2002 in Pakistan

Incumbents

Federal government

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

  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.

  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.