2002 in Pakistan

List of events

* 2001
* 2000
* 1999
*   *

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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]

1. ^ One dies in earthquake
2. ^ a b Profile: General Pervez Musharraf, President of Pakistan - CNN
3. ^ "Pakistan's leader thinks bin Laden dead". Archived from the original on 2008-01-15. Retrieved 2008-02-10.
4. ^ Pakistan wedding turns to carnage - BBC News
5. ^ USGS. "M6.3 - northwestern Kashmir". United States Geological Survey.
6. ^ Pakistan army flies out quake victims - BBC News

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21st century|

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2002 in Asia

Sovereign states|

* Afghanistan
* Armenia
* Azerbaijan
* Bahrain
* Bangladesh
* Bhutan
* Brunei
* Burma (Myanmar)
*   * Cambodia
*   * China
* Cyprus
* East Timor (Timor-Leste)
* Egypt
* Georgia
* India
* Indonesia
* Iran
* Iraq
* Israel
* Japan
* Jordan
* Kazakhstan
*   * North Korea
* South Korea
* Kuwait
* Kyrgyzstan
* Laos
* Lebanon
*   * Malaysia
* Maldives
* Mongolia
*   * Nepal
* Oman
*   * Pakistan
*   *   *   * Philippines
* Qatar
* Russia
* Saudi Arabia
*   *   * Singapore
*   * Sri Lanka
* Syria
* Tajikistan
* Thailand
*   * Turkey
* Turkmenistan
* United Arab Emirates
* Uzbekistan
* Vietnam
*   *   * Yemen
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States with limited
recognition

* Abkhazia
*   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   * Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
* Northern Cyprus
* Palestine
* South Ossetia
* Taiwan
*   *   *   *

Dependencies, colonies
and other territories

*   *   * British Indian Ocean Territory
*   *   * Christmas Island
* Cocos (Keeling) Islands
*   *   *   *   *   * Hong Kong
*   * Macau
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