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64 The Kushan sack the town of Taxila (in present-day Pakistan).
1351 The Summa Dynasty in Sindh
(now part of Pakistan) overthrows the Sumra Dynasty.
1877 Allama Muhammad Iqbal, the future National poet of Pakistan is born on this day.
1882 University of the Punjab is founded in present day Pakistan.
1930 Sir Muhammad Iqbal's presidential address in Allahabad introduces the Two-Nation Theory and outlines a vision for the creation of Pakistan.
1933 The word Pakistan for the first time in history comes into being and is recognized by the Pakistan Movement to press for freedom.
1935 Earthquake
destroys Quetta in modern-day Pakistan - 26,000 dead
1940 The '''Pakistan Resolution''' is rallied by the All-India Muslim League, Muslims from every corner of India
meet up around Iqbal Park, Lahore
, now in modern-day Pakistan.
1947 Pakistan gains independence from the British Empire
under the leadership of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah
. While the transition is officially at midnight on this day, Pakistan celebrates its independence on August 14 compared to India on the 15th. Muhammad Ali Jinnah became the first Governor General of Pakistan.
1947 The Khan of Baluchistan declares independence
(acceeds to Pakistan in 1948)
1947 Nehru suggests transfer of 4 million Hindus and Muslims between India
and Pakistan.
1948 Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah
, Founder and first Governor General of Pakistan (b. 1876) Pakistan is in a state of shock and mourning the departure to tribute their father. It is a public holiday nation-wide.
1951 Assassination of Liaquat Ali Khan, Prime Minister of Pakistan
1954 First ascent of K2, by an Italian
expedition. Which is celebrated in both Pakistan and Italia as the 50th anniversary of the official day of K2 since 2004.
1956 Pakistan becomes the first Islam
ic republic
and a National holiday
is observed in the country included the former East Pakistan
state
.
1965 Pakistani troops enter the India
n sector of Kashmir
.
1965 India
opens 2 additional fronts against Pakistan.
1965 UN Secretary General U Thant
negotiates with Pakistan President Ayub Khan
.
1965 Soviet Premier Alexey Kosygin invites the leaders of India
and Pakistan to meet in the Soviet Union
to negotiate.
1965 Fighting between India
n and Pakistani troops erupts again.
1965 Pakistan severs diplomatic relations with Malaysia
because of the disagreement in the UN.
1966 The prime ministers of India
and Pakistan meet in Moscow
.
1966 Pakistani-India
n peace negotiations end successfully in Moscow
.
1970 The U.S. Foreign Office announces that it will renew its arms sales to Pakistan.
1971 Pakistani President Yahya Khan
indefinitely postpones the pending National Assembly session, precipitating massive civil disobedience in East Pakistan
.
1971 The Pakistani army occupies East Pakistan
.
1971 The Pakistani army starts massive killings in East Pakistan
, after President Muhammad Agha Yahya Khan, a military ruler, voids election results that gave the Awami League an overwhelming majority in the parliament.
1971 Bangladesh
officially declares independence, but Pakistani troops continue the fighting.
1971 The birth of Bangladesh
is declared by the government in exile, in territory formerly part of Pakistan.
1971 Pakistan declares a state of emergency
.
1971 December 4 night - The India
n navy destroyer ''INS Rajput'' sinks Pakistani submarine
''PNS Ghazi'' (former ''USS Diablo'').
1971 ''Victory Day of Bangladesh'': The Pakistan Army
surrenders to the Indian Armed Forces and Mukti Bahini (Freedom Force), ending the Bangladesh Liberation War and Indo-Pakistani War of 1971
simultaneously.
1972 Pakistan withdraws from the Commonwealth of Nations
.
1972 Following Pakistan's surrender to India
in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971
, both nations sign the historic Simla Agreement, agreeing to settle their disputes bilaterally.
1977 General Mohammed Zia ul-Haq overthrows Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, the very first elected Prime Minister of Pakistan.
1979 President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
of Pakistan is executed.
1979 After false radio reports from the Ayatollah Khomeini that the Americans had occupied the Great Mosque in Mecca
, the United States
Embassy in Islamabad
, Pakistan is attacked by a mob and set afire, killing 4. (see: Foreign relations of Pakistan)
1984 General Rahimuddin Khan
becomes the first man in Pakistan's history to rule over two of its provinces, after becoming interim Governor of Sindh
.
1988 Pakistan President Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq
and US Ambassador Arnold Raphel are killed in a plane crash.
1988 In the first open election in more than a decade, voters in Pakistan choose populist candidate Benazir Bhutto
to be Prime Minister
.
1988 Benazir Bhutto
is sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first woman to head the government of an Islam
-dominated state.
1990 Over 300 people are killed in a train accident in Ghotki, Pakistan.
1998 Pakistan tests medium-range missiles capable of hitting India
.
1998 Nuclear testing
: In response to a series of Indian
nuclear tests, Pakistan explodes 5 nuclear devices of its own in the Chaghai hills of Baluchistan, prompting the United States
, Japan
and other nations to impose economic sanctions.
1998 Nuclear testing
: Pakistan conducts 1 more nuclear explosion following its first test.
1999 Gunmen open fire on Shiite Muslims worshipping in a mosque in Islamabad
, Pakistan, killing 16 people and injuring 25.
1999 The Indian Air Force launches an attack on intruding Pakistan Army troops and mujahadeen militants in Kashmir
.
1999 India
recaptures Kargil, forcing the Pakistan Army to retreat. India announces victory ending the two-month conflict.
1999 Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif attempts to dismiss Army Chief General Pervez Musharraf
and install ISI director Khwaja Ziauddin in his pla Senior Army generals refuse to accept the dismissal. Musharraf, who was out of the country, attempts to return in a commercial airliner. Sharif orders the Karachi airport to not allow the plane to land. The generals lead a coup
, ousting Sharif's administration and taking over the airport. The plane lands with only a few minutes of fuel to spare, and Musharraf takes control of the government.
2000 Pakistani authorities announce that their police have found an apparently ancient mummy of a Persian princess in the province of Balochistan. Iran
, Pakistan and the Taliban all claim the mummy until Pakistan announces it is a forgery on April 17, 2001
2002 In Islamabad
, Pakistan, the International Protestant Church attack occurs.
2002 In Pakistan, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh along with 3 other suspects are charged with murder in the kidnapping and killing of ''Wall Street Journal'' reporter Daniel Pearl.
2002 Pakistan: Pakistani voters approve a referendum
granting a 5-year term for Pakistani president
Pervez Musharraf
.
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2002 In Karachi, Pakistan, a car bomb
in front of the U.S. Consulate kills 12 Pakistanis and injures 50.
2003 President Pervez Musharraf
of Pakistan escapes the second assassination attempt in 2 weeks.
2004 India
defeats Pakistan in their first cricket
tour in 14 years.
2005 A time bomb
explodes in a Muslim shrine in Quetta, southwestern Pakistan, killing at least 29 people and wounding 40.
2005 At least 32 people are killed and 9 others injured when 3 two-story buildings in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore
collapse after gas cylinders stored in one of them explode.
2005 Three trains collide in the Ghotki rail crash in Ghotki, Pakistan, killing over 150 people.
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