Pakistani History (Part 2)

Events 101 - 200 of 357

• 1973-01-11 Famous victory at the SCG Pakistan chasing 158 all out 106

• 1973-02-10 Pakistani cricketer Mushtaq Mohammad scores 201 runs in a match against New Zealand
• 1973-02-11 1st one-day international for Pakistan & NZ
• 1973-02-17 Rodney Redmond scores 107 on debut v Pakistan, his only Test Cricket
• 1973-03-27 Dennis Amiss out for 99 v Pakistan, 3rd 99 in Test Cricket
• 1973-04-10 Pakistan suspends constitution
• 1973-08-28 India & Pakistan sign POW accord
• 1974-02-24 Pakistan officially recognizes Bangladesh
• 1974-08-23 Zaheer Abbas scores 240 Pakistan v England at The Cricket Oval
• 1974-12-28 6.3 earthquake strikes Pakistan: 5200 killed
• 1975-02-20 Leonard Baichan scores 105* on Test Cricket debut, v Pakistan Lahore
• 1975-06-07 Dennis Lillee takes 1st one-day 5WI, 5-34 v Pakistan World Cup

• 1975-09-07 Pakistani all-time great batsman Hanif Mohammad plays final day of 1st-class cricket for Pakistan International Airlines v Hyderabad at Niaz Stadium, Hyderabad
• 1975-12-28 Earthquake in Pakistan, 4,000 die
• 1976-10-09 Peter Petherick takes hat-trick on cricket debut New Zealand v Pakistan Javed 1st wkt
• 1976-10-09 Test Cricket debut of Javed Miandad (Pakistan), scores 163 on 1st day

• 1977-02-18 West Indies cricket fast bowlers Joel Garner (4/130) and (Colin Croft 3/85) debut in drawn 1st Test v Pakistan at Bridgetown, Barbados
• 1977-03-04 West Indian cricket fast bowler Colin Croft takes 8-29 against Pakistan in 2nd Test win at Port-of-Spain; best Test figures by a pace bowler from the West Indies
• 1977-03-07 Ali Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party wins elections
• 1977-07-05 Pakistani army, led by Gen Mohammad Zia ul-Haq, seizes power
• 1977-10-02 Pakistani general Zia ul-Haq bans all opposition
• 1977-12-14 Test Cricket debut of Pakistan spin bowling great Abdul Qadir v England in 1st Test at Lahore
• 1978-01-18 Geoff Boycott captains England for the 1st time, v Pakistan at Karachi
• 1978-03-18 Former Pakistani premier Ali Bhutto sentenced to death

• 1979-03-29 Andrew Hilditch given out handled the ball v Pakistan at WACA
• 1979-03-29 Last day of Test cricket for Pakistani cricketer Mushtaq Mohammad
• 1979-04-04 Ex-President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of Pakistan is executed.
• 1979-11-21 Crowd at Islamabad, Pakistan attack US embassy, 1 dies
• 1979-12-12 President of Pakistan, Zia-ul-Haq, confers Nishan-e-Imtiaz on Nobel laureate Dr Abdus Salam

