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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.
After coining the name of the nation-state, Ali noticed that there is an acronym formed from the names of the "homelands" of Muslims in northwest India: "P" for Punjab "A" for Afghania (now known as Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) "K" for Kashmir "I" for Iran "S" for Sindh "Tan" for Balochistan; thus forming "Pakistan". [155] [156]
The current head of state of Pakistan is Asif Ali Zardari, elected in 2024 after being nominated by the Pakistan People's Party. From 1947 to 1956 the head of state was the Pakistani monarch, who was the same person as the monarch of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms. The Monarch was represented in Pakistan by the Governor ...
The Wāli of Swat, Miangul Abdul Wadud, acceded his state to Pakistan on 3 November 1947. [14] The last Wali, Miangul Jahan Zeb (1908–1987), continued to exercise absolute rule until Pakistan took control, when on 28 July 1969 Yahya Khan announced the full integration of the states of Swat, Chitral, and Dir into Pakistan. [22] [23]
Flag of the president of Pakistan. The president of Pakistan is the head of state of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. The complete list of presidents of Pakistan includes the persons sworn into the office of president following the proclamation of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan in 1956. There have been a total of 13 presidents.
Bhutto became the first woman in Pakistan to head a major political party, in 1982. Six years later, she became the first woman elected to lead a Muslim state. [10] [24] President Ghulam Ishaq Khan dissolved her government using article 58-2b of Constitution. 8th — Office vacant 6 August 1990 – 6 November 1990 [g] 12: Nawaz Sharif
First Governor-General of Pakistan, Malik Ghulam Muhammad (left), with the first Indian President, Rajendra Prasad. Suhrawardy's foreign policy was directed towards improving the fractured relations with the Soviet Union and strengthening relations with the United States and China after paying first a state visit to each country. [84]
On 7 September 1958, after four years of negotiations (including six months of intense negotiations), Pakistan purchased the enclave of Gwadar from Oman for ₨.5.5 billion (US$3 million; approximately $22,410,311.42 in 2017). [13] Gwadar formally became a part of Pakistan on 8 December 1958, ending 174 years of Omani rule.