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.

August

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

Births

• 5 August - Aaqib Javed, cricketer and coach

See also

• 1971 in Pakistan
• Other events of 1972
• 1973 in Pakistan
• Timeline of Pakistani history