• 1980-12-31 After being struck by an orange thrown from the crowd West Indian fast bowler Sylvester Clarke knocks out a spectator with a brick during 4th Test against Pakistan in Multan
• 1981-03-02 Aircraft hijacked by 3 Pakistani terrorists
• 1981-11-14 Pakistan all out 62 v Australia at WACA, Lillee 5-18
• 1981-11-29 Greg Chappell scores 201 v Pakistan at The Gabba (Brisbane)
• 1981-12-10 The United Nations General Assembly approves Pakistan's proposal for establishing nuclear free-zone in South Asia.
• 1982-09-20 Jalaluddin takes a one-day hat-trick Pakistan v Australia
• 1982-10-05 Pakistan cricket leg-spin bowler Abdul Qadir takes 7-142 as Australia is dismissed for 330 in 2nd Test in Faisalabad; Greg Ritchie scores maiden Test century (106 no) but home side prevails by an innings & 3 runs
• 1982-11-12 Zaheer Abbas gets his 100th 100 in Test Cricket for Pakistan v India, goes to 215
• 1983-11-11 Australian cricket wicketkeeper/batsman Wayne Phillips scores 159 on Test debut vs Pakistan at WACA, Perth
• 1983-12-26 Test Cricket debut of Gregory Richard John Matthews, v Pakistan at the MCG
• 1983-12-29 Australian cricket batsman Graham Yallop completes a painstaking 268 (716 mins) v Pakistan in the drawn 4th Test in Melbourne
• 1984-11-23 Limited-over international cricket debut for Wasim Akram for Pakistan, v New Zealand
• 1985-03-10 India beat Pakistan to win "World Championship of Cricket"
• 1985-10-28 Ravi Ratnayeke takes 8-83 for Sri Lanka v Pakistan
• 1985-10-31 Last day in Test cricket for Pakistan's Zaheer Abbas
• 1985-12-30 Pakistan restores constitution

• 1986-08-14 Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto arrested
• 1986-09-05 Hijacking of aircraft Pan Am 73 at Karachi airport, Pakistan, 20 passengers killed
• 1986-10-29 Pakistan cricket leg-spin bowler Abdul Qadir takes 6-16 as the West Indies dismissed for 53 in 186 run defeat in 1st Test at Faisalabad
• 1986-11-09 Pakistan all out for 77 v West Indies at Lahore
• 1987-07-06 Pakistan cricket all-rounder Imran Khan reaches 300th Test wicket milestone, during 3rd Test vs England at Leeds
• 1987-08-07 Javed Miandad becomes first to score 6,000 Test runs for Pakistan as he cracks 260 in drawn 5th Test v England at The Oval
• 1987-08-08 Pakistan all out 708 v England at The Oval, Botham 3-217
• 1987-11-25 Pakistan cricket leg-spin bowler Abdul Qadir takes 9-56 against England in 1st Test at Lahore; best figures by a Pakistani, and by any bowler against England
• 1988-04-02 West Indies cricket fast bowling great Curtly Ambrose makes his debut in 9 wicket 1st Test defeat to Pakistan in Georgetown, Guyana; low key debut with 2-108
• 1988-04-14 USSR, US, Pakistan & Afghanistan sign Afghanistan treaty
• 1988-05-29 Pakistan President Zia ul-Haq dismisses government and disbands parliament

• 1988-08-17 Pakistani President Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq and U.S. Ambassador Arnold Raphel are killed in a plane crash.
• 1988-09-15 Test Cricket debut of Ian Healy, vs Pakistan at Karachi
• 1988-10-02 Pakistan's Supreme Court orders free elections
• 1988-11-03 Pakistan claims it downed Afghan warplane
• 1988-11-16 Pakistan's Benazir Bhutto's PPP wins 1st free Pakistani elections in 11 years
• 1988-12-01 Benazir Bhutto named 1st female Prime Minister of a Muslim country (Pakistan)
• 1989-02-12 5 Pakistani Muslim rioters killed protesting "Satanic Verses" novel
• 1989-10-20 Pakistan win Sharjah Trophy over India & WI on round-robin
• 1989-11-01 Despite 107 from Desmond Haynes, Saleem Malik with 71 leads Pakistan to 4 wicket win v West Indies in cricket's Nehru Cup Final in Kolkata, India
• 1990-01-04 307 dead and 700 injured after overloaded passenger train collides with empty freight train in Pakistan
• 1990-01-23 Australian cricketer Dean Jones scores twin test tons vs. Pakistan at Adelaide Oval
• 1990-02-25 Australia beat Pakistan 2-0 to win cricket's World Series Cup
• 1990-05-04 Pakistan beat Australia by 36 runs to win Austral-Asia Cup, Sharjah
• 1990-08-06 President Ghulam Ishaq Kahn dismisses Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan
• 1990-10-31 Pakistan make 3-0 drubbing of NZ, Waqar Younis 29 series wkts
• 1991-02-01 Afghanistan and Pakistan hit by earthquake, 1,200 die
• 1991-12-25 Last day of a washout Pakistan v Sri Lanka at Gujranwala
• 1992-03-21 Pakistan scores 6-264 to overhaul NZ in exciting World Cup cricket semi

