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Pakistan was created in 1947 expressly as a Muslim state, but when the army took over eleven years later it did so on a wave of mass impatience which was directed in part against the inability of political and religious leaders to think their way through to the meaning of Islam for the modern political situation.
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Pakistan and created
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Its borders with Pakistan and Bangladesh were delineated according to the Radcliffe Line, which was created in 1947 during Partition of India.
A boot sector virus dubbed ( c ) Brain, it was created by the Farooq Alvi Brothers in Lahore, Pakistan, reportedly to deter piracy of the software they had written.
In 1948, the Federal Capital Territory of Pakistan was created, comprising approximately of Karachi and surrounding areas, but this was merged into the province of West Pakistan in 1961.
The Telecommunications Ordnance of 1994 created the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority ( PTA ), Pakistan's first independent telecommunications regulator, and the Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd ( PTCL ), a state-owned monopoly.
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Pakistan and 1947
* 1947 – Pakistan gains Independence from the British Empire and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.
* 1947 – Founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah is sworn in as first Governor-General of Pakistan in Karachi.
* 1947 – The Radcliffe Line, the border between Dominion of India and Dominion of Pakistan is revealed.
* 1947 – Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founding father of Pakistan, gives a speech to the Constituent Assembly, the contents and meaning of which remain contentious today.
The province of Bengal in British India was partitioned into West Bengal and East Pakistan in 1947.
After 1947, India made more progress on public health than East Pakistan ( now Bangladesh ).
Lord Mountbatten with Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru the first Prime Minister of sovereign India in Government House, Lady Mountbatten standing to their left. When India and Pakistan attained independence on 15 August 1947, Mountbatten remained in New Delhi for ten months, serving as India's first governor general until June 1948.
In 1947, Muslim majority districts of Bengal favored the Partition of India after approving the June 3rd Plan presented by the Viceroy of India Lord Earl Mounbatten, and merged with the new province of East Bengal of the Dominion of Pakistan.
From 1947 until 1954, the East Bengal was an independent administrative unit which was governed by the Pakistan Muslim League led by Nurul Amin.
Until 1947, the East Wing of Pakistan, separated from the West Wing by 1, 600 km of Indian territory, had been heavily dependent on Hindu management.
In August 1947, the West Bengal became part of India and East Bengal became part of Pakistan.
Although the formation was orgnanized but East Pakistan did not took role in 1947 war and no pressure was applied in Eastern borders.
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* 1947: British Empire begins to be voluntarily dismantled with the granting of independence to India and Pakistan.
The subcontinent gained independence from the United Kingdom in 1947, after the British provinces were partitioned into the dominions of India and Pakistan and the princely states all acceded to one of the new states.
These movements succeeded in bringing independence to the new dominions of India and Pakistan in 1947.
The British Indian territories gained independence in 1947, after being partitioned into the Union of India and Dominion of Pakistan.
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