1964 in Pakistan

Events from the year 1964 in Pakistan.

Incumbents

 * President: Ayub Khan
 * Chief Justice: A.R. Cornelius

January

 * 2 January – Anti-Hindu riots begin in Khulna, East Pakistan. They and reciprocal riots in Calcutta would fuel waves of communal violence on either side of the border over the next few months.
 * 6 January – The governor of West Pakistan bans opposition party Jamaat-e-Islami, and its leader, Abul A'la Maududi, is arrested.



April

 * 11 April – A tornado in the Narail and Magura regions of Jessore District in East Pakistan destroys villages and kills as many as 500 people.
 * 29 April – Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) inaugurates regular scheduled flights from Karachi to Shanghai via Dacca and Canton using a Boeing 720B, becoming the first airline of a non-communist country to fly to the People's Republic of China.

June

 * 1 June – Pakistan acquires from the United States its first submarine, the PNS Ghazi.



July

 * 22 July – The heads of state of Iran, Pakistan and Turkey issue a joint communique from Istanbul, establishing the Regional Cooperation for Development (RCD).

August

 * 29 August – President Ayub Khan inaugurates the Chittagong Press Club.

September

 * 25 September – The Supreme Court overturns the banning of Jamaat-e-Islami on the ground that the ban, enacted without due process, violated the fundamental right of freedom of association.



October

 * 23 October
 * Pakistan loses 0–1 to India in field hockey at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, taking home the silver medal.
 * Eastern Tubes Limited in Dacca is incorporated to manufacture fluorescent tubes.

November

 * 26 November – The country's first television station goes on air in Lahore, operated on a pilot basis by Nippon Electric Company.

February

 * 7 February – Nadir Shah, Bangladeshi cricket umpire (d. 2021)
 * 10 February – Mir Aimal Kansi, perpetrator of the CIA headquarters shooting (d. 1998)

March

 * 15 March – Kunwar Naveed Jamil, politician (d. 2023)
 * 20 March – Sadiq Fakir, folk singer (d. 2015)

April

 * 14 April – Manna, Bangladeshi actor (d. 2008)

May

 * 11 May – Haseeb-ul-Hasan, cricketer (d. 1990)

August

 * 4 August – Ghulam Murtaza Baloch, politician (d. 2020)
 * 14 August – Hussain Shah Syed, boxer

October

 * 18 October – Sheikh Russel, youngest child of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (d. 1975)

November

 * 6 November – Mizanur Rahman Khan Dipu, Bangladeshi politician (d. 2013)

December

 * 24 December – Shahid Ali Khan, field hockey goalkeeper

April

 * 10 April – Shamsunnahar Mahmud, politician (b. 1908)

October

 * 2 October – Nur Ahmed, politician (b. 1890)
 * 3 October – Harendra Kumar Sur, politician (b. 1893)
 * 5 October – Birat Chandra Mandal, politician (b. 1893/1894)
 * 13 October – Golam Mostofa, Bengali poet and writer (b. 1897)
 * 22 October – Khawaja Nazimuddin, Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1894)

December

 * 23 December – Khan Bahadur Abdur Rahman Khan, educator (b. 1889/1890)