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1979 in Pakistan
Summary
Events from the year
1979 in Pakistan
.
←
1978
1977
1976
1979
in
Pakistan
→
1980
1981
1982
Decades:
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
See also:
History of Pakistan
List of years in Pakistan
Timeline of Pakistani history
Incumbents
edit
Federal government
edit
President
:
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq
Chief Justice
:
Sheikh Anwarul Haq
Governors
edit
Governor of Balochistan
:
Rahimuddin Khan
Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
:
Fazle Haq
Governor of Punjab
:
Sawar Khan
Governor of Sindh
:
S.M. Abbasi
Events
edit
4 April – Deposed Prime Minister of Pakistan
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
is executed in
Rawalpindi
.
[1]
21 November – After false radio reports from the
Ayatollah Khomeini
that the
Americans
have
occupied
the
Grand Mosque
in
Mecca
, the United States Embassy in
Islamabad
, Pakistan is attacked by a mob and set afire, killing 4. (See:
Foreign relations of Pakistan
)
10 December –
Abdus Salam
wins the first
Nobel prize
for the country.
[2]
Births
edit
18 April –
Tasqeen Qadeer
, cricketer
30 June –
Faisal Shahzad
, bomber
See also
edit
List of Pakistani films of 1979
References
edit
^
1979: Execution of a prime minister – BBC News
^
Abdus Salam – The Nobel Prize in Physics 1979