History of pakistan from 1857 to 1947

major treatment In Pakistan: History of PakistanThis section presents the history of Pakistan from the partition of British India (1947) to the present. For a discussion of the earlier history of the region, see India.
Read MoreAfghan War In Afghan War: Insurgency against communist rule (1978–92)…Afghans had sought asylum in Pakistan, and another 1.5 million had fled to Iran. The mujahideen were eventually able to neutralize Soviet air power through the use of shoulder-fired antiaircraft missiles supplied by the Soviet Union’s Cold War adversary, the
United States.Read More In Afghanistan: Civil war, communist phase (1978–92)…support and again to interest Pakistan and the United States in Afghan security.

Despite his efforts, on the night of December 24, 1979, the Soviets invaded Afghanistan.
Amin and many of his followers were killed on December 27.Read MoreAfghanistan War In Afghanistan War: Taliban resurgence…insurgent leaders who lived in Pakistan with missiles fired from remotely piloted drones. The CIA program of targeted killings was publicly denied by U.S. officials but was widely acknowledged in private. Pakistani
officials in turn denounced the strikes in public but privately approved of them as long as civilian casualties…Read More In Afghanistan War: U.S. troop surge and end of U.S. combat missionPakistan offered to mediate Afghan peace talks, but Pakistan’s ultimate attitude toward the Taliban remained a matter of great controversy. In February 2010,
Pakistani security forces arrested the Afghan Taliban’s second-in-command, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, a move interpreted by many U.S. officials as a reflection…Read MoreAzad Kashmir In Azad Kashmir…province nor an agency of Pakistan but has a government of its own that is regarded by Pakistan as “independent,” even though it is protected
by and economically and administratively linked to Pakistan. It has an area of approximately 650 square miles (1,680 square km) and consists of an arc…Read MoreBandung Conference In Bandung ConferenceCeylon (Sri Lanka), India, and Pakistan—which took place April 18–24, 1955, in Bandung, Indonesia. In all, 29 countries representing more
than half the world’s population sent delegates.Read MoreBangladesh In Bangladesh: The Pakistani period, 1947–71 Although the boundaries of East Bengal were based ostensibly on religion, they did not entirely reflect it. Owing to disagreements between the Hindu and Muslim contingents of the commission tasked with delimiting the province, the
frontiers were ultimately determined by the head… Read MoreBritish rule In British raj…the independence of India and Pakistan in 1947. The raj succeeded management of the subcontinent by the British East India Company, after general distrust and dissatisfaction with company leadership resulted in a widespread mutiny of sepoy troops in 1857,
causing the British to reconsider the structure of governance in India.…Read MoreCentral Treaty Organization In Central Treaty Organization…and composed of Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, and the United Kingdom. Until March 1959 the organization was known as the Middle East Treaty Organization, included Iraq, and had its headquarters in
Baghdad.Read MoreCold War In 20th-century international relations: China, India, and Pakistan The Indian subcontinent comprised another system of conflict focused on border disputes among India, Pakistan, and China. Nehru’s Congress Party had stabilized the political life of the teeming and disparate peoples of India. The United States looked to
India as a laboratory of democracy… Read MoreColombo Plan In Colombo Plan…by the governments of India, Pakistan, Ceylon, Australia, New Zealand, and Great Britain. The United States, Japan, and a number of Southeast Asian, East Asian, and Pacific countries joined later. The plan came into full operation in 1951. Its name was changed
following the end of participation by several newly…Read MoreCommonwealth In Commonwealth: Membership and criteriaWhen India and Pakistan were granted independence in 1947, they became members of the Commonwealth. In 1949 India announced its intention to become a republic, which would have required its withdrawal from the
Commonwealth under the existing rules, but at a meeting of Commonwealth heads of government in…Read Moregovernor-general In governor-general…governor-general for India and for Pakistan. The filling of these posts necessitated a departure from normal practice because there could be no ministers to formally advise the crown until a
governor-general had been appointed and ministers had taken office. In these circumstances the leaders of the Congress Party and the…Read MoreIslamic nationalismJinnah In Mohammed Ali Jinnah: Creator of Pakistan Jinnah had originally been dubious about the practicability of Pakistan, an idea that the poet and philosopher Sir Muhammad Iqbal
had propounded to the Muslim League conference of 1930, but before long he became convinced that a Muslim homeland on the Indian subcontinent was… Read MoreLiaquat In Liaquat Ali Khan…share in the struggle for Pakistan; when independence was won in 1947 and Jinnah became the first governor-general, Liaquat was the obvious choice as
prime minister. In this post his achievements were outstanding. If Jinnah founded Pakistan, Liaquat established it, laying down the main lines of policy, domestic and foreign,…Read MoreMuslim League In Muslim League…and after the formation of Pakistan in 1947 the league became Pakistan’s dominant political party. In that year it was renamed
the All Pakistan Muslim League. But the league functioned less effectively as a modern political party in Pakistan than it had as a mass-based pressure group in British India,…Read MoreNuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty In Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons…the ability of India and Pakistan to become declared nuclear powers in
