1972 in Pakistan

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
• Chief Justice: Hamoodur Rahman

  Events

• Karachi labour unrest of 1972

  January

• 20 January -President (later Prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto publicly announces that Pakistan will immediately begin a nuclear weapons programme.

  July

• 2 July – 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 nation of Bangladesh.
• 7 July – 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

• 14 August – Pakistan celebrates 25 years as an independent nation.

  Births

• 26 April – Sana Nawaz, actress
• 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