Events from the year 1964 in Pakistan.
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Incumbents edit
Events edit
January edit
- 2 January – Anti-Hindu riots begin in Khulna, East Pakistan. They and reciprocal riots in Calcutta would fuel waves of communal violence on either side of the border over the next few months.[1][2]
- 6 January – The governor of West Pakistan bans opposition party Jamaat-e-Islami, and its leader, Abul A'la Maududi, is arrested.[3][4]
April edit
- 11 April – A tornado in the Narail and Magura regions of Jessore District in East Pakistan destroys villages and kills as many as 500 people.[5]
- 29 April – Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) inaugurates regular scheduled flights from Karachi to Shanghai via Dacca and Canton using a Boeing 720B, becoming the first airline of a non-communist country to fly to the People's Republic of China.[6][7]
June edit
July edit
- 22 July – The heads of state of Iran, Pakistan and Turkey issue a joint communique from Istanbul, establishing the Regional Cooperation for Development (RCD).[10]
August edit
- 29 August – President Ayub Khan inaugurates the Chittagong Press Club.[11]
September edit
- 25 September – The Supreme Court overturns the banning of Jamaat-e-Islami on the ground that the ban, enacted without due process, violated the fundamental right of freedom of association.[3]
October edit
- 23 October
- Pakistan loses 0–1 to India in field hockey at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, taking home the silver medal.[12]
- Eastern Tubes Limited in Dacca is incorporated to manufacture fluorescent tubes.[13]
November edit
- 26 November – The country's first television station goes on air in Lahore, operated on a pilot basis by Nippon Electric Company.[14]
Births edit
February edit
- 7 February – Nadir Shah, Bangladeshi cricket umpire (d. 2021)[15]
- 10 February – Mir Aimal Kansi, perpetrator of the CIA headquarters shooting (d. 1998)[16]
March edit
- 15 March – Kunwar Naveed Jamil, politician (d. 2023)[17]
- 20 March – Sadiq Fakir, folk singer (d. 2015)[18]
April edit
May edit
- 11 May – Haseeb-ul-Hasan, cricketer (d. 1990)[20][21]
August edit
- 4 August – Ghulam Murtaza Baloch, politician (d. 2020)[22]
- 14 August – Hussain Shah Syed, boxer[23]
October edit
- 18 October – Sheikh Russel, youngest child of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (d. 1975)[24]
November edit
- 6 November – Mizanur Rahman Khan Dipu, Bangladeshi politician (d. 2013)[25]
December edit
- 24 December – Shahid Ali Khan, field hockey goalkeeper[26]
Deaths edit
April edit
- 10 April – Shamsunnahar Mahmud, politician (b. 1908)[27]
October edit
- 2 October – Nur Ahmed, politician (b. 1890)[28]
- 3 October – Harendra Kumar Sur, politician (b. 1893)[29]
- 5 October – Birat Chandra Mandal, politician (b. 1893/1894)[29]
- 13 October – Golam Mostofa, Bengali poet and writer (b. 1897)[30]
- 22 October – Khawaja Nazimuddin, Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1894)[31]
December edit
- 23 December – Khan Bahadur Abdur Rahman Khan, educator (b. 1889/1890)[32][33]
See also edit
References edit
- ^ Ghosh, Papiya (2014). Partition and the South Asian Diaspora: Extending the Subcontinent. Taylor & Francis. p. 16. ISBN 978-1-317-80966-1.
- ^ Ispahani, Farahnaz (2017). Purifying the land of the pure: a history of Pakistan's religious minorities. Oxford University Press. pp. 64–65. ISBN 978-0-19-062165-0.
- ^ a b Braibanti, Ralph (1 February 1965). "Pakistan: Constitutional Issues in 1964". Asian Survey. 5 (2): 85–86. JSTOR 2642484.
- ^ "Chronology December 16, 1963 - March 15, 1964". Middle East Journal. 18 (2): 227. Spring 1964. JSTOR 4323704.
- ^ Grazulis, T. P. (2001). The Tornado: Nature's Ultimate Windstorm. University of Oklahoma Press. p. 258. ISBN 978-0-8061-3258-7.
- ^ "P.I.A. Opens China Service". The New York Times. 30 April 1964.
- ^ "History". Pakistan International Airlines.
- ^ Hiranandani, G. M. (2000). Transition to Triumph: History of the Indian Navy, 1965-1975. Lancer Publishers. p. 108. ISBN 978-1-897829-72-1.
- ^ Goldrick, James (1997). No Easy Answers: The Development of the Navies of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka, 1945-1996. Lancer Publishers. p. 30. ISBN 978-1-897829-02-8.
- ^ Yeşilbursa, Behçet Kemal (July 2009). "The Formation of RCD: Regional Cooperation for Development". Middle Eastern Studies. 45 (4): 642. doi:10.1080/00263200903009759.
- ^ "President Ayub Opens Chittagong Press Club". Progress of the Month. 1964. p. 17. OCLC 9712521.
- ^ The Games of the XVIII Olympiad, Tokyo 1964. Vol. 2. Organizing Committee for the Games of the XVIII Olympiad. pp. 413–414.
- ^ "History & Activities". Eastern Tubes Limited.
- ^ French, David; Richards, Michael, eds. (2000). Television in contemporary Asia. Sage. p. 349. ISBN 978-0-7619-9469-5.
- ^ "Nadir Shah Profile - Cricket Player Bangladesh". ESPNcricinfo.
- ^ Eldridge, Thomas R.; Ginsburg, Susan; Hempel, Walter T. II; Kephart, Janice L.; Moore, Kelly (2004). 9/11 and Terrorist Travel (PDF). Government Publishing Office. pp. 215–216.
- ^ Khan, Kiran (17 August 2023). "MQM-P's Kunwar Naveed Jamil dies after protracted illness". The News International.
- ^ "Folk singer Sadiq Fakeer dies in KSA road accident". The Nation. 28 February 2015.
- ^ Shazu, Shah Alam (11 May 2020). "Silver screen heroes who left shining legacies behind". The Daily Star.
- ^ "Haseeb-ul-Hasan". Pakistan Cricket Board. Retrieved 2024-02-16.
- ^ "Obituaries in 1990". ESPNcricinfo. Archived from the original on 2012-09-22.
- ^ "Member Profile: Mr. Ghulam Murtaza Baloch". Provincial Assembly of Sindh.
- ^ "Hussain Shah - The boxing icon who won Olympic medal for Pakistan in 1988". Daily Times. 20 August 2017.
- ^ "Sheikh Russel's 52nd birthday today". The Daily Star. Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha. 18 October 2016.
- ^ "AL MP Dipu laid to rest". Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha. 21 December 2013. Archived from the original on 2018-02-19.
- ^ "Shahid Ali Khan". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 2016-12-03.
- ^ "Mahmud, Shamsunnahar". Banglapedia.
- ^ "Ahmad, Nur". Banglapedia.
- ^ a b "The death occurred of". Calcutta Municipal Gazette. Vol. 81. 1964.
- ^ "Poet Golam Mustafa's ancestral house in ruins: 50th death anniversary observed". The Financial Express. Dhaka. 14 October 2014.
- ^ "Nazimuddin, Khwaja". Banglapedia.
- ^ "Principal Abdur Rahman passes away". The Pakistan Observer. 24 December 1964. pp. 1, 8.
- ^ "Khan, Khan Bahadur Abdur Rahman2". Banglapedia.
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