1966 in Pakistan
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January

  • 10 January, Pakistan
    Pakistan
    Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

     and Republic of India sign an agreement in Tashkent
    Tashkent
    Tashkent is the capital of Uzbekistan and of the Tashkent Province. The officially registered population of the city in 2008 was about 2.2 million. Unofficial sources estimate the actual population may be as much as 4.45 million.-Early Islamic History:...

    , USSR (now Uzbekistan
    Uzbekistan
    Uzbekistan , officially the Republic of Uzbekistan is a doubly landlocked country in Central Asia and one of the six independent Turkic states. It shares borders with Kazakhstan to the west and to the north, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to the east, and Afghanistan and Turkmenistan to the south....

    ), to formally end the hostilities between the two countries.

February

  • The leader of the East Pakistan
    East Pakistan
    East Pakistan was a provincial state of Pakistan established in 14 August 1947. The provincial state existed until its declaration of independence on 26 March 1971 as the independent nation of Bangladesh. Pakistan recognized the new nation on 16 December 1971. East Pakistan was created from Bengal...

     Awami League, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
    Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
    Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was a Bengali nationalist politician and the founder of Bangladesh. He headed the Awami League, served as the first President of Bangladesh and later became its Prime Minister. He headed the Awami League, served as the first President of Bangladesh and later became its...

     announced his six points that called for limiting the federal government to national defence and foreign affairs.

December

  • 31 December, the government lifts ban on the political activities of 65 prominent politicians under Elected Bodies Disqualification Ordinance (EBDO).

See also

  • 1965 in Pakistan
    1965 in Pakistan
    -January:*2 January, President Ayub Khan defeats his main opponent, Fatima Jinnah in the presidential elections amid opposition accusations of mass rigging of the polls.-September:* 6 September, the Indo-Pakistan war begins...

  • Other events of 1966
  • 1967 in Pakistan
    1967 in Pakistan
    -April:* A conference of opposition parties in Dacca, forms the National Democratic Front and announces an eight-point political program that called for limiting the federal government powers to defence, foreign affairs, currency and federal finance and inter-provincial communications and trade...

  • Timeline of Pakistani history
    Timeline of Pakistani history
    Although, the land of Indus, as a state gained independence on August 14, 1947, it has a very long history that goes back over thousands of years and it is one of the world's oldest continuously inhabited regions. The Indus Valley was known as Meluhha in Mesopotamia when the Harappan civilization...

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