1972 in Pakistan
Events from the year 1972 in Pakistan.
Incumbents
Federal government
Governors
- Governor of Balochistan:
- * until 11 April: Ghous Bakhsh Raisani
- * 11 April-19 April: Ghaus Bakhsh Bizenjo
- * 19 April-30 April: Ghous Bakhsh Raisani
- * starting 30 April: Ghaus Bakhsh Bizenjo
- Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: Hayat Sherpao ; Arbab Sikandar Khan
- Governor of Punjab: Ghulam Mustafa Khar
- Governor of Sindh: Mumtaz Bhutto ; Mir Rasool Bux Talpur
Events
January
- January 8 – Pakistan releases Sheikh Mujibur Rahman from house arrest.
- January 20 – President.
June
July
- July 2 – India and Pakistan sign the Simla Accord in Simla, India, following the surrender of the Pakistan military to Indian forces in 1971 and the subsequent emergence of former East Pakistan as the independent country of Bangladesh.
- July 7 – Sindh Assembly passed the Sind Teaching, Promotion and Use of Sindhi Language Bill, 1972 which established Sindhi language as the sole official language of the province resulting in 1972 Language violence in Sindh.
August
- August 14 – Pakistan celebrates 25 years as an independent country without East Pakistan, Martial law ends.
Births
- 26 April – Sana Nawaz, actress
- 22 May – Zabir Saeed, journalist and editor
- 5 August – Aaqib Javed, cricketer and coach
- 3 October – Aijaz Aslam, actor
Deaths
- 28 May – Aziz ul Haq, Chairman of the Young People's Front, a Marxist group
- 29 May – Prithviraj Kapoor, actor and director
- 1 October – Riaz Shahid, film writer and director