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Bharathidasan on a 2001 stamp of India. Bharathidasan won the Golden Parrot Prize in 1946 for his play Amaithi-Oomai (Peace and Dumbness). He was given the Sahitya Academy Award, [2] posthumously in 1970 for his play Pisiranthaiyar. On 9 October 2001, a commemorative stamp of Bharathidasan was released by the Postal Department in Chennai.
Shortest-tenured prime minister. After the general elections in 1971, Amin was invited to be appointed as prime minister under Yahya administration; he was also the first and the only vice president of Pakistan from 1970 to 1972, leading Pakistan in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. [3] 5th — Office vacant 21 December 1971 – 13 August 1973 [d] 9
Urdu is the national language and the lingua franca of Pakistan, and while sharing official status with English, it is the preferred and dominant language used for inter-communication between different ethnic groups. [2] [3] Numerous regional languages are spoken as first languages by Pakistan's various ethnolinguistic groups.
This is a list of dāstāns and qissas (prose fiction) written in Urdu during the 18th and 19th centuries. The skeleton of the list is a reproduction of the list provided by Gyan Chand Jain in his study entitled Urdū kī nasrī dāstānen .
Choudhry Rahmat Ali is said to have suggested the name of the independent Muslim state Pakistan in 1933, 5 years after the name was adopted by Ghulam Hasan Shah Kazmi for his newspaper. [ 22 ] [ 23 ] Ali's pamphlet described the Muslims of his proposed 'Pakistan' as a 'nation', which later formed the foundation for the two-nation theory of the ...
In Urdu and Persian languages, the name encapsulates the concept of Pak ("pure") and stan ("land") and hence a "Pure Land". [159] In 1935, the British government proposed to hand over substantial power to elected Indian provincial legislatures, with elections to be held in 1937. [ 160 ]
Pakistan Muslim League (N) – 8 Farooq Leghari (1940–2010) 14 November 1993 2 December 1997 4 years, 18 days Pakistan People's Party: 1993 — Wasim Sajjad (born 1941) acting: 2 December 1997 1 January 1998 30 days Pakistan Muslim League (N) 9 Muhammad Rafiq Tarar (1929–2022) 1 January 1998 20 June 2001 3 years, 170 days Pakistan Muslim ...
This was the first sectarian rioting in the country and the Pakistan Army was called for the first time to control a civil strife. 200 to 2000 Ahmadiyya are killed. March 3: CF-CUN, a de Havilland DH-106 Comet 1A of CPAL named Empress of Hawaii , crashed during takeoff from Karachi 's Mauripur RAF Station .