President: Pervez Musharraf
Prime Minister: Zafarullah Khan Jamali (starting 21 November)
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.
India shuns Pakistan's offer of talks.
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.
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.
21 November - A 6.3 Mw 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.
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