# 2022 in Pakistan

Events of the year 2022 in Pakistan.

## Incumbents
### National government

| Post | Name |
| President of Pakistan | Arif Alvi |
| Prime Minister of Pakistan | Shehbaz Sharif |
| Chief Justice of Pakistan | Umar Ata Bandial |
| Chairman of the Senate | Sadiq Sanjrani |
| Chief Election Commissioner of Pakistan | Sikandar Sultan Raja |
| Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee | Sahir Shamshad Mirza |
| National Assembly | 15th National Assembly |

### Provincial governments

| Province | Governor | Chief Minister | Party | Government Type | Chief Justice |
| Balochistan | Mir Jan Muhammad Khan Jamali (Acting) | Abdul Quddus Bizenjo | BAP | Coalition | Naeem Akhtar (Balochistan High Court) |
| Gilgit-Baltistan | Syed Mehdi Shah | Khalid Khurshid | PTI | Majority | Muhammad Ajmal Gondal |
| Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | Haji Ghulam Ali | Azam khan(interim) | Qaiser Rashid Khan (Peshawar High Court) |
| Punjab | Muhammad Baligh Ur Rehman | mohsin naqvi(interim) | Muhammad Ameer Bhatti (Lahore High Court) |
| Sindh | Kamran Tessori | Syed Murad Ali Shah | PPP | Majority | Ahmed Ali Sheikh (Sindh High Court) |

## Events
### January

* 8 January – 2022 Murree snowstorm kills 23 domestic tourists.
* 20 January – 2022 Lahore bombing near Anarkali Bazaar kills at least 3 people and injures 20+.
* 20-23 January - 2022 Pakistan landslides
* 25 January – 2022 Kech District attack
* 26 January – 2022 Karachi protests
* 27 January – 27 February: 2022 Pakistan Super League commences with Karachi Kings v Multan Sultans.

### February

* 2 February
** Lumpy skin disease outbreak in Karachi
** 2022 Panjgur and Naushki raids
* 4 February – Pakistan at the 2022 Winter Olympics
* 12 February – Lynching of Mushtaq Ahmed
* 27 February
** Huqooq-e-Sindh March
** PPP long march

### March

* 1 March – 2022 heat wave in India and Pakistan
* 2 March
** 2021–22 Pakistan Cup
** March 2022 Quetta bombing
* 3 March – 2022 Sibi suicide bombing
* 4 March
** Australian cricket team in Pakistan in 2021–22
** 2022 Peshawar mosque attack
* 8 March – No-confidence motion against Imran Khan
* 9 March – Mian Channu incident
* 10 March – Parliament Lodges operation
* 11 March – 14 March: Pashtun National Jirga
* 15 March – 2022 Sibi IED explosion
* 18 March – Protesters storming Sindh House
* 22 March – 23 March: 48th Foreign Ministers conference
* 27 March – Imran Khan rally in Islamabad
* 29 March – 2022 MONUSCO helicopter crash 6 Pakistani UN Peacekeeping soldiers killed in Democratic Republic of Congo

### April

* 3 April – 2022 Pakistani constitutional crisis
* 10 April – Imran Khan is removed from the post of Prime Minister of Pakistan through a no-confidence motion, adopted by the majority of the parliament.
* 11 April – Shehbaz Sharif is sworn-in as the Prime Minister of Pakistan.
* 18 April – Dadu village fire
* 26 April – 2022 University of Karachi bombing

### May

* 13 May – 2022 Cholistan water crisis
* 16 May – 2022 Haripur wildfire
* 18 May – Sherani District wildfire
* 19 May – 2022 Pakistan economic crisis
* 24 May – Sri Lanka women's cricket team in Pakistan in 2022
* 25 May – 2022 Azadi march
* 29 May – 2022 Balochistan local government elections

### June

* 1 June – Federal Shariah Court verdict on interest system in Pakistan
* 4 June – Shangla District wildfire
* 8 June
** West Indian cricket team in Pakistan in 2022
** Killa Saifullah bus crash
* 10 June – 2022-2023 Pakistan federal budget
* 12 June – 2022 Karachi fire
* 14 June – October - 2022 Pakistan floods
* 17 June – Pakistan at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships
* 21 June – June 2022 Afghanistan earthquake
* 26 June – 2022 Sindh local government elections

### July

* 7 July – Pakistan at the 2022 World Games
* 12 July – 2022 Sindhi–Afghan strife
* 15 July – Pakistan at the 2022 World Athletics Championships
* 17 July – 2022 Punjab provincial by-election
* 18 July – Sadiqabad boat sinking
* 28 July – Pakistan at the 2022 Commonwealth Games

### August

* 1 August –
** 2022 Pakistan Army helicopter incident
** The 2022 Census of Pakistan
* 2 August – The Election Commission of Pakistan announced verdict of PTI foreign funding case.
* 9 August – Pakistan at the 2021 Islamic Solidarity Games
* 13 August – 2022 Kashmir Premier League
* 14 August
** Celebrations of Pakistan platinum (75th) Independence Day.
** 2021–22 Pakistan Premier League
* 28 August –
** Pakistan at the 2022 Asia Cup
** 2022 Karachi local elections
* 30 August – 2022–23 National T20 Cup

### September

* 13 September – 2022 Swat blast
* 20 September – English cricket team in Pakistan in 2022–23
* 24 September – Pakistani audio leaks controversy
* 27 September – 2022–23 Quaid-e-Azam Trophy

### October

* 6 October – 2022 Pakistan Junior League
* 9 October – The Centaurus mall fire
* 10 October – 2022 Swat school van attack
* 13 October – Abandoned bodies incident in Nishtar Hospital
* 14 October – Pakistan won the New Zealand Tri-Nation Series.
* 16 October – 2022 Pakistan by-elections
* 28 October – 2022 Azadi March-II
* 28 October – Machar colony incident

### November

* 3 November - Attempted assassination of Imran Khan
* 4 November - Ireland women's cricket team in Pakistan in 2022–23
* 6 November - 2022 Ghotki attack
* 16 November - 2022 Lakki Marwat attack
* 27 November - 2022 AJK local government elections
* 30 November - November 2022 Quetta bombing

### December

* 10 December - 2022–23 Pakistan Cup
* 23 December - 2022 Islamabad suicide attack
* 26 December - New Zealand cricket team in Pakistan in 2022–23 (December 2022)
* 31 December - 2022 Islamabad local government elections

## Arts
### Television

* 2022 in Pakistani television

## Economy

* 2021–22 Pakistan federal budget
* 2022–23 Pakistan federal budget

## Deaths
### January-March

* 17 January - Rasheed Naz, television actor (b. 1948)
* 18 February - Athar Mateen, producer of Samaa TV
* 23 February - Rehman Malik, politician
* 27 February - Mahmood Ashraf Usmani, Islamic scholar, jurist and an author

### April-June

* 15 April - Bilquis Edhi
* 7 May - Sardar Ali Haqqani, Islamic scholar
* 9 June - Aamir Liaquat Hussain, politician

### July-September

* 13 July - Tanveer Jamal
* 20 August - Nayyara Noor, playback singer
* 29 August - Manzoor Hussain (field hockey)

### October-December

* 23 October - Arshad Sharif, journalist
* 19 December – Ali Ahmed Aslam, Pakistani-Scottish chef and restaurateur, credited with inventing chicken tikka masala, septic shock and organ failure (b. 1945).