Iconoic Moments in Pakistan's 62 Years Life

[brilTek]

Iconic moments and personalities have defined Pakistan and made it what it is today, for better or for worse. Dawn.com presents archival snapshots of the speeches and funerals, contracts and characters that shaped this nation in the first three decades of its history. (Photographs:White Star archive)



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.





[img]Funeral procession of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah in Karachi. [/img]





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



[img]http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/436d19804f2dbdfdbc38bf0025c8f0f1/07.jpg?MOD=AJPERES[img]
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.



Courtesy: Dawn.com

Great post. Except for the last picture. Yahya was a shame.

[brilTek]

Originally Posted by Qsaark

Great post. Except for the last picture. Yahya was a shame.

Yeah...I somewhat agree with you. If we rank military generals who ruled Pakistan, he stands at bottom. He is the worst Pakistan ever had.

But he is part of our grim history just like bleak present. i.e. zardari

Originally Posted by brilTek

Yeah...I somewhat agree with you. If we rank military generals who ruled Pakistan, he stands at bottom. He is the worst Pakistan ever had.

But he is part of our grim history just like bleak present. i.e. zardari

But he has some unique credentials which no other Pakistani has. No other Pakistani was as much responsible for the separation of East Pakistan from the West Pakistan as he was (even though Bhutto had his fair share too); no other Pakistani was so much open a womanizer as Yahya was.

[brilTek]

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 28, 1998.





People celebrate as General Pervez Musharraf assumes the presidency.




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





Pakistan won the ICC T20 worldcup earlier this year.





And here comes even the bigger boom.

JF 17 serial Production begins in Pakistan

[Neo]

Great topic mate, lets do soem research together and post the iconic events in chronological order as the happened.

[Solid Beast]

No doubt this thread is going to be one of the the hallmarks of this forum...looking forward to see some excellent contributions...I will try my best over my free time to compile something myself, though it's not easy being on call all the time.

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