Indian subcontinent 1947-2011 --- A timeline of the Indian Subcontinent/ III

Indian subcontinent 1947-2011

• India, october 1947: the Maharajah of Kashmir decides to join India and not Pakistan, pending a plebiscite
• Pakistan, october 1947: following rioting by the Muslim majority in Kashmir, Pakistani troops attack India and occupy part of Kashmir
• Pakistan, 1948: The Balochis start their first insurrection against Pakistan
• India, 1948: India refuses to allow the plebiscite in Kashmir and Kashmir separatism is born
• India, 1957: despite opposition by its Muslim population, India annexes Kashmir
• India, april 1965: India and Pakistan fight another war over Kashmir
• India, 1971: following civil war in East Pakistan (Bangladesh) India and Pakistan fight a third war in Kashmir that ends with the defeat of Pakistan
• Pakistan, Sep 1985: Haq Nawaz Jhangvi founds Sipah-e-Sahaba, a Wahabi organization that aims at turning Pakistan into a purely Sunni nation and stages attacks against Shiites
• Pakistan, Nov 1989: A bomb kills Abdullah Yusuf Azzam, a Palestinian, a co-founder of Hamas and Lashkar-e-Taiba, considered the "father of global jihad" and a mentor of Osama bin Laden, in Pakistan
• Pakistan, 1990: Hafiz Muhammad Saeed founds Lashkar-e-Taiba to fight in Afghanistan with help from Pakistan's secret services
• Pakistan, 1990: Shiite militants assassinate the founder of Sipah-e-Sahaba, Haq Nawaz Jhangvi
• India, march 1993: Bombs set by Islamic fundamentalists destroys the Bombay stock exchange and other buildings, killing 257 people
• Pakistan, 1993: Pakistan's secret services help Islamic fighters form the terrorist group Harkat-ul-Ansar, based in Kashmir
• Pakistan, october 1993: Islamic fundamentalists form Harakat al-Ansar, a militant group based in Pakistan whose mission is to liberate Kashmir from Indian occupation
• India, february 1994: India arrests Harkat's leaders Maulana Masood Azhar and Sajjad Afghani
• Pakistan, 1994: Pakistan helps the Taliban, Afghan fighters bred in the madrassas of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam, launch an invasion of Kandahar in Afghanistan from Pakistan
• India, august-november 1994: Muslim separatists plant bombs in Kashmir, killing dozens
• India, july 1995: Islamic fundamentalists kidnap and later kill five western tourists i Kashmir (linked to Harakat al-Ansar, a militant group based in Pakistan that is led by Fazlur Rehman Khalil)
• Pakistan, 1996: Riaz Basra breaks away from Sipah-e-Sahaba and founds the Sunni Islamic movement Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, whose main target are Shiites
• Pakistan, 1996: Youstol Dispage dies
• Pakistan, 1998: pro-Taliban parties are a major influence in northwester provinces of Pakistan, where they follow the Taliban in banning television and videos, forcing women to wear the veil, imposing sharia punishments (such as stoning and amputation) and massacring shiites (massacres mainly conducted by extremist fringes of the JUI party)
• Pakistan, october 1999: reacting to widespread disgust for political corruption, general Pervez Musharraf seizes power in Pakistan with a coup
• India, december 1999: Kashmiri militants of Harkat supported by Pakistan's secret services hijack an Indian airplane and hold 160 passengers hostages until India releases Harkat's leaders Maulana Masood Azhar and Sajjad Afghani
• Pakistan, march 2000: Azhar founds the Islamic organization Jaish-e-Muhammed based in Kashmir
• India, august 2000: Muslim separatists (Hizbul Mujahideen) plant a car bomb that kills ten people in Kashmir
• Pakistan, april 2001: invited by the JUI party, hundreds of thousands of Muslims attend the first ever festival for the 134th anniversary of the founding of an Islamic religious seminary in the village of Deoband near Peshawar
• India, may 2001: More than 80 people are killed in Kashmir while the president of Pakistan and the prime minister of India to discuss peace
• India, october 2001: Kashmiri militants explode a car bomb in Srinagar that kills 29 people
• Afghanistan, october 2001: The USA bombs the Afghan offices of the Pakistani militia Harkat, killing 22 Pakistani fighters
• India, october 2001: Muslim separatists attack the Parliament of Kashmir (25 people killed)
• India, december 2001: Muslim separatists (Lashkar-e-Toiba) attack the Parliament in New Delhi, killing 14 people
• Pakistan, june 2002: A car bomb kills 12 people in Karachi, Pakistan, near the US consulate
• Pakistan, october 2002: Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam wins elections rigged by the military in the northwestern provinces and in Balochistan of Pakistan, and becomes a protector of the Taliban in Balochistan and of the Haqqani fighters in the northwest, causing the Balochis (largely secular) to start another insurrection
• Pakistan, december 2002: Taliban's leader Mullah Omar settles in Quetta, Pakistan, with help from Pakistani party Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam that rules in Quetta
• India, august 2003: more than 50 people are killed in two bomb attacks in Bombay by the Islamic group "Students Islamic Movement of India" (SIMI) affiliated with Lashkar-e-Taiba
• Pakistan, june 2003: Lashkar-e-Jhangvi kills 11 policemen in Pakistan
• Pakistan, 2003: Pakistani politician Javed Piracha from Peshawar wins the release from jail of 300 suspected Arab teerrorists and facilitates the repatriation to their countries
• Pakistan, december 2003: Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf survives two assassination attempts inspired by Al Qaeda and organized by Amjad Hussain Farooqi of Jaish-e-Muhammed
• Pakistan, march 2004: Lashkar-e-Jhangvi kills 47 Shiites in Quetta during a Ashura procession
• Pakistan, march 2004: Pakistan's Frontier Corps are defeated by Al Qaeda in a battle inside northwestern Pakistan's FATA (Federally Administered Tribal Areas)
• Pakistan, may 2004: a bomb by Lashkar-e-Jhangvi kills 16 Shiites in a mosque of Karachi in retaliation for the killing of a top Sunni Muslim cleric, Mufti Nizamuddin Shamzai
• Pakistan, may 2004: Pakistani militants start using suicide attacks in a co-ordinated manner with the attacks on Karachi that kill 100 people
• Pakistan, june 2004: ten people are killed in an assassination attempt against Karachi's corps commander by Attaur Rehman's Jundullah
• Pakistan, july 2004: Ahmed Khalfan Gailani, the perpetrator of the terrorist attack in Tanzania, is arrested by Pakistan
• Pakistan, september 2004: Amjad Hussain Farooqi of Jaish-e-Muhammed is killed by Pakistani police
• Pakistan, september 2004: 80 people are killed when the Pakistani army attacks a madrassa in the FATA
• Pakistan, december 2004: ten people are killed in a bomb blast in Quetta
• Pakistan, september 2005: Asif Chotto, head of the terrorist group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi that killed hundreds of Pakistani shiites, is arrested
• India, october 2005: bombs set by Kashmiri` militants kill 59 people in New Delhi
• Pakistan, january 2006: a US drone kills five Al Qaeda members inside Pakistan
• India, march 2006: bombs kill more than 20 people in Varanasi
• Pakistan, april 2006: The Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami, a militant organization of Kashmir, led by Ilyas Kashmiri, a former commander in Afghanistan, shifts its target to Afghanistan
• India, may 2006: Islamists kill 35 hindus in Kashmir
• India, july 2006: Multiple terrorist bombs in Mumbai kill 186 people, and India accuses Pakistan's intelligence agency ISI of planning the attacks and the Islamist militant group Lashkar-e-Toiba of carrying them out
• Pakistan, september 2006: Pakistan and the Taliban based in the FATA sign a peace treaty that allows the Taliban to expand their operations inside Pakistan
• Pakistan, october 2006: 80 people are killed when the Pakistani army attacks a madrassa in Chenagai
• Pakistan, january 2007: A suicide bomber kills 15 people at a Shiite mosque in Peshawar
• India, february 2007: bombs kill at least 64 people on a Pakistan-bound train in northern India
• Pakistan, april 2007: A suicide bomber kills 32 people at a political rally
• Pakistan, may 2007: A suicide bomber kills 22 people at a restaurant in Peshawar
• Pakistan, july 2007: 73 students and clerics are killed in clashes between security forces and militants (led by cleric Abdul Aziz) holed in the Lal Masjid/ Red Mosque of Islamabad, Pakistan, and hundreds of people are killed in subsequent bombings by Islamists
• India, august 2007: 42 people are killed in Hyderabad (India) by two twin bombings credited to the Islamic fundamentalists of Indian Mujahideen
• Pakistan, september 2007: 26 police officers are killed near Islamabad (Pakistan) by two suicide bombers and an entire convoy of Frontier Corps is kidnapped by the Taliban of Baitullah Mahsud
• Pakistan, 2007: Pakistan experiences 56 suicide bombings in 2007 up from 6 the previous year
• Pakistan, december 2007: suicide bombers kill more than 140 people at Benazir Bhutto's welcome event in Karachi and weeks later kill her
• Pakistan, january 2008: A suicide bomber in Lahore kills 19 police officers
• Pakistan, february 2008: a suicide bomber kills ten people at a Shia mosque in Peshawar
• Afghanistan, april 2008: Pakistan's secret services try to assassinate Afghanistan's president Hamid Karzai at a parade in Kabul
• Pakistan, may 2008: Pakistani-based Islamic extremists of Jamaat-ud-Dawa (associated with Lashkar-e-Taiba) start training in Karachi under the direction of Zaki Urman Lakhvi to carry out an attack on Mumbai
• India, may 2008: 63 people are killed by bombs set by Indian Mujahideen in Jaipur
• Pakistan, august 2008: Two suicide bombers kill 64 workers of an arms factory in Pakistan
• Pakistan, 2008: Baitullah Mahsud, the leader of the Pakistani Taliban, has de facto created an independent Islamic republic at the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
• India, july 2008: Dozens of bombs by the Indian Mujahideen kill 49 people in Ahmedabad
• Pakistan, 2008: The USA carries out more than 20 bombings inside Pakistani territory to kill Al Qaeda and Taliban leaders
• India, november 2008: Islamic extremists reporting to Zaki Urman Lakhvi kill 164 people in several coordinated attacks in Mumbai, plus nine of the terrorists (only Mohammad Ajmal Amir Qasab survives)
• Pakistan, september 2008: Suicide attacks kill 1,188 in Pakistan between july 2007 and september 2008
• India, september 2008: Five bombs set by Indian Mujahideen in shopping areas of New Delhi kill 26 people
• Pakistan, december 2008: More than 30 people are killed by a Taliban suicide bomber in a Pakistani border town that fought the Taliban
• Pakistan, february 2009: A suicide bomber kills more than 25 people at a funeral procession in Dera Ismail Khan in north-west Pakistan
• Pakistan, february 2009: The government of Pakistan surrenders the border region of the Swat Valley to the Taliban of Maulana Fazlullah who impose Islamic law
• Pakistan, february 2009: Spurred by Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Muhammad Omar, the commanders of the three main Pakistani Taliban factions, Baitullah Mahsud, Hafiz Gul Bahadur and Maulavi Nazir, form the Council of United Mujahedeen
• Pakistan, march 2009: A suicide bomber kills more than 50 people at a mosque near Jamrud in north-west Pakistan
• Pakistan, april 2009: Three suicide bombs in 24 hours in Pakistan, including an attack on a Shiite mosque that kills 26 people
• Pakistan, may 2009: The Pakistani army begins an offensive against the Taliban of the Northwest that sends more than one million people fleeing to refugee camps
• Pakistan, june 2009: Pakistan releases from jail the founder and spiritual leader of Lashkar-e-Taiba, Hafiz Muhammad Saeed
• Pakistan, Aug 2009: Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan orchestrates riots in Gorja against against Pakistan's Christians
• Pakistan, august 2009: A USA missile kills Pakistan's most wanted man, Pakistani Taliban's leader Baitullah Mahsud
• Pakistan, Aug 2009: Maulana Ali Sher Hyderi, chief of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan, is assassinated
• Pakistan, Oct 2009: Pakistani Taliban suicide bombers kill more than 350 people in Pakistan in the first three weeks of october, and the Pakistani army begins an offensive in South Waziristan
• Pakistan, Nov 2009: The Pakistani Taliban kill 35 people, including 17 children, at a mosque in Rawalpindi
• Pakistan, Dec 2009: Bombs kill 36 people at a market in Lahore, Pakistan
• Pakistan, Dec 2009: 43 Shiites are killed in a suicide bomb attack by the Pakistani Taliban of Asmatullah Bhittani in Karachi, Pakistani
• Pakistan, Dec 2009: A suicide bomb attack at a volleyball pitch in Lakki Marwat kills more than 93 people
• Pakistan, 2009: 3021 civilians are killed in Pakistan during 2009
• Pakistan, 2009: USA drones carry out 53 strikes inside Pakistan, killing 520 people
• Pakistan, jan 2010: Three USA soldiers are killed in Pakistan by the Pakistani Taliban, the first USA casualties inside Pakistan
• Pakistan, Feb 2010: Pakistani and USA agents arrest the military commander of the Aghani Taliban, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar
• India, Feb 2010: A bomb by Indian Mujaheddin at the German Bakery in Pune kills 17 people
• Pakistan, Mar 2010: Three bombs kill more than 50 people in Lahore
• Pakistan, mar 2010: A Taliban suicide attack kills more than 40 supporters of the secular Awami National Party in Northwestern Pakistan
• Pakistan, may 2010: The Pakistani Taliban attack two mosques of the Ahmadi sect in Lahore, killing about 70 people
• Pakistan, Jul 2010: A suicide attack on a Sufi shrine in Lahore, Pakistan, kills 40 people
• Pakistan, Jul 2010: More than 100 people are killed by a suicide bombing at an anti-Taliban meeting in Yakaghund, Pakistan
• Pakistan, sep 2010: 33 people are killed in Lahore (Pakistan) by three suicide bombs on a Shiite procession and a bomb kills 40 Shiites in Quetta during a political demonstration
