1954 in Pakistan

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

Incumbents

Federal government

Governors

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

See also

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.