ABSTRACT
As a new state, Pakistan came into being on 14th August 1947 but its culture and civilization date back to at least 3000 B.C. As a consequence of the partition of the sub-continent into India and Pakistan, large-scale migrations took place on both sides. Until the early forties, there were perhaps only two universities in the subcontinent which had separate departments of psychology, one in Calcutta in eastern India and the other at Mysore in southern India. The only organized applied use of psychology on any significant scale was to be found in the selection procedures of the Defence Forces of Pakistan, a continuation of the British practice. Another government body which makes use of psychology in selection procedures for the central superior civil services is the Federal Public Service Commission of Pakistan. The first All Pakistan Senior Psychologists' Seminar was held in Peshawar in October 1966.
