Events from the year 1965 in Pakistan.
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Incumbents edit
Federal government edit
Events edit
January edit
- 2 January – Incumbent Ayub Khan defeats Fatima Jinnah in the 1965 Pakistani presidential election.[1]
August edit
- 1 August – The innaugural issue of English-language weekly newspaper Holiday is published in Dacca.[2]
September edit
- 6 September – Border disputes over Kashmir erupt into full-scale war as Indian forces attack near Lahore.[3][4]
- 14 September – The Battle of Chawinda commences.[5]
- 23 September – A ceasefire is implemented in the Indo-Pakistani war of 1965.[6]
December edit
- 21 December – Pakistan's first nuclear research reactor, Pakistan Atomic Research Reactor-I, donated by the United States, reaches criticality.[7][8]
Births edit
April edit
- 3 April – Nazia Hassan, singer (d. 2000)[9]
- 17 April – State of Bengal, British music producer (d. 2015)[10]
May edit
- 5 May – Rana Shamshad Ahmad Khan, politician (d. 2015)[11]
Deaths edit
January edit
- 24 January – Ashraf Hussain, Bengali writer (b. 1892)[12]
February edit
- 9 February – Khan Bahadur Ahsanullah, educationist, litterateur, Islamic theologian, and social reformer (b. 1873)[13]
March edit
- 3 March – Hasan Shaheed Suhrawardy, Bengali diplomat, poet and art critic (b. 1890)[14]
September edit
- 6 September – Sarfaraz Ahmed Rafiqui, military aviator of Pakistan (b. 1935)[15]
See also edit
References edit
- ^ Sengupta, Nitish K. (2011). Land of two rivers: a history of Bengal from the Mahabharata to Mujib. New Delhi: Penguin Books. p. 530. ISBN 978-0-14-341678-4.
- ^ "Holiday". Library of Congress Catalog.
- ^ Jalal, Ayesha (2014). The struggle for Pakistan: a Muslim homeland and global politics. The Belknap Press. p. 122. ISBN 978-0-674-05289-5.
- ^ Roy, Tathagata (2002). My People, Uprooted: A Saga of the Hindus of Eastern Bengal. Ratna Prakashan. p. 210. ISBN 81-85709-67-X.
- ^ Singh, Harbaksh (2013). War Despatches: Indo–Pak Conflict 1965. Lancer. p. 151. ISBN 978-1-935501-59-6.
- ^ Siddiqui, Kalim (1972). Conflict, Crisis and War in Pakistan. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 111. ISBN 978-1-349-01341-8.
- ^ Chakma, Bhumitra (October 2002). "Road to Chagai: Pakistan's Nuclear Programme, Its Sources and Motivations". Modern Asian Studies. 36 (4): 877. JSTOR 3876477.
- ^ Khan, Feroz Hassan (2012). Eating grass: the making of the Pakistani bomb. Stanford Security Studies. p. 57. ISBN 978-0-8047-7600-4.
- ^ Kumar, Jai (23 August 2000). "Nazia Hassan". The Guardian.
- ^ Ritu, DJ (10 January 2019). "Zaman, Saifullah Arun [Sam; known as State of Bengal] (1965–2015), music producer, composer, and teacher". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.013.110577.
- ^ "Profile: Ch. Shamshad Ahmad Khan". Punjab Assembly.
- ^ "Hossain, Sahityaratna Munshi Ashraf". Banglapedia.
- ^ "Ahsanullah, Khan Bahadur". Banglapedia.
- ^ "Shahid Suhrawardy: 1890-1965". Pakistan Horizon. 61 (1/2): 165. January–April 2008. JSTOR 23726022.
- ^ "Birth Anniversary of Sq. Ld. Sarfaraz Ahmed Rafiqui being observed". Radio Pakistan.
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