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2002 in Pakistan

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Summary

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Events from the year 2002 in Pakistan.

Incumbents

Federal government

  • President: Pervez Musharraf
  • Prime Minister: Zafarullah Khan Jamali (starting 23 November)
  • Chief Justice:
    • until 6 January: Irshad Hasan Khan
    • 6 January-31 January: Bashir Jehangiri
    • starting 1 February: Sheikh Riaz Ahmad

Governors

  • 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

January

  • 1 January – an earthquake strikes northern Pakistan.
  • 12 January – President Musharraf declares a war on extremism.
  • 18 January – President Musharraf, in an interview with CNN, says he believes that Osama bin Laden is dead.

March

  • India shuns Pakistan's offer of talks.

June

  • 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.

October

  • 10 October - General elections were held to elect the National Assembly of Pakistan and the provincial assemblies.

November

  • 21 November - A 6.3 earthquake strikes northern Pakistan, leaving sixteen dead, forty injured, and more than 1,000 buildings damaged.
  • 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.

Deaths

  • 5 August - Bashir Niaz, film screenwriter

References

References

  1. [http://www.dawn.com/2002/01/02/nat9.htm One dies in earthquake]
  2. [http://edition.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/south/04/17/musharraf.biog/index.html Profile: General Pervez Musharraf, President of Pakistan - CNN]
  3. "Pakistan's leader thinks bin Laden dead".
  4. [https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/2059837.stm Pakistan wedding turns to carnage - BBC News]
  5. USGS. "M6.3 - northwestern Kashmir". [[United States Geological Survey]].
  6. [https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/2515699.stm Pakistan army flies out quake victims - BBC News]
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