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Events from the year 1949 in Pakistan.


Incumbents


Federal government

* Governor-General:
Khawaja Nazimuddin Sir Khawaja Nazimuddin ( bn, খাজা নাজিমুদ্দীন; ur, ; 19 July 1894 – 22 October 1964) was a Pakistani politician and one of the leading founding fathers of Pakistan. He is noted as being the first Bengali to ha ...
*
Prime Minister A prime minister, premier or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. Under those systems, a prime minister i ...
:
Liaquat Ali Khan Liaquat Ali Khan ( ur, ; 1 October 1895 – 16 October 1951), also referred to in Pakistan as ''Quaid-e-Millat'' () or ''Shaheed-e-Millat'' ( ur, lit=Martyr of the Nation, label=none, ), was a Pakistani statesman, lawyer, political theoris ...
* 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 Sir Robert Francis Mudie KCSI, KCIE, OBE (24 August 1890 – 15 September 1976) was a member of the Indian Civil Service during the British Raj. He was the last British Governor of Sind and after the partition of India and Pakistan in Aug ...
(until 2 August);
Abdur Rab Nishtar Sardar Abdur Rab Nishtar (13 June 1899 – 14 February 1958) was a Pakistani Muslim League politician from North-West Frontier Province.Governor of Sindh:
Shaikh Din Muhammad Sheikh Din MuhammadFor seeing list of governors of Sindh See * was a Pakistani jurist and politician who served as the 2nd Governor of Sindh after the death of Ghulam Hussain Hidayatullah on 4 October 1948 to 19 November 1949. Sheikh Din was b ...
(until 19 November);
Mian Aminuddin Mian Aminuddin (Punjabi, ur, میاں امین الدین) was a civil servant in the Indian Civil Service (British India) and the first Mayor of Lahore, Pakistan.Karachi Agreement The Karachi Agreement of 1949 was signed by the military representatives of India and Pakistan, supervised by the United Nations Commission for India and Pakistan, establishing a cease-fire line in Kashmir following the Indo-Pakistani War of ...


Births

*16 March – Shaukat Aziz, former prime minister *15 September – Taskeen Manerwal, poet and writer (d. 2022) *25 December –
Nawaz Sharif Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif (Urdu, Punjabi: ; born 25 December 1949) is a Pakistani businessman and politician who has served as the Prime Minister of Pakistan for three non-consecutive terms. He is the longest-serving prime minister of Pak ...
, former prime minister


Deaths

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


See also

* 1948 in Pakistan * Other events of 1949 * 1950 in Pakistan * List of Pakistani films before 1950 * Timeline of Pakistani history 1949 in Asia {{Pakistan-hist-stub