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14th August is a day that no Pakistani can ever forget. The day always
brings joy and happiness to the entire country. Pakistanis are a
patriotic nation but in August their love for the country reaches at its
peak. Here, we collected some rare and historic pictures of the
Independence Movement of Pakistan for you. Just see them and relive
those crucial historic moments.
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Founder of Pakistan, M. A. Jinnah, patiently listening to the complaints
of a refugee in Karachi in late 1947.
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This picture of Pakistan’s first Prime Minister, Liaquat Ali Khan, was
taken 20 minutes before he was assassinated.
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Author of Pakistani national anthem Hafeez Jalandhri with his wife and
daughters in 1954.
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Military police emerge on the streets of Karachi during the imposition
of the country’s first Martial Law in 1958.
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This photograph shows Pakistan’s first television station. Television
arrived in Pakistan in 1964. The country’s first TV station was housed
in a small bungalow-type building in Lahore.
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This photograph shows air-hostesses of Pakistani airline, PIA, on the
runway of the Karachi airport in 1965.
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Here Ayub Khan is inspecting a manufacturing plant in 1964. During the
first six years of Ayub’s rule, Pakistan enjoyed an impressive 8.51%
growth in manufacturing.
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Pakistani flags being sold in Dhaka, East Pakistan, during the 1970
general elections.
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A newspaper report on a bomb blast in Karachi’s Saddar area in 1987. It
was the first major act of terror of this kind against civilians in
Pakistan. |