• Pakistan, nov 2010: 67 people are killed by a suicide bomb attack on a mosque in north-west Pakistan and 15 people are killed by a bomb in Karachi against an anti-terrorist agency
• Pakistan, dec 2010: Two Taliban suicide bombers kill 50 people in Ghalanai, northwest Pakistan
• Pakistan, dec 2010: A suicide car bomber of a Sunni militant group kills 11 people in Hangu, north-west Pakistan
• Pakistan, dec 2010: Dozens die in a battle between Pakistani soldiers and Taliban rebels near Pakistan's frontier with Afghanista
• Pakistan, dec 2010: A female suicide bomber kills more than 40 people from a tribe opposed to the Taliban in Khar, northwestern Pakistan
• Pakistan, 2010: In 2010 the USA launches more than 100 drone attacks in Pakistani territories, the highest number ever, up from 22 in 2009
• Pakistan, 2010: Between 2008 and 2010 more than 10,000 civilians have been killed in Pakistan by Islamic militants
• Pakistan, march 2011: Pakistan's only Christian minister Shahbaz Bhatti is assassinated
• Pakistan, march 2011: A USA drone kills 40 people in Pakistan
• Pakistan, may 2011: A bomb attack in north-western Pakistan kills at least 50 people and an attack on a border checkpost in north-western Pakistan by Afghani Taliban kills 27 people
• Pakistan, april 2011: US forces kill Osama bin Laden
• Pakistan, may 2011: Pakistan's investigative journalist Saleem Shahzad is murdered after disclosing infiltrations by Islamic terrorists into the military
• Pakistan, may 2011: A bomb attack in north-western Pakistan kills at least 50 people and an attack on a border checkpost in north-western Pakistan by Afghani Taliban kills 27 people
• Pakistan, may 2011: A US drone kills Ilyas Kashmiri, the leader of the 313 Brigade of Al Qaeda
• Pakistan, june 2011: More than 30 people are killed by two bombs in the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar
• Pakistan, june 2011: The leader of Harkat-ul-Jihad Islami, Ilyas Kashmiri, is killed by a USA drone in Pakistan
• India, july 2011: Three bombs by the Indian Mujahideen kill 21 people in Mumbai
• Pakistan, july 2011: More than 300 people are killed in Karachi (Pakistan) in july alone, mostly by ethnic violence
• Pakistan, august 2011: Pakistan has had almost 300 suicide bombings since september 2011, killing more than 4,600 people
• India, september 2011: Harkat-ul-Jihad Islami claims responsibility for a bomb at a courthouse in New Delhi, India
• Pakistan, september 2011: Following the arrest in Quetta of senior Al Qaeda leader Younis al-Mauritani, a suicide bomber targets Pakistan's Frontier Corps, killing 30 people
• See a 

  Main prime ministers of India

  1947: Jawaharlal Nehru 
  1964: Lal Bahadur Shastri 
  1966: Indira Gandhi 
  1984: Rajiv Gandhi 
  1991: Narasimha Rao 
  1996: Deve Gowda 
  1998: Atal Behari Vajpayee 
  2004: Manmohan Singh 
  2014: Nerendra Modi

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  See also: 
  A timeline of British India 
  A timeline of ancient India 
  A timeline of Buddhism 
  A timeline of Tibet 
  Other timelines

See also A timeline of ancient India 
See also A timeline of British India

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Jan 1947: Communal riots move to Punjab, where Sikhs join Hindus to fight Muslims and tens of thousands die during the year, setting off a mass migration of tens of millions of people 
Mar 1947: India hosts the Asian Relations Conference with 28 countries (including both China and Tibet, the colonies of Malaysia, Indonesia and Vietnam, seven republics of the SOviet Union, Korea, Nepal, Burma/Myanmar, Ceylon/Sri Lanka and Afghanistan as well as the Arab League and Palestinian Jews) and Nehru announces the policy of "non-alignment" (neutral in the Cold War between the USA and the Soviet Union) 
Jun 1947: Lord Mountbatten announces the partition of the colony in two independent countries, India and Pakistan 
Aug 1947: The British leave India, Pakistan becomes officially independent under governor Jinnah and India becomes independent under prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru, leading a government that contains ministers from five religions and from all corners of India, including a woman and two untouchables, while Rajendra Prasad (of the Kayastha caste) is elected president, a largely ceremonial post 
Oct 1947: The maharaja of Kashmir (ruling over Muslim-dominated Kashmir valley and the Hindu-dominated Jammu region) signs to become part of India but, following rioting by the Muslim majority in Kashmir, Pakistani tribal militias attack India and occupy part of Kashmir 
1947: One million people die in communal violence due to the partition that also causes an exodus of more than 14 million people 
1947: The population of Karachi, Pakistan's largest city, is 450,000 
Jan 1948: Mahatma Gandhi is assassinated by a Hindu extremist and India temporarily bans the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) considering them responsible for inciting to violence 
Feb 1948: Bhalchandra Trimbak Ranadive, a Brahman, is elected president of the Communist Party of India 
1948: Muhammed Ali Jinnah, the prime minister of Pakistan (a shiite), dies and is succeeded by Liaquat Ali Khan 
1948: India refuses to allow the plebiscite in Kashmir and Kashmir separatism is born (40,000 people will die in 55 years) 
1948: Ceylon becomes independent and the government of Don Stephen Senanayake revokes the citizenship of the Tamil minority 
1948: Hector Abhayavardhana and others found the Socialist Party of India 
1948: India creates an atomic energy agency under Homi Bhabha
Mar 1948: Sheikh Abdullah is appointed prime minister of Kashmir 
Sep 1948: India invades and annexes Hyderabad, still ruled by the oldest Muslim dynasty in India, while the Communist Party of India tries to start a revolution in Telengana 
1949: To quell an uprising, India invades the independent country of Sikkim 
1949: Conjeevaram Natarajan Annadurai quits the Justice Party and founds the Dravidian separatist party Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam ("Dravidian Progress Federation") 
1949: India signs a treaty with Bhutan to conduct its foreign policy 
Oct 1949: Angami Zapu Phizo becomes the leader of the separatist Naga National Council of northeast India 
Dec 1949: Riots in East Pakistan (Bangladesh) force 1.7 million Hindus to fled to India 
Dec 1949: France surrenders Pondicherry to India 
1950: The first Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) is founded in Kharagpur 
Jan 1950: India adopts its first constitution (drafted under the chaimanship of the untouchable Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar) that bans caste-based discrimination, grants women the right to vote, adopts Hindi as the national language with English allowed for 15 more years, 
OCt 1950: China invades and annexes Tibet, causing an exodus of refugees to India 
1951: Pakistan's leader Liaquat Ali Khan is assassinated by an Afghan, while general Muhammad Ayub Khan is appointed chief of the army 
1951: Syama Prasad Mookerjee founds the Hindu nationalist party Jana Sangh 
1951: The dalit Ambedkar founds the Scheduled Caste Federation (1951) 
1951: Jivatram Bhagwandas Kripalani founds the socialist-leaning Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party (KMPP) in India 
Sep 1951: Nehru is elected president of the Congress Party 
1951: India's first five-year plan, modeled after the Soviet Union 
Sep 1951: The Union Muslim League is formed in India 
1952: India holds the first general elections (176 million people entitled to vote of which 85% are illiterate), won by the Congress Party with 45% of the votes (74% of the seats) 
1952: Mother Theresa (Yugoslavia-born missionary nun Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu) founds the Nirmal Hriday Home for the Dying in Calcutta, India 
1952: Mohan Mittal founds a steel business (later Ispat) in Kolkata, India 
Dec 1952: Potti Sriramulu dies in a hunger strike, riots erupt and the Indian government grants Telugu speakers the state of Andhra 
1953: Nepalese sherpa Tenzing Norgaj is the first person to climb Mt Everest (guiding New Zealand's tourist Edmund Hillary) 
1953: The Tungabhadra dam opens 
1963: The Bhakra dam opens, second highest in the world 
1953: Mohammed Daoud is appointed prime minister of Afghanistan 
Aug 1953: Accused of plotting for independence, Kashmir's prime minister Sheikh Abdullah is fired and jailed and replaced by Bakshi Ghulam Mohammed 
Oct 1953: India inaugurates the state of Andhra Pradesh for Telugu speakers 
Feb 1954: The USA signs a treaty with Pakistan thereby becoming the main provider of military goods and training for Pakistan 
Apr 1954: India and China sign a treaty of friendship and India recognizes Chinese rule over Tibet 
Sep 1954: Angami Zapu Phizo declares the independence of Nagaland from India 
1955: Polygamy is abolished in India by the Hindu Marriage Act designed by Ambedkar (but it only applies to Hindus, Buddhists and Sikhs, not to Muslims) 
1955: The Indian government commits to a socialist society 
1955: The dalit Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar converts to Buddhism and founds the Bharatiya Bauddha Mahasabha (Buddhist Society of India), also known as neo-Buddhism 
1956: Pakistan enacts a new constitution and becomes an Islamic republic 
1956: India's second five-year plan is largely designed by Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis for rapid industrialization with steel, coal, shipbuilding, nuclear and aerospace reserved to state enterprises 
1956: Prime minister Nehru of India fosters a neutral stance between communism and capitalism and founds the Non-Aligned Movement 
1956: The Sinhalese nationalist (and buddhist) party gains power and Solomon Bandaranaike becomes prime minister 
1956: Nand Kishore Ruia founds the iron-ore export company Essar in Chennai, India 
1956: Fazal Ali's States Reorganisation Commission redraws the Indian states along linguistic lines with new states such as Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Madras State (later renamed Tamil Nadu) and Mysore State (later renamed Karnataka), and enlarged states such as Punjab, Rajasthan, West Bengal and Bombay/Mumbai state 
Dec 1956: Angami Zapu Phizo flees from India to East Pakistan/Bangladesh 
1957: India annexes Kashmir 
1957: The dalit Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar founds the Republican Party of India of Buddhist inspiration 
1957: The Communist Party of India wins Kerala state's elections and forms the first democratically elected communist government 
1957: India builds its first digital computer< TIFRAC, at the TIFR in Mumbai 
Sep 1957: The "Mundhra scandal" erupts, the first major case of government corruption in India 
1958: General Ayyub Khan takes over Pakistan's government in a coup 
1958: Oman surrenders Gawdar to Pakistan 
1958: Baloch nationalists stage an uprising against Pakistan 
1958: Pakistani general Ayub Khan, to stop the United Party of East Pakistan from winning elections, seizes power and dissolvesparliament 
1959: An Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) is founded in Kanpur and affiliated with nine USA universities 
Mar 1959: The Dalai Lama flees Chinese-occupied Tibet for India 
1959: Steel plants built by Germany (Rourkela in Odisha), Britain (Durgapur in West Bengal) and Soviet Union (Bhilai in Chhattisgarh) begin to operate 
1959: Solomon Bandaranaike is assassinated by a Buddhist monk and is succeeded by his widow, Sirimavo, the first woman appointed to run a democratic country 
May 1959: Chakravarti Rajagopalachari founds the conservative capitalist-leaning Swatantra Party 
Oct 1959: Chinese troops kill nine Indian soldiers in a contested border area 
Jul 1959: Following riots, India deposes the communist government of Kerala state 
1960: King Mahendra seizes power in Nepal 
1960: Tara Singh launches a campaign for a Punjabi-speaking state 
May 1960: Mumbai state is split into Maharashtra and Gujarat states 
Jun 1960: Riots erupt in Assam against East Bengali refugees 
1961: Pakistani president Ayub Khan signs a cooperation pact with the USA to counterbalance Soviet influence in India 
Jan 1961: Religious riots in Jabalpur after a Hindu girl is raped by Muslim men 
Dec 1961: India invades the Portuguese colonies of Goa, Daman and Diu 
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1962: Pakistan signs a border treaty with China 
1962: Norman Borlaug, the "Father of the Green Revolution", introduces IR8, a semi-dwarf rice variety, that solves the problem of famine in India 
1962: Baloch nationalists stage another uprising against Pakistan 
1962: Ayub Khan enacts a new constitution for Pakistan, opposed by Mujibur Rahman's Awami League in East Pakistan and by and by Ali Bhutto's People's Party in West Pakistan 
Oct 1962: China attacks India in Ladaq and in the northeast frontier killing 2000 Indian soldiers 
1963: Kumar Patel invents the laser 
1963: Mohammed Daoud is removed as prime minister of Afghanistan by king Zahir Shah 
Apr 1964: Sheikh Abdullah is released from prison and begins negotiations with Pakistan over Kashmir on behalf of Nehru 
May 1964: Indian prime minister Nehru dies and is replaced by Lal Bahadur Shastri 
1964: The Hindu religious organization Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) is founded 
1965: East Pakistan enacts the "Enemy Property" law aimed at confiscating assetts from non-Muslim minorities 
1965: During a wave of political and economic reforms, king Zahir Shah of Afghanistan grants free elections 
Feb 1965: Following anti-Hindi demonstrations in the south, English is retained as the neutral language of India 
Jan 1965: the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan is founded (the Communist Party) 
Mar 1965: Sheikh Abdullah is jailed for meeting with Chinese prime minister Zhou Enlai 
Aug 1965: Pakistan, with approval from China, attacks India's Kashmir, leading to the largest tank battle since World War II (10,000 soldiers die, mostly Indian) but neither country wins anything 
