1954 in Pakistan

← 1953 1952 1951 1954 in Pakistan → 1955 1956 1957
Decades:	1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s
See also:	History of Pakistan List of years in Pakistan Timeline of Pakistani history

This is a list of notable events that took place in Pakistan in 1954.

Incumbents

Federal government

• Governor-General: Malik Ghulam Muhammad
• Muhammad Ali Bogra
• Abdul Rashid (until 29 June), Muhammad Munir
  (starting 29 June)

• Qurban Ali Shah
  (starting 17 November)
• Governor of West Punjab:
  • until 24 June: Mian Aminuddin
  • 24 June-26 November: Habib Rahimtoola
  • starting 26 November: Mushtaq Ahmed Gurmani
• Habib Ibrahim Rahimtoola (until 24 June); Iftikhar Hussain Khan Mamdot
  (starting 24 June)

• 2 April – Pakistan forms an alliance with Turkey which, although not including military cooperation, opens the way to the Middle-East alliance due to its allowance of the entry of other nations.[1]

May

• 19 May – Pakistan and the United States sign a Mutual Defense Assistance Agreement.^[2]

October

• 14 October – the Governor-General of Pakistan, Ghulam Mohammad declared a state of emergency, dissolved the Constituent Assembly and appointed a new Council of Ministers on the grounds that the existing one no longer represented the people of Pakistan.^[3]

Births

• 31 January - Imtiaz Dharker, poet and artist.
• 18 October – Aamer Hameed, cricketer.

See also

• List of Pakistani films of 1954

References