Pastlasby Oleh Voronko

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
Map: Pakistan in 1957, its borders in gold among its neighbours
Pakistan in 1957, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 1.02 million km². Its neighbours wear their tints, as on the atlas's own map. Borders from Cliopatria (CC BY 4.0), coast and rivers from Natural Earth, cities from Reba, Reitsma & Seto 2016 (CC BY 4.0), each city under the name it bore that year.

Where it sits in time

3000 BCE2000 BCE1000 BCE110002000Hunza State: 1600 – 1974Dominion of Pakistan: 1947 – 1956British Raj: 1858 – 1947Pakistan: 1956 – 2026

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

Rulers

The line of President of Pakistan - the office this state names as its head of state.

Iskander Mirza · 1956 – 1958 · left office aliveAyub Khan · 1958 – 1969 · resigned or stood down, the article saysYahya Khan · 1969 – 1971 · resigned or stood down, the article saysZulfikar Ali Bhutto · 1971 – 1973 · left office aliveFazal Elahi Chaudhry · 1973 – 1978 · resigned or stood down, the article saysMuhammad Zia-ul-Haq · 1978 – 1988 · died by accidentGhulam Ishaq Khan · 1988 – 1993 · left office aliveWasim Sajjad · 1993 – 1993 · no death date to read the end againstFarooq Leghari · 1993 – 1997 · resigned or stood down, the article saysWasim Sajjad · 1997 – 1998 · no death date to read the end againstRafiq Tarar · 1998 – 2001 · resigned or stood down, the article saysPervez Musharraf · 2001 – 2008 · left office aliveMuhammad Mian Soomro · 2008 – 2008 · served out the term, the article saysAsif Ali Zardari · 2008 – 2013 · no death date to read the end againstMamnoon Hussain · 2013 – 2018 · left office aliveArif Alvi · 2018 – 2024 · no death date to read the end againstAsif Ali Zardari · 2024 – … · still in office1960198020002020
died in officeleft alive by a regular roadstill in officeending not on record
RulerReignLengthHow it ended · sourceTo the ruler before
Iskander Mirza1956 – 19582 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Ayub Khan1958 – 196911 yearsresigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article
Yahya Khan1969 – 19712 yearsresigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto1971 – 19732 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Fazal Elahi Chaudhry1973 – 19785 yearsresigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq1978 – 198810 yearsdied by accidentWikidata's manner of death
Ghulam Ishaq Khan1988 – 19935 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Wasim Sajjad1993 – 1993under a yearending not on record
Farooq Leghari1993 – 19974 yearsresigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article
Wasim Sajjad1997 – 19981 yearending not on record
Rafiq Tarar1998 – 20013 yearsresigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article
Pervez Musharraf2001 – 20087 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Muhammad Mian Soomro2008 – 2008under a yearserved out the term, the article saysread from the ruler's own article
Asif Ali Zardari2008 – 20135 yearsending not on record
Mamnoon Hussain2013 – 20185 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Arif Alvi2018 – 20246 yearsending not on record
Asif Ali Zardari2024 – in officein office since 2024still 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 Nunlived 1893 – 1970
Ibrahim Ismail Chundrigarlived 1897 – 1960
Liaquat Ali Khan1947 – 1951
Khwaja Nazimuddin1951 – 1953
Mohammad Ali Bogra1953 – 1955
Chaudhry Muhammad Ali1955 – 1956
Huseyn Suhrawardy1956 – 1957
Ayub Khan1958 – 1958
Nurul Amin1971 – 1971
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto1973 – 1977
Muhammad Junejo1985 – 1988
Benazir Bhutto1988 – 1990
Nawaz Sharif1990 – 1993
Benazir Bhutto1993 – 1996
Nawaz Sharif1997 – 1999
Pervez Musharraf1999 – 2002
Zafarullah Khan Jamali2002 – 2004
Shaukat Aziz2004 – 2007
Shujaat Hussain2004 – 2004
Yousaf Raza Gillani2008 – 2012
Raja Pervez Ashraf2012 – 2013
Nawaz Sharif2013 – 2017
Mir Hazar Khan Khoso2013 – 2013
Shahid Khaqan Abbasi2017 – 2018
Imran Khan2018 – 2022
Nasirul Mulk2018 – 2018
Shehbaz Sharif2022 – 2023
Shehbaz Sharif2024 – …

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.

19701980199020002010

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 of Pakistan
    flag, from 1947Flag of Pakistan · Public domain
  • State emblem of Pakistan
    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 – 1999: 37 recorded — 4 wars and battles, 5 risings, regime changes and massacres, 28 other19002000 – 2099: 29 recorded — 12 wars and battles, 7 risings, regime changes and massacres, 10 other2000

1900 – 199937 rows · 4 wars and battles · 5 risings, regime changes and massacres

and 29 more in the atlas.

2000 – 209929 rows · 12 wars and battles · 7 risings, regime changes and massacres

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.

Afghanistan–Pakistan border skirmishes · Linked · 1949Afghanistan–Pakistan border skir…British Raj · Linked · 1858 – 1947British RajKashmir conflict · Linked · 1947Kashmir conflictIndia–Pakistan wars and conflicts · Linked · 1947India–Pakistan wars and conflictsHunza State · Linked · 1550 – 1974Hunza StateDominion of Pakistan · Linked · 1947 – 1956Dominion of PakistanPakistan · 1956 – 2026PakistanIndian National Congress · In the article · 1885 · “This forced the Indian National Congress, initially skeptical of the League's representation of Indian Muslims, to acknowledge its significance.”Indian National Congress16001700180019002000
in the articlelinked

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

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.