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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
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 ]
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.
Old name New name Year of name change Ref. 1 Lawrence Garden Bagh-e-Jinnah: 2018 [6] 2 Montgomery Hall Quaid-e-Azam Library: 2018 3 Branthon Road Nishtar Road 4 Queen's Road Fatima Jinnah Road 5 Our Fall Road Jeelani Road 6 Tempbell Street Hameed Nizami Street [7] 7 Jail Road Allama Iqbal Road [6] 8 Davis Road Sir Aga Khan Road 9 Motilal Nehru Road
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 ...
The name Pakistan was coined by Choudhry Rahmat Ali, a Pakistan Movement activist, who in January 1933 first published it (originally as "Pakstan") in a pamphlet Now or Never, using it as an acronym. [ 24 ] [ 25 ] [ 26 ] Rahmat Ali explained: "It is composed of letters taken from the names of all our homelands, Indian and Asian, P anjab , A ...
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 .