Events in January

1 January 1948:
Kashmir dispute was 1st took to United Nations (UN)

1 January 1960:
Mohtarma Fatima Jinnah was elected as Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly of Pakistan

1 January 1974:
State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) was nationalised

2 January 1959:
Russia sent Luna-I on Moon

2 January 1965:
General Ayub Khan won Presidential Election of Pakistan by defeating Fatima Jinnah

3 January 1948:
1st coin of Pakistan was issued

4 January 1949:
Pakistan recognized China

4 January 2010:
Burj al-Khalifa was officially opened for public

5 January 1316:
Shihabuddin Omar succeeded Alauddin Khilji as 3rd ruler of Khilji Dynasty

5 January 1951:
General Ayub Khan was sworn in as the 1st native Commander-in-Chief (C-in-C) of Pakistan Army

5 January 1977:
Pakistan National Alliance (PNA) was formed by leading right-wing parties agreed upon to run a political campaign as a single bloc against the left oriented PPP in the 1977 general elections

8 January 1912:
African National Congress (ANC) was founded

8 January 2015:
Imran Khan married to Reham Khan

10 January 1946:
The 1st session of United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) was convened in the Methodist Central Hall in London and included representatives of 51 nations

10 January 1966:
Tashkent Agreement, accord signed by India's Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri (who died the next day) and Pakistan's President Ayub Khan, ending the 17-day war between Pakistan and India of August–September 1965.

11 January 1972:
East Pakistan named itself Bangladesh

13 January 1975:
Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) of Pakistan was formed

14 January 1761:
3rd Battle of Panipat was fought between Ahmed Shah Abdali and Marathas

15 January 2001:
Wikipedia became online

16 January 1970:
Muammar Gaddafi was sworn in as Prime Minister of Libya

19 January 1628:
Shahabuddin Shahjahan became the 5th Mughal Emperor of Indian subcontinent

28 January 1933:
Pakistan Declaration (titled "Now or Never; Are We to Live or Perish Forever?")
A pamphlet written and published by Choudhary Rahmat Ali in which the word Pakstan (without the letter "i") was used for the first time and was presented in the Round Table conferences in 1933

29 January 2001:
Ufone cellular service was founded by Pakistan Telecommunications Company Limited (PTCL)

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