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1964 in Pakistan

Events from the year 1964 in Pakistan.

Incumbents

Events

January

  • 2 January – Anti-Hindu riots begin in Khulna, East Pakistan. They and reciprocal riots in Calcutta would fuel waves of communal violence on either side of the border over the next few months.
  • 6 January – The governor of West Pakistan bans opposition party Jamaat-e-Islami, and its leader, Abul A'la Maududi, is arrested.

April

  • 11 April – A tornado in the Narail and Magura regions of Jessore District in East Pakistan destroys villages and kills as many as 500 people.
  • 29 April – Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) inaugurates regular scheduled flights from Karachi to Shanghai via Dacca and Canton using a Boeing 720B, becoming the first airline of a non-communist country to fly to the People's Republic of China.

June

  • 1 June – Pakistan acquires from the United States its first submarine, the PNS Ghazi.

July

August

September

  • 25 September – The Supreme Court overturns the banning of Jamaat-e-Islami on the ground that the ban, enacted without due process, violated the fundamental right of freedom of association.

October

November

  • 26 November – The country's first television station goes on air in Lahore, operated on a pilot basis by NEC.

Births

February

March

April

  • 14 April – Manna, Bangladeshi actor (d. 2008)

May

August

October

November

December

Deaths

April

October

December

See also

References