Islamabad Declared Federal Capital

Date: August 1, 1960 • Location: Islamabad, Pakistan

Islamabad is declared the federal capital of the Government of Pakistan.

Islamabad is the capital city of Pakistan. It is the country's tenth-most populous city with a population of over 1.1 million and is federally administered by the Pakistani government as part of the Islamabad Capital Territory — with a metropolitan population of over 2.3 million. Built as a planned city along the Margalla Hills in the 1960s and established in 1967, Islamabad replaced Karachi as Pakistan's national capital. It is located in the northern Punjab region, north of the city of Rawalpindi — with which it forms a metropolitan area of over 5.7 million inhabitants. As Of 2025, It has a HDI of 0.924 being the highest HDI In all of Pakistan Comparable to Countries like Malta or Japan.