Events from the year 2010 in Pakistan.
Incumbents
Federal government
President: Asif Ali Zardari
Prime Minister: Yousaf Raza Gillani
Chief Justice: Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry
Governors
Governor of Balochistan – Nawab Zulfikar Ali Magsi
Governor of Gilgit-Baltistan –
until 22 March: Qamar Zaman Kaira
22 March-15 September: Shama Khalid
starting 17 September: Wazir Baig
Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa – Owais Ahmed Ghani
Governor of Punjab – Salmaan Taseer
Governor of Sindh – Ishrat-ul-Ibad Khan
Events
January
1 January – A suicide bombing occurs at a volleyball game in northwestern Pakistan, killing at least 95, and injuring over 100. 13 January – A train hit a school bus at an ungated railway crossing in Pakistan's Punjab Province near to the town of Mian Channu, killing 8 children and injuring several others. 30 January – A suicide bombing occurs at a military checkpoint within the town of Khar, in the Bajaur Agency, killing at least 16 people and injuring around 25 others.
February
Three Sikhs were beheaded by Taliban groups. 3 February – A suicide bombing occurs within the Lower Dir District area of the country, killing at least 8 people, including 3 American soldiers and injuring around 70 other people. 5 February – Twin bombings, one of which includes a suicide attack occurred within the Pakistani city of Karachi, killing at least 25 people and injuring more than 50 others. 10 February – A suicide bombing targeting a police patrol in the Khyber Agency killed at least 19 people, including 13 local policemen. 17 February – Avalanche in the Kohistan District, killing over 100 people. 18 February – A bombing at a local mosque in the Tirah Valley of the Khyber Agency, killed at least 30 people and injured more than 70 others.
March
12 March – Three separate suicide bombings targeting Pakistani security forces occurred from 8 March till 12 March. It is known that more than 72 people were killed in these three-related suicide attacks and more than 190 others were injured.
April
5 April – A series of coordinated bombings at the U.S. consulate in Peshawar and at a ruling party rally in the North-West Frontier Province kills 50 people and injured 100 others. 8 April – Pakistan adopts the 18th amendment to the Constitution, stripping President Asif Ali Zardari of key powers. 10 April – The military kills 100 people in an air raid on a Taliban area in the north-west. 17 April -18 April – Three suicide bomb attacks occurred within the town of Kohat within the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province. At least 58 people were killed in these three suicide attacks and around 86 others were injured. 19 April – A suicide bombing struck a marketplace within the centre of Peshawar, killing at least 25 people.
May
28 May – A series of co-ordinated attacks were launched on two Ahmadi mosques in Lahore by the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan. At least 86 people are killed in these terrorist attacks and more than 120 others are injured.
June
6 June – Cyclone Phet makes landfall near Karachi before wreaking havoc in coastal Balochistan province. 28 June – An accidental truck blast caused by an exploding gas cylinder, kills at least 18 people and injured around 42 others within the southern Pakistani city of Hyderabad.
July
Extensive flooding after monsoon rains. At least 1,600 people were killed. 1 July – Twin suicide bombings targeted a Sufi shrine at the Data Durbar Complex, in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore. At least 50 people are killed in these twin suicide attacks and more than 200 are injured. 9 July – A suicide bomb attack occurs at a market within the Mohmand Agency of north-western Pakistan. At least 104 people are killed in this suicide attack and more than 120 others are injured. 28 July – Crash of Airblue Flight 202, killing all 152 people aboard.