1954 in Pakistan
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This is a list of notable events that took place in Pakistan in 1954.
Incumbents
=Federal government=
- Governor-General: Malik Ghulam Muhammad
- Prime Minister: Muhammad Ali Bogra
- Chief Justice: Abdul Rashid (until 29 June), Muhammad Munir (starting 29 June)
=Governors=
- 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
=April=
- 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.{{cite book|last=Uslu|first=Nasuh|title=The Turkish-American relationship between 1947 and 2003: the history of a distinctive alliance|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6sgzChQ-0FMC&pg=PA118|accessdate=31 March 2011|year=2003|publisher=Nova Publishers|isbn=978-1-59033-832-2|page=118}}
=May=
- 19 May – Pakistan and the United States sign a Mutual Defense Assistance Agreement.{{cite journal | url = http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/23567/mohammed-ayub-khan/the-pakistan-american-alliance | title = The Pakistan-American Alliance | first = Mohammed Ayub |last = Khan | date = September 1964 | accessdate = 31 March 2011 |journal = Foreign Affairs| volume = 42 | issue = 2 | doi = 10.2307/20029681 | jstor = 20029681 }}
=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.{{cite book|last=Akbar|first=M. J.|authorlink=M. J. Akbar|title=The shade of swords: Jihad and the conflict between Islam and Christianity|url=https://archive.org/details/shadeofswordsjih0000akba|url-access=registration|year=2002|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0-415-28470-7|page=[https://archive.org/details/shadeofswordsjih0000akba/page/200 200]}}
Births
- 31 January - Imtiaz Dharker, poet and artist.
- 18 October – Aamer Hameed, cricketer.
See also
References
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