Asghar Khan
A soldier turned politician Asghar Khan was the first Muslim Commander-in-Chief of the Pakistan Air Force. Asghar Khan was born on January...
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Professor Ghafoor Ahmad
Professor Ghafoor Ahmad is one of the most respected political leaders due to his mild and serene temperament. He is among those leaders...
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Ghulam Mustafa Khar
Ghulam Mustafa Khar was born in the family of Kharrals in Kot Addu, a village of Muzaffar-garh, district of the Punjab on August 2, 1937....
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Mufti Mehmood
Mufti Mehmood was born on January 1919 in Paniala, District Dera Ismail Khan (N.W.F.P.). He acquired his religious education from Jamia...
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Attaullah Mengal
Hailing from Baluchistan, Ataullah Mengal is well-known political figure who has been campaigning separatist and nationalist movement in...
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Awami League’s Six-Point Program
In the 1970 National Assembly elections, the mandate of Sheikh Mujib-ur-Rahman’s Awami League Party was based on a Six-Point Program...
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Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry
Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry was born on January 1, 1904, in Gujrat. He received his early education from his hometown and went to Aligarh...
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Nurul Amin
Nurul Amin was a prominent figure in the politics of Bengal. In 1946, when Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy rose to power and became Chief...
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Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was born on January 5, 1928. He was the only son of Sir Shah Nawaz Bhutto. Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto completed his early...
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Sheikh Mujib-ur-Rahman
Sheikh Mujib-ur-Rahman was born on March 22, 1922, at Faridpur, now in Bangladesh. He was an active member of the Muslim League in...
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Yahya Khan
General Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan was born at Chakwal in February 1917. His father, Saadat Ali Khan hailed from Peshawar. After completing...
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Ouster of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto
Ever since Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto took over the responsibilities of governance, there was a strong group in the country that was not ready to...
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General Elections 1977
According to the original schedule, the second general elections in the history of Pakistan, and the first after the dismemberment of the...
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Zulfikar Ali Bhutto becomes Prime Minister
After the promulgation of the 1973 Constitution, the elections for the President, Prime Minister, Chairman of Senate, Speaker and Deputy...
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Fazal Ilahi becomes President
After the promulgation of the 1973 Constitution, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was sworn in as the Prime Minister of the country, and Fazal Ilahi...
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The Constitution of 1973
The Bhutto Government’s first achievement was the preparation of a Constitution for the country. The most prominent characteristic of...
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The Simla Agreement
After the 1971 war, India held prisoner around 93,000 Pakistani troops and civilians. In Pakistan there was a growing demand to get these...
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The Hamood-ur-Rahman Commission Report
In December 1971, within a week of replacing General Yahya as the President, Bhutto formed a commission headed by the Chief Justice of the...
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Zulfikar Ali Bhutto becomes President
After the disastrous war with India that ingloriously concluded in December 1971, Pakistan had to face its greatest crisis since...
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The Separation of East Pakistan
The separation of East Pakistan was a great setback to Pakistan. By 1970, sentiments for national unity had weakened in East Pakistan to...
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General Elections 1970
The political history of Pakistan from 1947 to 1970 witnessed no general elections. Thus, when Yahya’s Regime decided to hold the...
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Legal Framework Order
After the abrogation of the Constitution of 1962, Yahya Khan needed a legal framework to hold elections. In April and July 1969, he held...
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Martial Law under General Yahya Khan
The Tashkent Declaration signed by the Indian Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri and the Pakistani President Muhammad Ayub Khan was not at...
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