Pakistan's 62 years Journey

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People migrating to Pakistan after independence.


Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah delivering a speech as Lord Mountbatten looks on.


Singing of the national anthem for the first time.
Funeral procession of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah in Karachi.

Liaquat Ali Khan, elected as first prime minister of Pakistan, visiting a PAF Base.

Fazal Mahmood after the first ever cricket victory over England at Lord's in 1954.

Ayub khan in discussion with Fatima Jinnah, popularly known as Madar-e-Millat (Mother of the nation).

Gen Yahya Khan touches a horse as Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat looks on.

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.


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.

Gen Zia ul Haq with a farmer in Punjab.


Benazir Bhutto elected as the first female prime minister of Pakistan.


Nawaz Sharif is sworn in as prime minister of Pakistan.


Pakistan wins the 1992 cricket World Cup.


The fiftieth anniversary of Pakistan's independence day is celebrated outside Quaid-e-Azam's mausoleum in Karachi.

Pakistan conducts its first nuclear tests in the Chagai Hills on May 30, 1998.

People celebrate as General Pervez Musharraf assumes the presidency.

Rubble in Muzaffarabad, Kashmir, in the wake of a devastating earthquake that stuck Pakistan's northern areas on October 8, 2005.

The government takes on the students of Islamabad's Lal Masjid in June 2007.

Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry is reinstated as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

Benazir Bhutto runs an election campaign after returning to Pakistan in 2007.

Asif Ali Zardari and Bilawal Zardari at the funeral of Benazir Bhutto in Garhi Khuda Baksh.

Asif Ali Zardari is elected president of Pakistan.


Celebrating 62 Independence Day in Karachi.

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Posted: 15 years ago
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hmmm long journeys with a lot of ups and downs, but we cannot deny the countless blessings Allah has given Pakistan and Pakistanis. Shukar alhamdulillah.

btw, nice post faiza. thanx
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thanks for remembering this info again
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