Jan 1966: Shastri dies and Indira Gandhi, daughter of Nehru, becomes prime minister of India, the second woman to be appointed to run a democratic country 
Mar 1966: The Mizo National Front stages an insurrection in eastern India 
Mar 1966: Punjab, until then a Hindi-majority state, is partitioned so that it becomes a Sikh-dominated Punjabi-speaking state, and a new Hindi-speaking state is created, Himachal Pradesh 
Apr 1966: A bomb by the Naga rebels kills 45 train passengers 
Jun 1966: India's political cartoonist Balasaheb Thackeray founds the Hindu nationalist movement Shiv Sena 
Mar 1967: Maoists from Naxalbari (Naxalites) led by Krishak Samiti stage demonstrations and begin a guerrilla war in West Bengal, followed by Maoist groups in Telengana and Srikakulam, who fight against landlords and landowners, affiliated with Charu Majumdar's Communist Party Marxist Leninist (CPIML) 
1967: Congress loses elections in Chennai (to the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, led by Tamil movie star Marudhur Gopalan Ramachandran), in Kerala (to the Communist Party) and in West Bengal (to a union of leftist parties), and in other states anti-Congress alliances are formed, the Samyukta Vidhayak Dal (SVD) 
May 1967: India elects a Muslim president, Zakir Hussain, a largely ceremonial post 
Mar 1968: Sheikh Abdullah is released from prison 
1969: Pakistani leader Ayyub Khan is succeeded by another general, Yahya Khan 
1969: India's Tata appoints Faqir Chand Kohli in charge of computer services 
1969: Ghulam Azam becomes the leader of Bangladesh's main Islamist Jamaat-e-Islami party 
1969: Indira Gandhi nationalizes the banks of India 
Aug 1969: Varahagiri Venkata Giri is elected president of India, a largely ceremonial post 
Sep 1969: Hindus and Muslims riot in Ahmadabad (1,000 die, mostly Muslims) 
Nov 1969: Indira Gandhi is expelled from the Congress and the party splits in Congress (Organisation), basically the old establishment, and Gandhi's own Congress (Requisition) 
Dec 1969: India creates the state of Meghalaya out of Assam 
Dec 1970: In the first democratic elections in Pakistan, the secular and democratic Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto (a Shiite) wins the majority of votes in West Pakistan, while the secessionist Awami League of Mujibur Rahman wins the elections in East Pakistan, with the latter getting overall more votes 
Dec 1970: General Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan seizes power in Pakistan following Ayub's resignations 
1970: Om Prakash Jindal opens a steel plant at Hisar, India 
Jan 1971: A general strike is called in East Pakistan because West Pakistan refuses to accept the results of the election 
Mar 1971: Indira Gandhi's Congress (R) wins a landslide victory in national elections, following which Gandhi abolishes all princely privileges 
Mar 1971: The Pakistani army under general Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan, supported by both Richard Nixon (USA) and Mao (China), attacks the university of East Pakistan and eventually massacres more than one million East Pakistani intellectuals, Hindus and assorted civilians, and rapes tens of thousands of women, while 8 million people (mostly Hindus) flee from Bangladesh into India 
Aug 1971: India signs a treaty of friendship with the Soviet Union 
1971: The Sinhalese Maoist Janata Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) movement foments political riots 
Dec 1971: West Pakistan attacks India in both Bengal and Kashmir but is defeated by India, the first victory by Hindus over Muslims in centuries, and East Pakistan separates from West Pakistan and becomes the independent country of Bangladesh under the rule of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Yahya Khan resigns and Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto becomes prime minister of Pakistan 
1972: King Mahendra of Nepal dies and is succeeded by Birendra 
1972: Pakistan begins a covert nuclear program 
1972: Indian-born MIT-graduate Narendra Patni founds Data Conversion (later Patni) in the USA with back-office operations in Pune 
1972: Ceylon changes its name to Sri Lanka and becomes a socialist republic 
1972: MIT-graduate Narendra Patni founds Data Conversion (later renamed Patni Computer Systems) with offices both in Boston (USA) and Pune (India) 
1972: Sibghatullah Mujaddedi founds the Islamic movement Jamiat-e-Ulamae Mohammadi in Afghanistan 
1973: Sardar Daud, the king's cousin, stages a coup that ends the monarchy of Afghanistan 
1973: Mohammed Daoud seizes power in Afghanistan with a coup with help from the communists 
1973: Baloch nationalists stage a third uprising against Pakistan 
1973: Balochistan rebels against Pakistan 
1974: 28,000 people die in floods in Bangladesh 
Jan 1974: Students rise up in Gujarat and Bihar against political corruption 
Jun 1974: Jayaprakash Narayan leads the students of Bihar on a march for "total revolution" 
1974: Pakistan recognizes Bangladesh 
1974: Tata obtains a software contract from BUrroughs, the first major software project offsources by the USA to India 
May 1974: India detonates an underground nuclear weapon, largely the brainchild of nuclear scientist Raja Rammana 
Sep 1974: Sikkim votes overwhelmingly to join India 
1975: Bangladesh's president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is assassinated in a military coup led by general Zia Rahman 
Feb 1975: Sheikh Abdullah becomes the chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir 
1975: Mohammed Daoud removes the communists from the Afghan government 
1975: Persecuted by Afghan's dictator Sardar Daud, Islamic fundamentalists affiliated to the Muslim Brotherhood such as Gulbuddin Hikmetyar and Ahmad Shah Masud flee to Pakistan where they are protected by Jamiat-e-Islami and armed by the paramilitary Frontier Corps of Naseerullah Babar 
Jun 1975: Embroiled in scandals, Indira Gandhi declares a state of emergency, under which her political foes are imprisoned (36 thousand people), constitutional rights abrogated, and the press placed under censorship 
1975: Azim Premji's Bangalore-based Wipro starts selling the first computer made in India 
Apr 1976: ore than 200 squatters die when the Indian government tries to demolish a slum in Delhi 
Sep 1976: To curb population growth, Sanjay Gandhi initiates a program of forced sterilization 
1976: Pakistan founds the Engineering Research Laboratory (ERL) presided by Abdul Wadeer Khan (later renamed KRL) 
1976: The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eeelam is founded in Sri Lanka to protect the rights of the Tamil minority and wins the elections in Tamil-dominated regions 
1977: Bangladesh enacts a new constitution and becomes an Islamic republic 
Mar 1977: Indira Gandhi returns India to democracy but her party loses the elections to the Janata Party formed by a coalition of Morarji Desai's Congress (Organization), Charan Singh's Bharatiya Lok Dal, the Socialist Party and the untouchable Jagjivan Ram, the leader of the Scheduled Castes, and Morarji Desai (a Brahman) becomes the new prime minister; the leftist parties win in West Bengal (and will remain in power for decades) and Marudhur Gopalan Ramachandran's new party wins in Tamil Nadu 
May 1977: Nine dalit are burned to death in Bihar state 
1977: Pakistan quells the rebellion in Balochistan (after 8,000 people died) 
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Jul 1977: The corrupt but secular government of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto (a Shiite) is overthrown by a military coup led by general Zia ul-Haq, a Sunni fundamentalist who reinstates public hangings, death by stoning and public beatings according to Islamic law 
1977: Boom of newspapers thanks to the end of censorship and to the arrival of modern printing technology 
1977: 57 foreign firms, including IBM, close down their Indian plants rather than meet Indian demands for some degree of Indian ownership 
1977: Sheikh Abdullah wins fair elections in Kashmir, the only elections not to be rigged by India between 1947 and 2002 
1978: The Karakoram Highway linking Pakistan and China is opened, thereby increasing trade and military cooperation between the two countries 
Jan 1978: Jimmy Carter (USA) visits India and speaks at parliament 
1978: Maumoon Abdul Gayoom is appointed president in the Maldives 
1978: The exiled Islamist leader Sibghatullah Mujaddedi founds Afghanistan's National Liberation Front in Pakistan (Jabhai Milli Nejate Afghanistan) and the Afghani government retaliates by killing more than 70 members of his family 
1978: Karnataka State's agency Keonics establishes Electronics City in Bangalore, India 
1978: The "Electronic City" is founded in Bangalore, India 
1978: Sri Lanka becomes a presidential republic and Junius Richard Jayawardene is appointed president replacing prime minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike with Ranasinghe Premadasa 
1978: Youstol Dispage 
1978: The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), tolerated by the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, conducts the first terrorist attack in Sri Lanka 
Apr 1978: the Communist Party of Afghanistan stages a coup and removes Daud from power 
April 1978: Mohammed Daoud is toppled by a communist coup in Afghanistan and the leader of the Communist Party, Nur-Mohammed Taraki, is appointed president with vice-presidents Babrak Karmal and Hafizullah Amin, and political purges kill more than 10,000 people in 18 months 
April 1978: Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale leads Sikh nationalists in a campaign of intimidation and assassination against the Nirankari sect 
March 1979: The Soviet Union bombs pro-democracy rebels in Afghanistan, killing more than 10,000 people 
1979: The communist government of West Bengal in India kills thousands of Dalit refugees from Bangladesh of the Namashudra community in Marichjhapi 
Oct 1979: Jayaprakash Narayan dies 
September 1979: Amin overthrows Taraki in Afghanistan 
December 1979: Soviet troops invade Afghanistan, kill Amin and install Babrak Karmal as president 
1979: Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto is hanged in Pakistan, a Shiite leader hanged by a Sunni leader (Muhammad Zia ul-Haq) 
Mar 1979: Sibghatullah Mujaddedi calls for a popular uprising against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan 
1979: The United Liberation Front of Assam (Ulfa) is founded in Assam to fight against Indian rule 
1979: The All Assam Students Union leads anti-Bengali and anti-Muslim strikes and demonstrations 
Dec 1979: The Soviet Union invades Afghanistan, murders the president and installs Babrak Karmal as president 
1980: the USA uses Pakistan to help rebels fighting the Soviet Union in Afghanistan 
1980: India passes the USA as the country that produces the most films 
1980: Harchand Singh Longowal is elected president of the Akali Dal party that represents the Sikhs of Punjab 
1980: Mohammad Najibullah becomes the head of the Afghan secret police (KHAD) that creates concentration camps and liquidates thousands of political enemies 
1980: Wipro, to fill a gap after IBM left India, hires Sridhar Mitta who sets up offices in Bangalore to make computers 
1980: "mujaheddin" and volunteers from the Arab world, led by Saudi scion Osama bin Laden, organize the resistance against the Soviet Union's occupation of Afghanistan 
1980: Indira Gandhi, now allied with Charan Singh, wins elections and is returned to prime minister 
Dec 1980: Jana Sangh members found the Hindu nationalist party Bharatiya Janata Party 
1981: Bangladesh's leader Rahman Zia is assassinated in a military coup 
1981: The USA and Pakistan sign a treaty of alliance that includes military aid to Pakistan 
1981: Infosys is founded in Bangalore by Patni employee Narayana Murthy 
1981: Mukesh Ambani joins his family's business Reliance in India 
1981: East Asia has the highest poverty rate in the world 
1982: Bangladesh is ruled by general Ershad, an Islamic fundamentalist who eventually declares Islam as the state religion 
Feb 1982: Naga rebels kill 22 Indian soldiers 
Mar 1982: The actor Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao founds the Telugu-nationalist party Telugu Desam in Hyderabad 
1982: Pakistan recruits, trains and arms Islamic fighters from more than 40 countries with funds from the USA and Saudi Arabia to fight the Soviet Union in Afghanistan, the first "global jihad" 
1982: China provides Pakistan with the design of a nuclear bomb and weapons-grade uranium 
1983: the Tamil issue becomes a military issue after confrontation between Tamil tigers and the army leaves hundreds dead 
1983: India wins cricket's World Cup and cricket becomes the national sport 
Feb 1983: Hundreds of Muslims are killed by Hindu mobs in Assam 
Oct 1983: Sikh nationalists kill six Hindu passengers on a bus in Punjab state 
1983: Hamid Karzai moves from India to Pakistan and joins Sibghatullah Mujaddedi's National Liberation Front of Afghanistan 
Jan 1983: Rama Rao is elected chief minister of Andhra Pradesh 
1983: Anil Ambani joins his family's business Reliance in India 
Feb 1983: Lalung tribespeople in the Indian state of Assam massacre more than two thousand people during a six-hour period, mainly Bangladeshi Muslims ("Nellie massacre") 
1984: While fighting the Sikh secessionist movement of Jarnail Singh Bindranwale, Indian troops destroy the holy Sikh shrine of the "Golden Temple" 
Jun 1984: While fighting the Sikh secessionist movement of Jarnail Singh Bindranwale, Indian troops destroy the holy Sikh shrine of the "Golden Temple" (hundreds of Sikh terrorists and Indian troops die) 
Oct 1984: Indira Gandhi is assassinated by Sikh bodyguards and is succeeded by her son Rajiv while more than 1000 Sikhs are assassinated around the country (mainly in Delhi) by Hindu mobs 
Dec 1984: A leak at the Union Carbide pesticides plant in Bhopal causes 14,000 deaths 
1984: Pakistan enacts laws that bar the Ahmadis from calling themselves or behaving as Muslims, preaching their faith and using Islamic terms for their places of worship and religious rituals. 
