1965 in Pakistan

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Ayub Khan
• Chief Justice: A.R. Cornelius

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