At the Paris 2024 Olympics, Arshad Nadeem set an Olympic record with a 92.97 m javelin throw to win gold. [10](https://www.olympics.com/en/news/neeraj-chopra-vs-arshad-nadeem-record-head-to-head-rivalry-india-pakistan)

Ismail Haniyeh, the senior Hamas leader, was assassinated in Tehran on 31 July 2024. [9](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AssassinationofIsmailHaniyeh)

The 2024 UN Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC COP 29) convened in Baku, Azerbaijan, from 11 to 22 November 2024. [1](https://unhabitat.org/events/un-climate-change-conference-unfccc-cop-29)

Dars-i-Nizam was a curriculum system named after Nizam al-Mulk, the famous Persian scholar and vizier who established educational reforms.

As of 2024, Asad Majeed Khan is serving as Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United States.

Under the Planning Commission's 13th Five-Year Plan (2024–2029), the services sector (accounting for roughly 58% of the GDP, led by information technology, telecom, finance, transport, and wholesale/retail trade) is projected to be the largest contributor and driver of economic growth.

In 2024, the Government of Punjab launched its Green Energy / Solar Transition Policy and major solarization initiatives (such as the Chief Minister's Roshan Gharana solar program and the agricultural tube-well solar conversion initiative) to shift residential and agricultural consumers toward renewable energy.

The 26th Constitutional Amendment, passed in October 2024, enacted major structural reforms in the judiciary, including the establishment of dedicated Constitutional Benches in the Supreme Court and High Courts, a parliamentary committee to appoint the Chief Justice of Pakistan, and the restructuring of the Judicial Commission of Pakistan (JCP). The proposed 27th Amendment further extended discussions and debates on broader executive-judicial dynamics and local government structures.

Shah Wali Ullah produced the first complete Persian translation of the Quran in the mid-18th century to make the text accessible to Indo-Muslim scholars