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1965
Events from the year 1965 in Pakistan.
Incumbents
Federal government
President: Ayub Khan
Chief Justice: A.R. Cornelius
Events
January
2 January – Incumbent Ayub Khan defeats Fatima Jinnah in the 1965 Pakistani presidential election.Sengupta Nitish K. Land of two rivers: a history of Bengal from the Mahabharata to Mujib 2011 Penguin Books New Delhi 978-0-14-341678-4 530
August
1 August – The inaugural issue of English-language weekly newspaper Holiday is published in Dacca.https://lccn.loc.gov/sn88063330 Holiday Library of Congress Catalog
September
6 September – Border disputes over Kashmir erupt into full-scale war as Indian forces attack near Lahore.Jalal Ayesha Ayesha Jalal The struggle for Pakistan: a Muslim homeland and global politics 2014 The Belknap Press 978-0-674-05289-5 122Roy Tathagata Tathagata Roy My People, Uprooted: A Saga of the Hindus of Eastern Bengal 2002 Ratna Prakashan 81-85709-67-X 210
14 September – The Battle of Chawinda commences.Singh Harbaksh Harbaksh Singh War Despatches: Indo–Pak Conflict 1965 2013 Lancer 978-1-935501-59-6 151
23 September – A ceasefire is implemented in the Indo-Pakistani war of 1965.Siddiqui Kalim Kalim Siddiqui (writer) Conflict, Crisis and War in Pakistan 1972 Palgrave Macmillan 978-1-349-01341-8 111
thumb|The United States supplied the nuclear research reactor through its "Atoms for Peace" program.
December
21 December – Pakistan's first nuclear research reactor, Pakistan Atomic Research Reactor-I, donated by the United States, reaches criticality.Chakma Bhumitra Road to Chagai: Pakistan's Nuclear Programme, Its Sources and Motivations Modern Asian Studies October 2002 36 4 877 3876477Khan Feroz Hassan Eating grass: the making of the Pakistani bomb 2012 Stanford Security Studies 978-0-8047-7600-4 57
Births
April
3 April – Nazia Hassan, singer (d. 2000)Kumar Jai Nazia Hassan https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/aug/23/guardianobituaries The Guardian 23 August 2000
17 April – State of Bengal, British music producer (d. 2015)Ritu DJ Zaman, Saifullah Arun [Sam; known as State of Bengal] (1965–2015), music producer, composer, and teacher Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 10 January 2019 10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.013.110577
May
5 May – Rana Shamshad Ahmad Khan, politician (d. 2015)Profile: Ch. Shamshad Ahmad Khan https://www.pap.gov.pk/members/profile/en/20/954 Punjab Assembly 2024-02-03 2021-07-07 https://web.archive.org/web/20210707083235/https://www.pap.gov.pk/members/profile/en/20/954 dead
Deaths
January
24 January – Ashraf Hussain, Bengali writer (b. 1892)Hossain, Sahityaratna Munshi Ashraf http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Hossain,_Sahityaratna_Munshi_Ashraf Banglapedia
February
9 February – Khan Bahadur Ahsanullah, educationist, litterateur, Islamic theologian, and social reformer (b. 1873)Ahsanullah, Khan Bahadur http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Ahsanullah,_Khan_Bahadur Banglapedia en
March
3 March – Hasan Shaheed Suhrawardy, Bengali diplomat, poet and art critic (b. 1890)Shahid Suhrawardy: 1890-1965 Pakistan Horizon January–April 2008 61 1/2 165 23726022
September
6 September – Sarfaraz Ahmed Rafiqui, military aviator of Pakistan (b. 1935)Birth Anniversary of Sq. Ld. Sarfaraz Ahmed Rafiqui being observed https://www.radio.gov.pk/18-07-2020/birth-anniversary-of-1965s-indo-pak-war-veteran-sq-ld-sarfaraz-ahmed-rafiqui-being-observed Radio Pakistan
See also
List of Pakistani films of 1965
References
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