1984: The untouchable Kanshi Ram founds the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) to serve the untouchables/dalits 
1985: Sikh militants plant a bomb on an Air India flight out of Canada killing all 329 passengers 
1985: The media expose the alliance between politicians and organized crime in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar 
Mar 1985: The finance minister Vishwanath Pratap Singh enacts reforms to liberalize the economy thereby launching an economic boom 
Apr 1985: The case of Shah Bano, a woman whose husband refuses to pay alimony based on Islamic law, exposes the double standard in the Indian justice system (a Muslim woman has fewer rights than a woman of any other religion) 
Jul 1985: India's prime minister Rajiv Gandhi and Longowal of the Akali Dal party sign an agreement to end the Punjabi insurrection 
Aug 1985: Longowal is assassinated by Sikh extremists 
Sep 1985: Haq Nawaz Jhangvi founds Sipah-e-Sahaba, a Wahabi organization that aims at turning Pakistan into a purely Sunni nation by expelling or exterminating all Shiites 
Dec 1985: India's prime minister Rajiv Gandhi signs an agreement with the All Assam Students Union to end the insurrection in Assam and the movement changes name to Asom Gana Parishad and wins state elections 
1985: Hafiz Saeed and Zaffar Iqbal, two teachers of Islamic Studies at University of Engineering and Technology in Pakistan, form the Islamic missionary movement Jamaat-ud-Dawa 
1986: The Tripura National Volunteers (TNV) assassinate more than 100 people 
1986: India begins to build a 3000-km border fence around Bangladesh 
Feb 1986: Hindus begin to worship a Hindu shrine, believed to be the birthplace of Ram, in Ayodhya that is located inside a mosque, while the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) demand the construction of a grand temple to replace the mosque 
May 1986: India adopts the Muslim Women's Bill that sets different legal standards for Muslim women than for other women 
Jun 1986: India signs a peace agreement with Laldenga of the Mizo National Front granting statehood to Mizoram 
May 1986: Babrak Karmal is replaced as president of Afghanistan by Mohammad Najibullah, appointed by the Soviet Union 
1986: Ali Bhutto's daughter Benazir returns to Pakistan from exile 
1986: Patni obtains the first contract from a USA company (Data General) for offsourcing software to India 
1986: Sunil Mittal founds the telecom company Bharti Telecom Limited in India 
1986: Pakistan introduces the death penalty for "blasphemy" against the Islamic religion 
1986: Ethnic cleansing of Hindus by radical Sikhs in Punjab increases and Sikhs also set off bombs in Indian cities to kill Sikhs so that Sikhs would seek revenge on Hindus 
1987: First suicide bombing by a Tiger in Sri Lanka 
1987: India rigs Kashmir elections 
1987: Vishwanath Pratap Singh is removed from his position after investigating cases of corruption and the Bofors scandal reveals more corruption in Rajiv Gandhi's government 
Jan 1987: National television of India begins broadcasting the Ramayana, its most successful show yet 
Jul 1987: India deploys troops in Sri Lanka in a peacekeeping mission 
Sep 1987: A Rajput woman, Roop Kunwar, commits ritual suicide after her husband's death and fanatical Hindus erect a temple in her honor in Rajastan 
Oct 1987: Indian troops attack Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers 
1987: India sends a peace-keeping force to broker a truce between the army and the Tamil tigers (1,200 Indian soldiers will die) 
1987: the Tamil Tigers start using suicide bombers 
1987: Abdul Wadeer Khan, the father of Pakistan's nuclear bomb (after stealing nuclear secrets from Holland), begins contacts with Iran to sell nuclear secrets 
1988: Political violence claims the lives of thousands in Sri Lanka before and after national elections 
1988: The leader of the untouchables, Jagjivan Ram, dies 
Mar 1988: India tests its first surface-to-surface missile 
1988: Pakistan Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI)'s general Hamid Gul forms IJI(Islami Jamhuri Ittehad-Islamic democratic front), an anti-USA group of religious organizations 
Sep 1988: Like his mother Rajiv Gandhi introduces a law to limit the freedom of the press 
Oct 1988: Vishwanath Pratap Singh and Janata Party form a new party, Janata Dal 
1988: an Indian ferry capsizes on the Ganges River, killing over 400 people 
1988: The Tripura National Volunteers (TNV) signs an agreement with the government of India to end the insurrection 
1988: Zia, the US ambassador and top Pakistan army officials die in a mysterious air crash 
1988: Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto's daughter Benazir wins the general elections in Pakistan, but real power rests with general Mirza Aslam Beg and the military's protege, Nawaz Sharif, who is assigned the state of Punjab 
1988: Millions of people in India are left homeless during massive floods 
1988: Gautam Adani opens a trading house in India 
1988: Akbar Bugti is appointed chief minister of Balochistan in Pakistan 
1988: Osama bin Laden, in Afghanistan, creates Al Qaeda, a worldwide alliance of (mainly Arab) fundamentalist militants, based on the teachings of Mohammad ibn Abd al-Wahab 
February 1989: the Soviet Union withdraws from Afghanistan (1.3 million Afghans and 12 thousand Soviet soldiers have died, five million Afghans have fled the country) 
1989: Ranasinghe Premadasa is elected president of Sri Lanka 
1989: the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) wins elections in Bihar (and will remain in power for decades) 
1989: Rajiv Gandhi is the first Indian prime minister to visit Pakistan 
1989: Kashmir separatists of the JKLF (Kashmir Liberation Front), trained in Pakistan, take up arms against India and kill more than 50 people 
Oct 1989: Benazir Bhutto fires Hamid Gul, the main architect of Pakistan's involvement in the anti-India insurrection in Kashmir 
1989: Pakistan inaugurates the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture in Karachi 
1989: The Soviet Union withdraws from Afghanistan and Sibghatullah Mujaddedi becomes Afghanistan's new president 
1989: Narendra Dabholkar founds the Committee for Eradication of Blind Faith to combat superstition in India 
Aug 1989: Singh enacts the recommendations of the Mandal Report that 27% of all vacancies in government positions be allocated to some lower castes, causing a wave of self-immolations by Brahmin students 
Nov 1989: Congress loses the elections in India and Singh is elected prime minister by a coalition of Janata Dal, BJP and communists 
1990: Indian troops are withdrawn from Sri Lanka after more than 1000 Indian soldiers have died ("India's Vietnam") 
1990: The separatist group Hizbul Mujahideen is founded in India-controlled Kashmir, and thousands of people are killed by India over two years 
1990: After the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan, the USA imposes sanctions on Pakistan as punishment for its nuclear program 
Aug 1990: Benazir Bhutto is removed from prime minister of Pakistan, on charges of incompetence and corruption 
1990: Nawaz Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League wins elections in Pakistan and Sharif becomes its new prime minister 
1990: Indian troops leave Sri Lanka 
1990: the All Tripura Tiger Force (ATTF) is founded by Lalit Debbarma to fight for Tripura's secession from India 
1990: Pakistan passes a law (based on the holy book of the Muslims, the Quran) that a criminal can settle his crime with the victim by paying money, a law that helps many wealthy criminals to avoid trial 
1990: Shiite militants assassinate the founder of Sipah-e-Sahaba, Haq Nawaz Jhangvi 
1990: Islamic militants of Pakistan led by Hafiz Saeed form the Islamist organization Lashkar-e-Taiba to fight India, basically the military wing of Jamaat-ud-Dawa 
Sep 1990: Lal Krishna Advani of the BJP leads a five-week march by Hindus on Ayodhya that is stopped by the police (about 20 people die) 
Nov 1990: Singh resigns as prime minister of India 
Dec 1990: Riaz Basra of Sipah-e-Sahaba kills the Iranian consul in Lahore, Sadiq Ganji, whom they consider a Shiite agitator 
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1991: Nepal holds its first democratic elections that herald an age of political instability (eleven governments in eleven years) 
Jun 1991: A special Indian tribunal deals with water issues (Kaveri river) between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu 
1991: The Indian army attacks Sikh strongholds in Punjab killing more than 3,300 civilians 
1991: During the electoral campaign Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated by Tamil separatists, Congress wins elections and Narasimha Rao becomes prime minister, with Manmohan Singh as finance minister to liberalize India's economy, but the BJP wins in four northern states 
1991: In Bangladesh, president Ershad is sentenced to jail for corruption and Begum Khaleda Zia, widow of Zia Rahman, becomes prime minister 
1991: A tsunami kills 138,000 people in Bangladesh 
1991: The Indian government sets up the Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) to promote software exports and opens the first park in the Electronics City of Bangalore 
1991: Om Prakash Jindal splits between his children the steel and power conglomerate that he built in India 
1991: Wipro wins a software contract from a US customer that interacts via the Internet 
1991: Literacy rate in India is 64% for men and 39% for women, while for Sri Lanka it is 94% and 89% 
Dec 1992: Hindu extremists destroy a 16th century mosque in Ayodhya, causing riots that kill 2000 people 
1992: Tamil tigers kill dozens of Muslims in Sri Lanka 
1992: India produces 189 Hindi films, 180 Tamil films, 153 Telugu films, 92 Kannada films, 90 Malayam films, 42 Bengal films, 25 Marathi films 
1992: Burhanuddin Rabbani is elected president of Afghanistan but civil war erupts between Tajik commander Ahmad Shah Masud, Rabbani's defense minister, and Pakistan-supported Gulbuddin Hikmetyar's militias 
1992: Pakistan begins missile cooperation with North Korea 
1993: American outsources the management of its credit-card business to its Indian office led by Roman Roy, the first major project of business-process outsourcing to India 
1993: Punjab returns to democratic rule after 20,000 people have been killed in the insurrection 
1993: Muslims and Hindus riot in Mumbai (800 people died) 
1993: Separatist rebels of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) kill 100 Muslims at the Bansbari refugee camp of India's north-eastern Assam state 
1993: The USA adds Pakistan to the list of countries sponsoring terrorism 
Jan 1993: Hikmetyar's militias, supported by Pakistan, lay siege to Afghanistan's capital Kabul 
Mar 1993: Muslim terrorists detonate several bombs in Mumbai killing more than 300 people 
1993: Benazir Bhutto wins national elections again in Pakistan 
1993: A bombing campaign by Tamil rebels in Sri Lanka kills even president Premadasa 
1993: Bombs set by Islamic fundamentalists destroys the Mumbai stock exchange and other buildings, killing 257 people, in retaliation for the demolition of a 16th-century mosque in Ayodhya by Hindu fundamentalists 
1993: India adopts amendments to the constitution that mandate the creation of local governments (city, town, village) 
1994: Muslim separatists of Hizbul Mujahideen plant bombs in Kashmir, killing dozens, while foreign fighters join their ranks 
Mar 1994: Rajendra Singh, from a backward caste, becomes president of the RSS 
1994: ICICI Bank is established 
1994: India liberalizes its telecom industry 
1994: Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga is elected (female) president of Sri Lanka and appoints her mother Sirimavo Bandaranaike as prime minister 
1994: Pakistan helps the Taliban, Afghan fighters bred in the madrassas of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam, launch an invasion of Kandahar in Afghanistan from Pakistan 
1995: Abdul Wadeer Khan, the father of Pakistan's atomic bomb, begins contacts with North Korea to sell nuclear secrets 
1995: The Nepal Communist Party begins an armed insurrection in Nepal 
1995: Azam Tariq, a Pakistani Sunny cleric leader of the Islamist party Sipah-i-Sahaba, publicly calls for attacks on Shiites in Pakistan 
1995: Youstol Dispage 
1995: Bhutto's husband Asif Ali Zardari profits from a sale of Mirages by French aerospace company Dassault to Pakistan, the most visible of the bribes he received while his wife was in power 
1995: A suicide bomber (the first one in Pakistan's history) kills 15 people at the Egyptian Embassy in Islamabad 
1995: The Essar Group run by Nand Kishore Ruia's sons Shashi and Ravi Ruia is an Indian conglomerate that extends from shipping to steel, oil, power and telecommunications 
1995: Lakshmi Mittal, the son of Mohan Mittal, founds his own steel business, LNM Group (later Mittal Steel) 
1995: A judge in the Indian state of Rajasthan ruled that upper-caste men could not have defiled themselves by raping an untouchable woman and acquitted the five men accused of raping a Dalit woman [Note: this is widely repeated in India but he could not find any source] 
