Pakistan History Timeline

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A Concise Timeline of Pakistan History.
A) Early History:
ca 1500 B.C. The Aryans came into the Punjab region.
ca 500s B.C. The Persians conquered the Punjab and made it part of the Achaemenid Empire.
526 B.C. Alexander the Great took control of most of what is now Pakistan.
ca 230 B.C. Greeks from the independent state of Bactria invaded the Indus Valley.
ca 100 B.C. Scythians from Afghanistan came into Baluchistan and Sind.
ca 50 to mid-200s A.D. The Kushans ruled what is now Afghanistan, Pakistan, and northwestern India.
mid-300s The Indus Valley became part of the Gupta Empire.
mid-400s Huns from central Asia conquered the empire.
B) The Arrival of Muslims:
711 Arab Muslims invaded Sind.
1000 Turkish Muslims invaded northern Pakistan from Iran.
1206 Most of what is now Pakistan became part of the Delhi Sultanate.
1526 Babar, a Muslim ruler from Afghanistan, invaded India and established the Mogul Empire.
C) The British Rule:
1740s The East India Company gained political control over much of India.
1858 The British government took over control of the East India Company. All the company’s territory
became known as British India.
1875 Syed Admad Khan founded the Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College (now Aligarh Muslim
University) in Aligarh.
1906 The Muslim League was formed.
1940 The Muslim League demanded partition of India along religious lines.
1947 Britain and Hindu leaders agreed to the partition.
D) Independent Pakistan:
(Post-Independence Politics: 1947-1970)
August 14, 1947 Pakistan became an independent dominion within the Commonwealth of Nations.
1948-1949 India and Pakistan went to war over Kashmir.
1948 Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Pakistan’s first head of state, died.
1951 Prime Minister Liaqat Ali Khan was assassinated.
1955 Pakistan joins the Baghdad Pact, later known as the Central Treaty Organisation (CENTO)
1956 Pakistan became a republic.
October 7, 1958 President Iskander Mirza suspended the 1956 Constitution, imposed martial law, and
canceled the elections scheduled for January 1959.
October 27, 1958 President Mirza was sent into exile and General Mohammad Ayub Khan assumed
control of a military dictatorship.
1967 The Mangla Dam on the Jhelum River was completed.
1969 General Khan resigned as leader of Pakistan and handed control of the government to General
Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan.
1970 A cyclone and tidal wave struck East Pakistan, killing about 200,000 persons.
(Politics after Separation of East Pakistan: 1971-2000)
March 26, 1971 East Pakistan declared itself an independent nation called Bangladesh.
December 1971 Yahya Khan resigned the presidency and handed over leadership of West Pakistan to
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.
1973 President Bhutto promulgated a new Constitution.
1975 The Tarbela Dam on the Indus River was completed.

July 5, 1977 The military removed Bhutto from power and arrested him, declared martial law, and
suspended portions of the 1973 Constitution. Chief of Army Staff General Muhammad Zia ul-Haq took
control of the government.
1979 Pakistan formally joined the Non-Aligned Movement.
April 6, 1979 Bhutto was executed for crimes committed during his presidency.
August 17, 1988 A plane carrying President Zia, American Ambassador Arnold Raphael, U.S. Brigadier
General Herbert Wassom, and 28 Pakistani military officers crashed near Bahawalpur, killing all of its
occupants. Chairman of the Senate Ghulam Ishaq Khan became Acting President.
November 1988 Benazir Bhutto formed a coalition government with several smaller parties.
August 1990 President Khan dismissed the Bhutto government and dissolved the national and provincial
assemblies.
October 1990 Muhammad Nawaz Sharif was elected Prime Minister by the National Assembly.
April 1993 President Khan dismissed the Sharif government.
May 1993 The Pakistan Supreme Court reinstated the Sharif government.
July 1993 President Khan and Prime Minister Sharif both resigned their offices. Moeen Qureshi took
office as head of an interim government.
October 1993 Benazir Bhutto was elected Prime Minister.
November 1993 Farooq Leghari was elected President.
November 1996 President Leghari dismissed the Bhutto government.
February 1997 Nawaz Sharif became Prime Minister.
March 1997 The National Assembly amended the Constitution to strip the President of the power to
dismiss the government.
December 1997 President Leghari resigned; he was replaced by Rafiq Tarar.
October 12, 1999 The army deposed Sharif.
October 14, 1999 Chief of Army Staff General Pervez Musharraf declared himself Chief Executive.
May 12, 2000 The Supreme Court unanimously validated the October 1999 coup and granted Musharraf
executive and legislative authority for three years from the coup date.
(Recent Times: 2000-2017)

