A
lot of nations celebrate the day they declare or win their
independence—but Pakistan won its independence from Britain in
August of 1947. Instead of celebrating that day, Pakistan
commemorates the adoption of the constitution that made it a
republic, on this date in 1956. However, some Pakistani leaders have
said that the real commemoration is of the passage of the
Lahore Resolution, on this date in 1940, which demanded that a Muslim
state (only later named Pakistan) be carved out of British India.
Did
you know...?
When
India was a British colony, it included all of Pakistan to its west
and also Bangladesh to its east. Both Pakistan and the much smaller
East Bengal (as Bangladesh used to be called) were majority Muslim
regions, and most of India is majority Hindu. When the Islamic
Republic of Pakistan was first formed, it included East Bengal—but
the Bengali people were treated like second-class citizens and were
kept out of power. Even their language was dismissed as unofficial
and thus unimportant. There was a revolution in which many Bengali
police officers and soldiers mutinied against their government and
joined forces with their people. In late 1971, Bangladesh won its
independence from Pakistan.
Learn
more...
Think Quest offers a short biography of a Pakistani girl.
There
are tons more links at the Kids Connect site.
Since
constitutions and resolutions and even revolutions aren't the most
fun topics to read about, I thought I would also mention that today
is:
Ahhh!
So cute!
Also
on this date:
Anniversary of the coining of the word “okay” (America's “Greatest Word”)
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