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In March 1971 regional commander Major General Ziaur Rahman declared the independence of East Pakistan as the new nation of Bangladesh on behalf of Mujib. Pakistan launched pre-emptive air strikes on 11 Indian airbases on 3 December 1971, leading to India's entry into the war on the side of Bangladeshi nationalist forces.
As of the 2023 Census, there are two megacities, ten million-plus cities, in Pakistan. 128 cities having a population of 100,000 or more. Of these 128 cities, 81 are located in the country's most populous province, Punjab, 23 in Sindh, 13 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 8 in Balochistan, two in Azad Kashmir, and one is the Islamabad Capital Territory ...
On 14 August 1947, Pakistan gained independence. India gained independence the following day. The two provinces of British India, Punjab and Bengal, were divided along religious lines by the Radcliffe Commission. Mountbatten is alleged to have influenced the Radcliffe Commission to draw the line in India's favour.
Islamabad officially became the capital of Pakistan on 14 August 1967, exactly 20 years after the country's independence. [1] The first capital of Pakistan was the coastal city of Karachi in Sindh, which was selected by Muhammad Ali Jinnah. [1] Karachi was and still is the largest city and economic capital of Pakistan.
The cities of Harappa [13] and Mohenjo-daro [14] become large metropolises and the civilization expands to over 2,500 cities and settlements across the whole region of modern-day Pakistan, [15] covering a region of around one million square miles, which was larger than the land area of its contemporaries Egypt and Mesopotamia combined, and also ...
In the years following independence, Rawalpindi saw an influx of Muhajir, Pashtun and Kashmiri settlers. Having been the largest British Cantonment in the region at the dawn of Pakistan's independence, Rawalpindi was chosen as headquarters for the Pakistani Army, despite the fact that Karachi had been selected as the first capital. [15]
At the time of Pakistan's independence in 1947, the city was the largest in Sindh with an estimated population of 400,000 people. [22] Afterwards, the city experienced a dramatic shift in population and demography with the arrival of hundreds of thousands of Muslim immigrants from India, [ 28 ] coupled with an exodus of most of its Hindu ...
The city of Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan, is located on the Pothohar Plateau within the Islamabad Capital Territory—one of the earliest known sites of human settlement in Asia. [1] [2] Items of pottery and utensils dating back to prehistory have been found in several areas. [3] Limited excavations have confirmed evidence of prehistoric ...