1949 in Pakistan

Events from the year 1949 in Pakistan.

← 1948 1947 1946 1949 in Pakistan → 1950 1951 1952
Decades:	1940s 1950s 1960s
See also:	History of Pakistan List of years in Pakistan Timeline of Pakistani history

Incumbents

Monarch

• King George VI (consort – Queen Elizabeth)

Federal government

• Governor-General: Khawaja Nazimuddin
• Prime Minister: Liaquat Ali Khan
• Chief Justice: Abdul Rashid (starting 27 June)

Governors

• Governor of Northwest Frontier: Ambrose Dundas Flux Dundas (until 19 July); Sahibzada Mohammad Khurshid (starting 19 July)
• Governor of West Punjab: Francis Mudie (until 2 August); Abdur Rab Nishtar (starting 2 August)
• Governor of Sindh: Shaikh Din Muhammad (until 19 November); Mian Aminuddin (starting 19 November)

Events

January

Map of the disputed region

• 1 January – The UN brokered a cease-fire in Kashmir. It granted Kashmir the right to vote on whether to join Pakistan or India.

March

• March – Pakistan and India sign the Karachi Agreement
• 7 March – Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan presented Objectives Resolution in the assembly.
• 12 March – Objectives Resolution is adopted by Constituent Assembly of Pakistan.

April

• 26 April – 1949 Tangail South by-election in East Bengal.

Births

• 6 March – Shaukat Aziz, former prime minister
• 15 September – Taskeen Manerwal, poet and writer (d. 2022)
• 20 November – Tarek Fatah, journalist (d. 2023 in Canada)
• 25 December – Nawaz Sharif, former prime minister

Deaths

• 19 June – Syed Zafarul Hasan, Muslim philosopher (b. 1885)

See also

• List of Pakistani films before 1950