Sources: The Financial Times
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
Pakistan reports 2,443 new confirmed cases, the highest single-day total in four months, bringing the total number of cases to 356,904. 2020-11-15
Thirteen people are injured when a roadside bomb hits a Pakistani security vehicle in the southwestern city of Quetta, the same town where at least 74 were killed in a suicide bombing at a hospital on Monday. The police were escorting a judge, who was not injured. 2016-08-11
China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) will be deployed in Pakistan to protect the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor that connects the Chinese-operated Gwadar Port in Balochistan, Pakistan to China's Xinjiang region. Neighboring India has voiced concern about the planned move. 2016-03-13
A Pakistani court charges former President Pervez Musharraf with high treason in relation to the imposition of the emergency rule in 2007. 2014-03-31
A suicide bomber kills at least four people in an attack on a police station in Peshawar, Pakistan. 2013-04-29
The death toll from a fake medicine crisis at a cardiology hospital in Lahore, Pakistan, reaches 112. 2012-01-30
Gunmen kill 12 Shiite Muslims near the Pakistani city of Quetta in an apparent sectarian killing. 2011-10-4
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao arrives for a working visit in Pakistan and meets with Pakistani Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani. 2010-12-18
The Indus River breaches its banks near the southern Pakistan city of Thatta forcing the evacuations of hundreds of thousands of people. 2010-08-27