1957 in Pakistan

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1957 in Pakistan
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Decades: 1940s • 1950s • 1960s • 1970s Centuries: 19th • 20th • 21st See also: Other events of 1957 List of years in Pakistan

Events

January

• Jan 1 Pakistan proposes UNO Security Council session on Kashmir issue
• Jan 19 Foundation stone of new campus of Karachi University (at Country Club Rd) laid down by President Iskander Mirza

February

• Feb 2 Foundation stone of Guddoo Barrage laid by President Mirza
• Feb 9-27 National Assembly sessions (17 sittings)

March

• Mar 19 Dr Khan Sahib is elected to the National Assembly from West Pakistan
• March 22. Governor Gurmani declares presidential rule in West Pakistan (WP), preempting move by 40 Republican Party dissidents to oust CM Khan Sahib

International Union of Architects has launched competition for designing Quaid’s Mausoleum in coordination with Quaid-e-Azam Memorial Committee.

• March 26. Squash Champion Hashim Khan was defeated at British Open but Pakistan retains claim to squash championship as the new champion is Roshan Khan, Hashim’ scousin and, obviously, a son of the same soil

April

• Apr 8-25 National Assembly sessions (15 sittings)

July

• Jul 15. Parliamentary rule restored in WP
• Jul 17 Sirdar Abdur Rasheed new CM of WP
• July 22. Air Vice Marshal Asghar Khan who takes over from outgoing A.W.B. McDonald is the first native chief of PAF
• July 25. The All Pakistan Democratic Convention in Dacca culminates in Abdul Hameed Bhashani of the Awami League joining the Pakistan National Party, whose name is changed to the National Awami Party.

August

• Pakistan celebrates its tenth year as an independent nation.
• Aug 22-31 National Assembly sessions (10 sittings)
• Aug 27. M.A. Gurmani resigns as the Governor of West Pakistan

September

• Sep 30 Sugar Commission appointed

October

• October 6. In a remarkable about-turn from his criticism of the One Unit Scheme when it was introduced while he was a leader of the Opposition, the now Prime Minister Mr. Suhrawardy has taken a firm stand against the Republican demand to restore the former provinces. Addressing a public gathering at Mochi Gate (Lahore) today he stated that the benefits of this arrangement require decades before taking effect, but the power of the feudal lords in the West Pakistan can be weakened only if the limited jurisdictions of the provinces are expanded into a wide context of a big unit. "With the disintegration of One Unit," he declared, "the problem of inter-provincial discord would be revived and might assume dangerous proportions if fully autonomous provinces refused to listen to the central authority."
• Oct 8 President promises to consider the restoration of the state of Qalat in a meeting with 45 Balochi tribal cheifs
• October 11. Suhrawardy has lost support in the National Assembly, and forced to resign. It is widely suspected that his ouster was engineered by President Mirza.

Ibrahim Ismail Chundrigar replaces Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy as Prime Minister.

• October 18. I.I. Chundrigar is sworn in as the new PM. In his radio broadcast today he has emphasized the need for lowering the price level, checking inflation, rehabilitating the refugees, introducing land reforms and eliminating corruption from the administration.

November

• November 17, Lahore. "Ideologies must have precedence over bread," says PM Chundrigar to a gathering at Mochi Gate. He says that the Muslim League has "entered the Government to save the ideology of Pakistan which was menaced by joint electorates."
• Nov28-30 National Assembly sessions (3 sittings)

December

• Ibrahim Ismail Chundrigar, having served as Prime Minister for only 56 days, is forced to resign. Feroz Khan Noon succeeds Chundrigar as Prime Minister. He is the seventh Prime Minister in 10 years.
• Baidari, released Dec 6, is publicised as a film with patriotic message. How long will it take the public to recognise that it is a shameless carbon copy of the Indian Jagrati. Even the national songs are copied with “Pakistan” inserted in place of “Hindustan”!
• December 16. PM Chundrigar has resigned. He, too, was unable to keep a majority in the house. It is now becoming increasingly evident that the compromise between the parliamentary and prediential principles worked out in the Constitution of 1956 is unworkable.
• December 18. Malik Feroz Khan Noon, who takes oath as new PM today, is the 5th to fill this office in the brief period of 28 months since Aug 1955. Will the show go on?
• December 24. State Bank’s new 100 rupee note, carrying picture of the founder of the state, has raised protests from religious scholars who consider it un-Islamic.

See also

• 1956 in Pakistan
• Other events of 1957
• 1958 in Pakistan
• Timeline of Pakistani history

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