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18 April: The government takes over dailies The Pakistan Times, Imroze and weekly Lail-o-Nihar. 26 October: Ayub Khan announces his system of 80,000 Basic Democrats, who would further form the electoral college for the elections of the President and the members of the Central and Provisional Legislature.
May: Al-Haj Malik Bagh Ali becomes Mayor of Karachi. [30] 1956 - May: Siddique Wahab becomes Mayor of Karachi. [30] 1957– Karachi Development Authority, [36] Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, [37] and Pakistan National Scientific Documentation Centre [38] established. 1958 Federal capital relocated from Karachi to Rawalpindi.
Pangaea or Pangea (/ p æ n ˈ dʒ iː ə / pan-JEE-ə) [1] was a supercontinent that existed during the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras. [2] It assembled from the earlier continental units of Gondwana , Euramerica and Siberia during the Carboniferous approximately 335 million years ago, and began to break apart about 200 million years ...
The area of Karachi (Urdu: کراچی, Sindhi: ڪراچي) in Sindh, Pakistan has a natural harbor and has been used as fishing port by local fisherman belonging to Sindhi tribes since prehistory. Archaeological excavations have uncovered a period going back to Indus valley civilisation which shows the importance of the port since the Bronze Age.
The government later extended the end date to October 31, including the holy month of Ramadan, which had begun prior in the first few days of September. [2] [3] Pakistan's usage of DST originally was required to end on August 31st. [4] In 2009, DST was observed from April 15 through October 31.
By 1893, all modern Pakistan was part of the British Indian Empire, and remained so until independence in 1947. [141] Under the British, modern Pakistan was mostly divided into the Sind Division, Punjab Province, and the Baluchistan Agency. There were various princely states, of which the largest was Bahawalpur.
Statesmen of the early decades of Pakistan, with Pakistan’s founding father and future Governor-General, Muhammad Ali Jinnah in the centre of the bottom row. Three future Prime ministers can also be seen with Khawaja Nazimuddin to Jinnah’s left, I.I. Chundrigar on the rightmost of the middle row, and Liaquat Ali Khan on Chundrigar’s left.
On 15 September 1951, following the findings of mathematician Mahmood Anwar, two time zones were introduced. Karachi Time (KART) was introduced in West Pakistan by subtracting 30 minutes from UTC+05:30 to UTC+05:00 , while Dacca Time (DACT) was introduced in East Pakistan by subtracting 30 minutes off UTC+06:30 to UTC+06:00 .