1949 in Pakistan

Events from the year 1949 in Pakistan.

Monarch

 * King George VI (consort – Queen Elizabeth)

Federal government

 * Governor-General: Khawaja Nazimuddin
 * Prime Minister: Liaquat Ali Khan
 * Chief Justice: Abdul Rashid (starting 27 June)

Governors

 * Governor of Northwest Frontier: Ambrose Dundas Flux Dundas (until 19 July); Sahibzada Mohammad Khurshid (starting 19 July)
 * Governor of West Punjab: Francis Mudie (until 2 August); Abdur Rab Nishtar (starting 2 August)
 * Governor of Sindh: Shaikh Din Muhammad (until 19 November); Mian Aminuddin (starting 19 November)

January

 * 1 January – The UN brokered a cease-fire in Kashmir. It granted Kashmir the right to vote on whether to join Pakistan or India.

March

 * March – Pakistan and India sign the Karachi Agreement
 * 7 March – Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan presented Objectives Resolution in the assembly.
 * 12 March – Objectives Resolution is adopted by Constituent Assembly of Pakistan.

Births

 * 6 March – Shaukat Aziz, former prime minister
 * 15 September – Taskeen Manerwal, poet and writer (d. 2022)
 * 20 November – Tarek Fatah, journalist (d. 2023 in Canada)
 * 25 December – Nawaz Sharif, former prime minister

Deaths

 * 19 June – Syed Zafarul Hasan, Muslim philosopher (b. 1885)