This is a list of notable events that took place in Pakistan in 1954.
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Incumbents
editFederal government
edit- Governor-General: Malik Ghulam Muhammad
- Prime Minister: Muhammad Ali Bogra
- Chief Justice: Abdul Rashid (until 29 June), Muhammad Munir (starting 29 June)
Governors
edit- Governor of Northwest Frontier: Khwaja Shahabuddin (until 17 November); 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
- Governor of Sindh: Habib Ibrahim Rahimtoola (until 24 June); Iftikhar Hussain Khan Mamdot (starting 24 June)
Events
editApril
edit- 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
edit- 19 May – Pakistan and the United States sign a Mutual Defense Assistance Agreement.[2]
October
edit- 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
edit- 31 January - Imtiaz Dharker, poet and artist.
- 18 October – Aamer Hameed, cricketer.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Uslu, Nasuh (2003). The Turkish-American relationship between 1947 and 2003: the history of a distinctive alliance. Nova Publishers. p. 118. ISBN 978-1-59033-832-2. Retrieved 31 March 2011.
- ^ Khan, Mohammed Ayub (September 1964). "The Pakistan-American Alliance". Foreign Affairs. 42 (2). doi:10.2307/20029681. JSTOR 20029681. Retrieved 31 March 2011.
- ^ Akbar, M. J. (2002). The shade of swords: Jihad and the conflict between Islam and Christianity. Routledge. p. 200. ISBN 978-0-415-28470-7.