11 August 1947
Constituent Assembly Address
Jinnah addresses the Constituent Assembly and advocates equal citizenship regardless of religion.
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Browse historical events and people recorded at Karachi in Pakistan. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Jinnah addresses the Constituent Assembly and advocates equal citizenship regardless of religion.
The Constituent Assembly elects Jinnah as its first President.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah becomes Pakistan's first Governor-General.
Jinnah attends the formal transfer-of-power ceremony in Karachi.
Ghulam Muhammad assumes responsibility for the new state's federal finances.
Liaquat Ali Khan forms Pakistan's first federal cabinet.
Zafarullah Khan becomes Pakistan's first Foreign Minister.
Liaquat Ali Khan begins service as Pakistan's first Prime Minister.
The government presents Pakistan's first federal budget.
Jinnah inaugurates the State Bank of Pakistan.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah dies after thirteen months as Governor-General.
Khwaja Nazimuddin succeeds Jinnah as Governor-General.
The Constituent Assembly adopts the Objectives Resolution under Liaquat Ali Khan.
Malik Ghulam Muhammad becomes Governor-General after Nazimuddin changes office.
Nazimuddin leaves the Governor-General's office to become Prime Minister.
Nazimuddin begins his premiership after leaving the Governor-General's office.
Khwaja Nazimuddin succeeds Liaquat Ali Khan as Prime Minister.
Governor-General Ghulam Muhammad dismisses Prime Minister Nazimuddin.
Muhammad Ali Bogra becomes Prime Minister.
Bogra proposes a constitutional formula balancing representation between Pakistan's two wings.
Pakistan and Turkey sign an agreement for friendly cooperation.
Ghulam Muhammad dissolves the first Constituent Assembly.
Army chief Muhammad Ayub Khan joins the federal cabinet as Defence Minister.
Chaudhry Muhammad Ali succeeds Muhammad Ali Bogra as Prime Minister.
Iskander Mirza succeeds Ghulam Muhammad as Governor-General.
Ghulam Muhammad resigns as Governor-General because of ill health.
The government combines western provinces into the single province of West Pakistan.
The 1956 Constitution creates the republic and makes Iskander Mirza its first President.
Pakistan's first Constitution enters into force and establishes a parliamentary republic.
Iskander Mirza assumes office as Pakistan's first President.
Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy becomes Prime Minister.
Noon's government completes negotiations for Pakistan to acquire Gwadar from Oman.
Ibrahim Ismail Chundrigar begins a brief premiership.
Feroz Khan Noon becomes Prime Minister of Pakistan.
Ayub's martial-law administration disrupts the old Muslim League organization.
The martial-law government bans political parties and restricts political campaigning.
Ayub Khan becomes Chief Martial Law Administrator after martial law is proclaimed.
Iskander Mirza abrogates the 1956 Constitution and dissolves national institutions.
Martial law ends Feroz Khan Noon's premiership.
Ayub Khan administers the martial-law regime established by President Iskander Mirza.
Ayub Khan enforces martial law under President Iskander Mirza.
Ayub Khan removes Iskander Mirza and assumes the presidency.
Ayub Khan consolidates military rule and restricts organized political activity.
Muhammad Ayub Khan begins his presidency after removing Iskander Mirza.
Iskander Mirza's presidency ends when Ayub Khan assumes full power.
Ayub Khan establishes the Basic Democracies system of local electoral councils.
Ayub Khan and Jawaharlal Nehru sign the Indus Waters Treaty.
Ayub promulgates reforms governing marriage, divorce and inheritance procedures.
Founds the Peoples Party
First general elections, Sheikh Mujibur Rahmans Awami League secures an absolute majority in new National Assembly
The West Pakistan-dominated Government declines to convene the National Assembly. First general elections, Sheikh Mujibur Rahmans Awami League secures an absolute majority in new National Assembly
First general elections, Sheikh Mujibur Rahmans Awami League secures an absolute majority in new National Assembly
The West Pakistan-dominated Government declines to convene the National Assembly. First general elections, Sheikh Mujibur Rahmans Awami League secures an absolute majority in new National Assembly
Bhutto announces nationalization of major industries.
Bhutto's government advances construction of the state-owned Pakistan Steel Mills complex.
Ramzi Binalshibh is arrested in Karachi on the anniversary of the attacks on America. He is accused of being a leading member of alQaeda and one of the main planners of the 11 September attacks
After eight years in exile in Dubai and London, Bhutto returns to Karachi to prepare for the 2008 national elections
After eight years in exile in Dubai and London, Bhutto returns to Karachi to prepare for the 2008 national elections
Bhutto later claimed that she had warned the Pakistani Government that suicide bomb squads would target her upon her return to Pakistan and that the Government had failed to act.
En route to a rally in Karachi two explosions occur shortly after Bhutto had landed and left Jinnah International Airport, she was not injured but the explosions, later found to be a suicide-bomb attack, killed 136 people.
The dead include at least 50 of the security guards from her PPP who had formed a human chain around her truck to keep potential bombers away, as well as 6 police officers.
En route to a rally in Karachi two explosions occur shortly after Bhutto had landed and left Jinnah International Airport, she was not injured but the explosions, later found to be a suicide-bomb attack, killed 136 people. Bhutto later claimed that she had warned the Pakistani Government that suicide bomb squads would target her upon her return to Pakistan and that the Government had failed to act
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