1965 in Pakistan
Events from the year 1965 in Pakistan.
Incumbents
Federal government
Events
January
- 2 January - Incumbent Ayub Khan defeats Fatima Jinnah in the 1965 Pakistani presidential election.
August
- 1 August - The inaugural issue of English-language weekly newspaper Holiday is published in Dacca.
September
- 6 September - Border disputes over Kashmir erupt into full-scale war as Indian forces attack near Lahore.
- 14 September - The Battle of Chawinda commences.
- 23 September - A ceasefire is implemented in the Indo-Pakistani war of 1965.
December
- 21 December - Pakistan's first nuclear research reactor, Pakistan Atomic Research Reactor-I, donated by the United States, reaches criticality.
Births
April
- 3 April - Nazia Hassan, singer
- 17 April - State of Bengal, British music producer
May
- 5 May - Rana Shamshad Ahmad Khan, politician
Deaths
January
- 24 January - Ashraf Hussain, Bengali writer
February
- 9 February - Khan Bahadur Ahsanullah, educationist, litterateur, Islamic theologian, and social reformer
March
- 3 March - Hasan Shaheed Suhrawardy, Bengali diplomat, poet and art critic
September
- 6 September - Sarfaraz Ahmed Rafiqui, military aviator of Pakistan