1997 in Pakistan
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Events
March
- 3 February - General elections are held.
August
- 14 August - Pakistan celebrates 50 years of independence from British rule.
November
- 13 November - Nawaz Sharif promises US president Bill Clinton he will find those responsible for the killing of four US businessmen and their Pakistani driver.
- 26 November - Pakistan's first motorway linking Islamabad to Lahore is opened.
December
- 2 December - Pakistan's president, Farooq Leghari, resigns. Wasim Sajjad becomes interim president for the second time.
Births
- 2 March - Babar Iqbal, information technology prodigy
- 20 May - Shazia Masih, torture victim (died 2010)
- 10 June - Umair Khan, young blogger, speaker and founder of lot of Blogs & Websites
- 12 July - Malala Yousafzai, school pupil and education activist
Deaths
- 16 August - Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Pakistani Qwalli artist (b. 1948)
See also
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