1964 in Pakistan
Events from the year 1964 in Pakistan.
Incumbents
Events
January
- 2 January - Anti-Hindu riots begin in Khulna, East Pakistan. They and reciprocal riots in Calcutta would fuel waves of communal violence on either side of the border over the next few months.
- 6 January - The governor of West Pakistan bans opposition party Jamaat-e-Islami, and its leader, Abul A'la Maududi, is arrested.
April
- 11 April - A tornado in the Narail and Magura regions of Jessore District in East Pakistan destroys villages and kills as many as 500 people.
- 29 April - Pakistan International Airlines inaugurates regular scheduled flights from Karachi to Shanghai via Dacca and Canton using a Boeing 720B, becoming the first airline of a non-communist country to fly to the People's Republic of China.
June
- 1 June - Pakistan acquires from the United States its first submarine, the PNS Ghazi.
July
- 22 July - The heads of state of Iran, Pakistan and Turkey issue a joint communique from Istanbul, establishing the Regional Cooperation for Development.
August
- 29 August - President Ayub Khan inaugurates the Chittagong Press Club.
September
- 25 September - The Supreme Court overturns the banning of Jamaat-e-Islami on the ground that the ban, enacted without due process, violated the fundamental right of freedom of association.
October
- 23 October
- * Pakistan loses 0–1 to India in field hockey at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, taking home the silver medal.
- * Eastern Tubes Limited in Dacca is incorporated to manufacture fluorescent tubes.
November
- 26 November - The country's first television station goes on air in Lahore, operated on a pilot basis by Nippon Electric Company.
Births
February
- 7 February - Nadir Shah, Bangladeshi cricket umpire
- 10 February - Mir Aimal Kansi, perpetrator of the CIA headquarters shooting
March
- 15 March - Kunwar Naveed Jamil, politician
- 20 March - Sadiq Fakir, folk singer
April
- 14 April - Manna, Bangladeshi actor
May
- 11 May - Haseeb-ul-Hasan, cricketer
August
- 4 August - Ghulam Murtaza Baloch, politician
- 14 August - Hussain Shah Syed, boxer
October
- 18 October - Sheikh Russel, youngest child of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
November
- 6 November - Mizanur Rahman Khan Dipu, Bangladeshi politician
December
- 24 December - Shahid Ali Khan, field hockey goalkeeper
Deaths
April
- 10 April - Shamsunnahar Mahmud, politician
October
- 2 October - Nur Ahmed, politician
- 3 October - Harendra Kumar Sur, politician
- 5 October - Birat Chandra Mandal, politician
- 13 October - Golam Mostofa, Bengali poet and writer
- 22 October - Khawaja Nazimuddin, Prime Minister of Pakistan
December
- 23 December - Khan Bahadur Abdur Rahman Khan, educator