Sindh History (24th January)

 

SINDH IN HISTORY TODAY (24th JANUARY)

24th January

BIRTH DATES

VEROMAL BEGRAJ (Shikarpur > Sukkur/Journalist & freedom Fighter/ birth 24th January 1874),

Maamoor Yousfani (Poet/ birth 24th January 1929)

Hiro Chawla (shikarpur > Mumbai/Actor/ birth 24th January 1933),

Aziz Kingrani (Writer/ birth 24th January 1958),

Gulsher Chandio (dabi Masti/writer/ birth 24th January 1976).

DEATH DATES

Moulana Abdul Aziz Laghari (Religious Scholar/ death 24th January 1905),

Sardar Muhammad Yakub (Minister Khairpur State & President Sindh Muhammadan Association/ death 24th January 1907),

Moulana Sanaullah ‘Badar’ (Religious Scholar & Poet/ death 24th January 1983),

Nawab Ahmad Sultan Chandio (Ghabidero/Politician/ death 24th January 200

EVENTS

1849: Mr. Inferiority is appointed as Assistant to Sindh Commissioner. After ten years he became Commissioner of Sindh.

1948: Pakistan and India agree to draft plan for holding plebiscite in Kashmir.

1950: Two separate and independent parties ‘Sindh Provincial Hari Committee’ and ‘Sindh Hari Committee”, stand merged. Hyder Bux Jatoi and Abdul Qadir Khokhar are appointed organizers.

1951: In a conference held in Karachi headed by Moulana syed Suleman Nadvi and attended by Moulana Moududi and 31 leading religious scholars unite at 22 – point agenda for an Islamic state.

1959: Land Reforms are announced in West Pakistan and land holdings are limited in irrigated area to 1000 acres and in barani area to 500 acres.

1963: Z.A.Bhutoo is sworn in as the Foreign Minister of Pakistan.

1965: CENTO and RCD will extend cooperation to each other. SENTO Secretary General reaches Pakistan after visiting Iran.

1969: People are not ready to afford President Ayub more. Dhaka Secretariat is set on fire. Demonstrators are lathi charged in Karachi.

1971: India expels a Pakistani diplomat on charges of active involvement in high – risk activities.

1977: PPP announces election Manifesto.

1978: ‘I will oppose Nusrat Bhutto to impose her daughter Benazir Bhutto on the party’, says Moulana Kausar Niazi, one of most obedient friends of Z.A.Bhutto.

1979: Z.A.Bhutto underestimated state institutions. Government issues yet another White Paper.