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On 14 August 1947 (27th of Ramadan in 1366 of the Islamic Calendar) Pakistan gained independence. India gained independence the following day. Two of the provinces of British India, Punjab and Bengal, were divided along religious lines by the Radcliffe Commission.
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14 August 1947: Pakistan is created. Post-Independence 1940s 1947. 3 June: British Government decides to separate British India, into two sovereign Dominions of India and Pakistan. 8 July: Constituent Assembly of Pakistan approves the design of Pakistan.
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The Pakistan Movement, as it came to be known, was based on the principle of two-nation theory, and aimed to establish a separate homeland for Muslims in South Asia. This was a movement against the oppression, that Muslims felt in the face of an increasingly politicized Hindu majority. The Pakistan Movement was spearheaded by Muhammad Ali Jinnahand...
After the independence, Liaquat Ali Khan became the first prime minister and Jinnah became the first Governor-General. Pakistan consisted of two wings, West-Pakistan and East-Pakistan. The Liaquat government, along with all subsequent governments during that first decade after independence faced serious difficulties in effectively governing both Ea...
The government in response to the riots eventually asked the military for help and in response Corp Commander of Lahore General Muhammad Azam Khan enacted the first martial law in parts of the country. This was a turning point in the country's history and even though the riots were eventually quashed by force but the seeds of intolerance were sown ...
Soon after Bhutto assumed the control of the country, Bhutto released Mujibur Rehman, and put General Khan on house arrest instead. Bhutto, immediately appeared on PTV where addressed an emotional speech to his shattered nation. Bhutto also formed the Hamoodur Rahman Commission, to carry out the inquiry and causes of the war, under the Bengali Chie...
During the 1977 parliamentary elections, the Pakistan National Alliance (PNA) under the renowned theologian Maulana Maududi began to advocate the overthrow the government of Bhutto. The religious leaders had always seen Bhutto's policies autocratic and more of secular policies than being under in Islamic system. Maududi began to call for Bhutto's o...
Jun 10, 2022 · This chapter serves as the background for the recent public sector reform narrative of Pakistan by mapping the alternations in the structures from 1947—the year of independence of Pakistan—until 2018.
Now, after 24 years of independence marked by several governments, three wars with India, a civil war, and numerous natural disasters Pakistan has separated into two distinct political entities, West Pakistan (which one assumes will retain the formal title of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan) and East Pakistan (which has been proclaimed the Peop...
Dec 2, 2020 · The following study can give a glimpse of Pakistan’s search for identity in its early years as a new independent state from 1947 to 1956. This research comprehends Islam as a strategic choice for the successive Pakistani government to build its relationship with Middle Eastern Muslim States.
Chapter 1 explores how ideas, promises and agendas originating in the nationalist movements of the first half of the twentieth century shaped not only the policies of independent governments in South Asia, but also the kinds of demands that their new citizens made of them.
