Events from the year 2002 in Pakistan.

Incumbents

Federal government

President President most commonly refers to: *President (corporate title) *President (education), a leader of a college or university *President (government title) President may also refer to: Automobiles * Nissan President, a 1966–2010 Japanese ful ...

Pervez Musharraf General Pervez Musharraf ( ur, , Parvez Muśharraf; born 11 August 1943) is a former Pakistani politician and four-star general of the Pakistan Army who became the tenth president of Pakistan after the successful military takeover of the ...

Prime Minister A prime minister, premier or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. Under those systems, a prime minister is not ...

Zafarullah Khan Jamali Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali (; 1 January 1940 – 2 December 2020) was a Pakistan, Pakistani politician who served as the 15th prime minister of Pakistan from 2002 until his resignation in 2004. He was the first and only elected prime minister fro ...

(starting 21 November) * Chief Justice: ** until 6 January:

Irshad Hasan Khan Justice Irshad Hasan Khan (Urdu : ) (born 7 January 1937) was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan from 26 January 2000 to 6 January 2002. He took his oath under PCO (Provisional Constitutional Order) which was promulgated by General P ...

** 6 January-31 January: Bashir Jehangiri ** starting 1 February: Sheikh Riaz Ahmad

Governors

Governor of Balochistan The Governor of Balochistan is the head of the province of Balochistan, Pakistan. The post was established on 1 July 1970, after the dissolution of West Pakistan province and the end of One Unit. Under Pakistan's current parliamentary system, the ...

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Amir-ul-Mulk Mengal Justice Amir-ul-Mulk Mengal ( ur, امیر الملک مینگل; born 3 April 1945 in Noshki, Chaghai District of Balochistan) is a Pakistani jurist who served as the Governor of Balochistan, in office from October 1999 till January 2003. He a ...

Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa The Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is the appointed head of state of the provincial government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly North-West Frontier Province), Pakistan. Although the governor is the head of the province on paper, it is largely a ce ...

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Iftikhar Hussain Shah Lieutenant General Syed Iftikhar Hussain Shah (14 March 1949 – 15 March 2020) was a governor of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Early life and education Syed was born on 14 March 1949 into a family belonging to the Mian (tribe) ...

* Governor of Punjab –

Khalid Maqbool Lieutenant General Khalid Maqbool Vohra, ( Punjabi and ur, ) (born 1948) is Pakistani military officer who served as Governor of Punjab between October 2001 and May 2008. He is the longest serving Governor of Punjab in Pakistani history. ...

Governor of Sindh The governor of Sindh is the appointed head of the province of Sindh, Pakistan. The office of the governor as the head of the province is largely a ceremonial position; the executive powers lie with the Chief Minister of Sindh, chief minister and t ...

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Muhammad Mian Soomro Muhammad Mian Soomro ( Sindhi: محمد ميان سومرو; born 19 August 1950) is a Pakistani politician, banker and senator who currently serves as the federal minister for Privatization. Born to a Native Sindhi family originally linked ...

(until 26 December);

Ishrat-ul-Ibad Khan Ishratul Ibad Khan ( ur, , born 2 March 1963) is a politician who served as the 30th Governor of Sindh, Pakistan. lbad is a Pakistan-born citizen He took up the post of Governor of Sindh, Pakistan on 27 December 2002, becoming the youngest go ...

(starting 26 December)

Events

January

*1 January – an earthquake strikes northern Pakistan. *12 January – President Musharraf declares a war on extremism.Profile: General Pervez Musharraf, President of Pakistan - CNN
/ref> *18 January – President Musharraf, in an interview with CNN, says he believes that

Osama bin Laden Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden (10 March 1957 – 2 May 2011) was a Saudi-born extremist militant who founded al-Qaeda and served as its leader from 1988 until Killing of Osama bin Laden, his death in 2011. Ideologically a Pan-Islamism ...

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 A mortar is usually a simple, lightweight, man-portable, muzzle-loaded weapon, consisting of a smooth-bore (although some models use a rifled barrel) metal tube fixed to a base plate (to spread out the recoil) with a lightweight bipod mount and a ...

; fourteen people are killed.

October

* 10 October -

General elections A general election is a political voting election where generally all or most members of a given political body are chosen. These are usually held for a nation, state, or territory's primary legislative body, and are different from by-elections ( ...

were held to elect the

National Assembly of Pakistan The National Assembly ( ur, , translit=Aiwān-e-Zairīñ, , or ur, قومی اسمبلی, Romanization, romanized: ''Qaumi Assembly'') is the lower house, lower legislative house of the bicameralism, bicameral Parliament of Pakistan, which al ...

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.Pakistan army flies out quake victims - BBC News
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Deaths

August

* 5 August -

Bashir Niaz Bashir Niaz (July 9, 1936 - August 5, 2002) was a Pakistani film story, dialogue, and screenwriter. He is known for writing scripts/dialogues for blockbuster movies like " Diya aur tofaan" (1969),"Aina" (1977), and "Bandish" (1980). He won 15 Niga ...

, film screenwriter

References

Pakistan Pakistan ( ur, ), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ( ur, , label=none), is a country in South Asia. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by population, fifth-most populous country, with a population of almost 24 ...

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