1947 – 1958 Events
The Teething Years
1947 – 1953
Bogra Formula
While taking charge as Prime Minister, Muhammad Ali Bogra declared that formulation of the Constitution was his primary target. He ...
Bogra – Nehru Negotiations
Muhammad Ali Bogra became the Prime Minister of Pakistan in April 1953. He made an impassioned appeal to Pandit Nehru ...
Muhammad Ali Bogra becomes Prime Minister
Khawaja Nazimuddin was dismissed by the Governor General, Malik Ghulam Muhammad, on April 17, 1953, and replaced by Muhammad Ali ...
Ghulam Muhammad becomes Governor General
When Khawaja Nazimuddin took over as Prime Minister in 1951, Ghulam Muhammad was appointed as the Governor General. After coming ...
Khawaja Nazimuddin becomes Prime Minister
Under Quaid-i-Azam's constitutional framework, executive powers lay with the Prime Minister. When Liaquat Ali Khan was assassinated on October 16, ...
Liaquat-Nehru Pact
At the time of independence, many communal riots broke out in different areas of India and Pakistan. These riots had ...
Basic Principles Committee
After the Objectives Resolution was passed in 1949, the Constitution Assembly set up a number of committees to draw the ...
Objectives Resolution is passed
The history of formulation of the constitution of Pakistan begins with the Lahore Resolution in 1940. It was here that ...
Khawaja Nazimuddin Becomes Governor General
After Pakistan came into being on August 14, 1947, Nazimuddin was appointed the first Chief Minister of the Province of ...
Jinnah Passes Away
Quaid-i-Azam had been ailing since long before Independence. By the time of Independence, he was quite an old man but ...
Kashmir Crisis
Kashmir, the last of the defiant states, was the reverse of Hyderabad. It had a Hindu ruler, Maharaja Hari Singh, ...
Jinnah – Mountbatten Talks
The history of bilateral negotiations pertaining to Kashmir between the leaders of India and Pakistan at the state level can ...
Liaquat Ali Khan as Prime Minister
Liaquat Ali Khan's contributions to the struggle for independence were numerous. After independence, he was thus the natural choice for ...
Post Independence Problems
Pakistan was carved out in desperate urgency. It came into existence with horrible loss of life and property, and the ...
1955 – 1958
H. S. Suhrawardy Becomes Prime Minister
Soon after the adoption of the 1956 Constitution, Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy replaced Chaudhry Muhammad Ali as Prime Minister on September ...
Malik Feroz Khan Noon Becomes Prime Minister
On December 16, 1957, Malik Feroz Khan Noon took over the office of Prime Minister from Chundrigar. Malik Feroz Khan ...
Iskander Mirza Becomes President
Governor General Ghulam Muhammad's despotic and dictatorial policy led Iskander Mirza and his collaborators to force him out of power. ...
I. I. Chundrigar Becomes Prime Minister
After merely a year, Suhrawardy resigned from his Premiership in October 1957. His resignation came as a result of the ...
The Constitution of 1956
After assuming charge as Prime Minister, Chaudhry Muhammad Ali along with his team worked day and night to formulate a ...
West Pakistan Established as One Unit
Even after eight years of existence, Pakistan was without a constitution. The main reason was believed to be the fact ...
Iskander Mirza Becomes Governor General
In August 1955, Major General Iskander Mirza took over as Governor General when Ghulam Muhammad became too ill to continue. ...
Chaudhry Muhammad Ali Becomes Prime Minister
On October 24, 1954, Malik Ghulam Muhammad dissolved the Constituent Assembly of Muhammad Ali Bogra on the grounds that it ...