afghanistan and pakistan

By worldclass

  • UN admits Afghanistan as an official nation

  • Period: to

    after WWII

  • Muslim league accpeted cabnit mission proposal

  • Pakistan becomes an independent nation from India and Afghanistan. Muhammad Ali Jinnah was named governor-general. They have arguments with India over territories.

  • Britain withdraws from India. Pakistan is carved out of Indian and Afghan lands

  • Liaqaut Ali Khan the first Prime Minister of Pakistan.

  • Afghanistan refuses to recognize the Durand line as a legal boundary between Pakistan and Afghanistan.

  • Prince Mohammad Daoud becomes Prime Minister of Afghanistan.

  • The U.S. rejects Afghanistan's request to buy military equipment to modernize the army.

  • Daoud turns to the Soviet Union for military aid.

  • Afghanistan develops close ties with USSR during cold war.

  • Pakistan constitution adopted

  • Bulgaria agrees to help Afghanistan

  • Women begin to enter the workforce, and the government.

  • Ayub Khan becomes president of Pakistan

  • Pakistan achieved its first Gold Medal in Olympics, defeating India in hockey by 1-0 at Rome

  • Period: to

    1961-1980

  • Mohammed Daud forced to resign as prime minister.

  • Second war between India and Pakistan over Kashmir and Afghanistan

  • Presidential election held. Field Marshal Ayub Khan re-elected as President in Pakistan.

  • East Pakistan became the independent state of Bangladesh, Third war between India and Pakistan over Kashmir and Afghanistan

  • Mohammed Daud seizes power in a coup and declares a republic.

  • Pakistan and Bangladesh agree to established diplomatic ties.

  • General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq becomes Chief of Army Staff.

  • General Daud is overthrown and killed in a coup by leftist People's Democratic Party.

  • Soviets launched an invasion of Afghanistan

  • Islamic penal code introduced

  • Z. A. Bhutto hanged in Rawalpindi jail.

  • Dr. Abdus Salam, eminent Pakistani scientist, is awarded Physics Nobel Prize

  • Period: to

    80's to present

  • Martial law and political parties ban lifted.

  • Benazir Bhutto's PPP wins general election.

  • Taliban is born from Islamic students

  • Taliban takes over afghan government

  • Pakistan tested nuclear weapons for the first time

  • U.S. missiles strike terrorist training complex believed to have been fired by Osama bin-laden

  • U.S. begin military operations against Taliban in afghanistan

  • Taliban attacks New York city and the pentagon

  • Taliban refuses to give up bin-laden to the U.S.

  • Taliban collapses

  • Hamid Karzar becomes afghan president

  • Pakistan begins census of Afghanistan

  • Taliban leader captured and held in pakistan

  • The leader of Pakistan's Taliban, Baitullah Mehsud, is killed in US drone attack in South Waziristan.