The economic disparity, impression that West Pakistan despite being less populated than East Pakistan was ruling and prospering at its cost further popularize the Bengali nationalism.

As oppose to tradition military dictators, Musharraf called for hold a nationwide political elections in the country after accepting the ruling of Supreme Court of Pakistan.

Pakistan has Islam as its only official religion and its Federal Shariat Court has the duty of striking down any law not complying with the Sharia code of Islamic law ; however, ruling falls upon legal scholars who, while required to be Muslim, are not religious clergy.

** Jandala ( Muslim Jadoon dynasty, in Pakistan used always before the personal name, but itself preceded by Mir, both being maintained by the ruling Khan ( who uses that title after his name )

After a tug-of-war between Wattoo and Nawaz Sharif, the then restored ( by Supreme Court ) Prime Minister of Pakistan and head of the Pakistan Muslim League ( N ) ( PML ( N )), all assemblies were dissolved and only after a fresh election, Wattoo was elected the Chief Minister of Punjab again on PML ( Junejo ) ticket, ruling a coalition consisting chiefly of Pakistan People's Party ( PPP ), PML ( Junejo ), minorities, and some independents.

Having merged his political party, Pakistan Muslim League ( Jinnah ), in to the ruling PML ( Q ) on presidential advice, he was made the Senior Vice President of the ruling party.

In Pakistan, the Prime Minister ( de facto ruling politician, formally under the President ) is called Vazīr-e Azam ( Persian for Grand vizier ), other Ministers are styled vazirs.

Pakistan maintains its earlier stand that any direct negotiation with a representative of the Karmal government would amount to recognition of the regime, contrary to the ruling of the Islamic Conference.

In Afghanistan, Pakistan, Turkey and Iraq, the Bush administration has worked closely with nominally Islamic forces and ruling political parties in government.

He came from Swat ( situated in present day Pakistan ), the then tribal territory on the borders of Afghanistan and rose to the position of Minister to the ruling Hindu king.

Muttahida Muslim League led by Pir Pagara is the " assimilation " of majority of the factions of the Pakistan Muslim League, in a bid to mount a strong opposition to the Pakistan Peoples Party led ruling government.

The conservative party, the Pakistan Muslim League ( N ) and the ruling party, the Pakistan Peoples Party called for a return to the 1973 constitution which gives ruling power to an elected prime minister.

With National Alliance being merged with the ruling Pakistan Muslim League ( Q ) in May 2004 to form united Pakistan Muslim League, Farooq Leghari also became the member of the newly constituted party, with his son Awais Leghari being one of its senior vice presidents.

Muttahida Muslim League led by Pir Pagara is the " assimilation " of majority of the factions of the Pakistan Muslim League, in a bid to mount a strong opposition to the Pakistan Peoples Party led ruling government.

The task was undertaken by Corps of Engineers's Special Development Works ( SDW ) and Frontier Works Organisation ( FWO ), the special units of military scientists and engineers, headed by Lieutenant-General Zahid Ali Akbar Khan and Brigadier-General Muhammad Sarfaraz, directly reporting to the Pakistan Army's Generals Headquarters ( GHQ ).

The main reason Generals Farman and Yakub had opposed any military action against civilians in East Pakistan was the fear of an Indian attack, which the Pakistan army was woefully unprepared to meet in March 1971.

They then drove to the Racecourse ground where a small contingent of the Pakistan army presented a guard of honor to the Indian Commander and at 4: 00 pm both the Generals signed the Instrument of Surrender.

* 1947 – Founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah is sworn in as first Governor-General of Pakistan in Karachi.

* 1988 – President of Pakistan Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq and U. S. Ambassador Arnold Raphel are killed in a plane crash.

* 1924 – Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, Pakistani politician, 6th President of Pakistan ( d. 1988 )

* 1947 – Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founding father of Pakistan, gives a speech to the Constituent Assembly, the contents and meaning of which remain contentious today.

* 1930 – Sir Muhammad Iqbal's presidential address in Allahabad introduces the Two-Nation Theory and outlines a vision for the creation of Pakistan.

In 1955, the Bengali Prime minister Muhammad Ali Bogra devolved the province of East Bengal and established the state as East Pakistan with Dhaka its state capital.

Throughout this time, the tensions between East Bengal and the West Pakistan led to the One-Unit policy by Bengali Prime Minister Muhammad Ali Bogra.

The martial law continued until 1962 when the government of Field Marshal Ayub Khan commissioned a constitutional bench under Chief Justice of Pakistan, Muhammad Shahabuddin, containing ten senior justices, each five from East Pakistan and five from West Pakistan.

Muslim rule in the subcontinent began in 8th century CE when the Arab general Muhammad bin Qasim conquered Sindh and Multan in southern Punjab in modern day Pakistan, setting the stage for several successive invasions from Central Asia between the 10th and 15th centuries CE, leading to the formation of Muslim empires in the Indian subcontinent such as the Delhi Sultanate and the Mughal Empire.

In 712 CE an Arab Muslim general called Muhammad bin Qasim conquered most of the Indus region in modern day Pakistan, for the Umayyad empire, to be made the " As-Sindh " province with its capital at Al-Mansurah, north of modern Hyderabad in Sindh, Pakistan.