1996: Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto grants universal adult suffrage in Pakistan, but the FATA remains off-limits to political parties 
September 1996: With help from Osama bin Laden the Taliban militia, inspired by the writings of Sayyid Qutb and the teachings of Mohammad ibn Abd al-Wahab, dislodges the mujahedin government from Afghanistan, executes Mohammad Najibullah (first castrated and then hanged) and installs one of the most fundamentalistic Muslim governments in the world 
1996: Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto is removed again on charges of corruption 
1996: Riaz Basra breaks away from Sipah-e-Sahaba and founds the radical Sunni movement Lashkar-e-Jhangvi 
1996: The Pakistani-backed Taliban capture Afghanistan's capital Kabul, opposed by the Northern Alliance of Masud 
1996: Hikmetyar is defeated by the Taliban and goes into exile in Iran 
1996: Sheikh Hasina Wajed, the daughter of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, wins the elections in Bangladesh 
1996: Tamil rebels bomb the capital of Sri Lanka 
1996: No party wins elections in India and a coalition of non-BJP parties, the United Front, forms a government led by Deve Gowda of the Janata Dal 
1996: Malik Ishaq and others found the Sunni movement Lashkar-e-Jhangvi in Pakistan 
Sep 1996: More than 200 people are killed in fighting between Shiites and Sunnis in Kurram, Pakistan 
1997: The Muslim League wins general elections in Pakistan and Nawaz Sharif is elected prime minister of Pakistan 
1997: A wave of kidnappings in the tiny state of Tripura (1394 between 1997 and 2000) 
1997: A dalit, K. R. Narayanan, is elected president of India 
1997: Pakistan arrests Malik Ishaq, founder of the Islamist movement Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, for the murder of 70 people 
Dec 1997: Ranvir Sena members kill 61 people in Bihar 
1997: Mother Theresa (Yugoslavia-born missionary nun Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu) dies in India 
1997: Sunni extremists assassinate 75 Shiite leaders in Pakistan 
1998: Pakistan's top nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan provides North Korea with nuclear technology in exchange for missile technology 
Mar 1998: The Nationalist Party BJP wins India's elections and Atal Behari Vajpayee becomes prime minister 
Apr 1998: Pakistan tests a medium-range missile 
1998: India creates two new states for the Adivasis, Jharkhand and Chattisgarth 
1998: The Talibam, under the command of Abdullah Dadullah, massacre Shiites in Afghanistan 
1998: India launches the "National Highways Development Project" 
May 1998: India and Pakistan conduct nuclear tests (the first Hindu and the first Islamic atomic bombs) 
1998: Massive floods in Bangladesh 
1998: 211 die in a train collision in the Punjab 
1998: a Muslim fundamentalist, Tablighi Muslim Rafiq Tarar, is elected president of Pakistan 
1998: Tata introduces India's first passenger car 
1998: Gautam Adani buys India's port of Mundra and creates a "special economic zone" of 100 sqkm for his diversified financial empire 
1998: The Italian-born Sonia Gandhi is elected president of the Congress Party 
1999: The Taliban assassinate Pashtun leader Abdul Ahad Karzai in Pakistan and several other Afghan exiles with complicity from Pakistan's secret services 
1999: Azim Premji is the richest person in India and Wipro has the highest market capitalization in India 
1999: Benazir Bhutto is sentenced to jail in absentia 
May 1999: India fights a brief war in Kashmir to dislodge Pakistani and Kashmiri fighters who, supported by Pakistan's general Pervez Musharraf, have occupied strategic peaks in Kashmir (2000 Pakistanis die, 500 Indian soldiers die) 
1999: Mizoram passes Kerala as India's most literate state 
Oct 1999: Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif is overthrown in a military coup led by general Pervez Musharraf 
1999: A cyclone devastates the Indian state of Orissa killing 10,000 people 
1999: 285 die in a train collision near Calcutta 
1999: During India's economic boom of the 1990s the fastest growing state was Gujarat (9.5% yearly), followed by Maharashtra (8%) and Tamil Nadu (6.2%) 
Jul 1999: Mohammad Sayeed leaves the Congress Party and founds the People's Democratic Party 
Dec 1999: Kashmiri militants supported by Pakistan's secret services hijack an Indian airplane and hold 160 passengers hostages until India releases Harkat's leaders Maulana Masood Azhar and Sajjad Afghani 
1999: Nationalist Hindu agitator Dinanath Batra is appointed in charge of sanitizing school textbooks 
Mar 2000: Pakistani-based Islamic Fundamentalists (probably of Lashkar-e-Taiba) kill 36 Sikhs in the Kashmiri village of Chittisinghpura while US president Bill Clinton is visiting India 
2000: There are 340,000 software engineers in India, about 20% women 
2000: Three new states are created bringing the total to 28 
May 2000: The population of India is one billion 
2000: India's male stars in the Hindu film industry are Muslims (Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan, Aamir Khan) 
2000: Pakistan has 30,000 madrasas (up from 136 in 1947) 
2000: The Tamil leader Velupillai Prabhakaran offers peace talks to the Sri Lankan government 
2000: 62% of India's exports of software go to the USA 
Apr 2000: Former Pakistani prime minister Sharif is jailed for treason 
Sep 2000: The Afghan Taliban capture Masud's stronghold in the north thanks to an army that includes many foreigners (Pakistanis, Kashmiris, Chechens, Arabs, Filipinos) 
2000: Musharraf appoints Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry as chief justice of Pakistan's Supreme Court 
2000: Atheist writer Avijit Roy starts the Bangla-language blog Mukto-mona (Free Mind) 
2001: King Birendra of Nepal and his entire family are killed by a crown prince, and Gyanendra becomes the new king 
2001: Life expectancy in India is 64 
2001: Since 1990 about 12,000 civilians have died in Kashmir, mostly Hindus killed by Islamic militants, and Indian troops have killed about 13,000 militants 
Mar 2001: the Islamic government of Afghanistan destroys the 1500 year-old Buddha statues of Bamiyan 
2001: in retaliation for Osama bin Laden's terrorism, the USA invades Afghanistan, removes both the Taliban and Al Qaeda from power, and installs Hamid Karzai as president 
2001: King Gyanendra declares a state of emergency in Nepal after dozens are killed by Maoists 
2001: An earthquakes kills 30,000 people in the Indian state of Gujarat 
2001: Skirmishes between the Indian and Bangladeshi armies leave 20 soldiers dead 
Mar 2001: The Taliban of Afghanistan destroy the century-old Buddha statues of Bamiyan 
Jul 2001: More than 80 people are killed in Kashmir by Islamic fighters while the Pakistani president Musharraf is in India for peace talks 
Sep 2001: Two Tunisian terrorists of Al Qaeda, coming from Pakistan, kill Masud in Afghanistan 
Sep 2001: Terrorists of Al Qaeda based in Afghanistan carry out attacks against the USA 
Oct 2001: The USA begins a bombing campaign against the Taliban in Afghanistan 
Oct 2001: Narendra Modi of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) becomes chief minister of Gujarat 
Oct 2001: Kashmiri militants explode a car bomb in Srinagar (the capital of India's Kashmir) that kills 29 people 
Dec 2001: The Northern Alliance under general Dostum massacres thousands of Taliban prisoners at Qala Jangi, Afghanistan, while Pakistani agents and Arab terrorists who were fighting alongside the Taliban are airlifted out of the country by Pakistan 
Dec 2001: The USA expels the last Taliban from Afghanistan and appoints Hamid Karzai as new president (12,000 Taliban have been killed and 4,000 Afghan civilians versus only 1 US casualty) 
Dec 2001: Islamic suicide bombers from Pakistan attack India's Parliament in New Delhi but the police prevents the massacre 
2001: Pakistan has 6,870 madrassas (up from 245 at the time of independence) 
2001: Several bombs kill more than 30 people in Bangladesh 
2001: Khaleda Zia wins the election in Bangladesh but her government soon become mired in corruption scandals 
2001: Ranil Wickremesinghe wins Sri Lanka's elections and becomes prime minister after campaigning on a peace platform 
2001: the Kumbh Mela pilgrimage at Allahabad draws at least 20 million pilgrims 
2001: Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels attack the Colombo airport, killing 18 people and destroying half of the national airline fleet 
2001: More than one thousand people are killed by political violence in northeast India 
2002: Raids by Maoist rebels leave 127 people dead in Nepal 
2002: Mohammad Sayeed becomes the chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir 
2002: Iran expels Gulbuddin Hikmetyar who settles in Peshawar, northwestern Pakistan, where he becomes an ally of the Taliban 
2002: Following the death of 57 Hinuds in a fire on a train set off by Muslim cleric Maulana Hussain Umarij, ethnic rioting erupts in Gujarat that kills 2,000 people, mainly Muslims, mainly by members of the VHP 
2002: Peace talks begin between Sri Lanka's prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and the Tamil rebels (the civil war has killed over 64,000 people) 
2002: Islamic militants increase attacks on Kashmir and other Indian states but Kashmir holds its first fair elections since 1977 and Congress wins electing Mohammed Saeed as chief minister 
Oct 2002: Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam wins elections in the northwestern provinces and in Balochistan of Pakistan, and becomes a protector of the Taliban in Balochistan and of the Haqqani fighters in the northwest 
2002: Baloch nationalists launch a fourth uprising against Pakistan 
Apr 2002: In the first four months of 2002 Sunni Pakistani militias kill 17 doctors, 4 lawyers, 5 journalists, 4 teachers and 16 government officials of the Shiite minority in Karachi alone 
2002: Pakistan bans Lashkar-e-Taiba but the organization continues to raise funds through its charity arm, Jamaat-ud-Dawa
Jun 2002: In retaliation for a perceived clan offence, three men sodomize the 12-year old Shaqoor Bib and six men rape his sister Mukhataran Mai in the village of Meerwala, Pakistan, and then parade the woman naked in front of hundreds of onlookers 
2002: the first democratic elections are held in Pakistan since 1999 and Zafarullah Khan Jamali becomes prime minister but Musharraf retains real power 
Jan 2003: The Taliban fight a battle with US troops, the first battle since the Taliban regrouped in Pakistan 
2003: Bangalore in India has more software engineers than Silicon Valley, but they mostly work for US companies 
2003: A woman, Mayawati, becomes the new leader of the BSP, the first prominent Indian woman to come from the lower castes 
2003: Islamic terrorists execute 24 Hindu civilians in Kashmir 
2003: Pakistani politician Javed Piracha from Peshawar wins the release from jail of 300 suspected Arab teerrorists and facilitates the repatriation to their countries 
2003: India vaccinates 165 million children to eradicate polio 
2003: Tripura separatist rebels kill 22 Bengali villagers 
2003: Members of the Sunni terrorist group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi kill eleven police officers of the Shia community in Balochistan, Pakistan 
2003: A ferry capzised in Bangladesh killing over 400 people 
2003: 34 people are killed by separatists in northeastern India 
2003: more than 50 people are killed in two bomb attacks in Mumbai by the Islamic group "Students Islamic Movement of India" (SIMI) affiliated with Lashkar-e-Taiba 
2003: Azam Tariq, a Pakistani Sunny cleric leader of the pro-Taliban party Sipah-i-Sahaba, is killed 
2003: Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf survives two assassination attempts by Al Qaeda and organized by Amjad Hussain Farooqi of Jaish-e-Muhammed 
2004: Pakistan's top nuclear scientist, Abdul Qadeer Khan, confesses on tv that he helped Iran, Libya and North Korea acquire nuclear technology 
Jul 2004: Punjab unilaterally decides not to share the waters of its rivers with Rajastan 
2004: Hamid Karzai wins free democratic elections in Afghanistan 
Mar 2004: Pakistan's Frontier Corps are defeated by Al Qaeda in a battle inside northwestern Pakistan's FATA (Federally Administered Tribal Areas) 
May 2004: Pakistani militants start using suicide attacks in a co-ordinated manner with the attacks on Karachi that kill 100 people
2004: The war between Maoist rebels and the Nepalese army leaves hundreds of people dead 
2004: The party of Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga wins elections in Sri Lanka against the party of prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and Mahinda Rajapakse is appointed prime minister 
2004: Pakistan carries out a 12-day military offensive in South Waziristan on the border with Afghanistan to dislodge Al Waeda and Taliban fighters 
2004: Despite an economic boom, a third of Indians live on less than a dollar a day 
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2004: A coalition led by the Congress Party wins national elections but its leader, Catholic Italian-born Sonia Gandhi, lets Manmohan Singh, a Sikh, become India's new prime minister in a coalition with the Communist Party 
2004: Bangalore has 150,000 software engineers, more than the Silicon Valley in California 
