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.

And while the nation was formerly named `` The Islamic Republic of Pakistan '', it is now simply `` The Republic of Pakistan ''.

* Independence Day, celebrates the day on which Pakistan was made an independent country based on border lines created by the British during the end of their rule of India in 1947.

He was instrumental in the creation of Pakistan.

In 1906, the Aga Khan was a founding member and first president of the All India Muslim League, a political party which pushed for the creation of an independent Muslim nation in the north west regions of South Asia, then under British colonial rule, and later established the country of Pakistan in 1947.

In 1947, British rule in the South Asia was replaced by the sovereign, independent nations of India, Pakistan and later Bangladesh, resulting in the migration of millions people and significant loss of life and property.

A Pakistan Air Force T-33 trainer was hijacked on August 20, 1971 before Indo-Pakistani war of 1971 in Karachi when a Bengali instructor pilot, Flight Lieutenant Matiur Rahman, knocked out the young Pilot Officer Rashid Minhas with the intention of defecting to India with the plane and national secrets.

In 2006 it was held in three cities: Caracas ( Venezuela ), Bamako ( Mali ), and Karachi ( Pakistan ).

In the year 1893, during rule of Amir Abdur Rahman Khan, a Royal Commission for setting up of Boundary between Afghanistan and British Governed India was set up to negotiate terms with the British, for the agreeing to the Durand line, and the two parties camped at Parachinar, now part of FATA Pakistan, which is near Khost, Afghanistan.

Liaquat Ali Khan, the first Prime Minister of Pakistan, was assassinated by Saad Akbar, a lone assassin, in 1951.

Besides Turkic people, large part of the Ghaznavid Empire was made up of local Muslim Afghans from what is now Afghanistan and western parts of Pakistan.

Its main cappital was Ghazni, Afghanistan, and Lahore in Pakistan served as the second capital.

Brill and Farishta have recorded that the complete conversion of Afghanistan, Pakistan to Islam was during the rule of Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni.

He was promoted to full colonel in 1934 He attended and was then recommended to become an instructor at the Indian Army Staff College ( now the Pakistan Army Staff College ) in Quetta, British India.

It was also in 1990 that he made his belated Test debut for West Indies against Pakistan, scoring 44 and 5.

Among the early Old World cities, Mohenjo-daro of the Indus Valley Civilization in present-day Pakistan, existing from about 2600 BC, was one of the largest, with a population of 50, 000 or more.

An Indian POW, Lance Naik Hatam Ali ( later a citizen of Pakistan ), testified that in New Guinea: " the Japanese started selecting prisoners and every day one prisoner was taken out and killed and eaten by the soldiers.

The Pakistan Cave Research & Caving Federation was founded in Pakistan in 1997.

The sixth census of Pakistan was planned for October 2008.

The 1987 tournament, named the Reliance World Cup after their Indian sponsors, was held in India and Pakistan, the first time that the competition was held outside England.

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 early 1995, South Africa won one-off tests against both Pakistan and New Zealand, in Auckland Cronje scored the only century of the match before a final day declaration left his bowlers barely enough time to dismiss the Kiwis.

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

He returned to the United States in 1999, living with his family for about eight months before returning to Yemen in February 2000, from which he left for Pakistan to study at a madrassa.

PRC Towers ( left ) and Pakistan National Shipping Corporation | PNSC Building

Musharraf and his family left for Pakistan on one of the last safe trains in August 1947, a few days before the partition of India took effect.

In 1956 he left Turkey and returned to Pakistan in 1957 where he attended Saint Patrick's School in Karachi and Forman Christian College in Lahore.

The democratic socialist leader Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, allied with left-wing parties, participated in General elections held in December 1970 saw the far left Awami League under Mujibur Rahman win an overall majority of seats in parliament ( all but two of the 162 seats allocated to East Pakistan ).

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This atrocious war crime was heavily criticised by the whole world and caused Macedonia to lose much of its foreign support especially from the west, the EU and Pakistan governments strongly insisted that the people responsible for this war crime be brought to justice but the four men allegedly responsible for this were cleared of all charges and received a hero ’ s sheared after they left court.

Migrations of the 2nd and 1st c. BC have left traces in Sogdiana and Bactria, but they cannot firmly be attributed to the Saka, similarly with the sites of Sirkap and Taxila in Pakistan.

After Alexander's death in 323 BCE, Chandragupta, turned his attention to Northwestern India ( modern Pakistan ), where he defeated the satrapies ( described as " prefects " in classical Western sources ) left in place by Alexander ( according to Justin ), and may have assassinated two of his governors, Nicanor and Philip.

During the late 14th century, Islamic warlord of Turco-Mongol descent Timur the Great conquered much of western and central Asia. He subjugated Multan and Dipalpur in modern day Pakistan and in modern day India left Delhi in such ruin that it is said for two months " not a bird moved wing in the city ".

This hostility translated into communal tension in Hyderabad between Muslim refugees and local Hindus ; After independence of Pakistan, Hindus expected to remain in Sindh, however a large number of them left due to communal violence or due to better socio-economic prospects in India.

When India gained independence in 1947 and Pakistan came into existence in 1947, the British left the local rulers of the princely states the choice of whether to join one of the new dominions or to remain independent.

He wanted to hold Pakistan directly responsible for the terrible influx of millions of Hindu refugees from East Pakistan, who had left the state fearing religious suppression and violence aided by the state.

Upwards of 6. 2 million Afghans were reported as having left Afghanistan for Pakistan and Iran alone during the various phases of conflict.

After graduating in English Literature from the Government College, Lahore ( then in British India, now in Pakistan ), Anand left his hometown for Bombay in the early 1940s.

Khan was placed under surveillance, but he abruptly left Singapore for Pakistan on October 4.

* 4 October 2001-Muhammad Aslam Yar Ali Khan left for Pakistan, he was soon captured by Northern Alliance.

The death of Murtaza Bhutto left unsolved mystery that is yet to be answered, but it had disastrous effects on Pakistan Peoples Party whose government was dismissed by the party's own elected president Farooq Legahri in September 1996.

In September 2010, the Pakistan Muslim League ( Q ) joined its similar ideological faction, the PML-F, forming the Pakistan Muslim League ( Pir Pagara ), but this was short-lived when in May 2011 the party joined the Yousaf Raza Gillani led-government to fulfill the gape left by its rival PML-N.