# 2013 in Pakistan

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Events in the year 2013 in Pakistan.

## Incumbents
### Federal government

* President – Asif Ali Zardari
* President (September 9 – Present) – Mamnoon Hussain
* Prime Minister (June 22, 2012 – March 16, 2013 ) – Raja Pervaiz Ashraf
* Prime Minister (June 5 – Present) – Nawaz Sharif
* Prime Minister – Caretaker (March 25, 2013 – June 4, 2013) – Mir Hazar Khan Khoso
* President – Asif Ali Zardari
* Chief Justice – Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry (until December 11), Tassaduq Hussain Jillani

### Chief ministers

Here is a list of chief ministers of provinces elected in General Elections 2013, Pakistan
* Chief Minister Punjab, Pakistan (June 8 – Present) – Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif
* Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (May 31 – Present) – Parvez Khattak
* Chief Minister Sind (May 30 – Present) – Qaim Ali Shah
* Chief Minister Balochistan (June 7 – Present) – Abdul Malik Baloch
* Chief Minister Punjab – Caretaker (March 27, 2013 – June 6, 2013) – Najam Sethi

### Governors

* Governor of Balochistan – Nawab Zulfikar Ali Magsi (until 11 June); Muhammad Khan Achakzai (starting 11 June)
* Governor of Gilgit-Baltistan – Pir Karam Ali Shah
* Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa – Syed Masood Kausar (until 10 February); Shaukatullah Khan (starting 10 February)
* Governor of Punjab – Syed Ahmed Mahmud (until 2 August); Mohammad Sarwar (starting 2 August)
* Governor of Sindh – Ishrat-ul-Ibad Khan

## Events
### January

* January 10 – A series of terrorist attacks killed more than 100 people in Quetta.
* January 6 – Qazi Hussain Ahmed, a political leader and Ameer of Islamic political party Jamaat-e-Islami died in Islamabad.

### March

* March 9 – A Christian, Sawan Masih, 28 is accused of blasphemy against the Islamic prophet Muhammad in a Christian neighborhood in Badami Bagh area.
* March 25 – Mir Hazar Khan Khoso is appointed as caretaker Prime Minister of Pakistan, following the completion of the PPP-led government's term in office. Khoso will oversee the general elections scheduled in May.

### May

* May 11 – General Elections 2013 held across Pakistan.
* May 25 – A school bus explosion kills 17 children and injures seven more in Gujrat.

### June

* June 5 – Nawaz Sharif is elected Prime Minister of Pakistan, following the Pakistan Muslim League (N)'s victory in the 2013 general election.
* June 26 – June 2013 Karachi bombing

### July

* July 30 – Mamnoon Hussain is elected as the 12th President of Pakistan in 2013 Presidential election, he will be sworn in on September 9.

### August

* August 6 – 2013 Pakistan–Afghanistan floods
* August 14 – People of Pakistan celebrated 67th independence day of their country on August 14.

### September

* September 6 – Defence Day is celebrated in Pakistan.
* September 9 – Mamnoon Hussain is sworn in as the 12th President of Pakistan.
* September 24 – A 7.7 magnitude earthquake hits Baluchistan, at least 825 people are killed and hundreds injured.
* September 25 – International Conference of Muslim Leaders, under the supervision of Syed Munawar Hassan, Chief Of Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan, held in Mansoora, Lahore.

### October

In the end of October the prime minister went to Washington DC to have a meeting with US president Barack Obama.

### November

November 9 celebrated as Iqbal day in Pakistan
* November 1 – Hakimullah Mehsud, leader of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) killed by a US drone attack.
* November 29 – Pakistan Chief of Army Staff, General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani retires. General Raheel Sharif becomes the next COAS.

### December

* December 11 – Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry retired from his position, he remained in the Supreme Court from 2005 to 2013, Justice Tassaduq Hussain Jillani becomes the next Supreme Court Chief Justice.

## Sport
### Cricket

Domestic
* 2012–13 Faysal Bank T20 Cup
International
* Pakistani cricket team in India in 2012–13
* Pakistani cricket team in South Africa in 2012–13

## Deaths

* January 2 – Maulvi Nazir, 37–38, Pakistani militant commander, drone strike.
* January 4 – Anwar Shamim, 81, Pakistani Air Force air marshal, Chief of Air Staff (1978–1985).
* January 6 – Qazi Hussain Ahmad, 74, Pakistani politician, Ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami (1987–2009), cardiac arrest.
* March 18 – Muhammad Mahmood Alam), 77, Pakistan Air Force Air Commodore (retd), Sitara-e-Jurat, died after a protracted illness.
* May 9 – Sanaullah Haq, 52?, criminal and terror suspect
* June 18 – Imran Khan Mohmand, politician who fell victim to the Mardan funeral bombing
* August 5 – Quraish Pur, 81, scholar, Urdu writer/novelist, columnist and media expert died after a protracted illness.