August

• 5 August, Pakistan International Airlines
  Pakistan International Airlines
  Pakistan International Airlines Corporation commonly known as PIA, is the flag carrier airline of Pakistan. The airline has its head office on the grounds of Jinnah International Airport in Karachi. and operates scheduled services to 24 domestic destinations and 38 international destinations in 27...
  
   F27; Islamabad, Pakistan
  Pakistan
  Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
  
  : The aircraft entered a steep dive and crashed about three minutes after a night takeoff in poor weather. All four crew members and 26 passengers were killed.

December

• 31 December; Pakistan International Airlines F27; East Pakistan: The aircraft lost altitude and impacted about 300 feet (90 meters) short of the runway. Seven of the 31 passengers were killed.

Statistics

• The city of Faisalabad
  Faisalabad
  Faisalabad , formerly known as Lyallpur, is the third largest metropolis in Pakistan, the second largest in the province of Punjab after Lahore, and a major industrial center in the heart of Pakistan. Before the foundation of the city in 1880, the area was very thinly populated. The population has...
  
   has an estimated population of 726,000, while the capital Islamabad
  Islamabad
  Islamabad is the capital of Pakistan and the tenth largest city in the country. Located within the Islamabad Capital Territory , the population of the city has grown from 100,000 in 1951 to 1.7 million in 2011...
  
   has an estimated population of 70,000.

See also

• 1969 in Pakistan
  1969 in Pakistan
  -Events:1969 — General Ayub Khan resigns and General Yahya Khan takes over.-See also:* 1968 in Pakistan* Other events of 1969* 1970 in Pakistan* Timeline of Pakistani history-External links:*...
  
  
• Other events of 1970
• 1971 in Pakistan
  1971 in Pakistan
  -Events:*Widespread chaos and military crackdown in East Pakistan following the failure to recognize the elected majority party Awami League.*Guerrillas start the Bangladesh Liberation War in East Pakistan....
  
  
• Timeline of Pakistani history
  Timeline of Pakistani history
  Although, the land of Indus, as a state gained independence on August 14, 1947, it has a very long history that goes back over thousands of years and it is one of the world's oldest continuously inhabited regions. The Indus Valley was known as Meluhha in Mesopotamia when the Harappan civilization...