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* June 28: Pakistan commences a military operation against Taliban militants in the Khyber Agency near Peshawar. ((AP via ''The Guardian'') ) * June 23: Nawaz Sharif, former Prime Minister of Pakistan and leader of the Pakistan Muslim League (N), is found ineligible by a court to stand in upcoming by-elections. ((BBC News) ) * June 20: At the 55th Birthday of Benazir Bhutto, which was the first after her assassination, Islamabad International Airport has been renamed as Benazir Bhutto International Airport. ((Dawn.com) )((Reuters) ) * June 15: Pakistan beat India by 25 runs to win triangular one-day cricket series in Bangladesh. ((BBC Sport) ) * June 13: Pakistani lawyers hold a protest rally in Islamabad to demand the reinstatement of judges sacked by the President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf. ((BBC) ) * June 12: Finance minister Naveed Qamar on Wednesday unveils the national budget of 2,010 billion rupees (over 30 billion dollars) in parliament with a deficit estimated at 582 billion rupees, or 4.7 percent of GDP., said it targets a growth rate of 5.5 percent.((Dawn.com) ) ((Business Recorder) ) * June 11: Reports claim that at least 10 Pakistan Army soldiers have died in an apparent United States-led air strike near the border with Afghanistan with eight Taliban militants also killed. Pakistan condemns the airstrike as "unprovoked and cowardly". ((BBC News) ) ((Reuters) ) * June 7: Mian Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif became the Chief Minister of Punjab for the second time. After securing a provincial assembly seat he is elected as new CM replacing a recently chosen CM Dost Muhammad Khosa and is linked with the political party Pakistan Muslim League (N).((Dawn.com) ) * June 2: A massive blast targeting the Danish Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan on Monday killed at least eight people and wounded more than a dozen. ((CNN) ) |