Events from the year 1949 in Pakistan.
Incumbents Monarch King George VI (consort – Queen Elizabeth)
Federal government Governor-General: Khawaja Nazimuddin Prime Minister: Liaquat Ali Khan 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 (until 2 August); Abdur Rab Nishtar (starting 2 August) Governor of Sindh: Shaikh Din Muhammad (until 19 November); Mian Aminuddin (starting 19 November)
Events January
1 January – The UN brokered a cease-fire in Kashmir. It granted Kashmir the right to vote on whether to join Pakistan or India.
March March – Pakistan and India sign the Karachi Agreement 7 March – Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan presented Objectives Resolution in the assembly. 12 March – Objectives Resolution is adopted by Constituent Assembly of Pakistan. April 26 April – 1949 Tangail South by-election in East Bengal.
Births 6 March – Shaukat Aziz, former prime minister 15 September – Taskeen Manerwal, poet and writer (d. 2022) 20 November – Tarek Fatah, journalist (d. 2023 in Canada) 25 December – Nawaz Sharif, former prime minister
Deaths 19 June – Syed Zafarul Hasan, Muslim philosopher (b. 1885)
See also List of Pakistani films before 1950
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