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The story of history of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan began on 14 August 1947 when the country came into being in the form of Dominion of Pakistan within the British Commonwealth as the result of Pakistan Movement and the partition of India. While the history of the Pakistani Nation according to the Pakistan government's official chronology ...
27 March: 2016 Lahore suicide bombing, 75 killed. 20 April: In Punjab, at least 33 people died after eating sweets, accidentally tainted with insecticide. [ 284] 13-16 June: Pakistan-Afghanistan skirmishes, 1 Pakistani and 7 Afghans are killed. 16 September: 2016 September Pakistan mosque bombing, 36 killed.
The political history of Pakistan ( Urdu: پاکستان کی سیاسی تاريخ) is the narrative and analysis of political events, ideas, movements, and leaders of Pakistan. Pakistan gained independence from the United Kingdom on 14 August 1947, when the Presidencies and provinces of British India were divided by the United Kingdom, in a ...
t. e. A map outlining historical sites in Pakistan. The history of Pakistan precedes the country's creation in 1947. [ 1] Although, Pakistan was created in 1947 as a whole new country by the British [ 2] through partition of India, but the history of the land extends much further back and is intertwined with that of Afghanistan, India, and Iran.
Abdul Qadeer Khan was born on 1 April 1936, in Bhopal, a city then in the erstwhile British Indian princely state of Bhopal State, and now the capital city of Madhya Pradesh. He was a Muhajir of Urdu-speaking Pashtun origin. [ 14][ 15][ 2][ 5][ 16] His maternal ancestors hailed from the Tirah Valley (now in the Khyber District of Khyber ...
Conception of "Pakistan". Choudhry Rahmat Ali ( Punjabi, Urdu: چودھری رحمت علی; Punjabi pronunciation: [tʃoːdɦəɾi ɾɛɦmət əli]; 16 November 1897 – 3 February 1951) was a Pakistani nationalist who was one of the earliest proponents of the creation of the state of Pakistan. He is credited with creating the name "Pakistan ...
Liaquat Ali Khan[ a] (1 October 1895 – 16 October 1951) was a Pakistani lawyer, politician and statesman who served as the first prime minister of Pakistan from 1947 until his assassination in 1951. He was as pivotal to the consolidation of Pakistan as the Quaid-i-Azam, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, was central to the creation of Pakistan.
Nazimuddin's ministry was the first federal government to be dismissed in Pakistan's history, though his former ministers Sardar Abdur Rab Nishtar, Abdul Sattar Pirzada, and Mahmud Husain refused to take the oath of office in the new cabinet. [2] He retired from national politics, dying after a brief illness in 1964.