1954 in Pakistan

← 1953 1952 1951 1954 in Pakistan → 1955 1956 1957
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See also:	History of Pakistan List of years in Pakistan Timeline of Pakistani history

This is a list of notable events that took place in Pakistan in 1954.

Incumbents

Federal government

• Governor-General: Malik Ghulam Muhammad
• Prime Minister: Muhammad Ali Bogra
• Chief Justice: Abdul Rashid (until 29 June), Muhammad Munir (starting 29 June)

Governors

• Governor of Northwest Frontier: Khwaja Shahabuddin (until 17 November); Qurban Ali Shah (starting 17 November)
• Governor of West Punjab:
  • until 24 June: Mian Aminuddin
  • 24 June-26 November: Habib Rahimtoola
  • starting 26 November: Mushtaq Ahmed Gurmani
• Governor of Sindh: Habib Ibrahim Rahimtoola (until 24 June); Iftikhar Hussain Khan Mamdot (starting 24 June)

Events

April

• 2 April – Pakistan forms an alliance with Turkey which, although not including military cooperation, opens the way to the Middle-East alliance due to its allowance of the entry of other nations. ^[1]

May

• 19 May – Pakistan and the United States sign a Mutual Defense Assistance Agreement. ^[2]

October

• 14 October – the Governor-General of Pakistan, Ghulam Mohammad declared a state of emergency, dissolved the Constituent Assembly and appointed a new Council of Ministers on the grounds that the existing one no longer represented the people of Pakistan. ^[3]

Births

• 31 January - Imtiaz Dharker, poet and artist.
• 18 October – Aamer Hameed, cricketer.

See also

• List of Pakistani films of 1954

References

1. Uslu, Nasuh (2003). The Turkish-American relationship between 1947 and 2003: the history of a distinctive alliance. Nova Publishers. p. 118. ISBN   978-1-59033-832-2 . Retrieved 31 March 2011.
2. Khan, Mohammed Ayub (September 1964). "The Pakistan-American Alliance" . Foreign Affairs. 42 (2). doi:10.2307/20029681. JSTOR   20029681 . Retrieved 31 March 2011.
3. Akbar, M. J. (2002). The shade of swords: Jihad and the conflict between Islam and Christianity . Routledge. p.  200. ISBN   978-0-415-28470-7.