2026 in Pakistan
The events listed below are both anticipated and scheduled for the year 2026 in Pakistan.
The year 2026 will be the 79th year of the independence of Pakistan.
Events
January
- 2 January – An anti-terrorism court in Islamabad sentences multiple journalists and social media personalities to life imprisonment on charges of inciting violence during the 2023 Pakistani protests.
- 5 January – Three people are arrested in Karachi on suspicion of plotting attacks for the Balochistan Liberation Army.
- 11 January – Eight people are killed in a gas cylinder explosion at a wedding in Islamabad.
- 12 January – Six police officers are killed in a bomb attack on their vehicle in Tank District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
- 15 January – Twelve BLA militants are killed in an attack on a police station and two banks in Kharan District, Balochistan.
- 17 January –
- *A truck falls into a canal amid heavy fog in Sargodha, killing 14 people and injuring nine others.
- *A bus overturns along the Makran Coastal Highway in Balochistan, killing 10 people and injuring 36 others.
- *A fire erupts at the Gul Plaza mall in Karachi, killing at least 79 people.
- 19 January – A magnitude 6.0 earthquake hits Gilgit-Baltistan, killing one person and damaging 20 homes in Ghizer District.
- 23 January –
- *Nine people are killed in an avalanche in Chitral District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
- *Seven people are killed in a suicide bombing at a wedding held at the residence of a community leader in Dera Ismail Khan District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
- 24 January –
- *A fire erupts at a hotel in Lahore, killing at least three people.
- *A court in Islamabad sentences human rights lawyers Imaan Mazari and her husband, Hadi Ali Chattha, to 17 years' imprisonment on charges of using social media to malign the state and its security institutions.
- 29 January –
- *A woman and her child are found dead in a manhole in Lahore.
- *Forty-one militants are killed in military raids in Panjgur and Harnai Districts in Balochistan.
- 31 January – A series of attacks are carried out by the BLA on multiple locations across Balochistan, leaving 31 civilians, 17 members of the security forces, and 145 attackers dead.
March
- 26 March – Start of Pakistan Super League's eleventh season.
Holidays
- 5 February – Kashmir Solidarity Day
- 23 March – Pakistan Day
- 21–23 March – Eid al-Fitr
- 1 May – Labour Day
- 27–29 May – Eid al-Adha
- 25–26 June – Ashura
- 14 August – Independence Day
- 25 August – Mawlid
- 9 November – Iqbal Day
- 25 December – Quaid-e-Azam Day
Deaths
- 5 January – Maulana Fazl-ur-Raheem Ashrafi, 81, Islamic scholar, patron of Wifaq-ul-Madaris al-Arabia.
- 22 January – Jamshed Khan, politician.
- 31 January – Sultan Mehmood Chaudhry, 71, president and prime minister of Azad Kashmir.
Country overviews
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