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See also: 1947 in Pakistan, other events of 1948, 1949 in Pakistan and the Timeline of Pakistani history.

Events

• Widespread violence and massacres of Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs
• Nearly 10 million people migrate to Pakistan and India. Muslims to Pakistan while Hindus and Sikhs to India

January

• January 11, Lahore: Trade Union meeting; a central labour organisation formed – Faiz Ahmad Faiz among its members
• January 17, UN adopts a resolution to set up a Commission of international members on Kashmir.
• January 18, Ayub Khuro, CM, against more immigrants to Sindh
• January 29, SC, UNO decrees plebiscite in Kashmir
• January 31, Govt offices closed as Pakistan mourns Gandhi, assassinated yesterday
• January 17, Sir Zafrullah pleads Pakistan’s case in the UNO Security Council

February

• February 4, Jang turns into a 6-page daily
• February 23-Mar 26, Constituent Assembly sessions (22 sittings)

March

• March 1, A new ministry has been created to organise and direct the economy on sound and scientific lines. Separate from the Ministry of Finance, the new portfolio will be called the Ministry of Economic Affairs
• March 22, Naqoosh, new Urdu literary quarterly launched; Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi and Hajira Masroor compile the first issue

April

• April, 1 Raj currency imprinted “Govt of Pakistan”; new currency notes for Rs.1 and coins issued
• April, 1 Government of Pakistan accuses the East Punjab in India to have cut off its water supply to the Central Bari Doab Canal System, the Dipalpur Canal System, and the Bahawalpur Doab Canal System.
• April 21, UN adopts a resolution for Kashmir. Pakistan finds it more favorable to India than the earlier drafts, but the resolution reiterates the principle of plebiscite nevertheless.

May

• 1 May Pakistan and India went to war over Kashmir region. The Pakistani-captured third was known as Azad Jammu and Kashmir, while India occupied the eastern two-thirds now called Jammu and Kashmir by the Indians while Pakistanis and Kashmiris alike call it Bharati Maqbuza Kashmir in Urdu.

June

• June 9, Hockey team for 1948 London Olympics announced

July

• July 1, State Bank of Pakistan inaugurated by the Quaid
• July 6, The Ministry of States and Frontier Regions has been created by the Quaid-e-Azam to deal with the affairs of the tribal territories of the North-West Frontier Province, the Balochistan tribal areas adjoining Dera Ghazi Khan District of West Punjab, the excluded areas and the princely states. The ministry will function under the direct control, guidance and direction of the Quaid-e-Azam
• July 9, A set of 4 postage stamps issued: Abdur Rahman Chughtai designs Re.1 stamp and folder
• July 30, Fatima Jinnah is aware of her birthday, and is observed for the first time, since independence; the nation refers her to the titles of "Mother of the Nation" and Khatoon-I-Pakistan.

August

• August 13, The UN Commission on Kashmir, after visiting India and Pakistan, adopts a resolution. Cease-fire is demanded, which will be followed by a plebiscite.
• August 14, Karachi Radio Station inaugurated in tent studios at Queens Rd., Karachi, as Pakistanis mark their 1st anniversary.

October

• October 1, Lahore: The departure of a heartbroken Choudhary Rehmat Ali Khan from the country he named on January 28, 1933 relieves the Government of a severe headache.

The Cambridge-based pamphleteer had been voicing his dissatisfaction with the creation of Pakistan ever since his arrival in Lahore on April 6. Unhappy over a smaller Pakistan than the one he had conceived in his 1933 pamphlet Now Or Never, his criticism was beginning to raise alarm while his claims of contribution to the Pakistan Movement were interpreted by his critics as boasting to be the real founder of Pakistan. "On his arrival in this country Chaudhri Rahmat Ali has expressed his intention of launching a Pakistan National Liberation Movement with the object of securing a repudiation of the June 3 Plan, 'by agreement if possible and without agreement if necessary'..." The Pakistan Times reported on May 22. Consequently, Rahmat Ali was denied a Pakistani passport, and later told to leave the country.

• October 22, Majeed Lahori starts satirical column ‘Harf-o-Hikayat’ in Jang.

December

• December 14, Maulvi Tameezuddin elected President of Constituent Assembly in the first session since the Quaid’s demise.
• December 15-30 Constituent Assembly sessions (10 sittings) and the officially appointed Bari Committee has stated in the recently published Report on Agricultural Reforms in Sindh: Feudal lords are the best friends of the peasants, who only repay their saviours with ingratitude! Masud Khaddarposh has written a socialist note of dissent, which has been withheld from the printed text of the Report.