkness. 2017-02-9
At least 60 people were killed and 110 injured by a suicide bombing in the Pakistani city of Lahore. 2014-11-2
At least 47 people are killed and more than 90 wounded in two separate bomb blasts in Pakistan, one in a Shiite suburb of Quetta and the other in an attack on a paramilitary convoy in the northwest of the country; a Sunni extremist group reportedly claims responsibility. 2013-07-1
At least 23 people are injured as two blasts hit a fruit market in Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore. 2012-08-2
Over 5,000 people have reportedly been infected by an outbreak of dengue fever in Pakistan. 2011-09-13
Following the killing of 3 Pakistani soldiers by NATO, tankers carrying supplies for NATO troops based in Afghanistan are set alight in Shikarpur, Sindh, injuring no one. 2010-10-1
Thousands of people are evacuated as Attabad Lake in Pakistan's Hunza Valley begins to overflow. 2010-05-29