62 Years of Pakistan in Pictures
14 August 2009
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Iconic moments and personalities have defined Pakistan and made it what it is today, for better or for worse. Pak Factor presents archival snapshots of the speeches and funerals, contracts and characters that shaped this nation in the first three decades of its history.
Power struggles and people’s power, triumph and tragedy: these have been the hallmarks of Pakistan’s national trajectory. A collection of photographs that best encapsulate the highs and lows of the past thirty years of Pakistan’s history.
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- People migrating to Pakistan after independence.
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- Singing of the national anthem for the first time.
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- Funeral procession of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah in Karachi.
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- Liaquat Ali Khan, elected as first prime minister of Pakistan, visiting a PAF Base.
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- Fazal Mahmood after the first ever cricket victory over England at Lord’s in 1954.
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- Ayub khan in discussion with Fatima Jinnah, popularly known as Madar-e-Millat (Mother of the nation).
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- Gen Yahya Khan touches a horse as Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat looks on.
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- Lt Gen A. K. Niazi of Pakistan (R) surrenders his forces to Lt. Gen Jagjit Singh Aurora (L) of the Indian army in December 1971, marking the separation of East Pakistan.
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- Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, founder of Pakistan People’s Party, took over as the country’s president in 1971 and was later elected as the prime minister.
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- Gen Zia ul Haq with a farmer in Punjab.
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- Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah delivering a speech as Lord Mountbatten looks on.
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- Benazir Bhutto elected as the first female prime minister of Pakistan.
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- Nawaz Sharif is sworn in as prime minister of Pakistan.
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- Pakistan wins the 1992 cricket World Cup.
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- 3The fiftieth anniversary of Pakistan’s independence day is celebrated outside Quaid-e-Azam’s mausoleum in Karachi.
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- Pakistan conducts its first nuclear tests in the Chagai Hills on May 30, 1998.
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- People celebrate as General Pervez Musharraf assumes the presidency.
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- Rubble in Muzaffarabad, Kashmir, in the wake of a devastating earthquake that stuck Pakistan’s northern areas on October 8, 2005.
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- The government takes on the students of Islamabad’s Lal Masjid in June 2007.
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- Benazir Bhutto runs an election campaign after returning to Pakistan in 2007.
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- Asif Ali Zardari and Bilawal Zardari at the funeral of Benazir Bhutto in Garhi Khuda Baksh.
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- Asif Ali Zardari is elected president of Pakistan.
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- Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry is reinstated as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
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- Celebrating Independence Day in Karachi.
Photography: Arif Ali, Arif Mahmood, Tanveer Shahzad, and the White Star archive
Source: Dawn
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