Events from the year 1979 in Pakistan.
Incumbents Federal government President: Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq Chief Justice: Sheikh Anwarul Haq
Governors Governor of Balochistan: Rahimuddin Khan Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: Fazle Haq Governor of Punjab: Sawar Khan Governor of Sindh: S.M. Abbasi
Events 4 April – Deposed prime minister of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto is executed in Rawalpindi.1979: Execution of a prime minister – BBC News 21 November – After false radio reports from the Ayatollah Khomeini that the Americans have occupied the Grand Mosque in Mecca, the United States Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan is attacked by a mob and set afire, killing 4. (See: Foreign relations of Pakistan) 10 December – Abdus Salam wins the first Nobel Prize for the country.Abdus Salam – The Nobel Prize in Physics 1979
Births 18 April – Tasqeen Qadeer, cricketer 30 June – Faisal Shahzad, bomber
See also List of Pakistani films of 1979
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