2002 in Pakistan
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Incumbents
- President: Pervez Musharraf
- Prime Minister: Zafarullah Khan Jamali (starting 21 November)
Events
January
- 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
- India shuns Pakistan's offer of talks.[2]
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.[4]
October
- 23 October - An earthquake of magnitude 4.0 strikes the Peshawar valley at 0230 PST. The epicentre is 50 km east of the city of Peshawar.[5]
November
- 21 November - A 6.3 Mw earthquake strikes northern Pakistan, leaving sixteen dead, forty injured, and more than 1,000 buildings damaged.[6]
- 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.[7]
See also
References
- ↑ One dies in earthquake
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Profile: General Pervez Musharraf, President of Pakistan - CNN
- ↑ Pakistan's leader thinks bin Laden dead
- ↑ Pakistan wedding turns to carnage - BBC News
- ↑ Earthquake jolts NWFP - Dawn Pakistan
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Pakistan army flies out quake victims - BBC News
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