Pakistan made its One Day International (ODI) debut in early 1997 against New Zealand, and later in the year played in the 1997 World Cup in India.

In its early years, Pakistan was one of the least competitive of the top-level women's teams, and after its inaugural appearance in 1997, did not qualify for another World Cup until the 2009 event in Australia.

They lost all three One Day International matches on that tour, but they were still invited to take part in the Women's Cricket World Cup later that year in India.

In 2003, Pakistan travelled to the Netherlands to take part in the 2003 IWCC Trophy, the inaugural edition of what is now called simply the World Cup Qualifier.

The Test match was drawn and West Indies won the One Day International series 5–2, but those two victories for Pakistan were their first against a Test-playing nation.

Early in 2007, the Pakistan squad toured South Africa and played in a five match, One Day International series.

During that year, Pakistan was announced as the host for the Women's Cricket World Cup Qualifier in which eight teams were scheduled to participate.

All of the arrangements were almost completed for the tournament to be held in November when, unfortunately, the event was postponed due to political instability and was moved to South Africa.

Pakistan qualified for the 2009 Women's Cricket World Cup by defeating Ireland, Zimbabwe, Scotland and Netherlands.

[15][16] In the lead up to the 2024 Women's Twenty20 Asia Cup, former men's international cricketer Mohammad Wasim was appointed head coach of the team.

[17][18] He then initiated several measures to overhaul the team, including more effective workload management practices, a greater use of performance data, and a shift in mindset towards a positive brand of cricket.

[20] Pakistan saw their first win in the 2009 World Cup; they advanced to the Super Six round defeating Sri Lanka in group stage match by 57 runs with Nain Abidi scoring 26 runs, and the player of the match Qanita Jalil taking 3 wickets for 33.

This came against the West Indies at Seddon Park, Hamilton, where they beat them by eight wickets in a group stage game, thus ending a 13-year 18-match losing streak.

[30] In the third edition of the women's Asia Cup, once again Pakistan failed to see a victory, and this was the third consecutive occasion that India and Sri Lanka were playing in the final.

In the final match at the 2010 Asian Games, Pakistan defeated Bangladesh women cricket team by 10 wickets.

[35][36] Asif Ali Zardari, the then-president of Pakistan, termed the team's win as a "gift to the nation riding on a series of crises" as 21 million people were affected by flood in 2010.

A red box around the year indicates tournaments played within Pakistan This lists all active players who have a central contract or was named in the most recent ODI or T20I squad.

Note: Pakistan Women lost all 3 tied matches against West Indies in Super Over.