2004: 29 Indians are killed in Kashmir by a bomb planted by Islamic separatists 
2004: a ferry sinks in Bangladesh killing about 160 people 
2004: Maoist rebels control 68 of Nepal's 75 districts 
2004: ten people are killed in a bomb blast in Quetta, Pakistan 
2004: tsunamis caused by one of the strongest earthquakes in history (9.0 magnitude) kill thousands in Southeast Asia 
2004: India becomes the largest recipient of Japanese aid 
2004: Bangladesh sets up a paramilitary unit, the Rapid Action Battalion 
Jan 2005: Balochis fight the army in Pakistan 
2005: Newsweek magazine reports that guards at Guantanamo desecrated the Quran, a news that sparks deadly riots in Afghanistan and anti-USA protests in many Islamic countries 
2005: A suicide bombing kills more than 20 people in an Afghan mosque 
Dec 2005: Balochis try to assassinate Pakistan's president Musharraf, who retaliates with a campaign that kills hundreds of Balochis 
2005: more than 30 people are killed in a bomb blast at the Fatehpu shrine in Pakistan 
2005: More than 50% of all jobs outsourced by Silicon Valley companies go to India 
2005: China and India sign a treaty in which China gives up any claim on the state of Sikkim 
2005: A bomb blast at a Muslim shrine in Pakistan's capital Islamabad kills at least 20 people 
2005: an bomb by Hizbul Mujahideen kills nine Indian soldiers in Kashmir 
2005: An earthquake in Kashmir causes 80,500 dead, mostly in Pakistan 
2005: Pakistan expels foreign Islamic students, who frequently support terrorism 
2005: Pakistan launches its first long-range nuclear-capable missile and its first cruise missile 
2005: Sri Lankan foreign minister Lakshman Kadirgamar is assassinated by members of the Liberation Tamil Tigers of Eelam (LTTE) 
2005: 350 bombs planted by Islamic fundamentalists of Jamayetul Mujahedin detonate in Bangladesh 
2005: Tamil Tiger rebels in Sri Lanka agree to hold direct talks with the government 
2005: Asif Chotto, head of the terrorist group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi that killed hundreds of Pakistani shiites, is arrested 
2005: bombs set by Kashmiri militants of Lashkar-e-Toiba kill 59 people in New Delhi 
Nov 2005: Maoists (Naxalites) kill 24 police officers in India 
2005: Muslims in Sangla Hill (Punjab) destroy two Catholic churches and two schools because they think that someone has burned a copy of the Quran 
2005: Sri Lanka's prime minister Mahinda Rajapakse wins presidential elections 
2005: Seven people are killed by Islamic terrorists of Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen in Bangladesh, the first suicide bombing in the country's history 
2005: 669 people are killed in 2005 in violence related to the Maoist insurgency of the Naxalites 
2005: the USA and India sign a nuclear agreement 
2005: 33.6% of India's population (370 million people) makes less than $1 a day 
2005: The Ambani brothers of India split their business empire 
2005: More than 1,400 people are killed in Afghanistan, the worst toll since the USA ousted the Taliban 
Apr 2005: A bus link opens between Indian and Pakistani Kashmir 
2006: 21 people die in a car bomb attack on a market in southern Afghanistan 
2006: 23 shiites are killed by a suicide bomber in Pakistan 
Jan 2006: a US drone kills five Al Qaeda members inside Pakistan 
May 2006: The Taliban, led by Abdullah Dadullah, launch an offensive in Afghanistan that will kill more than 400 police officers 
2006: The Pakistani army kills the leader of Balochistan's resistance, Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti 
2006: Maoists (Naxalites) kill 25 people in India 
2006: Bangladesh arrests Abdur Rahman, leader of terrorist organization Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen 
Aug 2006: Balochistan's separatist leader Akbar Bugti is killed by Pakistan, causing riots in Balochistan 
2006: Lakshmi Mittal's Luxembourg-based ArcelorMittal is world's largest steel-maker 
2006: bombs kill more than 20 people in Varanasi 
2006: 25 Muslims are killed in Pakistan during fights between rival factions 
2006: 47 people are killed in a suspected suicide bomb attack at a Sunni religious gathering in Karachi, Pakistan 
2006: massive pro-democracy protests in Nepal 
2006: Tamil Tiger rebels sink a Sri Lanka navy gunboat in a sea battle that leaves at least 45 people dead 
2006: 58 people die when a bus hits a landmine in Sri Lanka 
Aug 2006: Pakistan kills 33 Baloch rebels including Nawab Akbar Bugti, but his grandson Brahumdagh Bugti flees to Afghanistan 
Jul 2006: Multiple terrorist bombs in Mumbai kill more than 200 people while Islamists kill Hindu tourists in Kashmir, and India accuses Pakistan's intelligence agency ISI of planning the attacks and the Islamist militant group Lashkar-e-Toiba of carrying them out 
2006: Government troops and Tamil Tiger rebels fight on three fronts in Sri Lanka despite the 2002 ceasefire agreement 
2006: Government troops kill 17 aid workers in Sri Lanka 
2006: Bombs kill 37 people in a Muslim town of western India, Malegaon 
2006: at least 99 soldiers are killed by a suicide attack in northern Sri Lanka 
2006: Bangladeshi President Iajuddin Ahmed is sworn in as head of an interim government after the political parties cannot resolve a national crisis 
2006: A Pakistani air raid kills 80 taleban in a madrasa 
2006: more than 4,000 people are killed in Afghanistan, both insurgents, soldiers and civilians 
Sep 2006: Pakistan and the Taliban based in the FATA sign a peace treaty that allows the Taliban to expand their operations inside Pakistan 
2006: Taliban militants adopt the suicide attacks used by insurgents in Iraq and launch 78 suicide bombings across Afghanistan in the first nine months, killing close to 200 people 
2007: More than 2,300 people die in insurgency-related violence in Afghanistan in the first five months of 2007 
2007: About 26% of Indians still live under the poverty line, mostly in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh 
2007: more than 100 NATO soldiers are killed by Taliban in Afghanistan during the first seven months of 2007 
2007: the Taliban unleash a campaign against schools in Afghanistan that kills 147 students and teachers, and closes 590 schools out of the 680 that the USA has built 
2007: Bangladesh's interim government bans both Khaleda Zia and Sheikh Hasina Wajed from the country, blaming them for the country's political chaos 
2007: A Chinese-built port opens in Gawdar, Pakistan 
2007: A suicide bomber kills 15 people at a Shiite mosque in Peshawar, Pakistan 
2007: Indian paramilitary troops are killed by separatist rebels in India's state of Manipur 
2007: bombs kill at least 64 people on a Pakistan-bound train in northern India 
Jul 2007: Pakistanis storm the red mosque of Islamabad killing more than 100 people while chief cleric Abdul Aziz tries to flee dressed in woman's burqa 
Jun 2007: A USA strike kills more than 80 civilians in Chora, Afghanistan 
2007: a bomb by Balochistan rebels kills at least 15 people in Qetta 
2007: Maoist rebels ("Naxalites") kill 50 police officers in India's state Chhattisgarh, bringing the total victims of the Naxalites to 6,000 since their insurgency started in the late 1960s 
2007: 16 civilians are killed in a bus explosion in Sri Lanka 
2007: Pakistani cleric Maulana Abdul Aziz calls for suicide bombings against the government of general Musharraf 
2007: Pakistan experiences 56 suicide bombings in 2007 up from 6 the previous year 
2007: suicide bombers strike repeatedly in the border area between Pakistan and Afghanistan, some targeting Chinese workers in Pakistan 
Jul 2007: 73 students and clerics are killed in clashes between security forces and militants (led by cleric Abdul Aziz) holed in the Lal Masjid/ Red Mosque of Islamabad, Pakistan (after they take eight Chinese women hostage), and hundreds of people are killed in subsequent bombings by Islamists 
2007: more than 1,000 people are killed in Afghanistan in june alone, including at least 700 insurgents and 200 civilians 
Jul 2007: Pakistan cancels the treaty with the Taliban and launches an offensive in the FATA 
2007: train service between India and Bangladesh is resumed after 42 years 
2007: Pratibha Patil becomes India's first female president 
2007: 42 people are killed in Hyderabad (India) by two twin bombings credited to the Islamic fundamentalist Indian Mujahideen 
2007: 25 people are killed near Islamabad (Pakistan) by two suicide bombers 
2007: Pakistan is rocked by demonstrations led by the lawyers' movement and by supporters of former leaders Nawaz Sharif and Benazir Bhutto, all demanding a return to democratic rule 
2007: Pakistan's literacy rate is 54%, with female literacy at less than 30%, but Pakistan has 12,000 Islamic schools (madrasas) 
2007: A bomb kills 16 people in Sri Lanka's capital Colombo 
Dec 2007: Suicide bombers of Baitullah Meshud's Pakistani Taliban kill more than 140 people at Benazir Bhutto's welcome event in Karachi and weeks later kill her (Pakistan) 
2007: India's per-capita GDP is $800 
2007: India's GDP grows by 9.4% 
December 2007: a Taliban suicide bomber kills 70 people in north Afghanistan including six members of Parliament 
2007: 480 people are killed in 129 suicide bombings in Afghanistan during 2007 
Mar 2007: Musharraf fires chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry causing nationwide protests by judges 
2007: For the first time more civilians are killed in Pakistan than in Afghanistan by Islamic militants 
Sep 2007: 26 police officers are killed near Islamabad (Pakistan) by two suicide bombers and an entire convoy of Frontier Corps is kidnapped by the Taliban of Baitullah Mahsud 
Jan 2008: A suicide bomber in the Pakistani city of Lahore kills 19 police officers 
2008: Tamil Tigers blow up a bus in Sri Lanka killing 23 people after the government ends the truce with the rebels 
2008: the PPP of the late Benazir Bhutto and the PML-N of Nawaz Sharif win parliamentary elections in Pakistan and nominate Yousaf Raza Gilani to be the new prime minister 
2008: 11 Maoist rebels die in a battle with Indian troops in the state of Chhattisgarh 
2008: Baitullah Mahsud, the leader of the Pakistani Taliban, has de facto created an independent Islamic republic at the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan. 
Pakistan, 2008: The USA carries out more than 20 bombins inside Pakistani territory to kill Al Qaeda and Taliban leaders 
Feb 2008: three suicide bombings in three days rock Pakistan 
Mar 2008: Bhutan holds its first democratic elections and Jigmi Kinley is elected prime minister 
Mar 2008: Indian car manufacturer Tata buys Jaguar 
Apr 2008: Nepal holds its first free elections with representation from the Maoists 
Apr 2008: Maoist rebels led by Prachanda (Pushpa Kamal Dahal) win parliamentary elections in Nepal, enact a new constitution that ends the monarchy and appoint Ram Baran Yadavcalled as president 
Apr 2008: A bomb on a bus in Sri Lanka kills 26 people 
Apr 2008: Pakistan's secret services try to assassinate Afghanistan's president Hamid Karzai at a parade in Kabul 
May 2008: 63 people are killed by bombs set by Indian Mujahideen in Jaipur, India 
June 2008: a USA air strike kills 11 Pakistani soldiers 
July 2008: A suicide bomber of Sirajuddin Haqqani's Taliban kills 54 people in an attack on the Indian embassy in Afghanistan
July 2008: Indian inflation hits 12% 
July 2008: Dozens of bombs by the Indian Mujahideen kill 49 people in Ahmedabad, an attack blamed by India on Mohammed Arif Sheikh's Indian Mujahideen movement 
August 2008: Two suicide bombers kill 64 workers of an arms factory in Pakistan 
August 2008: Following the killing of Hindu preacher Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati (by Maoists), Hindu extremists launch a campaign against Christians in Eastern India (30 people killed, 3,000 homes burned and over 130 churches destroyed in Kandhamal alone) 
August 2008: A USA airstrike in Azizabad (western Afghanistan) kills 92 civilians 
August 2008: Maoist rebels kill seven police officers in East India 
August 2008: Protests by lawyers force general Musharraf to resign as president of Pakistan 
September 2008: Asif Ali Zardari, widower of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, wins Pakistan's presidential election 
September 2008: Five bombs set by Indian Mujahideen in shopping areas of New Delhi kill 26 people 
September 2008: A suicide bomber kills 53 people at the Marriott Hotel in Pakistan's capital Islamabad 
September 2008: Suicide attacks kill 1,188 in Pakistan between july 2007 and september 2008 
September 2008: 168 people die in a stampede at a Hindu temple in Jodhpur, India 
September 2008: Pakistan appoints a new head of the ISI (intelligence services), Ahmed Shujaa Pasha 
October 2008: A suicide bomber kills more than 25 people in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka 
October 2008: Collapse of the stock market both in India and Pakistan 
September 2008: 54 people are killed in an attack on the Marriott hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan 
September 2008: Suicide attacks kill 1,188 people in Pakistan between july 2007 and september 2008 
October 2008: More than 70 people are killed in a series of bomb explosions in Assam, India, blamed on the separatist United Liberation Front of Assam 