1998 without any serious international penalty—and indeed by India establishing its own special arrangements as part of a bilateral deal with the United States in 2008.Read MoreRed Shirt Movement In Red Shirt movement…the choice between India and Pakistan, opted for Pakistan in a plebiscite. Ghaffar Khan then advocated Pakhtunistan—the
concept of an independent Pashtun state, drawn from both the Pakistan and Afghan frontier districts. The Pakistan government suppressed both this movement and the Red Shirts.Read MoreSoutheast Asia Treaty Organization In Southeast Asia Treaty Organizationof Australia, France, New Zealand, Pakistan, the Philippines, Thailand, the United
Kingdom, and the United States. The treaty came into force on February 19, 1955. Pakistan withdrew in 1968, and France suspended financial support in 1975. The organization held its final exercise on February 20, 1976, and formally ended on…Read MoreTaliban recognition In Afghanistan: Civil war, mujahideen-Taliban phase (1992–
2001)Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates gave formal recognition to the Taliban government after the fall of Kabul, but the movement was denied Afghanistan’s seat at the UN and came under vigorous international criticism for its extreme views—with regard to women in particular—and…Read MoreU.S.-China relations In 20th-
century international relations: The opening to China and Ostpolitik…Gaulle and Yahya Khan of Pakistan. Direct contacts, conducted through the Chinese embassy in Warsaw, were broken off after the 1970 U.S.-ARVN attacks on Cambodia, but Nixon and Kissinger remained hopeful. The Cultural Revolution ended in a serious power struggle in the
Chinese leadership. Army commander Lin Biao opposed relations…Read More In aggression… in 1947, between India and Pakistan in 1948, between Israel and its neighbours in 1949, between Israel, Great Britain, France, and Egypt in 1956, and between Israel, Jordan, and Egypt in 1970. None of these states was at the time declared an aggressor.
On the other hand, Japan was found…Read More In India: Gandhi’s strategy…independent dominions of India and Pakistan in 1947, were thus clearly set in motion in their separate directions.Read More In India: Muslim separatism…he did not name it Pakistan, his proposal included what became the major provinces of modern Pakistan—Punjab,
Sindh, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (until 2010 North-West Frontier Province), and Balochistan. Jinnah, the Aga Khan, and other important Muslim leaders were at the time in London attending the Round Table Conference, which still…Read More In India: The impact of World War II…Resolution, later known as the Pakistan Resolution, was passed by the
largest gathering of league delegates just one day after Jinnah informed his followers that “the problem of India is not of an inter-communal but manifestly of an international character.” The league resolved, therefore, that any future constitutional plan proposed…Read More In India: The 1965 war with Pakistan Almost immediately after Shastri took
office, India was faced with a threat of war from Pakistan. Pakistan’s president, Mohammad Ayub Khan, had led a military coup in 1958 that put him in charge of his country’s civil and military affairs, and his regime had… Read More In India: Foreign policy…the late 1980s also accused Pakistan of arming and then sending Pakistani agents across the
Punjab border. In late 1989, strikes, terrorism, and unrest escalated in Kashmir, and by early 1990 the area was rocked by a series of violent explosions and fierce exchanges of heavy fire along the line…Read MoreBoundary Commission In Boundary Commissionbetween India and Pakistan shortly before each was to become independent from Britain.
The commission—appointed by Lord Mountbatten, the final viceroy of British India—consisted of four members from the Indian National Congress and four from the Muslim League and was chaired by Sir Cyril Radcliffe.Read MoreKargil In Kargil…border conflicts between India and Pakistan. The largest and deadliest of these clashes was the Kargil
War, which took place in May–July 1999. In early May the Indian military learned that Pakistani fighters had infiltrated Indian-administered territory. The intrusion triggered intense fighting between the two sides that lasted more than…Read MoreKashmir region dispute In Kashmir…of dispute between India and Pakistan since the partition of the
Indian subcontinent in 1947.
The northern and western portions are administered by Pakistan and comprise three areas: Azad Kashmir, Gilgit, and Baltistan, the last two being part of a single administrative unit called Gilgit-Baltistan (formerly Northern Areas). Administered by…Read MoreMumbai terrorist attacks of 2008 In India: Foreign policy…for the November attacks to
Pakistan, bringing bilateral relations to a new low. Singh did meet with his Pakistani counterpart, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani, in 2009 and 2010 in an attempt to resume the talks started earlier with Musharraf. However, relations between the two countries remained strained.Read More In Mumbai terrorist attacks of 2008: Events of November
26–29…be connected to Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistan-based terrorist organization. Armed with automatic weapons and hand grenades, the terrorists targeted civilians at numerous sites in the southern part of Mumbai, including the Chhatrapati Shivaji railway station, the popular Leopold Café, two hospitals, and a theatre. While most of the attacks
ended within…Read MoreRann of Kachchh conflict In Rann of Kachchh…dispute arose over the India-Pakistan boundary line toward the western end of the Great Rann. Fighting broke out in April and ended when Great Britain intervened to secure a cease-fire. On the report of the United Nations secretary-general to the Security Council, the dispute
was referred to an international…Read More Introduction & Quick Facts Pakistan summary Facts & Stats