islamabad became the capital of pakistan in 1966.
when did islamabad became the capital of pakistan?
1966
pakistan's provinces and territories were inherited from british india at independence on 14 august 1947. in 1947, pakistan consisted of two wings - the western wing consisted of the merger of northwest frontier province, west punjab, and sindh, the baluchistan chief commissioners province, thirteen princely states and parts of kashmir and karachi, which was separated from sindh to form the federal capital territory. the eastern wing consisted of east bengal and sylhet district from the former british raj province of assam. in 1950, the northwest frontier province absorbed the princely states of amb and phulra while west punjab renamed itself to punjab. in 1952, the four princely states in the southwest formed the baluchistan states union. in 1955, the "one unit policy" was enforced by iskander mirza, whereby all the provinces and princely states of the western wing were merged and formed west pakistan, with lahore as the provincial capital. simultaneously, east bengal was renamed to east pakistan, with dhaka as the provincial capital. the one unit policy aimed to reduce expenditure and to eliminate provincial prejudices, but the military coup of 1958 signaled difficulties when the first military president, ayub khan, abolished the office of chief minister of west pakistan in favour of governor's rule. on 7 september 1958, after four years of negotiations, including six months of intense negotiations, pakistan purchased the gwadar enclave from the government of oman for rs 5.5 billion and gwadar formally became part of pakistan on 8 december 1958 after 174 years of omani rule. in 1960 the federal capital moved from karachi to rawalpindi and in 1961, the federal capital territory was merged into west pakistan. in 1966, the capital was again moved to islamabad. in 1970, the second military president, yahya khan, abolished west pakistan and established four new provinces - sindh, balochistan, northwest frontier province and punjab. in 1971, east pakistan seceded to form bangladesh. in 1974, the remaining princely states of hunza and nagar were abolished and their territories merged into gilgit agency, to form the "northern areas". in 1975, portions of the districts of peshawar and dera ismail khan were separated to form the "federally administered tribal areas". in 1981, the region around islamabad was separated from punjab, and renamed to islamabad capital territory. in august 2000, divisions were abolished as part of a plan to restructure local government, followed by elections in 2001. many of the functions previously handled by the provinces had been transferred to the districts and tehsils. in 2008, the government restored the former divisions and appointed commissioners. in 2009, the northern areas were renamed to gilgit-baltistan. in 2010, the northwest frontier province was renamed to khyber pakhtunkhwa. in 2018, the national assembly of pakistan and khyber pakhtunkhwa assembly passed the historic "fata merger bill" - with the adoption of the "twenty-fifth amendment act of 2018". on 31 may, the final step in the merger of the fata with khyber pakhtunkhwa (kp) was completed, as president mamnoon hussain signed the 25th constitutional amendment bill into law. thus fata status was abolished as a separate entity and was merged into khyber pakthunkhwa province.
administrative units of pakistan
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islamabad united became the first ever team to win pakistan super league in 2016. and now the federal team is participating in the pakistan cup. the team is under the captaincy of misbah-ul-haq, former captain of pakistan, the islamabad united was also under misbah.





























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islamabad capital territory