November 2008: Maldives' first democratically elected Mohamed Nasheed, a former political prisoner, takes office, replacing Gayoom, the longest-ruling head of government in Asia 
November 2008: Pakistani-based Islamic extremists of Lashkar-e-Taiba reporting to Zakiur Lakhvi kill 164 people in several coordinated attacks in Mumbai, plus nine of the terrorists (only Mohammad Ajmal Amir Qasab survives) 
December 2008: More than 30 people are killed by a Taliban suicide bomber in a Pakistani border town that fought the Taliban 
December 2008: A Taliban suicide bomber kills 16 people including 13 schoolchildren in a town at the border with Pakistan
December 2008: The party of Sheikh Hasina Wajed wins a huge majority in Bangladesh's elections aimed at restoring civilian rule while the Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami loses all its seats 
2008: Mumbai generates 5% of India's GDP 
2008: Pakistan overtakes Iraq and Afghanistan in suicide-bomb deaths after 61 attacks in one year that killed 889 people, up from 56 suicide attacks in 2007, bringing the total since 2002 to 140 
august 2008: more then 3,700 people are killed in fighting in Afghanistan in the first eight months of 2008 
sep 2008: NATO killed 3,200 civilians in Afghanistan from 2005 to mid 2008 
Dec 2008: 2,000 civilians are killed in Afghanistan during 2008, 39% killed by NATO 
Mar 2009: Pakistan' government reappoints Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry as chief justice of the Supreme Court 
May 2009: A USA air strike on Granai (in the western district of Bala Baluk) kills 147 Afghan civilians 
Oct 2009: There are more than 100,000 NATO troops (including about 68,000 USA soldiers) in Afghanistan alongside 200,000 Afghan soldiers fighting less than 25,000 Taliban 
Jan 2009: The Sri Lankan army takes Jaffna, the capital of the Tamil separatists 
Jan 2009: Under new president Obama the USA continues missile strikes against Baitullah Meshud's Pakistani Taliban 
Feb 2009: The government of Pakistan surrenders the border region of the Swat Valley to the Taliban who impose Islamic law
Feb 2009: Bangladesh's border security force, the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR), stage a mutiny to protest low salaries that results in the killing of 74 people 
Feb 2009: A suicide bomber kills more than 25 people at a funeral procession in Dera Ismail Khan in north-west Pakistan 
Mar 2009: A suicide bomber kills more than 50 people at a mosque near Jamrud in north-west Pakistan 
Apr 2009: Three suicide bombs in 24 hours in Pakistan, including an attack on a Shiite mosque in Islamabad that kills 26 people 
Apr 2009: Islamic law is enacted over Swat Valley, a region of Pakistan controlled by the Taliban of Maulana Fazlullah 
May 2009: A USA air strike on Granai (in the western district of Bala Baluk) kills 147 Afghan civilians 
May 2009: The Pakistani army begins an offensive against the Taliban of Maulana Fazlullah that sends more than one million people fleeing to refugee camps 
May 2009: Tamil Tigers' leader Velupillai Prabhakaran is killed by the army in Sri Lanka 
May 2009: 23 people are killed and 200 injured by a suicide bombing in Lahore, Pakistan 
May 2009: A US airstraike in the Afghan town of Granai kills more than 100 civilians 
Jun 2009: A suicide bomber kills 38 people at a mosque near Upper Dir in north-west Pakistan, and a suicide attack on a luxury hotel in Peshawar kills 12 people, causing Pakistani villagers to take up arms against the Taliban 
June 2009: Pakistan releases from jail the founder and spiritual leader of Lashkar-e-Taiba, Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, that India accuses of orchestrating the 2008 Mumbai attacks 
Jul 2009: Maoists kill 27 police officers in the state of Chhattisgarh 
Jul 2009: Muslim mobs attack the Christian minority of Gojra Pakistan, mob burning nearly 40 houses and a church and killing 8 Christians 
Aug 2009: Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan orchestrates riots in Gorja against against Pakistan's Christians 
Aug 2009: A USA drone kills Pakistani Taliban's chief Baitullah Mahsud 
Aug 2009: Maulana Ali Sher Hyderi, chief of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan, is assassinated 
Sep 2009: More than 30 Shiites are killed by a suicide bomber in Astarzai (Pakistan) claimed by Lahskar-e-Jhangvi 
Oct 2009: The Taliban bomb a market in Peshawar (Pakistan) Killing 52 people 
Oct 2009: Maoists kill 17 police officers in Maharashtra state of India 
Oct 2009: Taliban suicide bombers kill more than 350 people in Pakistan in the first three weeks of october, and the Pakistani army begins an offensive in South Waziristan 
Oct 2009: There are more than 100,000 NATO troops (including about 68,000 USA soldiers) in Afghanistan alongside 200,000 Afghan soldiers fighting less than 25,000 Taliban 
Oct 2009: About 400 civilians have been killed between january and october by NATO operations in Afghanistan 
Dec 2009: Bombs kill 36 people at a market in Lahore, Pakistan 
Dec 2009: 22 people are killed in a bomb attack in the central Pakistani town of Dera Ghazi Khan 
Dec 2009: 43 Shiites are killed in a suicide bomb attack by the Pakistani Taliban of Asmatullah Bhittani in Karachi, Pakistani 
Dec 2009: NATO bombings kill eight schoolchildren in Kunar and seven civilians in Helmand province while a suicide bombing kills seven C.I.A. officers in Khost province, Afghanistan 
Dec 2009: A suicide bomb attack at a volleyball pitch kills 93 people in Lakki Marwat, Pakistan 
Dec 2009: 2412 civilians are killed in Afghanistan and 3021 in Pakistan during 2009 
2009: Anil Ambani and Mukesh Ambani of India are the 6th and 7th richest persons in the world, having built Reliance into a business conglomerate 
2009: India's Infosys sets up the largest corporate university in the world at Mysore 
2009: USA drones carry out 53 strikes inside Pakistan, killing 520 people 
Jan 2010: Sri Lanka holds the first nationwide election since the end of the civil war, won by Mahinda Rajapakse, who then proceeds to jail his rival Sarath Fonseka 
2010: Bangladesh's death squad Rapid Action Battalion is suspected in the extra-judician executions of more than 500 people, notably members of the Islamist movement Jumatul Mujahideen Bangladesh 
Jan 2010: Three USA soldiers are killed in Pakistan by the Pakistani Taliban, the first USA casualties inside Pakistan 
Feb 2010: A bomb by Indian Mujaheddin at the German Bakery in Pune kills 17 people 
Feb 2010: A US drone kills 23 civilians, including 7 women and two toddlers, in Afghanistan's Oruzgan Province 
Mar 2010: A Taliban suicide attack kills more than 40 supporters of the secular Awami National Party in Northwestern Pakistan 
Apr 2010: Naxalites kill 75 police officers in Chhattisgarh 
May 2010: Naxalites blow up a bus killing 23 people in Chhattisgarh 
May 2010: The Pakistani Taliban attack two mosques of the Ahmadi sect in Lahore, killing about 70 people 
May 2010: The Calcutta-Mumbai train is derailed in West Bengal by Maoist terrorists causing a crash that kills 71 people 
Jun 2010: The USA discovers $1 trillion of minerals in Afghanistan 
Jun 2010: Maoists kill 26 policemen in Chhattisgarh 
Jun 2010: More than 1,250 civilians are killed in Afghanistan in the first six months of 2010, 76% by the insurgents 
Jun 2010: Nepal's prime minister Madhav Kumar Nepal is forced to resign by the Maoist opposition, leaving the country in a political deadlock 
Jul 2010: A suicide attack on a Sufi shrine in Lahore, Pakistan, kills 40 people 
Jul 2010: More than 100 people are killed by a suicide bombing at an anti-Taliban meeting in Yakaghund, Pakistan 
Jul 2010: A USA strike kills 52 civilians in Afghanistan 
Jul 2010: More than 90,000 secret USA military records about the Afghanistan war are leaked to a website 
Aug 2010: Indian troops kill seven protesters in Indian-controlled Kashmir 
Aug 2010: Monsoon floods kill 1,500 people in Pakistan and leave 7 million people homeless 
Aug 2010: The Taliban sentence to death a couple guilty of loving each other in Afghanistan and hundreds of Muslims carry out the execution 
Sep 2010: Indian police kill 15 Muslims rioting in Kashmir 
Oct 2010: Russia and USA conduct their first joint operation in Afghanistan to destroy drug laboratories 
Oct 2010: Balochi leader Brahumdagh Bugti, hunted by Pakistan, flees Afghanistan to Europe 
Nov 2010: 67 people are killed by a suicide bomb attack on a mosque in north-west Pakistan and 15 people are killed by a bomb in Karachi against an anti-terrorist agency 
Nov 2010: A Christian, Asia Bibi, is sentenced to death in Pakistan for insulting the founder of the Islamic religion 
Dec 2010: Two Taliban suicide bombers kill 50 people in Ghalanai, northwest Pakistan 
Dec 2010: A suicide car bomber of a Sunni militant group kills 11 people in Hangu, north-west Pakistan 
Dec 2010: Dozens die in a battle between Pakistani soldiers and Taliban rebels near Pakistan's frontier with Afghanista 
Dec 2010: A female suicide bomber kills more than 40 people from a tribe opposed to the Taliban in Khar, northwestern Pakistan 
2010: In 2010 the USA launches more than 100 drone attacks in Pakistani territories, the highest number ever, up from 22 in 2009
2010: Between 2008 and 2010 more than 10,000 civilians have been killed in Pakistan by Islamic militants 
2010: Between 2008 and 2010 more than 10,000 civilians and police officers have been killed in Afghanistan by Taliban 
2010: India's Bharti Airtel is the 5th largest telecom operator in the world 
2010: The population of Karachi, Pakistan's largest city, is 18 million 
2010: Lakshmi Mittal is the richest person in Europe 
2010: Pakistan arrests Taliban co-founder Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar 
Jan 2011: Pakistan's religious organizations applaude the killing of Punjab's governor Salman Taseer, who campaigned against the blasphemy law, and 1,000 young lawyers offer to represent the killer 
2011: Since 2000 Indian border guards have killed nearly 1,000 Bangladeshi trying to enter India illegally 
Feb 2011: NATO strike kills 65 civilians in Afghanistan 
Mar 2011: Pakistan's only Christian minister Shahbaz Bhatti is assassinated 
Mar 2011: Several people are killed by fanatical Muslims in Afghanistan protesting against the burning of a religious book in the USA 
Mar 2011: A USA drone kills 40 people in Pakistan Indian exports of goods are double exports of services at about $250 billion 
Apr 2011: Five of the six men who raped Mukhataran Mai are released in Pakistan 
Apr 2011: Despite India's economic boom, 22% babies are born with low birth weight, 42.5% of children under five are underweight, 48% are stunted, 19.8% wasted and 69.5% (between 6 months-5 years) are anemic, more than 1.4 million babies die before their first birthday and about 0.6 million children die in the next 4 years 
Apr 2011: US forces kill Osama bin Laden in Pakistan 
May 2011: Pakistan's investigative journalist Saleem Shahzad is murdered after disclosing infiltrations by Islamic terrorists into the military 
Jun 2011: The leader of Harkat-ul-Jihad Islami, Ilyas Kashmiri, is killed by a USA drone in Pakistan 
2011: Hundreds of people are killed by Taliban terrorists and their allies in Pakistan 
Jul 2011: Afghan president's brother Ahmad Wali Karzai is assassinated, the latest in a series of assassinations of senior politicians and security commanders 
Jul 2011: Three bombs by the Indian Mujahideen kill more than 20 people in Mumbai 
2011: The USA has 413 billionaires, China has 115 billionaires, Russia 101, India 55, Germany 52, Britain 32, Brazil 30, and Japan 26 
2011: India's exports of goods are double the exports of services (textiles and agricultural products account for less than 20%) 
Jul 2011: More than 300 people are killed in Karachi (Pakistan) in july alone, mostly by ethnic violence 
Aug 2011: The Taliban down a US helicopter killing 30 US soldiers 
Aug 2011: Anna Hazare leads protests against corruption in India
Aug 2011: A suicide bomber from the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) kills 52 people at the Jamrud mosque over a tribal conflict in the Tirah valley 
Aug 2011: Taliban from Afghanistan kill 25 police and soldiers in Pakistan 
Aug 2011: Al-Qaeda's operations chief Atiyah Abd al-Rahman is killed in Pakistan by a USA drone strike 
Aug 2011: Nepal's parliament elects Baburam Bhattarai of the Maoist party as prime minister 
Aug 2011: Pakistan has had almost 300 suicide bombings since september 2011, killing more than 4,600 people 
Sep 2011: Harkat-ul-Jihad Islami claims responsibility for a bomb at a courthouse in New Delhi, India 
Sep 2011: Following the arrest in Quetta of senior Al Qaeda leader Younis al-Mauritani, a suicide bomber targets Pakistan's Frontier Corps, killing 30 people 
Sep 2011: Fighters of Sirajuddin Haqqani's Taliban supported by Pakistan's spy agency stage an attack on the USA embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan 
Sep 2011: A suicide attack on a funeral in northwest Pakistan kills 45 members an anti-Taliban militia 
Sep 2011: A Taliban suicide bomber kills former Afghan president Burhanuddin Rabbani, now in charge of peace talks with the Taliban 
Oct 2011: The world's population is 7 billion up from 1 billion in 1850 and less than 3 billion in 1950. 
