• Feb1, 2001--A US congressional study warns of a catastrophic terrorist attack and reccomends the formation of a homeland security agency...
• Over 200000 became homeless and over 7000 died in the 7.9 richter scale earthquake in the indian state of gujerat
• Protestors in Peshawar set a cinema on fire and clashed with police as the govt setup a commission to study the publication of a blasphemous letter in the Frontier Post
• Yemen states that they have no proof of links between the suicide bombers of the USS Cole and Ossama Ben Laden
• Libyan intelligence officer Abdel Basset was found guilty of bombing Panam Flight 103 over Lockerbie while Khalifah Fhimah was found not guilty.. No details were released by the court as to the reasoning of the decision..
• Akhter A Bajwa appointed PTCL chairman
• Taleban say no terrorist camp in afghanistan
• Musharaf approves split in PMLn
• Feb2--The Supreme Court has dismissed the second review petition by Haq Nawaz Jhangvi in the murder of Sadiq Ganji..Haq Nawaz was sentenced to death in 1991 with five coaccused who were acquitted by the LHC
• Feb3--Musharaf -vajpayee talk on the phone
• Feb4--A new ordnance allows the govt to dismiss govt employees without enquiry if they are corrupt, ineficient or absent without leave
• 4 sikhs gunned down in Srinagar while lashkar a tayyaba claims killing nine indian soldiers in an attack on an indian army camp
• Feb5--An intelligence officer has revealed that Nawaz Sharif and his ministers forced LHC judge Malik Qayyuum to convict Benazir ..The intelligence officer has bugging tapes to prove the allegation
• 14 buses used to ferry students in Jhang burnt to ashes..
• Lt Gen Tauqir Zia's uncle murdered in lahore..He ran a fast food tikka shop..
• Feb6--Oil discovered near Kohat
• Feb7--Two TJP workers gunned down in tank and karachi
• Feb8--An October 12 coup review petition was disposed after teh military govt assured that elections would be held on time..The court compared pakistan to banana republics the world over where the military routinely/normally topples elected governments..
• Moinuddin Haider visits afghanistan to recover sectarian terrorists
• Musharaf wants Ossama tried in some third country
• Feb10--Two shiites killed by motorcycle killers in karachi
• Faruk leghario wants pakistans debt written off
• Feb11--Angry mobs run riot in Quetta after five tribesmen killed on friday at Killi Kiarani
• Yusuf Raza Gillani the former speaker of the national assembly arrested by NAB for illegal appointments
• Nine policemen and two fighters killed as Lashkar Tayba storms police control room in srinagar
• Feb12-Riots continued in quetta for the second day
• Feb13--Moinuddin Haider announced tough measures against religious extremists in karachi; banning collection of jihad funds and displaying arms..It is felt that apart from sectarianism and terrorism such actions are being taken by musharaf to allay indian fears which musharaf seems particularly sensitive to opr concverned about..All jihadi groups have rejected the ban on collection of funds.
• PMLn dissidents controlled by Chaudhry Shujaat and intelligence walas forcibly took over the PMLn offices in lahore..The pro military wing of the PMLn is expected to shortly announce a seperate PML...
• Feb14--George Junior urges Vajpayee to restart negotiations with pakistan
• Feb16--All political deals, settlements in political victimisation cases are decided by musharaf states NAB boss Khalid Maqbool
• Feb19--Three shiites killed in faisalabad sectarian attack
• Feb20--PMLn dissidents formalized a split by electing Pervaiz Elahi as their Punjab president
• Feb22--Gas prices increased by 15%
• Feb23--Brig Javed Malik, Nawaz Sharifs military secretary has been dismissed from service for preventing/disarming the first group of soldiers that came to arrest Nawaz Sharif on October 12 at PTV headquarters as he announced the appointment of Gen Ziauddin as teh new COAS..
• The number of sectarian killings in February rose to 23 as a retired DSP and his son were killed in karachi and a TJP activist in gujranwala
• Feb24--Haq Nawaz Jhangvi tobe hanged on teh 28th
• Feb25--Hundereds of SSP supporters and Azam Tariq arrested in the Punjab
• Feb 27--Mullah Omar orders destruction of the worlds tallest Bamiyan Buddha statutes
• Feb28-- Bomb blast in lahore
• Quetta lawyers burn copies of Supreme Courts five PCO judgements
• NAB takes over Nawaz Sharifs lahore residence