June 20, 2001 Musharraf named himself as President and was sworn in.
November 2003 Pakistan declared a Kashmir ceasefire; India followed suit.
June 2004 Pakistan mounted its first military offensive against suspected Al-Qaeda militants and their
supporters in tribal areas near the Afghan border.
3-11 July 2007: Siege of Lal Masjid.
October 2007 Ex-prime minister Benazir Bhutto returned from exile.
November 2007 Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif returned from exile.
December 2007 Benazir Bhutto was assassinated at age 54 during election campaign rally in Liaqat Bagh,
Rawalpindi.
August 2008 President Musharraf resigned after the two main governing parties agreed to launch
impeachment proceedings against him.
September 2008 Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of Benazir Bhutto, was elected President.
April 2011 The founder of Al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, was killed by American special forces in
Abbottabad.
26 February 2011 Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy won her first Academy Award for Best Documentary Short
Subject for Saving Face, becoming the very first Pakistani Oscar winner.
11 May 2013 Pakistani general election, 2013.
16 December 2014 APS Peshawar school massacre, 148 killed.
15 March 2015 Lahore church bombings, 19 killed.
December 2016 7 December – PIA plane PK-661 crashed during flight killing 47 people including Junaid
Jumshed and his wife.

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Timeline of Pakistan History (1500bc to 2017) |#KnowYourHistory |CSS Exams|

A Concise Timeline of Pakistan History.

ca 1500 B.C. The Aryans came into the Punjab region.

mid-300s The Indus Valley became part of the Gupta Empire.

mid-400s Huns from central Asia conquered the empire.

B) The Arrival of Muslims:

711 Arab Muslims invaded Sind.

1000 Turkish Muslims invaded northern Pakistan from Iran.

C) The British Rule:

1947 Britain and Hindu leaders agreed to the partition.

(Post-Independence Politics: 1947-1970)

1948-1949 India and Pakistan went to war over Kashmir.

1948 Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Pakistan’s first head of state, died.

1951 Prime Minister Liaqat Ali Khan was assassinated.

1956 Pakistan became a republic.

1967 The Mangla Dam on the Jhelum River was completed.

(Politics after Separation of East Pakistan: 1971-2000)

1973 President Bhutto promulgated a new Constitution.

1975 The Tarbela Dam on the Indus River was completed.

1979 Pakistan formally joined the Non-Aligned Movement.

April 1993 President Khan dismissed the Sharif government.

October 1993 Benazir Bhutto was elected Prime Minister.

November 1993 Farooq Leghari was elected President.

November 1996 President Leghari dismissed the Bhutto government.

February 1997 Nawaz Sharif became Prime Minister.

December 1997 President Leghari resigned; he was replaced by Rafiq Tarar.

October 12, 1999 The army deposed Sharif.

(Recent Times: 2000-2017)

November 2003 Pakistan declared a Kashmir ceasefire; India followed suit.

3-11 July 2007: Siege of Lal Masjid.

October 2007 Ex-prime minister Benazir Bhutto returned from exile.

11 May 2013 Pakistani general election, 2013.

16 December 2014 APS Peshawar school massacre, 148 killed.

15 March 2015 Lahore church bombings, 19 killed.

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