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10 Most Famous Historical events that happened in Pakistan

Pakistan status is seventh in world. It is also second in South Asia and the only country in the Islamic World. Pakistan was also has the sixth-largest standing armed forces in the world and is spending a major amount of its budget on defense. 

Pakistan is the founding member of the OIC, the SAARC and the Islamic Military Counter Terrorism Coalition as well as a member of many international organizations. Including the UN, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, the Commonwealth of Nations, the ARF, the Economic Cooperation Organization and many more.

It is a regional and middle power which is ranked among the emerging and growth-leading economies of the world. The country is backed by one of the world’s largest and fastest-growing middle class. It has a semi-industrialized economy with a well-integrated agriculture sector.

 Pakistan is one of the Next Eleven, a group of eleven countries that, along with the BRICs. The country have a high potential to become the world’s largest economies in the 21st century.

Many economists and think tanks suggested that until 2030 Pakistan become Asian Tiger and CPEC will play an important role in it. Geographically, Pakistan is also an important country and a source of contact between Middle East, Central Asia, South Asia and East Asia.

1. Pakistan was declared as a country

British Government decides to separate British India, into two sovereign Dominions of India and Pakistan. Constituent Assembly of Pakistan approves the design of Pakistan.

 The Gazette of India publishes that the first Constituent Assembly of Pakistan was given shape with 69 members (later on the membership was increased to 79), including one female member.

On 14 August 1947 Pakistan came into existence. Quaid-a-Azam took oath as first Governor General of Pakistan. While Liaqat Ali Khan took oath as first Prime minister of Pakistan.

Pakistan became a member of the UN by a unanimous vote of the Security Council. Indian Air troops land in Kashmir as the Maharajah declares accession of Kashmir to India.

2. The Indo-Pakistani War of 1947–1948

A Pakistan Army Armored Corps tank column of Chinese Type-59/T-59 Main Battle Tanks advances during the 1965 war with India. photo by Pakistan Army

It is also known as the First Kashmir War. This was an armed conflict that was fought between India and Pakistan . It was over the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir from 1947 to 1948.

 It was the first of four Indo-Pakistani wars that was fought between the two newly independent nations. Pakistan precipitated the war a few weeks after its independence by launching tribal lashkar (militias) from Waziristan in an effort, to capture Kashmir and to preempt the possibility of its ruler joining India. The inconclusive result of the war still affects the geopolitics of both countries.

3. The assassinations of Jinnah’s successor Liaquat Ali Khan

Liaquat Ali Khan, Prime Minister of Pakistan photo by Liaquat Ali Khan

He was a Pakistani statesman, lawyer, political theorist, and one of the leading Pakistan Movement activists. Khan became the first prime minister of Pakistan. He also held cabinet portfolio as the first foreign minister, defense minister, and frontier regions minister from 1947 .

In1951, Khan was shot twice in the chest. While he was addressing a gathering of 100,000 at Company Bagh (Company Gardens), Rawalpindi. The police immediately shot the presumed murderer who was later identified as professional assassin Said Akbar.

Khan was rushed to a hospital and given a blood transfusion, but he succumbed to his injuries. Said Akbar Babrak was an Afghan national from the Pashtun Zadran tribe.

 The exact motive behind the assassination has never been fully revealed and much speculation surrounds it. Upon his death, Khan was given the honorific title of “Shaheed-e-Millat”, or “Martyr of the Nation”. 

He is buried at Mazar-e-Quaid, the mausoleum built for Jinnah in Karachi.[citation needed] The Municipal Park, where he was assassinated, was renamed Liaquat Bagh (Bagh means Garden) in his honor. It is the same location where ex-Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated in 2007.

4. Pakistan conducted its own nuclear tests 

The Pakistan Government, under Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, authorized the programme jointly under PAEC and KRL. They were assisted by the Corps of Engineers in 1998. 

There were six nuclear tests performed under this programme, codenamed Chagai-I, and Chagai-II. After the Prime Minister of India, Atal Vajpayee made a state visit to Pakistan to meet with the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif, both countries signed a nuclear testing control treaty, the Lahore Declaration in 1999.

5.General Pervez Musharraf seized power in coup.

The 1999 Pakistani coup was a bloodless coup in which the Pakistan Army and then-Chief of Army Staff and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee. General Pervez Musharraf seized the control of the civilian government of publicly elected Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on 12 October 1999.

 Two days into seizing the government, on 14 October 1999, General Musharraf, who then-acted as the country’s Chief Executive, declared a state of emergency by issuing a Provisional Constitutional Order that suspended the writ of the Constitution of Pakistan.

6.The 2005 Kashmir earthquake 

Pakistan lays in ruins after the 2005 Kashmir earthquake that hit the region. photo by Timothy Smith, U.S. Navy

It occurred at 08:50:39 Pakistan Standard Time on 8 October in Pakistani-administered Azad Kashmir. It was centered near the city of Muzaffarabad, and also affected nearby Balakot in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and some areas of Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir.

It registered a moment magnitude of 7.6 and had a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme). The earthquake was also felt in Afghanistan, Tajikistan, India and the Xinjiang region. The severity of the damage caused by the earthquake is attributed to severe upthrust.

Over 86,000 people died, a similar number were injured, and millions were displaced. It is considered the deadliest earthquake in South Asia, surpassing the 1935 Quetta earthquake.

7. Pakistan floods in 2010

The floods in Pakistan began in late July 2010. That resulted from heavy monsoon rains in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Sindh, Punjab and, Balochistan regions of Pakistan, which affected the Indus River basin.

Approximately one-fifth of Pakistan’s total land area was affected by floods, with the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province facing the brunt of the damage and casualties (above 90% of the deaths occurred in that Province).

Nationwide, there were 1,985 deaths. According to Pakistani government data, the floods directly affected about 20 million people, mostly by destruction of property, livelihood and infrastructure.

8.Taliban suicide bomber killed at least 23 people at a Shia Muslim procession in the Rawalpindi in 2012

Shia mosque photo by Akhemen

The bomber targeted marchers as they approached a mosque near the city center. Another 62 people were hurt.

Blasts earlier on Wednesday outside a Shia mosque in the southern city of Karachi killed at least two people, and a bomb in Quetta left five dead.

The bombings come as Shias mark the holy month of Muharram. First reports from Rawalpindi said 10 people had died in the attack late on Wednesday night, but officials raised the figure on Thursday morning.

9.Peshawar school attack massacre 

On 16 December 2014, six gunmen affiliated with the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan conducted a terrorist attack on the Army Public School in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar. 

The militants, all of whom were foreign nationals, comprising one Chechen, three Arabs and two Afghans. They entered the school and opened fire on school staff and children. 

 That resulted to killing 149 people including 132 schoolchildren ranging between eight and eighteen years of age, making it the world’s fourth deadliest school massacre .A rescue operation was launched by the Pakistan Army’s Special Services Group (SSG) special forces, who killed all six terrorists and rescued 960 people.

10. Pakistan wons 2017 ICC Champions Trophy defeating India in the finals

ICC Champions Trophy 2017 photo by Elliott Brown

The 2017 ICC Champions Trophy was the eighth ICC Champions Trophy. It was a cricket tournament for the eight top-ranked One Day International (ODI) teams in the world.

 It was held in England and Wales from 1 to 18 June 2017.Pakistan won the competition for the first time with a 180-run victory over India in the final at The Oval. The margin of victory was the largest by any team in the final of an ICC ODI tournament in terms of runs.