2002 in Pakistan

← 2001 2000 1999 2002 in Pakistan → 2003 2004 2005
Centuries:	20th 21st
Decades:	1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s
See also:	Other events of 2002 List of years in Pakistan

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

• 2001 in Pakistan
• 2003 in Pakistan
• Other events of 2002
• Timeline of Pakistani history

References

1. One dies in earthquake
2. Profile: General Pervez Musharraf, President of Pakistan - CNN
3. Pakistan's leader thinks bin Laden dead
4. Pakistan wedding turns to carnage - BBC News
5. Earthquake jolts NWFP - Dawn Pakistan
6. USGS. "M6.3 - northwestern Kashmir". United States Geological Survey.
7. Pakistan army flies out quake victims - BBC News