Year |
Events |
Rulers |
1947 |
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- Quid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah becomes the first Governor General
- Liaquat Ali Khan becomes the first Prime Minister
|
1948 |
- Jinnah Dies
- Kashmir Crisis Starts
|
- Khawaja Nazimudin becomes the Governor General
|
1949 |
- Objectives Resolution is Passed
|
|
1951 |
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- Ghulam Muhammad becomes the Governor General
- Khawaja Nazimudin becomes the Prime Minister
|
1953 |
|
- Muhammad Ali Bogra becomes the Prime Minister
|
1955 |
|
- Iskander Mirza becomes the Governor General
- Chaudhary Muhammad Ali becomes the Prime Minister
|
1956 |
|
- Iskander Mirza becomes the President
- Suhrawardi Ali becomes the Prime Minister
|
1957 |
|
- I.I. Chundrigar becomes the Prime Minister
- Malik Feroze Khan becomes the Prime Minister
|
1958 |
- Martial Law under Field Marshal Ayub Khan
|
|
1962 |
|
- Field Marshal Ayub Khan becomes President
|
1965 |
|
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1969 |
- Martial Law under General Yahya Khan
|
|
1971 |
- Separation of East Pakistan
|
- Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto becomes President
|
1973 |
|
- Fazal Ilahi becomes President
- Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto becomes Prime Minister
|
1977 |
- Martial Law under General Zia-ul-Haq
|
|
1985 |
- Historic 8th Amendment is Passed
|
- General Zia-ul-Haq becomes President
- Muhammad Khan Junejo becomes Prime Minister
|
1988 |
|
- Ghulam Ishaq Khan becomes President
- Benazir Bhutto becomes Prime Minister
|
1990 |
- Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi becomes Caretaker Prime Minister
|
- Nawaz Sharif becomes Prime Minister
|
1993 |
- Balakh Sher Mazari becomes Caretaker Prime Minister
- Moin Qureshi becomes Caretaker Prime Minister
|
- Sardar Farooq Ahmad Khan Laghari becomes President
- Benazir Bhutto becomes Prime Minister
|
1997 |
- Malik Meraj Khalid becomes Caretaker Prime Minister
- 8th Amendment is repealed
- 14th Amendment is Adopted
|
- Nawaz Sharif becomes Prime Minister
|
1998 |
- Pakistan becomes a Nuclear Power
|
- M. Rafiq Tariq becomes the President
|
1999 |
- The Kargil Offensive
- Military Comes to Power Again
|
- General Musharaf becomes the Chief Executive of Pakistan
|
2001 |
- Agra Summit
- US Military Action in Afghanistan
|
- General Musharaf becomes the President
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