Pakistan Timeline

1900 Dec Winston Churchill Publishes 'The Story of the Malakand Field Force'
"Every influence, every motive, that provokes the spirit of murder among men, impels these mountaineers to deeds of treachery and violence. The strong aboriginal propensity to kill, inhere..." —Winston Churchill
1935 May 31 Balochistan Earthquake of 1935
The town of Quetta saw most of the fatalities, and this earthquake has since been known as the Quetta Earthquake. The civil lines was completely destroyed and up to 15,000 people are thou...
1946 Mar 23 The British Cabinet Mission Arrives in India
The British Cabinet Mission of 1946 to India aimed to discuss and plans for the transfer of power from the British Raj to Indian leadership, providing India with independence under Domini...
1946 Aug 16 Direct Action Day, Also Known as the "Great Calcutta Killing"
Direct Action Day, also known as the Great Calcutta Riot, was on 16 August 1946—a day of widespread riot and manslaughter in the city of Calcutta (now known as Kolkata) in the Bengal prov...
1946 Sep 2 Formation of the Interim Government of India
Alarmed by the increasing lawlessness, Lord Wavell brought the Muslim League into the Interim Government. The formation of the coalition between the Congress and the League fanned politic...
1947 Aug 14 Pakistan was founded
1947 Aug 15 The Partition of India
The stage was thus set for the June 3 Plan under which power was to be transferred by the British to two successor states on August 15, 1947. What Gandhi has feared had come to pass. Indi...
1948 Jan 12 Mahatma Gandhi Announces Fast to End Hindu/Muslim Violence in Delhi
He conducted extensive dialogue with Muslim and Hindu community leaders, working to cool passions in northern India, as well as in Bengal. Despite the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947, he was t...
1983 Sep 23 Bombing of Gulf Air Flight 771
Gulf Air Flight 771 was a flight from Karachi, Pakistan to Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. On 23 September 1983, while the Boeing 737-2P6 was on approach to Abu Dhabi International Airpo...
1998 May 28
3:16PM
 Pakistan tests its first atomic bomb to become the world's seventh nuclear power, code named Chagai-I
Chagai-I refers to the nuclear tests conducted by Pakistan in 1998. It was named Chagai-I as the tests were conducted in the Chagai District (Baluchistan province). Plans to conduct a nuc...
2005 May 2 Key CIA Prisoner Abu Faraj al-Libbi Arrested by Pakistani's Inter-Services Intelligence
The Pakistani military, working with the U.S. military and U.S. intelligence, has captured Abu Farraj al-Libbi, a man both U.S. and Pakistani officials believe is the current operations d...
2008 Aug 18 Pervez Musharraf Resigns as President of Pakistan
General (ret) Pervez Musharraf (Urdu: پرویز مشرف) (born 11 August 1943), NI(M), TBt, is a Pakistani politician and military figure who served as the 10th President of Pakistan (2001-2008)...
2009 Nov 6 First timeline test
2010 Jan 1 Lakki Marwat Suicide Bombing
At least 88 people have been killed by a suicide bomb attack at a volleyball court in the troubled north-west of Pakistan, local police say. Police chief Ayub Khan said the bomber drov...
2010 Jul 27
to 2010 Aug 16
 Pakistan Floods of 2010
The 2010 Pakistan floods began in July 2010 after record heavy monsoon rains. The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan was worst affected. At least 1,600 people were killed, thousands ...
2010 Jul 28 Pakistan Airbus A321 Crash
An airblue Airbus A321 crashed into the hills overlooking Islamabad, Pakistan, in rainy weather Wednesday, killing all 152 people on board, according to an Associated Press report. Res...
2010 Aug CIA Officials Locate Osama bin Laden's Compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan
The National Security Agency reportedly tracked phone calls between the courier Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti's relatives in the Persian Gulf to all numbers in Pakistan. And NSA surveillance event...
2010 Aug 15 UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon Arrives in Pakistan to Survey Flood Damage
Today United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said that the flooding in Pakistan is nothing like he has ever seen before. He met with Pakistan's president, and both men pleaded with ...
2010 Aug 18 Pakistani Officials Say Donations Will Reach Flood Victims
Pakistani Officials say all money donated for flood assistance will go to help the victims. The officials assure international donors none of the funds meant to provide aid to millions o...
2010 Dec 13 Richard Holbrooke Dies
Richard C. Holbrooke, the high-octane diplomat who spearheaded the end of the Bosnian war and most recently served as the Obama administration's point man in the volatile Afghan-Pakistani...
2011 Apr 24 Al-Kuwaiti's Supposed Fake Name Appears in Document Released by WikiLeaks
According to the document, Libi fled to Peshawar in Pakistan and was living there in 2003 when he was asked to become one of Bin Laden's messengers. The document says: "In July 2003, deta...
2011 May 1 US Forces Kill Osama Bin Laden
WASHINGTON — Osama bin Laden, the mastermind of the most devastating attack on American soil in modern times and the most hunted man in the world, was killed in a firefight with United St...
2011 May 13 80 Killed in Pakistani Taliban Bombing in Retaliation for bin Laden Killing
There is a terrible inevitability about the bombing in Charsadda, Pakistan, on Friday morning. Little about it is different from previous bombings. There is the same vicious tactic of two...
2011 Jun 4 US Missile Strike Kills Top al-Qaida Leader, Ilyas Kashmiri, in Pakistan
A leading al-Qaida military commander, Ilyas Kashmiri, has been killed by an American missile strike in Pakistan's tribal area, his extremist group confirmed Saturday, as it vowed revenge...
2011 Nov 26 Deadly NATO Airstrike Angers Pakistan
Hundreds of angry protesters gathered outside the American consulate in Karachi on Sunday, as Pakistan held funerals for the 24 soldiers killed Saturday in a NATO cross-border airstrike i...