1965 in Pakistan
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Events from the year 1965 in Pakistan.
Incumbents
Federal government
- Ayub Khan
- A.R. Cornelius
Events
January
- 2 January – Incumbent Ayub Khan defeats Fatima Jinnah in the 1965 Pakistani presidential election.[1]
August
- 1 August – The innaugural issue of English-language weekly newspaper Holiday is published in Dacca.[2]
September
- 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
- 21 December – Pakistan's first nuclear research reactor, Pakistan Atomic Research Reactor-I, donated by the United States, reaches criticality.[7][8]
Births
April
- 3 April – Nazia Hassan, singer (d. 2000)[9]
- 17 April – State of Bengal, British music producer (d. 2015)[10]
May
- 5 May – Rana Shamshad Ahmad Khan, politician (d. 2015)[11]
Deaths
January
- 24 January – Ashraf Hussain, Bengali writer (b. 1892)[12]
February
- 9 February – Khan Bahadur Ahsanullah, educationist, litterateur, Islamic theologian, and social reformer (b. 1873)[13]
March
- 3 March – Hasan Shaheed Suhrawardy, Bengali diplomat, poet and art critic (b. 1890)[14]
September
- 6 September – Sarfaraz Ahmed Rafiqui, military aviator of Pakistan (b. 1935)[15]
See also
References
- ISBN 978-0-14-341678-4.
- ^ "Holiday". Library of Congress Catalog.
- ISBN 978-0-674-05289-5.
- ISBN 81-85709-67-X.
- ISBN 978-1-935501-59-6.
- ISBN 978-1-349-01341-8.
- JSTOR 3876477.
- ISBN 978-0-8047-7600-4.
- ^ Kumar, Jai (23 August 2000). "Nazia Hassan". The Guardian.
- .
- ^ "Profile: Ch. Shamshad Ahmad Khan". Punjab Assembly.
- ^ "Hossain, Sahityaratna Munshi Ashraf". Banglapedia.
- ^ "Ahsanullah, Khan Bahadur". Banglapedia.
- JSTOR 23726022.
- ^ "Birth Anniversary of Sq. Ld. Sarfaraz Ahmed Rafiqui being observed". Radio Pakistan.
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