1972 in Pakistan

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Events from the year 1972 in Pakistan.

• President: Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
• Chief Justice: Hamoodur Rahman

• Governor of Balochistan:
  • until 11 April: Ghous Bakhsh Raisani
  • 11 April-19 April: Ghaus Bakhsh Bizenjo
  • 19 April-30 April: Ghous Bakhsh Raisani
  • starting 30 April: Ghaus Bakhsh Bizenjo
• Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: Hayat Sherpao (until 29 April); Arbab Sikandar Khan (starting 30 April)
• Governor of Punjab: Ghulam Mustafa Khar
• Governor of Sindh: Mumtaz Bhutto (until 20 April); Mir Rasool Bux Talpur (starting 29 April)

• Karachi labour unrest of 1972

• 20 January -President (later Prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto publicly announces that Pakistan will immediately begin a nuclear weapons programme.

• Pakistan temporarily withdraws from the Commonwealth of Nations in protest at the international recognition of Bangladesh as an independent Commonwealth republic (Pakistan returns to the Commonwealth in 1989).

• 2 July – India and Pakistan sign the Simla Accord^[1][2] in Simla, India, following the surrender of the Pakistan military to Indian forces in 1971 and the subsequent emergence of former East Pakistan as the independent country of Bangladesh.

• 7 July – Sindh Assembly passed the Sind Teaching, Promotion and Use of Sindhi Language Bill, 1972^[3] which established Sindhi language as the sole official language of the province resulting in 1972 Language violence in Sindh.

• 14 August – Pakistan celebrates 25 years as an independent country.^[4]

• 26 April – Sana Nawaz, actress
• 22 May – Zabir Saeed, journalist and editor
• 5 August – Aaqib Javed, cricketer and coach
• 3 October – Aijaz Aslam, actor

• 28 May – Aziz ul Haq, Chairman of the Young People's Front, a Marxist group
• 29 May – Prithviraj Kapoor, actor and director
• 1 October – Riaz Shahid, film writer and director

• List of Pakistani films of 1972

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