Timeline decides 1947: The British colonial government Pakistan biturcate India into two sovereign countries:
June
3 to
and India. 11
August
formed. In
founder,
is 1947: Pakistan's first Constituent Assembly Pakistan's as Governor-General, his first
speech
Muhammad Ali Jinnah, describes the
new
country
state' where
progressive andd modern Muslim-majority the state will have nothing to do with a citizen's religion. as a
14 August 1947: Pakistan comes into being as a sovereign
dominion of the British Crown. The country has
two
wings: multi-ethnic West Pakistan and Bengali-majority East Pakistan. Both the wings are separated by a distance
of 2,000 kilometres. In between lies India (formed 15
August 1947). 2 February 1948: Urdu (which is spoken by just 10 per cent of the country's population) is declared as Pakistan's
national language. This triggers riots in East Pakistan. 11
September
1948:
Jinnah
passes away.
12 March 1949: The Constituent Assembly passes an Objectives Resolution which resolves to author a