1949 in Pakistan
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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)
Events
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.[1]
- 12 March – Objectives Resolution is adopted by Constituent Assembly of Pakistan.[1]
April
- 26 April – 1949 Tangail South by-election in East Bengal.
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
