1972 in Pakistan
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Events from the year 1972 in Pakistan.
Incumbents
Federal government
Governors
- Governor of Balochistan:
- until 11 April: Ghous Bakhsh Raisani
- 11 April-19 April: Ghaus Bakhsh Bizenjo
- 19 April-30 April: Ghous Bakhsh Raisani
- starting 30 April: Ghaus Bakhsh Bizenjo
- Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: Hayat Sherpao (until 29 April); Arbab Sikandar Khan (starting 30 April)
- Governor of Punjab: Ghulam Mustafa Khar
- Governor of Sindh: Mumtaz Bhutto (until 20 April); Mir Rasool Bux Talpur (starting 29 April)
Events
January
- 20 January -President (later Prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto publicly announces that Pakistan will immediately begin a nuclear weapons programme.
- Pakistan temporarily withdraws from the Commonwealth of Nations in protest at the international recognition of Bangladesh as an independent Commonwealth republic (Pakistan returns to the Commonwealth in 1989).
July
- 2 July – India and Pakistan sign the Simla Accord[1][2] in Simla, India, following the surrender of the Pakistan military to Indian forces in 1971 and the subsequent emergence of former East Pakistan as the independent country of Bangladesh.
- 7 July – Sindh Assembly passed the Sind Teaching, Promotion and Use of Sindhi Language Bill, 1972[3] which established Sindhi language 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.[4]
Births
- 26 April – Sana Nawaz, actress
- 22 May – Zabir Saeed, journalist and editor
- 5 August – Aaqib Javed, cricketer and coach
- 3 October – Aijaz Aslam, actor
Deaths
- 28 May – Aziz ul Haq, Chairman of the Young People's Front, a Marxist group
- 29 May – Prithviraj Kapoor, actor and director
- 1 October – Riaz Shahid, film writer and director