Events from the year 1972 in Pakistan.

Incumbents

Federal government

President President most commonly refers to: *President (corporate title) * President (education), a leader of a college or university *President (government title) President may also refer to: Arts and entertainment Film and television *'' Præsident ...

Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (5 January 1928 – 4 April 1979) was a Pakistani barrister and politician who served as the fourth president of Pakistan from 1971 to 1973 and later as the ninth Prime Minister of Pakistan, prime minister of Pakistan from 19 ...

* Chief Justice:

Hamoodur Rahman Chief Justice Hamoodur Rahman (; 1 November 1910 – 20 December 1981), . , was a Pakistani Bengali jurist and an academic who served as the Chief Justice of Pakistan from 18 November 1968 until 31 October 1975. Educated in law and trai ...

Governors

* Governor of Balochistan: ** until 11 April: Ghous Bakhsh Raisani ** 11 April-19 April:

Ghaus Bakhsh Bizenjo Ghaus Bakhsh Bizenjo (Urdu/ Baloch: میرغوث بخش بزنجو ) was a Pakistani politician from Balochistan. He served as the 3rd Governor of Balochistan. Early life He was born in Nall Khuzdar Balochistan in either December 1917 or 19 ...

** 19 April-30 April: Ghous Bakhsh Raisani ** starting 30 April:

Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa The Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as Governor of North-West Frontier Province) is the appointed head of state of the provincial government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly North-West Frontier Province, or NWFP), Pakistan. Alth ...

: Hayat Sherpao (until 29 April); Arbab Sikandar Khan (starting 30 April) * Governor of Punjab:

Ghulam Mustafa Khar Malik Ghulam Mustafa Khar (; born 2 August 1937) is a Pakistani politician and feudal lord who has previously served as the Chief Minister of Punjab and Governor of Punjab. Early life and education He was born on 2 August 1937 in Sanawan in ...

Governor of Sindh The governor of Sindh is the appointed head of the province of Sindh, Pakistan. The office of the governor as the head of the province is largely a ceremonial position; the executive powers lie with the Chief Secretary of Sindh, Chief Secretary ...

Mumtaz Bhutto Mumtaz Ali Khan Bhutto (, ) (28 November 1933 – 18 July 2021), was a Pakistani politician who served as 8th Governor of Sindh and later the 13th Chief Minister of Sindh. He was also the first cousin of late Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, who was the Pr ...

(until 20 April); Mir Rasool Bux Talpur (starting 29 April)

Events

* Karachi labour unrest of 1972

January

* 20 January -

(later

Prime minister A prime minister or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. A prime minister is not the head of state, but r ...

publicly announces that Pakistan will immediately

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a nuclear weapons programme. * Pakistan temporarily withdraws from the

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in protest at the international recognition of

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as an independent Commonwealth republic (Pakistan returns to the Commonwealth in 1989).

July

* 2 July – India and Pakistan sign the Simla Accord in

Simla Shimla, also known as Simla (List of renamed Indian cities and states#Himachal Pradesh, the official name until 1972), is the capital and the largest city of the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. In 1864, Shimla was declared the summe ...

India India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area; the List of countries by population (United Nations), most populous country since ...

, following the surrender of the Pakistan military to Indian forces in 1971 and the subsequent emergence of former

East Pakistan East Pakistan was the eastern province of Pakistan between 1955 and 1971, restructured and renamed from the province of East Bengal and covering the territory of the modern country of Bangladesh. Its land borders were with India and Burma, wit ...

as the independent country of

. * 7 July – Sindh Assembly passed the Sind Teaching, Promotion and Use of Sindhi Language Bill, 1972 which established

Sindhi language Sindhi ( ; or , ) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by more than 30 million people in the Pakistani province of Sindh, where it has official status, as well as by 1.7 million people in India, where it is a Scheduled languages of India, schedu ...

as the sole official language of the province resulting in 1972 Language violence in Sindh.

August

* 14 August – Pakistan celebrates 25 years as an independent country.

Births

*26 April – Sana Nawaz, actress *22 May – Zabir Saeed, journalist and editor *5 August – Aaqib Javed, cricketer and coach *3 October –

Aijaz Aslam Aijaz Aslam (born 3 October 1966) () is a Pakistani television actor, model, fashion designer and entrepreneur. He is best known for playing the lead in his drama debut '' Kashkol'', which was telecasted on NTM in 1993, in PTV's 2003 drama ...

, actor

Deaths

*28 May – Aziz ul Haq, Chairman of the Young People's Front, a Marxist group *29 May –

Prithviraj Kapoor Prithviraj Kapoor (born Prithvinath Kapoor; 3 November 1906 – 29 May 1972) was an Indian actor who is also considered to be one of the founding figures of Hindi cinema. He was associated with IPTA as one of its founding members and establish ...

, actor and director *1 October – Riaz Shahid, film writer and director

References

{{Year in Asia, 1972

Pakistan Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by population, fifth-most populous country, with a population of over 241.5 million, having the Islam by country# ...

1970s in Pakistan Years of the 20th century in Pakistan