The Birth of Pakistan, 1947 British parliament on July 18, 1947 passed the Indian Independence Act. The Act created two dominions: Indian Union and Pakistan. It also provided for the complete end of British control over Indian affairs from August 15, 1947. Learn More...

June 3rd Plan [1947] According to the June 3rd plan, power would be handed over to two separate governments in August 1947, and Punjab and Bengal would be divided by demarcating the Muslim majority districts. Learn More...

Indo-Pak War [September, 1965] In September, 1965, the long standing border disputes, communal tensions and conflict over the question of Kashmir flared up in a full-scale war between India and Pakistan. Learn More...

The Separation of East Pakistan The fact of physical separation of one thousands miles between the two wings, without a common border, surrounded by Indian territory and influences led to constant political, economic and social conflicts between the two. Learn More...

Establishment of All India Muslim League In the annual meeting of Mohammadan Educational Conference held at Dacca in 1906 Nawab Salim Ullah Khan proposed the formation of All India Muslim League a political party to safeguard the interests of the Muslims. Learn More...

Nehru Report [1928] Towards the end of the All-Parties Conference, which had been convened by the Congress to protest against the composition and terms of reference of the statutory commission, was now asked by the Congress leaders to prepare a constitution for India to confound the British Government. The Conference appointed a committee of jurists with Motilal Nehru as chairman, to study the problem and draft a constitution. Learn More...

Jinnah Passes Away [1948] It was on September 11, 1948, that the Quaid-i-Azam passed away after a protracted illness. He was buried in Karachi amidst the entire nation mourning over this irreparable loss. Learn More...

Allama Iqbal Allama Iqbal, a great poet-philosopher and an active political leader was born in 1873, in Sialkot in the Punjab. He descended from a family of Kashmiri Brahmins, who had embraced Islam about three hundred years earlier. Learn More...

Kashmir Crisis [1948] Kashmir the last of the defiant states, had a Hindu Maharaja Hari Singh but his subjects were Muslims, accounting to 78%. He was reluctant either to join India or Pakistan. But Lord Mountbatten urged him to take decision to join either state before August 15, 1947. Learn More...

Cabinet Mission Plan [1946] The mission consisted of Lord Pethic Lawrence, the Secretary of State for India, Sir Stafford Cripps, President of the Board of Trade, and A. V. Alexander, the first Lord of the Admiralty. Learn More...

Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah Pakistan, one of the biggest Muslim states, is a living monument of Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah. He, with his untiring efforts, indomitable will and dauntless courage united the Indian Muslims under the Muslim League banner and carved out a homeland for them despite stiff opposition from the Hindu Congress and the British government. Learn More...

The Lucknow Pact In December 1916, Congress and the Muslim League held a joint session at Lucknow in which a scheme of reforms was unanimously adapted as the irreducible minimum of political freedom for India. The Congress League scheme came to be known as the Lucknow Pact. Learn More...

Fatima Jinnah [1893-1967] Miss Fatima Jinnah, younger sister of Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah was born in 1893. Of his seven brothers and sisters, she was the closest to the Quaid. Jinnah became her guardian upon the death of their father in 1901. Learn More...