Events

March

• 3 February - General elections are held.

August

• 14 August - Pakistan celebrates 50 years of independence from British rule.

November

• 13 November - Nawaz Sharif promises US president Bill Clinton he will find those responsible for the killing of four US businessmen and their Pakistani driver.
• 26 November - Pakistan's first motorway linking Islamabad to Lahore is opened.

December

• 2 December - Pakistan's president, Farooq Leghari, resigns.

Deaths

• August 16 - Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Pakistani Qwalli artist (b. 1948)

See also

• 1996 in Pakistan
• Other events of 1997
• 1998 in Pakistan
• Timeline of Pakistani history