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Events from the year 1966 in Pakistan.

Incumbents

Federal government

Events

January

10 January – Ayub Khan and Indian Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri sign the Tashkent Declaration to resolve the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.^[1]

The adjutant of Ayub Cadet College would take sides against Ayub and the Pakistan Army in the Bangladesh Liberation War.^[2]

February

5 February – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, general secretary of the East Pakistan Awami League, announces the Six Point Program calling for limiting the federal government to defence and foreign affairs.^[3]
11 February – Ayub Cadet College is inaugurated in Rajshahi, East Pakistan.^[4]

March

23 March - Sheikh Mujibur Rahman formally announces the Six Point Program.

May

4 May – SS Al-Abbas, the first ocean-going vessel constructed by the Karachi Shipyard & Engineering Works is launched.^[5]

November

18 November – Instruction begins at the University of Chittagong with 7 teachers and 200 students in 4 departments: Bangla, English, history, and economics.^[6]

December

31 December – After seven years, the Elective Bodies Disqualification Order expires, lifting the prohibition against standing for office from 70 politicians, including Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.^[7]^[8]

Births

January

1 January – Muhammad Tajammal Hussain, politician (d. 2019)^[9]

March

2 March – Shahed Chowdhury, Bangladeshi film director (d. 2019)^[10]

May

25 May – Tina Khan, Bangladeshi actress (d. 1989)^[11]

June

3 June – Wasim Akram, cricketer^[12]
22 June – Khadim Hussain Rizvi, Islamic preacher (d. 2020)^[13]

September

14 September – Aamer Sohail, cricketer^[14]

Deaths

April

15 April – Habibullah Bahar Chowdhury, politician (b. 1906)^[15]

October

13 October – Muhammad Ibrahim, judge and academic (b. 1894)^[16]

November

12 November – Shakeb Jalali, Urdu poet (b. 1934)^[17]

December

December – Fazlur Rahman, politician (b. 1905)^[18]

References

^ Wilson, A. Jeyaratnam (1990). "The Foreign Policies of India's Immediate Neighbours A Reflective Interpretation". In Kapur, Ashok (ed.). Diplomatic ideas and practices of Asian states. E.J. Brill. p. 54. ISBN 90-04-09289-7.
^ Safiullah, K. M. (1989). Bangladesh at War. Dhaka: Academic Publishers. p. 89. OCLC 24300969.
^ Khan, Sonia Zaman (2018). The politics and law of democratic transition: caretaker government in Bangladesh. Routledge. p. 88. ISBN 978-0-415-31230-1.
^ "List of Cadet College". Bangladesh Army.
^ Pakistan Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (1967). Twenty Years of Pakistan, 1947-1967. Pakistan Publications. p. 200. OCLC 70361796.
^ "University of Chittagong". Banglapedia.
^ "Chronology December 1966-February 1967". Pakistan Horizon. 20 (1): 72. First Quarter 1967. JSTOR 41392881.
^ Dutta, Aroma (2 November 2021). "Making of the Bangladesh State: Shaheed Dhirendranath Datta, Bengali Language Movement and Birth of a Nation". Strategic Analysis. 45 (6): 476. doi:10.1080/09700161.2021.2001277.
^ "Profile: Mr. Muhammad Tajammal Hussain". Punjab Assembly.
^ অবশেষে পৃথিবীর মায়া ত্যাগ করে চলে গেলেন নির্মাতা শাহেদ [Finally the maker Shahed left the illusion of the world]. Amader Shomoy (in Bengali). 18 March 2019.
^ Ahmed, Hassan (25 May 2018). চক্ষুদান স্বপ্ন, একজন টিনা খান ও একটি নীলচে ডায়েরি [A visionary dream, Tina Khan and a blue diary]. Channel i (in Bengali).
^ "Wasim Akram Profile - Cricket Player Pakistan". ESPNcricinfo.
^ "TLP chief Khadim Hussain Rizvi laid to rest in Lahore". The News International. 21 November 2020.
^ "Aamer Sohail Profile - Cricket Player Pakistan". ESPNcricinfo.
^ "Chowdhury, Habibullah Bahar". Banglapedia.
^ "Ibrahim, Justice Muhammad". Banglapedia.
^ "57th death anniversary of famous Urdu Ghazal poet Shakeb Jalali observed". The Nation. 13 November 2023.
^ Haq, Moinul S. (1 April 1968). "Report for the year 1967". Journal of the Pakistan Historical Society. 16 (2): 112.