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Historical Timeline for Pakistan - A chronology of key events
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Pakistan Timeline[edit | edit source]

Date Event
8th - 11th century Bengal becomes a political entity under the Pala Buddhist kings who reign from the 8th to the 11th century.
1757 Bengal comes under British rule.
1940 The Muslim League of British India formalizes the theory of two nations (one for Hindus, the other for Muslims) and adopts a resolution to create an independent Muslim state (the future Pakistan)
August 14, 1947 Indian independence and partition into two states.

Muslim-majority Pakistan (which includes East Pakistan (Bangladesh) and West Pakistan (present-day Pakistan)) and Hindu-majority India. Among the 562 princely states, those with a Muslim majority integrate Pakistan (Sind, Balochistan ...). Around the bord.

Mohammed Ali Jinnah "the Father of the Nation" becomes the first Governor General of the country.

1956 proclamation of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
1969 full integration of the princely state of Chitral in Pakistan (mountainous region, dominated by Tirich Mir, the highest peak in Hindu-Kush with 7,708 m)
1971 secession of East Pakistan which becomes Bangladesh (according to sources, between 50,000 and 500,000 people were massacred). Following the rout of Pakistani troops, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto established civilian rule, abolished martial law and passed a constit a parliamentary system in which the Prime Minister, elected by the Assembly, holds power; the President of the Republic has an honorary role.
1977 coup d'etat by General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq who developed a broad approach to Islamization (compulsory Islamic and Koranic studies, discriminatory laws against women, law of blasphemy, etc.)
1988 Benazir Bhutto becomes Prime Minister the first woman democratically elected to head a predominantly Muslim country.
1998 Pakistan officially becomes the world's seventh nuclear power.
1999 after the Indo-Pakistani war for the control of Kargil, lost by Pakistan, military coup by General Pervez Mushharraf which militarizes the executive, undermines the independence of the judiciary and approaches the United States .
2007 back home after a nine-year exile, Benazir Bhutto is assassinated.
2013 for the first time, a democratically elected civilian government succeeds the previous one that has come to an end; the Muslim League of Pakistan is the ruling party. Since independence in 1947, the army has been responsible for three coups d'état (1958, 1977 and 1999).
2017 Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is dismissed from his post following a corruption case.
2018, July 15 Suicide attack claimed by the Islamic State group against an electoral rally in Balochistan (149 dead). Since 2001, terrorist acts have reportedly claimed the lives of more than 50,000 Pakistanis. The relationship between the various Islamist groups based
2018, July 25 Legislative elections won by Pakistan Justice Movement, led by former cricket champion Imran Khan who becomes Prime Minister.

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