Nasir ud-din Muhammad Humayun (; full title: Al-Sultan al -' Azam wal Khaqan al-Mukarram, Jam-i-Sultanat-i-haqiqi wa Majazi, Sayyid al-Salatin, Abu ' l Muzaffar Nasir ud-din Muhammad Humayun Padshah Ghazi, Zillu ' llah ; OS 7 March 1508 – OS 17 January 1556 ) was the second Mughal Emperor who ruled present day Afghanistan, Pakistan, and parts of northern India from 1530 – 1540 and again from 1555 – 1556.

* 1947 – Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor-General of Pakistan by British Prime Minister Clement Attlee.

* 1948 – Muhammad Ali Jinnah ( Quaid-i-Azam ) inaugurates Pakistan's central bank, the State Bank of Pakistan.

* 1887 – The founder of Pakistan, Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, joins Sindh-Madrasa-tul-Islam, Karachi.

Once elected, Nehru headed an interim government, which was impaired by outbreaks of communal violence and political disorder, and the opposition of the Muslim League led by Muhammad Ali Jinnah, who were demanding a separate Muslim state of Pakistan.

Jawaharlal Nehru ( right ) with Muhammad Ali Bogra, Prime Minister of Pakistan ( left ), during his 1953 visit to Karachi

It is locally known as the " City of Lights " () and " The bride of the cities " () for its liveliness, and the " City of the Quaid " (), having been the birth and burial place of Quaid-e-Azam, the Great Leader, ( Muhammad Ali Jinnah ), the founder of Pakistan, who made the city his home after Pakistan's independence from the British Raj on 14 August 1947.

In 1876, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, was born in the city, which by now had become a bustling city with mosques, temples, courthouses, paved streets and a magnificent harbour.

He reportedly told Pakistan's President Muhammad Ali Jinnah to begin negotiations for Kalat's treaty of accession to Pakistan.

In 1948, the Khan of Qalat, Mir Ahmad Yar Khan, decided to join Pakistan on request of Muhammad Ali Jinnah ( founder of Pakistan ), and decision was made that defence, currency, foreign office and finance will be controlled by federal govt.

In July 1977 General Zia-ul-Haq overthrew Prime Minister Ali Bhutto's regime in Pakistan.

With the death of Zia-ul-Haq in 1988, Benazir Bhutto, daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, was elected as the first female Prime Minister of Pakistan.

* General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq ( Pakistan )

* August 17 – Pakistani President Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq and the U. S. ambassador to Pakistan, Arnold Raphel, are killed in a plane crash near Bhawalpur.

** Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, leader of Pakistan ( b. 1924 )

* September 16 – General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq officially assumes the post of President of Pakistan.

In 1984, the Government of Pakistan, under General Zia-ul-Haq, passed Ordinance XX, which banned proselytizing by Ahmadis and also banned Ahmadis from referring to themselves as Muslims.

Mohammad Zia-ul-Haq ( Punjabi, ; 12 August 1924 – 17 August 1988 ), was a four-star rank general officer who served as the sixth President of Pakistan from 1978 until his death in 1988, having declared martial law for the third time in the country's history in 1977.

* August 17 – President of Pakistan Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq dies in the crash of a C-130 Hercules transport near Bahawalpur, Pakistan.

* General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq of Pakistan

In 1979, the PAF's Chief of Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal Anwar Shamim, was told by then President, and Chief of Army Staff General Zia-ul-Haq, that Pakistan had reliable intels on Indian plans to attack and destroy the Pakistan's nuclear research facilities at Kahuta.

Jimmy Carter boosted the U. S. defense budget and began financially aiding the President of Pakistan, General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, who would in turn subsidize the anti-Soviet Mujahideen fighters in the region.

On 5 July that same year, Bhutto was deposed by his appointed army chief General Zia-ul-Haq in a bloodless coup before being controversially tried and executed by the Supreme Court of Pakistan in 1979 for authorising the murder of a political opponent.

Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry ( Punjabi, ; January 1, 1904-June 2, 1982 ), was the fifth President of Pakistan, serving from 1973 until 1978, prior to the martial law led by Chief of Army Staff General Zia-ul-Haq.

Khan came in initial state of shock when he received a call from Pakistan Army Combatant General Headquarters ( GHQ ) that Bhutto has been forcefully removed by Chief of Army Staff General Zia-ul-Haq.

This amendment sweeped the powers amassed by the Presidency under former Presidents General Pervez Musharraf and General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq and to ease political instability in Pakistan.

The transformation of the sectarian conflict to a violent civil war in Pakistan coincided with the establishment of the Islamic Republic in Iran and promotion of the Sunni religion and its incorporation in the state institutions by General Zia-ul-Haq, regime in Pakistan.

Mr. Muhammad Khan Junejo, was nominated as the Prime Minister of Pakistan by the President ( General Zia-ul-Haq ).

A large number of world leaders attended the funeral, including Malaysian Yang Di Pertuan Agong, Iskandar of Johor, Sultan Ahmad Shah of Pahang, the Yang Di Pertuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan, Tuanku Jaafar, Sultan Mahmud Al-Muktafi Billah Shah of Terengganu, Tuanku Syed Putra of Perlis, Sultan Abdul Halim of Kedah, Sultan Salahuddin of Selangor, Sultan Azlan Shah of Perak, U. S. President George H. W. Bush, President of the Philippines Corazon Aquino, Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh, President Suharto of Indonesia, President Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq of Pakistan, Hussain Muhammad Ershad of Bangladesh, Secretary of British Foreign Affairs and the Commonwealth, Sir Geoffrey Howe, and many others.