Oct 2011: Pakistani cricket hero Imran Khan leads a massive anti-USA rally in Lahore 
Dec 2011: Inspired by Lashkar-e-Taiba's leader Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, Hamid Gul, a former head of Pakistan's ISI, and Pakistani cricket hero Imran Khan a new political front, Difa-e-Pakistan (Defence of Pakistan Council), organizes anti-USA protests in Pakistan 
Nov 2011: The USA strikes a Pakistani army checkpoint killing 26 soldiers 
Nov 2011: Australia, that already exports to mainland China, votes to overturn its long-standing ban on exporting uranium to India 
Dec 2011: At least 58 people, mostly Shiites, are killed by Sunni terrorists in Afghanistan 
Dec 2011: Almost 100 people die in a fire at a hospital in Kolkata, India 
Jan 2012: A bomb targeting a militia opposed to the Pakistani Taliban kills 30 people in Jamrud in the Khyber tribal region of Pakistan 
Jan 2012: A bomb targeting Shiites kills 17 people in Khanpur, Pakistan 
Feb 2012: Maldives' president Mohamed Nasheed is forced to resign by street demonstrations 
Feb 2012: A suicide bomber kills 34 people in Parachinar in northwest Pakistan 
Mar 2012: A USA soldier kills 16 Afghanistan civilians, including nine children and three women 
Mar 2012: A suicide bomber targeting anti-Taliban politician Khushdil Khan kills 15 people in Peshawar, Pakistan in retaliation for Pakistan's killing of 39 militants 
Apr 2012: The USA offers a $10 million reward for the capture of Lashkar-e-Taiba's leader Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, who lives freely in Pakistan 
Apr 2012: More than 117 soldiers are buried by an avalanche near the Siachen glacier (the world's highest battlefield) in the disputed Kashmir region 
Apr 2012: Labor activist Aminul Islam is killed in Bangladesh, while the country has become the second largest exporter of textiles in the world after China 
Apr 2012: India launches a long-range missile and joins the ICBM club with the USA, Russia, China, France, Britain and Israel 
Apr 2012: A ferry in north-eastern India's Assam state capsizes in bad weather killing more than 100 passengers 
May 2012: A NATO strike kills 18 civilians in Afghanistan 
May 2012: A Taliban bomb kills 18 people on a bus carrying government officials in Peshawar 
Jun 2012: Afghan Taliban kill 13 Pakistani soldiers inside Pakistan 
Jul 2012: Hundreds of people burn a man alive for blasphemy in Pakistan 
Jul 2012: The world's largest blackout ever leaves 22 of India's 28 states, an area whose population is nearly 700 million, without power 
Aug 2012: Badruddin Haqqani is killed in a US drone strike 
Aug 2012: Fearing violence against ethnic minorities, scared by social networking sites, thousands of migrants flee the cities of Bangalore and Pune 
Sep 2012: More than 240 people are killed in a factory fire in Karachi, Pakistan 
Sep 2012: Dozens of people are killed in Pakistan during violent protests against an anti-Islamic amateur video posted online in the USA and Pakistan's railways minister Ghulam Ahmad Bilour offers a bounty for killing the filmmaker 
Nov 2012: A suicide bomber kills more than 40 people at a mosque in the northern Afghanistani city of Maymana 
Nov 2012: A suicide bomber kills 23 people at a Shia Muslim procession in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi 
Nov 2012: More than 100 people die in a fire at a garment factory in Bangladesh 
Nov 2012: Two bombs by the Taliban kill 12 Shiites in the Pakistani city of Dera Ismail Khan 
Nov 2012: Seven students and a prominent cleric from the Maulana Ismail seminary are killed by Sunni extremists in Karachi, Pakistan 
Dec 2012: 16 people are killed in a car bomb explosion at a market in the Khyber tribal region of north-west Pakistan 
Dec 2012: A bomb targeting buses carrying Shia Muslim pilgrims in southwest Pakistan kills at least 19 people 
Dec 2012: Seven charity workers, six of them women, are killed by Islamists in Northwestern Pakistan near a children's community centre 
Dec 2012: The death of an Indian student after being gang-raped and tortured on a private bus in New Delhi, nicknamed India's 'rape capital' prompts street protests across the country 
Dec 2012: Jyoti Singh Pandey is gang-raped and killed in Delhi, causing widespread protests around India 
2012: in 2012 India's imports of weapons from Russia double in value, accounting for almost 80% of India's arm imports, including a nuclear-powered submarine 
2012: 20% of girls in Bangladesh are married before their 15th birthday 
Jan 2013: Attacks by Pakistan's group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi kill more than 90 Shiites in the provincial capital Quetta of Balochistan 
Feb 2013: 21 people are killed by a suicide bomb attack outside a Shiite mosque in the north-western Pakistani town of Hangu, while the Pakistan Taliban attack an army checkpoint in in the northwestern town of Serai Naurang killing 13 soldiers and 10 civilians, and a bomb targeting Shiites in Quetta kills at least 78 people 
Feb 2013: Jamaat-e-Islami's leader Delwar Hossain Sayeedi is sentenced to death in Bangladesh for collaboration with Pakistan and mass killings and rape during the liberation war of 1971 
Feb 2013: Bombs kill 16 people in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad 
Mar 2013: Delwar Hossain Sayeedi, a leader the Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami, is sentenced to death on charges including murder, rape and torture during the war of independence in 1971, triggering a national strike and violent protests in Bangladesh 
Mar 2013: A bomb in a Shiite area of the Pakistani city of Karachi kills about 40 people 
Mar 2013: Five Indian soldiers are killed in Kashmir by Hizb-ul Mujahideen 
Apr 2013: A man kills nine women with an axe in the village of Balrampur in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh 
Apr 2013: 72 people die when a eight-story building constructed illegally in the Mumbai suburb of Thane collapses 
Apr 2013: The Pakistani army and Ansar-e-Islam, which is allied with pro-government tribesmen, fight the Taliban and Lashkar-e-Islam in the Tirah Valley of northwestern Pakistan 
Apr 2013: The collapse of a garment factory kills 1,127 people in Dhaka, Bangladesh 
Apr 2013: Taliban's leader Mullah Omar dies 
May 2013: At least seven people are killed in clashes between police and the Islamists of Hefazat-e Islam in Dhaka, Bangladesh
May 2013: Nawaz Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League wins national elections, marking the country's first transition from one elected government to another 
Jun 2013: A Taliban suicide bomb attack in downtown Kabul kills 16 people 
Jun 2013: At least 27 people are killed in a suicide bomb attack at a funeral in north-west Pakistan 
Jun 2013: The USA announces peace talks with the Taliban in Afghanistan 
Jun 2013: At least 30 people are killed when a suicide bomber targets a Shiite mosque in Quetta, and 18 are killed in an attack targeting security forces in Peshawar, Pakistan 
Jul 2013: 17 people are killed by a US drone in Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan of Pakistan 
Jul 2013: Jamaat-e-Islami's former leader Ghulam Azam is sentenced to 90 years in jail in Bangladesh for collaboration with Pakistan and mass killings and rape during the liberation war of 1971 
Jul 2013: 22 children die after eating a pesticide-tainted free school meal in the Indian state of Bihar, causing riots by the villagers 
Aug 2013: The separatist Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) abducts a bus and kills 13 passengers from the Punjab 
Aug 2013: A suicide bomber kills at least 28 people at a funeral procession in Pakistan's city Quetta and the following day nine people are killed as gunmen open fire outside a mosque 
Aug 2013: Indian launches its first home-built aircraft carrier 
Aug 2013: Taliban attacks kill 12 civilians in Afghanistan 
Aug 2013: India arrests Yasin Bhatka, the head of India's Islamists 
Sep 2013: Narendra Dabholkar is murdered in India 
Sep 2013: Nine people are killed by a bomb in the north-eastern Indian state of Manipur 
Sep 2013: Pakistan releases Taliban co-founder Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, who is willing to negotiate with Afghanistan's government 
Sep 2013: Two suicide bombers of the Taliban-affiliated Jandullah group kill 81 people at a Christian church in Peshawar (Pakistan) and a car bomb in a Peshawar market kills 33 people 
Oct 2013: A stampede during a Hindu festival in Madhya Pradesh kills 89 people 
Oct 2013: A politician of Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party and at least seven other people are killed in a suicide blast in north-west Pakistan 
Oct 2013: A roadside bomb south of the Afghan capital Kabul kills 18 people on their way to a wedding, mostly women and children 
Oct 2013: Bombs in Patna kill six people at a rally by India's candidate Narendra Modi of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) 
Oct 2013: Pakistan reveals that 317 US drone strikes since 2008 have killed 2,160 militants and 67 civilians 
Oct 2013: The leader of the Pakistani Taliban, Hakimullah Mehsud, is killed by a US drone, and is succeeded by Mullah Fazlullah 
Oct 2013: a Pakistani couret charges >?ushqrraf and acuits Aziz of the 2007 carnage at the red ,osaue 
Nov 2013: The Indian stock market hits a record high 
Nov 2013: A court in Bangladesh sentences about 150 soldiers to death over the border guard mutiny of 2009 
2013: India's growth rate slows down to 5% from 9% of 2011 with inflation at 10% 
Dec 2013: Arvind Kejriwal's one-year old Aam Admi (Common Man) party (AAP) wins state elections in Delhi on a program to fight corruption in India 
Dec 2013: India's supreme court reinstates a ban on homosexuality 
2013: 3400 soldiers of the NATO-led alliance have died in Afghanistan since 2001 
2013: Almost 3,000 civilians are killed in Afghanistan in 2013, a 14% increase over the previous year 
Jan 2014: Bangladesh holds parliamentary elections amid opposition protests that kill more than 100 people 
Jan 2014: A suicide bomb attack on a restaurant popular with foreigners in the Afghan capital Kabul kills 21 people 
Jan 2014: A suicide bomber kills 13 people near Pakistan's army headquarters in Rawalpindi and a remote bomb kills six police officers and child during polio vaccination north of Peshawar 
Jan 2014: Delhi's chief minister Arvind Kejriwal organizes a mass sit-in to protest against his own police force 
Feb 2014: A car bomb by Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) kills 13 policemen in Pakistan's Karachi 
Feb 2014: Under pressure from Hindu nationalists, Penguin destroys all copies of Wendy Doniger's book "The Hindus" in India 
Feb 2014: India creates a new state, Telangana, out of the inland area of Andhra Pradesh with Hyderabad remaining the capital of both states for ten years 
Mar 2014: Gunmen from Ahrarul Hind, a splinter faction from the Taliban, kill at least 11 people in an attack at a court in the Pakistani capital Islamabad 
Mar 2014: Nepal's parliament elects Sushil Koirala of the Congress Party as prime minister 
Mar 2014: Maoists kills 16 policemen in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh 
Mar 2014: The Pakistani Taliban kill 18 people in an attack on a Pakistani police station 
Mar 2014: The Afghan Taliban kill 9 people in an attack on an Kabul police station 
Mar 2014: The USA arrests Ukrainian tycoon Dmitry Firtash for having paid bribes to the Indian government 
Apr 2014: A bomb by separatists of Balochistan kills 14 train passengers in Pakistan 
Apr 2014: Bombs by Maoists kill 12 people in the eastern Indian state of Chhattisgarh during national elections 
Apr 2014: The Jamia Hafsa Madrassa, an Islamic seminary for women in Pakistan's capital Islamabad, names its library after Osama Bin Laden 
Apr 2014: Separatist rebels of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) kill 10 non-Bodo people in the north-eastern Indian state of Assam 
May 2014: Separatist rebels of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) kill 32 Muslims in remote villages of India's north-eastern Assam state 
May 2014: Two landslides destroy the village of Ab Barik. and kill about 2500 people in northeastern Afghanistan 
May 2014: Members of the dominant Yadav caste rape and hang two teenage Dalit girls in the Indian village of Katra Sadatgunj (Uttar Pradesh state) 
May 2014: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) wins national elections in India, the first time that a party gets more votes than Congress, and Narendra Modi becomes the new prime minister of India 
May 2014: The World Health Organization declares the polio epidemics in Pakistan a global emergency 
May 2014: A Pakistani woman, Farzana Bibi, is killed by her relatives with bricks and sticks outside Lahore High Court for marrying against their wishes, one of hundreds of women in Pakistan who are killed every year by family members (her husband Muhammad Iqbal admits killing his first wife six years before in order to marry again) 
Jun 2014: Pakistan Taliban attack the Karachi airport leaving 28 people dead including 10 militants while Pakistan launches an offensive in North Waziristan 
Jun 2014: India's southern state of Andhra Pradesh is splits in two, with the northern area becoming the 29th state of India, Telangana 
Jul 2014: A car bomb by the Haqqani network kills 89 people in a market of Afghanistan's Paktika province 
Sep 2014: Chinese president Xi Jinping and India's prime minister Narendra Modi sign an agreement for China to build high-speed trains and to set up industrial parks in Gujarat and Maharashtra 
2014: Bangladesh's economy is twice as big as it was in 2006 
Sep 2014: After months of deadlock, Abdullah Abdullah concedes to his rival Ashraf Ghani, a U.S-educated former World Bank official, who becomes Afghanistan's new president and pledges to form a government of national unity 
Sep 2014: Pakistan's military says it has killed more than 1,000 Islamist militants since launching an offensive in the tribal area of North Waziristan in June 
Sep 2014: The chief minister of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, Jayaram Jayalalitha, is sentenced to jail on corruption charges 
Sep 2014: India puts a satellite in orbit around Mars 
Oct 2014: Bangladesh sentences Islamist leader Motiur Rahman Nizami to death 
Oct 2014: Nine Pakistanis and seven Indians are killed in Kashmir's border skirmishes 
Oct 2014: A Pakistani suicide bomber kills at least 55 people at a Pakistan-India border near Lahore 
Oct 2014: A mob of fanatical Muslims in the town of Kot Radha Kishan in Punjab province kills and burns a Christian couple in Pakistan for desecrating the Islamic religious book Quran 
2014: Afghanistan's harvest of opium poppies hits an all-time record, 17% more than in 2013- 
Nov 2014: A suicide bomber kills more than 45 people at a volleyball tournament in eastern Afghanistan's Yahyakhail district 
Nov 2014: India's Maoist rebels kill 13 policemen in Chhattisgarh 
Dec 2014: Al-Qaeda's operation chief Adnan el Shukrijumah is killed in Pakistan 
Dec 2014: The Pakistani Taliban kill 150 people, 132 of them children, at army-run school in Peshawar 
Dec 2014: Separatist rebels of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) kill 62 people in remote villages of India's north-eastern Assam state 
Dec 2014: Indian troops in Kashmir kill four Pakistani troops on the border 
Dec 2014: 3,000 civilians are killed in Afghanistan in 2014 
Jan 2015: Sri Lanka's opposition leader Maithripala Sirisena wins presidential elections 
Jan 2015: India privatizes the mining industry 
Jan 2015: Bangladesh arrests 7,000 opposition activists and kills dozens of protesters 
Jan 2015: A bomb by the Pakistani Taliban kills 62 people at a Shiite mosque in southern Pakistan 
Feb 2015: Atheist writer Avijit Roy is murdered by Islamic fundamentalists in Bangladesh 
Mar 2015: India's Maharashtra state bans beef 
Mar 2015: A Taliban splinter group bombs two Christian churches in Lahore killing 17 people 
Mar 2015: A mob of devout Muslims beat a woman to death and then burn her body because she burned copies of the Quran in Afghanistan's capital Kabul 
Apr 2015: Pakistan releases Zakiur Lakhvi, despite overwhelming evidence that he masterminded the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks 
Apr 2015: The Taliban kill 18 Afghan soldiers in Badakhshan's Jurm district 
Apr 2015: A bomb by the Islamic State in Afghanistan kills 33 people in the eastern city of Jalalabad 
Apr 2015: China and Pakistan unveil a network of roads, railway and pipelines that will connect Gwadar in Pakistan to China's Xinjiang The projects will give China direct access to the Indian Ocean 
Apr 2015: An earthquake kills more than 5,000 people in Nepal 
Apr 2015: Pakistani activist Sabeen Mahmud is assassinated 
May 2015: At least 8 Indian soldiers are killed by Nagaland separatists 
May 2015: Bollywood star Salman Khan is finally convicted for driving drunk, running over 6 people, killing one homeless Noor Ullah Khan who was sleeping on the pavement, and running away in 2002, but the sentence is not carried out 
2015: Within a few months Islamists kill bloggers Avijit Roy, Washiqur Rahman Babu and Ananta Bijoy Das in Bangladesh 
May 2015: The Pakistani Taliban attack a bus and kill 45 Ismaili Shiites in Pakistan's biggest city Karachi 
Jun 2015: Balochistan rebels in Pakistan attack two buses and kill 19 people 
Jul 2015: Pakistani police kill Malik Ishaq, head of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, the group behind terrorist attacks against Shiites 
Jul 2015: The Afghan Taliban appoint Akhtar Mansour to succeed Mullah Omar and Siraj Haqqani of the Haqqani network as Mansour's deputy 
Aug 2015: Niloy Neel is killed by Islamists, the fourth secularist blogger to be killed in eight months 
Aug 2015: Hindu extremists murder scholar Malleshappa Madivalappa Kalburgi 
Sep 2015: A blast caused by illegally stored mining explosives in Rajendra Kasawa's restaurant kills 90 people in Petlawad in India's state of Madhya Pradesh 
Sep 2015: At least 10 people are killed in an explosion at a bus terminal in the Pakistani city of Multan 
Sep 2015: The Pakistani Taliban kill 20 people in Badaber 
Nov 2015: Faisal Arefin Dipon, a publisher of secular books, is killed by Islamists in Bangladesh 
Nov 2015: Nepal elects its first female president, Bidhya Devi Bhandar