2005 in Pakistan

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Pervez Musharraf
• Prime Minister: Shaukat Aziz
• Chief Justice: Nazim Hussain Siddiqui, Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry

  Events

May

• 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.

  October

• 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.
• 8 October – The 7.6 Kashmir earthquake strikes with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII, 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.

  November

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

  December

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