• 1992-08-20 England get 7-363 in 55 overs vs Pakistan, then world ODI record
• 1992-09-16 900 die in flood in Pakistan
• 1992-09-28 Pakistani Airbus A-300 crashes into mountain at Kathmandu, 167 dies
• 1993-02-25 Pakistan all out 43 v West Indies, world one-day int record low
• 1993-06-05 Somali warlord Aidids murders 23 Pakistani
• 1993-11-13 Pakistani minister of Foreign affairs Faruk Leghari elected president
• 1994-02-20 3 Afghans take 70 Pakistani children hostage

• 1994-10-02 Pakistan defeat Australia by one wicket in Karachi Test
• 1994-10-02 Pakistan cricket batsmen Inzamam-ul-Haq & Mushtaq Ahmed put on 57 runs in 8 overs for highest last-wicket partnership ever to win a Test, as the home team beats Australia by 1 wicket in the 1st Test in Karachi
• 1995-02-01 Zimbabwe batsmen Andy (156) & Grant Flower (201) set world record brotherly stand of 269 to propel Zimbabwe to first ever victory in Test cricket in 1st Test against Pakistan in Harare
• 1995-02-02 Henry Olonga no-balled for throwing in Zimbabwe-Pakistan Test Cricket
• 1995-02-04 Zimbabwe's 1st Test Cricket victory, over Pakistan by an inning
• 1995-09-26 Sri Lanka complete 2-1 Test Cricket series win in Pakistan from 0-1
• 1995-09-29 Saleem Elahi scores century on ODI debut, Pakistan v Sri Lanka
• 1996-03-09 Javed Miandad's last international in Pakistan's Cricket World Cup Quater Final loss to India

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Birthdays 101 - 200 of 250

• 1941-06-16 Mumtaz Hamid Rao, Pakistani journalist, born in Sialkot, Pakistan (d. 2011)
• 1941-08-14 Peter Truscott, New Zealand cricketer (one Test NZ v Pakistan 1965, 3 & 26), born in Pahiatua, Manawatu, New Zealand
• 1941-11-20 Haseena Moin, Pakistani television drama writer and Urdu playwright, born in Kanpur, India
• 1941-12-28 Intikhab Alam, Pakistan cricket leg-spinner (1959-77)
• 1942-08-30 Pervez Sajjad, Pakistani cricket left-arm spinner (19 Tests 1964-73), born in Lahore, Pakistan
• 1943-02-08 Pirzada Qasim, Pakistani poet and VC of Karachi University, born in Delhi, British India
• 1943-06-06 Asif Iqbal, Pakistani cricketer (elegant Pakistani batsman 1964-80), born in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
• 1943-08-10 Shafqat Rana, Pakistan cricket batsman (5 Tests, top score 95), born in Simla, British Punjab

