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1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s |
President: Farooq Leghari (until 2 December), Wasim Sajjad (acting) (starting 2 December)
Prime Minister: Malik Meraj Khalid (until 17 February), Nawaz Sharif (starting 17 February)
3 February - General elections are held.
14 August - Pakistan celebrates 50 years of independence from British rule.
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.
2 December - Pakistan's president, Farooq Leghari, resigns. Wasim Sajjad becomes interim president for the second time.
2 March - Babar Iqbal, information technology prodigy
20 May - Shazia Masih, torture victim (died 2010)
12 July - Malala Yousafzai, school pupil and education activist.
16 August - Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Pakistani Qawwali artist (b. 1948)
1997 in Pakistan Wikipedia (Text) CC BY-SA
