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lescol Age: 36 3926 days old here Total Posts: 6369 Points : 68 Location: Quetta, Pakistan Status : Offline	Subject : Pakistan's history's Powerful Images A powerful image can take us back in time, and give us a better understanding of who we are and where we come from. Here are some August 1947 – Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah in Karachi As slogans of “Quaid-e-Azam Zindabad! Pakistan Zindabad!” echoed, Jinnah along with his sister, Fatima Jinnah, on August 7, 1947, landed in Karachi — a week before Pakistan became recognised as a separate nation. Like no likes.
	Posted on December, 10 2015 04:14:46 PM

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February 1983 — Revolutionary poet Habib Jalib arrested

Habib Jalib was a revolutionary poet who stood up to every military ruler — Ayub Khan, Yahya Khan, Ziaul Haq and Pervez Musharraf. During the Zia era, Jalib was arrested three times. The image is from February 12, 1983, when Jalib was arrested in Lahore during a Women Action Forum protest against Zia’s Hudood Ordinance.

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Posted on December, 10 2015 04:41:16 PM

lescol Age: 36 3926 days old here Total Posts: 6369 Points : 68 Location: Quetta, Pakistan Status : Offline	March 1992 - Worldcup victory Pakistan cricket team wins the 1992 Cricket World Cup against England in Melbourne, Australia. The team won its first ever World Cup beating England by 22 runs. The glorious victory came as Captain Imran Khan bagged the last wicket and the match’s highest score. Like no likes.
	Posted on December, 10 2015 04:42:50 PM

lescol Age: 36 3926 days old here Total Posts: 6369 Points : 68 Location: Quetta, Pakistan Status : Offline	May 1998 – Pakistan’s first nuclear test On May 28, Pakistan cut communication links for all Pakistani seismic stations to the outside world and all military installations along with the Pakistan Air Forcewere placed on high alert to carry out the first nucleartest, known as Chagai-I. Like no likes.
	Posted on December, 10 2015 04:43:51 PM

lescol Age: 36 3926 days old here Total Posts: 6369 Points : 68 Location: Quetta, Pakistan Status : Offline	October 1999 — Army coup Watched by foreign journalists, troops seized the state TV station. On October 12, 1999, Pakistan’s military within 17 hours overthrew Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s government, replacing him with Army Chief General Pervez Musharraf. Like no likes.
	Posted on December, 10 2015 04:45:19 PM

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January 2002 - Gen Pervez Musharraf shakes hands with Indian PM Vajpayee at Saarc Summit.

President Pervez Musharraf extended a ‘hand of friendship’ to India as he shook hands with the Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee- a gesture which was warmly applauded by delegates at the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) summit 2002.
Later in January 2004, President Musharraf and Vajpayee met in Islamabad to discuss bilateral issues including the long drawn Kashmir dispute. The meeting lasted for 65 minutes and according to diplomatic sources ended on a positive note at the Aiwan-i-Sadr.

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Posted on December, 10 2015 04:46:32 PM

lescol Age: 36 3926 days old here Total Posts: 6369 Points : 68 Location: Quetta, Pakistan Status : Offline	February 2002- Daniel Pearl beheaded in Pakistan Daniel Pearl, working for the Wall Street Journal went missing in January 2002 from in Karachi, a month after which the government announced that he had been killed. The announcement came after the government received and examined a videotape containing scenes of his beheading. Like no likes.
	Posted on December, 10 2015 04:49:09 PM

lescol Age: 36 3926 days old here Total Posts: 6369 Points : 68 Location: Quetta, Pakistan Status : Offline	October 2005 – Earthquake kills over 80,000 people in Pakistan A 7.6 magnitude earthquake which occurred on October 8, 2005 at 8:50am, shook the Kashmir region leaving over 80,000 dead and about 4 million others homeless. Like no likes.
	Posted on December, 10 2015 04:51:41 PM

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May 2007 – Black Saturday riots

Karachi’s Shara e Faisal turned into a battlefield as the recently suspended Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry arrived at the Jinnah International Airport on 12 May 2007. Clashes erupted rival parties who supported the judge and and those against him took to the streets against each other. CJ Chaudhry was dismissed by General Pervez Musharraf in March 2007.

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Posted on December, 10 2015 04:56:18 PM

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2007 – Taliban take over Swat

A signboard outside the local police station in Matta states that the station is now under control of the local Taliban.
Seeking to establish Sharia law in Pakistan, a militant group, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) came into being in 2007, taking control of Swat. The militant group began with taking over Madyan and Kalam which were major tourist destinations.

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Posted on December, 11 2015 10:37:57 AM

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July 2007 – Lal Masjid saga
Students of Jamia Hafsa protest in Islamabad.

In July 2007, military stormed into Lal Masjid (Red Mosque) when talks failed between the government and the extremist group at the helm of the mosque. The government crackdown on the controversial pro-Taliban mosque in the capital ended in a bloody eight-day siege killing at least 58 Pakistani troops and seminary students.

