1966 in Pakistan

Events from the year 1966 in Pakistan.

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Decades:
  • 1940s
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  • 1960s
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  • 1980s
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Incumbents

Federal government
  • President: Ayub Khan
  • Chief Justice: A.R. Cornelius

Events

January
  • 10 January – Ayub Khan and Indian Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri sign the Tashkent Declaration to resolve the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.[1]
The adjutant of Ayub Cadet College would take sides against Ayub and the Pakistan Army in the Bangladesh Liberation War.[2]

February
  • 5 February – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, general secretary of the East Pakistan Awami League, announces the Six Point Program calling for limiting the federal government to defence and foreign affairs.[3]
  • 11 February – Ayub Cadet College is inaugurated in Rajshahi, East Pakistan.[4]

March
  • 23 March - Sheikh Mujibur Rahman formally announces the Six Point Program.

May
  • 4 May – SS Al-Abbas, the first ocean-going vessel constructed by the Karachi Shipyard & Engineering Works is launched.[5]

November
  • 18 November – Instruction begins at the University of Chittagong with 7 teachers and 200 students in 4 departments: Bangla, English, history, and economics.[6]

December
  • 31 December – After seven years, the Elective Bodies Disqualification Order expires, lifting the prohibition against standing for office from 70 politicians, including Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.[7][8]

Births

January
  • 1 January – Muhammad Tajammal Hussain, politician (d. 2019)[9]

March
  • 2 March – Shahed Chowdhury, Bangladeshi film director (d. 2019)[10]

May
  • 25 May – Tina Khan, Bangladeshi actress (d. 1989)[11]

June
  • 3 June – Wasim Akram, cricketer[12]
  • 22 June – Khadim Hussain Rizvi, Islamic preacher (d. 2020)[13]

September
  • 14 September – Aamer Sohail, cricketer[14]

Deaths

April
  • 15 April – Habibullah Bahar Chowdhury, politician (b. 1906)[15]

October
  • 13 October – Muhammad Ibrahim, judge and academic (b. 1894)[16]

November
  • 12 November – Shakeb Jalali, Urdu poet (b. 1934)[17]

December
  • December – Fazlur Rahman, politician (b. 1905)[18]

See also
  • List of Pakistani films of 1966

References
  1. Wilson, A. Jeyaratnam (1990). "The Foreign Policies of India's Immediate Neighbours A Reflective Interpretation". In Kapur, Ashok (ed.). Diplomatic ideas and practices of Asian states. E.J. Brill. p. 54. ISBN 90-04-09289-7.
  2. Safiullah, K. M. (1989). Bangladesh at War. Dhaka: Academic Publishers. p. 89. OCLC 24300969.
  3. Khan, Sonia Zaman (2018). The politics and law of democratic transition: caretaker government in Bangladesh. Routledge. p. 88. ISBN 978-0-415-31230-1.
  4. "List of Cadet College". Bangladesh Army.
  5. Pakistan Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (1967). Twenty Years of Pakistan, 1947-1967. Pakistan Publications. p. 200. OCLC 70361796.
  6. "University of Chittagong". Banglapedia.
  7. "Chronology December 1966-February 1967". Pakistan Horizon. 20 (1): 72. First Quarter 1967. JSTOR 41392881.
  8. Dutta, Aroma (2 November 2021). "Making of the Bangladesh State: Shaheed Dhirendranath Datta, Bengali Language Movement and Birth of a Nation". Strategic Analysis. 45 (6): 476. doi:10.1080/09700161.2021.2001277.
  9. "Profile: Mr. Muhammad Tajammal Hussain". Punjab Assembly.
  10. অবশেষে পৃথিবীর মায়া ত্যাগ করে চলে গেলেন নির্মাতা শাহেদ [Finally the maker Shahed left the illusion of the world]. Amader Shomoy (in Bengali). 18 March 2019.
  11. Ahmed, Hassan (25 May 2018). চক্ষুদান স্বপ্ন, একজন টিনা খান ও একটি নীলচে ডায়েরি [A visionary dream, Tina Khan and a blue diary]. Channel i (in Bengali).
  12. "Wasim Akram Profile - Cricket Player Pakistan". ESPNcricinfo.
  13. "TLP chief Khadim Hussain Rizvi laid to rest in Lahore". The News International. 21 November 2020.
  14. "Aamer Sohail Profile - Cricket Player Pakistan". ESPNcricinfo.
  15. "Chowdhury, Habibullah Bahar". Banglapedia.
  16. "Ibrahim, Justice Muhammad". Banglapedia.
  17. "57th death anniversary of famous Urdu Ghazal poet Shakeb Jalali observed". The Nation. 13 November 2023.
  18. Haq, Moinul S. (1 April 1968). "Report for the year 1967". Journal of the Pakistan Historical Society. 16 (2): 112.


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