State · 1956 – present
Pakistan
A state of 1956 – present — 70 years, still standing in South Asia. It replaced British Raj, Dominion of Pakistan and Hunza State and 1 more. The atlas records 67 things within it — wars and battles 16 · regime change 3 · unrest and atrocity 9 · famine and plague 1 · natural disasters 9 · people 29. Its line of rulers holds 15 people.
- Still standing: the span runs to the year of the build, 2026.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 70 years
- and still standing
- Rulers
- 15
- the President of Pakistan
- Most ground
- 1.02 million km²
- in 1957
- Within it
- 67
- recorded rows
- Symbols
- 2
- on record, with years
Where it sits in time
Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.
Before and after
The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.
Before it
- Hunza State · replaces · 1600 – 1974
- Dominion of Pakistan · replaces · 1947 – 1956
- British Raj · replaces · 1858 – 1947
- presidencies and provinces in British India · replaces
Rulers
The line of President of Pakistan - the office this state names as its head of state.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Iskander Mirza | 1956 – 1958 | 2 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Ayub Khan | 1958 – 1969 | 11 years | resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Yahya Khan | 1969 – 1971 | 2 years | resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Zulfikar Ali Bhutto | 1971 – 1973 | 2 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Fazal Elahi Chaudhry | 1973 – 1978 | 5 years | resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq | 1978 – 1988 | 10 years | died by accidentWikidata's manner of death | |
| Ghulam Ishaq Khan | 1988 – 1993 | 5 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Wasim Sajjad | 1993 – 1993 | under a year | ending not on record | |
| Farooq Leghari | 1993 – 1997 | 4 years | resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Wasim Sajjad | 1997 – 1998 | 1 year | ending not on record | |
| Rafiq Tarar | 1998 – 2001 | 3 years | resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Pervez Musharraf | 2001 – 2008 | 7 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Muhammad Mian Soomro | 2008 – 2008 | under a year | served out the term, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Asif Ali Zardari | 2008 – 2013 | 5 years | ending not on record | |
| Mamnoon Hussain | 2013 – 2018 | 5 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Arif Alvi | 2018 – 2024 | 6 years | ending not on record | |
| Asif Ali Zardari | 2024 – in office | in office since 2024 | still in office |
15 rulers, 15 with terms dated as terms, covering 1956 – 2024. Median reign 4.5 years. 6 of 16 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. The violent-handover count is withheld: power changed hands so often that any rising falls beside one (exposure 0.96, limit 0.6). A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.
Heads of government
The line of Prime Minister of Pakistan, drawn and never measured: a cabinet is not a reign.
| Firoz Khan Nun | lived 1893 – 1970 |
| Ibrahim Ismail Chundrigar | lived 1897 – 1960 |
| Liaquat Ali Khan | 1947 – 1951 |
| Khwaja Nazimuddin | 1951 – 1953 |
| Mohammad Ali Bogra | 1953 – 1955 |
| Chaudhry Muhammad Ali | 1955 – 1956 |
| Huseyn Suhrawardy | 1956 – 1957 |
| Ayub Khan | 1958 – 1958 |
| Nurul Amin | 1971 – 1971 |
| Zulfikar Ali Bhutto | 1973 – 1977 |
| Muhammad Junejo | 1985 – 1988 |
| Benazir Bhutto | 1988 – 1990 |
| Nawaz Sharif | 1990 – 1993 |
| Benazir Bhutto | 1993 – 1996 |
| Nawaz Sharif | 1997 – 1999 |
| Pervez Musharraf | 1999 – 2002 |
| Zafarullah Khan Jamali | 2002 – 2004 |
| Shaukat Aziz | 2004 – 2007 |
| Shujaat Hussain | 2004 – 2004 |
| Yousaf Raza Gillani | 2008 – 2012 |
| Raja Pervez Ashraf | 2012 – 2013 |
| Nawaz Sharif | 2013 – 2017 |
| Mir Hazar Khan Khoso | 2013 – 2013 |
| Shahid Khaqan Abbasi | 2017 – 2018 |
| Imran Khan | 2018 – 2022 |
| Nasirul Mulk | 2018 – 2018 |
| Shehbaz Sharif | 2022 – 2023 |
| Shehbaz Sharif | 2024 – … |
Ground held, by year
km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.
1.02 million km² in 1966, 876,900 km² in 2016; at its largest 1.02 million km² in 1966. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.
Flags and arms, in order
Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.

flag, from 1947Flag of Pakistan · Public domain 
coat of arms, from 1954State emblem of Pakistan · Public domain
What happened within it, by century
Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.
1900 – 199937 rows · 4 wars and battles · 5 risings, regime changes and massacres
- Malala Yousafzai · writer · 1997 – present
- Pervez Musharraf · ruler · 1943 – 2023
- Zulfikar Ali Bhutto · ruler · 1928 – 1979
- Asif Ali Zardari · ruler · 1955 – present
- Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq · ruler · 1924 – 1988
- Ayub Khan · ruler · 1907 – 1974
- Mamnoon Hussain · ruler · 1940 – 2021
- Yahya Khan · ruler · 1917 – 1980
and 29 more in the atlas.
2000 – 209929 rows · 12 wars and battles · 7 risings, regime changes and massacres
- 2005 Kashmir earthquake · disaster · 2005
- Killing of Osama bin Laden · battle · 2011
- 2014 Peshawar school massacre · atrocity · 2014
- Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa · war · 2004
- Assassination of Benazir Bhutto · atrocity · 2007
- 2016 Lahore suicide bombing · atrocity · 2016
- 2010 Pakistan floods · disaster · 2010
- October 2015 Hindu Kush earthquake · disaster · 2015
and 21 more in the atlas.
Among all states
Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.
- How long it stood70 years
stood longer than 40% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held1,023,000 km²
held more ground at its peak than 85% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
- Wars recorded per century5.0
had more wars on record per century than 99% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
- How long a reign lasted, at the median5 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 18% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
- Rulers on record15
has more rulers on record than 88% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 41 causes the record names and 1 result, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.
Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.
Open in the atlas
- On the timeline, 1946 – 2036, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1957, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q843 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.