2009 in Pakistan
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Events from the year 2009 in Pakistan.
Incumbents
Federal government
- President: Asif Ali Zardari
- Yousaf Raza Gillani
- Chief Justice: Abdul Hameed Dogar (until 21 March), Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry (starting 21 March)
Governors
- Nawab Zulfikar Ali Magsi
- Governor of Gilgit-Baltistan – Qamar Zaman Kaira (starting 16 September)
- Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa – Owais Ahmed Ghani
- Salmaan Taseer
- Ishrat-ul-Ibad Khan
Events
February
- 20 February, A suicide bombing in Dera Ismail Khankilled 32 while injured 157 people.
March
- 3 March, The Sri Lankan cricket team are attacked in the city of Lahore.
- 6 March, Investigators in Pakistan are tracking down members of Lashkar-e-Taiba in the search for the perpetrators of the Lahore attack.[1]
- 16 March, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani addressed the nation, restoring the deposed Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry and other judges.[2]
- 27 March, a bomb attackin the FATA kills at least 48.
- 30 March, Unidentified gunmen Manawan Police Academy, which is based in Lahore. At least 18 people were later killed and around 95 others injured in the subsequent storming of the building by the Pakistani security forces.
April
- 2009 refugee crisis in Pakistan
July
- On July 3, 2009, Taliban militants Saturday claimed responsibility for a
August
- 1 August, The anti-Christian pogrom.
October
- October 5, five people were killed when a
- October 9, in the busiest bazaar in Peshawar, the capital of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, militants set off a car bomb that killed 48 people.[4]
- October 11, 10 militants dressed in army fatigues and armed with automatic weapons, mines, grenades and suicide jackets breached the perimeter of the army headquarters in Rawalpindi in a raid that left 23 people dead and set off a 20-hour siege.[4]
- October 12, militants launched their fourth assault in a week on strategic targets across Pakistan, this time with a suicide car bombing against a military vehicle in a crowded market in the northwest, killing 41 people and wounding dozens more.[4]
December
- December 29 – A bombing occurs during the main Jaloos in Karachi in which the Shias were mourning over the Day of Ashura. 43 persons were killed while almost 60 persons were injured.
Deaths
- 20 November – Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi, politician (born 1931)
See also
References
- ^ Investigators see LeT footprints in Lahore attack
- ^ CJP reinstated but political differences persist
- ^ "Helicopter crash kills 41 security personnel" Archived 2009-07-06 at the Wayback Machine Dawn, 4 July 2009
- ^ Pir Zubair Shah and Mark McDonald (October 12, 2009). "Car Bomb Kills at Least 41 in Restive Region of Pakistan". The New York Times. Archivedfrom the original on 8 April 2011. Retrieved October 12, 2009.