• 1943-10-01 Naushad Ali, Pakistan cricket wicket keeper, administrator, match referee (6 Tests), born in Gwalior, India
• 1943-10-21 Tariq Ali, Pakistani author and historian, born in Lahore, Punjab, British India (now Pakistan)
• 1943-11-22 Mushtaq Mohammad, Pakistani cricket all-rounder (57 Tests @ 39.17; 10 x 100, 19 x 50, 79 wickets; brother of Hanif), born in Junagadh, India
• 1944-01-01 Zafarullah Khan Jamali, Pakistani politician
• 1944-03-23 Salim Altaf, cricketer (Pakistan medium-pacer in 21 Tests 1967-78)
• 1944-05-10 Abdul Kadir, cricketer (Pakistani batsman-keeper in 4 Tests 1964-65)
• 1944-05-17 Arif Butt, Pakistani cricketer (pace bowler for Pakistan in three Tests 1964-65), born in Lahore, Punjab, British India (d. 2007)
• 1944-08-16 Mufasir-ul-Haq, cricketer (Pakistan left-arm quick, 1 Test)
• 1944-10-16 Bob Cottam, cricketer (England fast-medium on 2 India/Pakistan tours)
• 1945-03-03 Farooq Hamid, cricketer (1-107 in Test, Pakistan v Australia 1964)
• 1945-05-03 Sadiq Mohammad, Pakistani cricket batsman 41 Tests @ 35.81, 5 x 100; brother of Hanif & Mushtaq Mohammad), born in Junagadh, India
• 1945-11-11 Niaz Ahmed, Pakistani cricketer (1st & last East Pakistani to play Test cricket), born in Varanasi, British India (d. 2000)
• 1946-01-23 Asif Masood, Pakistani cricketer (Pakistani quick with long & erratic run-up), born in Lahore, Pakistan
• 1946-03-08 Mohammad Nazir, Pakistani cricket spin bowler (14 Tests, best 7/99 1969), born in Rawalpindi, Pakistan
• 1946-03-19 Mohammad Ilyas, cricketer (Pakistani batsman in ten Tests 1964-69)
• 1946-03-31 Aftab Gul, Pakistani cricket batsman (6 Tests @ 22.75), born in Gujar Khan, Punjab
• 1946-05-12 Leonard Baichan, West Indian cricketer (WI opener, 103 v Pakistan on debut 1975), born in Rose Hall, British Guiana
• 1946-07-28 Fahmida Riaz, Pakistani writer and feminist, born in Meerut, India
• 1946-09-28 Majid Khan, cricketer (great Pakistani batsman 1964-82)
• 1946-10-05 Zahida Hina, Pakistani columnist, born in Sahasram, Bihar, British India
• 1947-02-14 Salah-ud-Din, cricketer (played 5 Tests for Pakistan 1965-69)
• 1947-06-29 Jeff Moss, Australian cricketer (one Test Australia v Pakistan 1979), born in Melbourne, Australia
• 1947-07-24 Zaheer Abbas, Pakistani cricketer (probably Pakistan's finest batsman ever), born in Sialkot, Punjab
• 1947-09-28 Sheikh Hasina, Bangladeshi politician, Prime Minister of Bangladesh (2009-), born in Tungipara, East Pakistan
• 1947-10-21 Younis Ahmed, cricketer (batted for Pakistan in 1969 & again in 1987)
• 1948-03-23 Wasim Bari, Pakistani cricket wicket-keeper (Pakistan's most successful), born in Karachi, Pakistan
• 1948-05-14 Bob Woolmer, English cricket all-rounder, coach (19 Tests, coach Pakistan, South Africa), born in Kanpur, India (d. 2007)
• 1948-12-01 Sarfraz Nawaz, Pakistani cricket fast bowler (55 Tests, 177 wickets; 45 ODIs), born in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
• 1949-03-28 Shafiq Ahmed, Pakistani cricketer (Pakistani batsman during the 70's), born in Lahore, Pakistan

• 1950-05-29 Talat Ali, Pakistani cricket batsman (Pakistan 10 Tests), born in Lahore, Punjab
• 1950-07-11 Pervez Hoodbhoy, Pakistani nuclear physicist
• 1950-09-04 Ehteshamuddin, Pakistani cricketer (Pakistani pace bowler in 5 Tests 1980-82), born in Lahore, Punjab
• 1951-01-01 Ashfaq Hussain, Urdu poet
• 1951-02-19 Shaykh-ul-Islam Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri (Db), Pakistani Islamic Sufi Scholar
• 1951-11-03 Azmat Rana, Pakistan cricket batsman (1 Test, top score 49; 2 ODIs), born in Lahore, Punjab (d. 2015)
• 1952-07-03 Wasim Raja, Pakistani cricket all-rounder (57 Tests, 4 x 100, HS 125, 51 wickets; Lahore, Durham CCC), born in Multan, Punjab, Pakistan (d. 2006)

