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Pakistan's top nuclear scientist, Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan, said in an interview that Pakistan was the first between the neighbours to have successfully enriched uranium by 90 per cent in 1982, and that Pakistan had conducted a large number of cold tests and established that their nuclear weapon design could work.[1][2]
Ojhri Camp Disaster: Ojhri Camp (Urdu: اوجھڑی کیمپ ), located in Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan was used as an ammunition depot for Afghan Mujahideen fighting against Soviet forces from Afghanistan. It exploded on April 10, 1988 resulting in thousands of rockets rained down over Islamabad and Rawalpindi killing more than 5000 people there.
General Ayub Khan deposed Iskander Mirza in a bloodless coup d'état to become the second President of Pakistan, less than three weeks after Mirza had appointed him the enforcer of martial law. This was actually welcomed in Pakistan, since the nation had experienced a very unstable political climate since independence.
Quaid-i-AzamMuhammad Ali Jinnah died in Karachi. Through the 1940s, Jinnah suffered from tuberculosis; only his sister and a few others close to him were aware of his condition. In 1948, Jinnah's health began to falter, hindered further by the heavy workload that had fallen upon him following Pakistan's creation. Attempting to recuperate, he spent many months at his official retreat in Ziarat, but died on September 11, 1948 from a combination of tuberculosis and lung cancer. His funeral was followed by the construction of a massive mausoleum—Mazar-e-Quaid—in Karachi to honour him; official and military ceremonies are hosted there on special occasions.
8th July 1967
Fatima Jinnah died in Karachi. Fatima Jinnah (Urdu: فاطمہ جناح) was the sister of Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan and an active political figure in movement for independence from the British Raj. She is commonly known in Pakistan as Khatoon-e-Pakistan (Urdu: — "Lady of Pakistan") and Madar-e-Millat ("Mother of the Nation.") She was born in Karachi, Pakistan, then a part of British India.
