2005 in Pakistan

Events from the year 2005 in Pakistan.

• President: Pervez Musharraf
• Prime Minister: Shaukat Aziz
• Chief Justice: Nazim Hussain Siddiqui (until 29 June), Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry

• Governor of Balochistan – Owais Ahmed Ghani
• Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa – Iftikhar Hussain Shah (until 15 March); Khalilur Rehman (starting 15 March)
• Governor of Punjab – Khalid Maqbool
• Governor of Sindh – Ishrat-ul-Ibad Khan

• 1 May – Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi leaves Pakistan after two days of talks with President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz – the first by a Japanese PM for five years. At the conclusion of the trip a joint declaration between the two nations announces their commitment to cooperate.^[1]

• 5 October – Perpetrators of the racially motivated murder of Glasgow teenager Kriss Donald, extradited to the United Kingdom to face trial in a one-off agreement negotiated with Pakistan.^[2][3]
• 8 October – The 7.6 M_w  Kashmir earthquake strikes with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), leaving 86,000–87,351 people dead, 69,000–75,266 injured, and 2.8 million homeless.
• 10 October – The president of Pakistan appeals for international help following the earthquake, saying the country cannot deal with crisis on its own.^[4]

• 3 November – Pakistan announces that the official death toll from the quake is over 73,000.^[5]

• England complete their tour of Pakistan with a victory against the Pakistan cricket team at Rawalpindi.^[6]

• 2005 in Pakistani television
• List of Pakistani films of 2005