• 1952-11-13 Art Malik, Pakistani-born English actor (The Jewell in the Crown), born in Bahawalpur, Pakistan
• 1953-01-07 Agha Zahid, Pakistani cricketer (open batting for Pak v WI 1975, scored 14 & 1), born in Lahore, Pakistan
• 1953-03-25 Haroon Rashid, Pakistani cricket batsman (23 Tests, 3 x 100s; 12 ODIs; Karachi, Sind, UBIL, UBP), born in Karachi, Pakistan
• 1953-04-01 Aftab Baloch, Pakistan cricket batsman (2 Tests; 7th player to pass the 400 first class run milestone, 428 for Sind 1974), born in Karachi, Pakistan

• 1953-08-06 Iqbal Qasim, cricketer (Pakistani slow lefty in the 80's)
• 1953-09-17 Altaf Hussain, Pakistani politician and founder of MQM
• 1954-05-01 Taslim Arif, Pakistan cricket wicket-keeper (6 Tests; top score 210no v Aust 1980), born in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan (d. 2008)
• 1954-07-01 Khalid Hasan, Pakistani cricket leg-spin bowler (1 Test; 16 years, 352 days, then youngest Test player), born in Peshawar, Pakistan (d. 2013)
• 1954-09-18 Murtaza Bhutto, Pakistani politician, born in Karachi, Pakistan (d. 1996)
• 1955-03-15 Mohsin Khan, Pakistani cricketer (Pakistani opening batsman late 70s early 80s), born in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
• 1955-05-21 Liaqat Ali, Pakistani cricket pace bowler (Pakistan for six Tests 1975-79), born in Karachi, Pakistan
• 1955-07-26 Asif Ali Zardari, Pakistani politician, President of Pakistan (2008-13), born in Karachi, Pakistan
• 1955-09-15 Abdul Qadir, Pakistani cricket spin bowler (67 Tests; 236 wickets; best 9/56 1987), born in Lahore, Punjab (d. 2019)
• 1955-12-24 Anwar Khan, Pakistani cricketer (bowled four overs for Pakistan 1979), born in Karachi, Pakistan
• 1956-03-24 Ijaz Faqih, cricketer (Pakistan off-spin all-rounder in 5 Tests 80-88)
• 1956-04-06 Mudassar Nazar, Pakistan cricket all-rounder (76 Tests, 10 x 100s, HS 231, 66 wickets; Lahore CA, UBL), born in Lahore, Pakistan
• 1956-06-22 Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Pakistani Politician and Foreign Minister
• 1956-12-25 Mansoor Akhtar, Pakistani cricket batsman (19 Tests, 1 x 100, 3 x 50s; 41 ODIs; UBL, Sind, Karachi), born in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
• 1957-06-12 Javed Miandad, Pakistani cricket captain (124 Tests, 8,832 runs), born in Karachi, Pakistan
• 1957-08-25 Sikander Bakht, Pakistani cricketer (Pakistani change bowler late 70's), born in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
• 1957-12-07 Geoff "Henry" Lawson, Australian cricket player, fast bowler (1980-89) and coach of Pakistan, born in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia
• 1957-12-07 Rohan Jayasekera, Sri Lankan cricketer (one Test Sri Lanka v Pakistan 1982), born in Colombo, Sri Lanka
• 1958-04-22 Ashraf Ali, Pakistani cricket wicket-keeper (8 Tests, 22 dismissals; 16 ODIs), born in Lahore, Pakistan
• 1958-12-19 Iqbal Sikander, cricketer (Pakistan leg-spinner 1992 World Cup)
• 1959-06-12 Jalal-ud-din, Pakistani cricketer (Pakistani paceman, ODI hat-trick v Aust 1982), born in Karachi, Pakistan
