President: Pervez Musharraf
Prime Minister: Shaukat Aziz
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 5 years. At the conclusion of the trip a joint declaration between the two nations announces their commitment to cooperate.
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 - An earthquake of magnitude 7.6 strikes Pakistan. The Government of Pakistan say over 1000 may have died; many villages are flattened.
10 October - The President of Pakistan appeals for international help following the earthquake, saying the country cannot deal with crisis on its own.
3 November - Pakistan announces that the official death toll from the quake is over 73,000.
England complete their tour of Pakistan with a victory against the Pakistan cricket team at Rawalpindi.
2005 in Pakistan Wikipedia (Text) CC BY-SA
