[nidokidos] Pictorial Blips from History....

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INTERESTING JOURNEY THROUGH PAKISTAN'S CHECKERED HISTORY

There was a time when our President could give a little slap on the face of the US President......

How a President of Pakistan was received in Washington in 1961 ....

John F Kennedy, Ayub Khan and Lyndon B Johnson...

Ayub Khan rides through Karachi streets with Jackie in 1961...

Jackie Kennedy on a camel ride in Karachi with her sister Lee Radziville..

Two Sardars - Different Destinies, Sherbaz Mazari with Akber Bugti, 1954 ....

First Eidul Fitr after Independence, August 1947 ....

Despite a warning from a British CID of a plot to assassinate Jinnah during this ride, the program proceeded on schedule. Mountbatten joined Jinnah on this ride from Victoria Road till Government House. On reaching Government House, Jinnah kept his hand on Mountbatten's thigh and remarked, 'Thank God I brought you back alive'. 'I brought you back alive' retorted Mountbatten. Later on it was learnt that one of the conspirators lost his nerve at the crucial time.

The Founder examines the first set of coins in Pakistan...

A PIA advertisement from the fifties raises a gender issue....

Benazir Bhutto in 1971seen here in the lawn of 70 Clifton Karachi, a few months before her father took over the reins of government in Pakistan

The Founder supervises party funds to the paisa...

The Founder's pre-partition passport describing him as a Barrister from Bombay...

Sheikh Mujib ur Rehman and G M Syed...

Ambasssador Agha Hilaly receives Henry Kissinger at Chaklala Airport....On 8 July 1971. His secret destination was Peking.

King Hussein of Jordan came for a shoot in Sindh... This 1954 shot taken in Tando Muhammad Khan near Hyderabad in Sindh shows Iskander mirza, Muhammed Ali Bogra, H I Rahimtoola, M A Khuhro, Pir Ali Muhammad Rashdi and other notables

Yahya Khan hands over all power to Z A Bhutto... The master of ceremonies here is Cabinet Secretary Ghulam Ishaq Khan, who himself became president in 1988. Irked by a rumour that Ishaq wanted Bhutto to take over as President but not CMLA, one of Bhutto's first orders were to sack S U Durrani as governor state bank and send Ishaq in his place in far off Karachi.

President Chaudhry and Prime Minister Bhutto receiving King Faisal...

Justice Munir deals a death blow to Pakistan's judiciary... When Governor General Ghulam Muhammed dismissed the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan in 1954, the Sindh Chief Court declared his action ultra vires of the constitution. However under a lure of Deputy governor General ship offered to Justice Munir he validated the order under the Doctrine of Necessity and dealth a death blow to the judiciary. Subsequently sodomy cases were filed against the honourable judges of the Sindh Chief Court except Cornelius, who ruled against the Governor General.

Shameful indeed. One of the judges sent off his son to London for studies. He became Dean and Rector of the Aga Khan University. And imagine that was 53 years ago and people took it lying down. Why is everyone so worked up now. Where was our nation's collective conscience in 1954.

Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan with Walt Disney in Washington DC. This candid 1950 picture shows the wife of Pakistan's first Prime minister on a state visit to USA. A year later her husband was shot dead in broad daylight in Rawalpindi.....

Edwina Mountbatten's 'friendly' relationship with the Prime Minister of India...

All the President's Men - at Shakarparian hills after laying the Foundation stone of Islamabad...

Khan Abdul Jabbar Khan (1882 - 1958) popularly known as Dr Khan Sahib was a pioneer in the Indian Independence Movement and a Pakistani politician. He belongs to Charsadda. He was eight years older than his brother, Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (Badshah Khan). In 1935, Dr. Khan Sahib was elected as the NWFP's sole representative to the Central Legislative Assembly in New Delhi. In Pakistan, he joined the Central Cabinet of Muhammad Ali Bogra as Minister for Communications in 1954. In October 1955, he became the first Chief Minister of West Pakistan following the amalgamation of the provinces and princely states under the One Unit scheme. After differences with the ruling Muslim League over the issue of Joint versus Separate Electorates, he created the Republican Party. He resigned in March 1957 after the provincial budget was rejected by the assembly. In June, he was elected to the National Assembly representing the constituency of Quetta, the former capital of Balochistan. He was assassinated by a former revenue official in Lahore on May 12, 1958. After his death, Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti was elected to fill the "vacancy" arising in the National Assembly....

Bahadur Shah Zafar, 1775–1862, last Mughal emperor of India (1837–57) exiled in Rangoon, 1858. This is perhaps the only photograph of a Mughal emperor ever taken.

AND then this! The instrument of surrender was signed at Ramna Race Course in Dacca at 16.31 IST on December 16, 1971, by Jagjit Singh Aurora, Commander-in-chief of Indian forces in the Bangladesh, and General Niazi, Commandar of Pakistani forces in Bangladesh. Lieutenant-General Jagjit Singh Aurora accepted the surrender of Pakistani forces led by General Niazi.