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In 1947, Pakistan consisted of West Pakistan (today's Pakistan) and East Pakistan (today's Bangladesh). The President of All-India Muslim League and later the Pakistan Muslim League, Muhammad Ali Jinnah became Governor-General while the secretary general of the Muslim League, Liaquat Ali Khan became Prime Minister.
22 October: October 2021 Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan protests, clashes led to the death of 7 policemen and more than 50 protestors. 3 November: Azad Kashmir bus incident killed 23 people; 3 December: Lynching of Priyantha Kumara over false accusations of blasphemy. 2021: Terrorist incidents in Pakistan in 2021
[3] [4] The then governor-general of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, took advice from the Founding Fathers of the nation and appointed Liaquat Ali Khan to establish and lead his administration on 15 August 1947. [5] Before the presidential system in 1960, seven prime ministers had served between 1947 until martial law in 1958. In 1971, the ...
From 1947 to 1956, the Dominion of Pakistan was a self-governing country within the Commonwealth of Nations that shared a monarch with the United Kingdom and the other Dominions of the Commonwealth. The monarch's constitutional roles in Pakistan were mostly delegated to a vice-regal representative, the governor-general of Pakistan.
The History of Pakistan prior to its independence in 1947 spans several millennia and covers a vast geographical area known as the Greater Indus region. [1] Anatomically modern humans arrived in what is now Pakistan between 73,000 and 55,000 years ago. [ 2 ]
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Independence Day (Urdu: یومِ آزادی, romanized: Yaum-i Āzādī ), observed annually on 14 August, is a national holiday in Pakistan.It commemorates the day when Pakistan achieved independence from the United Kingdom and was declared a sovereign state following the termination of the British Raj between the 14th and 15th August 1947.
This was the basis which the state of Pakistan was formed in 1947. East Pakistan was the lone province in Pakistan where most of the Hindu minority was concentrated, where they constituted 25% of the population. 12 out of the 14 Hindu members of Pakistan's Constituent Assembly came from East Bengal.