Centuries: 20th21st | Decades: 1940s1950s1960s | |
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Events from the year 1949 in Pakistan.
Contents
Incumbents
Monarch
King George VI (consort – Queen Elizabeth)
Federal government
Governor-General: Khawaja Nazimuddin
Prime Minister: Liaquat Ali Khan
Chief Justice: Abdul Rashid (starting 27 June)
Governors
Governor of Northwest Frontier: Ambrose Dundas Flux Dundas (until 19 July); Sahibzada Mohammad Khurshid (starting 19 July)
Governor of West Punjab: Francis Mudie (until 2 August); Abdur Rab Nishtar (starting 2 August)
Governor of Sindh: Shaikh Din Muhammad (until 19 November); Mian Aminuddin (starting 19 November)
Events
January
Map of the disputed region
1 January – The UN brokered a cease-fire in Kashmir. It granted Kashmir the right to vote on whether to join Pakistan or India.
March
March – Pakistan and India sign the Karachi Agreement
7 March – Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan presented Objectives Resolution in the assembly.
12 March – Objectives Resolution is adopted by Constituent Assembly of Pakistan.
Births
6 March – Shaukat Aziz, former prime minister
15 September – Taskeen Manerwal, poet and writer (d. 2022)
20 November – Tarek Fatah, journalist (d. 2023 in Canada)
25 December – Nawaz Sharif, former prime minister
Deaths
19 June – Syed Zafarul Hasan, Muslim philosopher (b. 1885)