• 1959-07-06 Tahir Naqqash, Pakistani cricketer (Pakistani pace-bowler in 15 Tests 1982-85), born in Lahore, Punjab
• 1959-12-07 Salim Yousuf, Pakistani cricketer (Pakistani wicket-keeper in 32 Tests 1986-90), born in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
• 1959-12-15 Rashid Khan, Afghan cricket spin bowler and captain (5 Tests, 34 wickets, BB 7/137; Sunrisers Hyderabad, Adelaide Strikers), born in Nangarhar, Afghanistan
• 1960-05-10 Tauseef Ahmed, cricketer (leading Pakistani off-spinner of 80's)
• 1961-01-08 Shoaib Mohammad, Pakistani cricket batsman (45 Tests @ 44.34; 7 x 100; 63 ODIs; son of Hanif Mohammad), born in Karachi, Pakistan
• 1961-09-04 Rizwan-uz-Zaman, Pakistani cricketer, born in Karachi, Pakistan
• 1962-05-23 Imran Anwar, Pakistani Internet pioneer and American TV personality
• 1962-05-25 Zulqarnain, Pakistani cricketer (last person in alphabetical order to play Test), born in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
• 1962-08-14 Rameez Raja, Pakistani cricketer (prolific Pakistani batsman), born in Faisalabad, Pakistan
• 1962-08-25 Shahid Mahboob, Pakistani cricketer (batted in one Test for Pakistan 1989), born in Karachi, Pakistan
• 1962-09-25 Chris Sheldon, British record producer (Foo Fighters; Pixies; Garbage), born in Karachi, Pakistan
• 1962-11-19 Salim Jaffer, cricketer (Pakistani pace bowler in 14 Tests 1986-91)
• 1962-12-12 Nadeem Ghauri, Pakistani cricketer (bowled in Test for Pak v Australia 1990), born in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
• 1963-01-03 Aamer Malik, Pakistani cricket batsman (14 Tests, 2x100s 1989; 24 ODIs), born in Mandi Bahauddin, Punjab, Pakistan
• 1963-04-03 Zakir Khan, Pakistani cricketer (two Tests for Pakistan 1986-89), born in Bannu, Pakistan
• 1963-04-16 Saleem Malik, Pakistani cricketer (memorable Pakistani & Essex batsman), born in Kayerpora, Lahore, Pakistan
• 1963-06-16 Mohsin Kamal, Pakistani cricketer (fast bowler for Pakistan), born in Faisalabad, Pakistan
• 1963-07-07 Naved Anjum, Pakistani cricketer (Pakistani all-rounder, two Tests 1989-90), born in Lahore, Pakistan
• 1963-07-29 Azeem Hafeez, cricketer (fingerless Pakistani lefty quick)
• 1963-10-10 Daniel Pearl, American journalist (kidnapped and murdered in Pakistan), born in Princeton, New Jersey (d. 2002)
• 1964-02-10 Mir Aimal Kansi, Pakistani perpretrator of the 1993 shootings at CIA Headquarters, born in Quetta, Pakistan (d. 2002)
• 1964-03-03 Atif Rauf, cricketer (Pakistani Test batsman v New Zealand 1994)
• 1964-04-15 Nadeem Abbasi, Pakistani cricketer (three Tests for Pakistan v India 1989), born in Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan
• 1964-09-03 Junaid Jamshed, Pakistani singer (Vital Signs 1), born in Karachi, West Pakistan (d. 2016)
• 1964-11-22 Akram Raza, cricketer (Pakistani off-spin all-rounder)
• 1965-04-03 Nazia Hassan, Pakistani pop singer-songwriter, lawyer and social activist known as "Queen of Pop" in South Asia, born in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan (d. 2000)
• 1965-08-27 Wayne James, cricketer (Zimbabwe Test wicketkeeper v Pakistan 1993)

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