Musharraf coup. Goes into exile in Saudi Arabia later in the year after being pardoned by military authorities. US lifts some sanctions imposed after Pakistan's nuclear tests in US begins using drone strikes to target al-Qaeda leaders in the area. Dozens of people die in a suicide bomb targeting her homecoming parade in Karachi. He declares emergency rule, dismisses Chief Justice Chaudhry and appoints new Supreme Court, which confirms his re-election.
Suicide bombing on Marriott Hotel in Islamabad kills 53 people. Soon after, government launches major offensive in Bajaur tribal area, killing more than 1, militants.
Islamabad denies involvement but promises to co-operate with the Indian investigation. He is succeeded by Hakimullah Mehsud. Suicide bombing in northwestern city of Peshawar kills people. Measures include transferring key powers from president to prime minister. Government response widely criticised. Sunni extremist violence increases. Amid widespread condemnation of the case against the girl at home and abroad, a court dropped it November.
The shooting sparked a brief upsurge of anger in Pakistan against the militants. Bombay, British India — spoke about the atmosphere at the time of independence and the impact it had on communal relations. Pakistan emerged in from a British India, which was partitioned into two Dominions, India and Pakistan.
On 14 August , Pakistan achieved independence one day prior to Indian independence. India was partitioned, and an East and West Pakistan were created from Muslim majority areas. Amin Naz b. Kashmir, British India migrated to Pakistan soon after the Partition. He reminisced in his interview about his moving experience of setting foot on Pakistani soil for the first time. One of the greatest migrations in human history began in August when millions of Muslims made their way to East and West Pakistan, and millions of Hindus and Sikhs headed in the opposite direction.
Nearly seven million refugees are estimated to have arrived in Pakistan in the years following the Partition. Many hundreds of thousands never made it at all; at the most-conservative estimate, , individuals lost their lives in the massacres accompanying migration. Agha Salman Baqir is a renowned Urdu writer, poet and critic from Pakistan. The Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation was originally known as the Pakistan Broadcasting Service at the time of its inception on 14 August It had the honour of publicly announcing Pakistan's independence from Britain on 13 August at pm.
At independence in , Pakistan possessed three radio stations at Lahore , Dhaka established in , and Peshawar A major program of expansion saw new stations opened at Karachi and Rawalpindi in , and a new broadcasting house at Karachi in This was followed by new stations at Hyderabad , Quetta , a second station at Rawalpindi and a Receiving Centre at Peshawar In , training facilities were opened in Islamabad and a station opened at Multan.
Born in , New Delhi, Saeeda Siddiqui migrated to Pakistan via train amidst the chaos and fear of the bloodiest mass exodus in modern human history. She evocatively described the insatiable hunger she felt and the experience of eating her first meal after days of perilous travel without food. In the following two-minute animation, Al Jazeera looks at how the Indian subcontinent was divided by the British in and how it has changed since then.
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