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lescol Age: 36 3926 days old here Total Posts: 6369 Points : 68 Location: Quetta, Pakistan Status : Offline	October 2007 – Benazir Bhutto returns to Pakistan Two powerful blasts on 18 October 2007 rocked Benazir Bhutto’s vehicle upon her return to Karachi after eight years of exile in Dubai and London, to prepare for the 2008 national elections. While Bhutto survived the attack, over 125 participants of the procession lost their lives. Like no likes.
	Posted on December, 11 2015 11:00:41 AM

lescol Age: 36 3926 days old here Total Posts: 6369 Points : 68 Location: Quetta, Pakistan Status : Offline	November 2007 – Nawaz Sharif returns from exile Nawaz Sharif returned to Pakistan in November 2007 after surviving a military coup, a seven-year exile to Saudi Arabia and a government dismissal. Like no likes.
	Posted on December, 11 2015 11:05:16 AM

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December 2007- Benazir Bhutto shot dead

A photographer managed to capture the last photograph of Benazir Bhutto alive, seconds before a ‘tall, thin’ assassin leaped out of the crowd and fired gunshots, one of which struck Bhutto in the neck.
Bhutto was assassinated in a gun-and-bomb attack outside Rawalpindi’s Liaquat Bagh on December 27, 2007, right after addressing an election campaign rally in the city.

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Posted on December, 11 2015 11:23:13 AM

lescol Age: 36 3926 days old here Total Posts: 6369 Points : 68 Location: Quetta, Pakistan Status : Offline	September 2008 – Marriot Hotel Islamabad attacked A truck bomb which exploded at the entrance to the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad killed over 40 people and wounded at least 250. The attack was just a few hundred yards from the prime minister’s house. Like no likes.
	Posted on December, 11 2015 04:14:51 PM

lescol Age: 36 3926 days old here Total Posts: 6369 Points : 68 Location: Quetta, Pakistan Status : Offline	March 2009 – Sri lankan cricket team attacked On March 3 2009, a bus carrying the Sri Lankan cricket team touring Lahore was attacked by 12 gunmen near the Gaddafi Stadium. Six members of the Sri Lanka national cricket team were injured while six Pakistani policemen and two civilians were killed. No international cricket was played in Pakistan since the attack. Like no likes.
	Posted on December, 11 2015 04:17:08 PM

lescol Age: 36 3926 days old here Total Posts: 6369 Points : 68 Location: Quetta, Pakistan Status : Offline	March 2009 – Chief Justice restored The lawyers’ movement — a mass protest initiated against General Pervez Musharraf for deposing Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry for alleged ‘misuse of authority’ – came to an end when Chaudhry was finally restored as the chief justice by the government of Pakistan in March 2009. Like no likes.
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lescol Age: 36 3926 days old here Total Posts: 6369 Points : 68 Location: Quetta, Pakistan Status : Offline	July 2010 – Airblue crash An Airblue flight flying from Karachi to Islamabad crashed into the Margalla Hills on July 28 2010, killing all of 152 passengers on board. The Peshawar High Court in 2013 announced its verdict, stating that the pilot, Parvez Iqbal was guilty. Like no likes.
	Posted on December, 11 2015 04:20:53 PM

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July 2010 – Floods deluge one fifth of Pakistan

Flood victims run towards an army helicopter dropping supplies
In 2010 Pakistan was struck by its worst ever natural disaster, one fifth of the country was inundated by floodwater, leaving about tens of thousands of people living in emergency camps.
A report last year, of the WB-funded Pakistan Flood Emergency Cash Transfer project of $125 million revealed that there are some beneficiaries who are still awaiting a second tranche of Rs20,000 that was promised to them in order to aid the reconstruction of their damaged homes.

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Posted on December, 11 2015 04:24:51 PM

lescol Age: 36 3926 days old here Total Posts: 6369 Points : 68 Location: Quetta, Pakistan Status : Offline	August 2010 – Mohammad Amir banned for spot-fixing On 29 August 2010, Mohammad Amir was implicated in allegations of spot-fixing and was banned for allegedly bowling two-deliberate no-balls. Following a five-year ban, he was allowed back into domestic cricket earlier this year and is likely to return to International cricket too. Like no likes.
	Posted on December, 11 2015 04:27:10 PM

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January 2011 – Salmaan Taseer assassinated

Mumtaz Qadri, the bodyguard arrested for the killing of Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer, shouts religious slogans while being taken away by police after he was presented at a court in Islamabad on January 5, 2011. PHOTO: REUTERS
Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer was gunned down by one of his security guards, an elite force personnel by the name of Mumtaz Qadri. Taseer was shot 25 times and died on the spot in Islamabad’s Kohsar market. The accused later admitted shooting Taseer, saying he objected to the politician’s calls to reform Pakistan’s strict blasphemy laws which can carry the death penalty.

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