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Observed to show Pakistan's support and unity with the people of Jammu and Kashmir. 23 March Pakistan Day: یوم پاکستان. Yōum-e-Pākistān. Commemorates the Lahore Resolution, which formally demanded an independent Muslim-majority state to be created out of British India. The republic was also declared on this day in 1956.
The entire event is broadcast by Doordarshan, India's national broadcaster, and usually begins with the shehnai music of Ustad Bismillah Khan. Independence Day is observed throughout India with flag-hoisting ceremonies, parades and cultural events. It is a national holiday in the country. [4] [5] [6]
29 March – 2023 Lakki Marwat terrorist attack: Four people are killed and six others are injured by two roadside bombings targeting police in Lakki Marwat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. [ 34] 30 March - The Lahore High Court rules that Pakistan's sedition law is unconstitutional, on the grounds that it violates free speech. [ 35]
2024 Azad Kashmir protests. The 2024 Azad Kashmir protests were a series of six day long protests, sit-ins, shutter-downs, demonstrations and wheel-jam strikes starting on 8 May against the Federal Government of Pakistan and the Government of Azad Kashmir, calling for lower prices for wheat, flour, and electricity, in addition to other demands.
16 January – 2024 Iranian missile strikes in Pakistan: Iran launches a missile attack within Balochistan, targeting what it describes are terrorist sites. Pakistan calls the action an "unprovoked violation" of its airspace resulting in the death of two children and injuries to three others.
17 June – 2024 West Bengal train collision: A goods train collides with the Kanchenjunga Express near New Jalpaiguri station in Darjeeling District, West Bengal, killing 15 people and injuring 60 others. [ 88] 19 June – 2024 Northeast India floods: Six people are killed in flooding and landslides in Assam.
Pakistan Day (Urdu: یومِ پاکستان, lit. Yaum-e-Pakistan) or Pakistan Resolution Day, also Republic Day, is a national holiday in Pakistan primarily commemorating the adoption of the first Constitution of Pakistan during the transition of the Dominion of Pakistan to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan on 23 March 1956 making Pakistan the world's first Islamic republic, which remains a ...
List of newspapers in India. As of 31 March 2018, there were over 100,000 publications registered with the Registrar of Newspapers for India. [ 1] India has the second-largest newspaper market in the world, with daily newspapers reporting a combined circulation of over 240 million copies as of 2018. [ 2][ 3] There are publications produced in ...