1965 in Pakistan

Events from the year 1965 in Pakistan.

Federal government

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

January

 * 2 January – Incumbent Ayub Khan defeats Fatima Jinnah in the 1965 Pakistani presidential election.

August

 * 1 August – The inaugural issue of English-language weekly newspaper Holiday is published in Dacca.

September

 * 6 September – Border disputes over Kashmir erupt into full-scale war as Indian forces attack near Lahore.
 * 14 September – The Battle of Chawinda commences.
 * 23 September – A ceasefire is implemented in the Indo-Pakistani war of 1965.



December

 * 21 December – Pakistan's first nuclear research reactor, Pakistan Atomic Research Reactor-I, donated by the United States, reaches criticality.

April

 * 3 April – Nazia Hassan, singer (d. 2000)
 * 17 April – State of Bengal, British music producer (d. 2015)

May

 * 5 May – Rana Shamshad Ahmad Khan, politician (d. 2015)

January

 * 24 January – Ashraf Hussain, Bengali writer (b. 1892)

February

 * 9 February – Khan Bahadur Ahsanullah, educationist, litterateur, Islamic theologian, and social reformer (b. 1873)

March

 * 3 March – Hasan Shaheed Suhrawardy, Bengali diplomat, poet and art critic (b. 1890)

September

 * 6 September – Sarfaraz Ahmed Rafiqui, military aviator of Pakistan (b. 1935)