2002 in Pakistan
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Events from the year 2002 in Pakistan.
Incumbents
[edit]Federal government
[edit]- President: Pervez Musharraf
- Prime Minister: Zafarullah Khan Jamali (starting 21 November)
- Chief Justice:
- until 6 January: Irshad Hasan Khan
- 6 January-31 January: Bashir Jehangiri
- starting 1 February: Sheikh Riaz Ahmad
Governors
[edit]- Governor of Balochistan – Amir-ul-Mulk Mengal
- Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa – Iftikhar Hussain Shah
- Governor of Punjab – Khalid Maqbool
- Governor of Sindh – Muhammad Mian Soomro (until 26 December); Ishrat-ul-Ibad Khan (starting 26 December)
Events
[edit]January
[edit]- 1 January – an earthquake strikes northern Pakistan.[1]
- 12 January – President Musharraf declares a war on extremism.[2]
- 18 January – President Musharraf, in an interview with CNN, says he believes that Osama bin Laden is dead.[3]
March
[edit]- India shuns Pakistan's offer of talks.[2]
June
[edit]- 22 June – A wedding feast in Pakistan's tribal areas ends in tragedy after an error during the celebratory firing of a mortar shell; fourteen people are killed.[4]
October
[edit]- 10 October - General elections were held to elect the National Assembly of Pakistan and the provincial assemblies.
November
[edit]- 21 November - A 6.3 Mw earthquake strikes northern Pakistan, leaving sixteen dead, forty injured, and more than 1,000 buildings damaged.[5]
- 26 November - The Pakistan army has to use helicopters to evacuate thousands of people following the earthquake, as roads are blocked and the temperature is falling due to the onset of winter.[6]
Deaths
[edit]- 5 August - Bashir Niaz, film screenwriter
References
[edit]- ^ One dies in earthquake
- ^ a b Profile: General Pervez Musharraf, President of Pakistan - CNN
- ^ "Pakistan's leader thinks bin Laden dead". Archived from the original on 2008-01-15. Retrieved 2008-02-10.
- ^ Pakistan wedding turns to carnage - BBC News
- ^ USGS. "M6.3 - northwestern Kashmir". United States Geological Survey.
- ^ Pakistan army flies out quake victims - BBC News