1990 in Pakistan

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Ghulam Ishaq Khan
• Prime Minister:
• * until 6 August: Benazir Bhutto
• * 6 August-6 November: Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi
• * starting 6 November: Nawaz Sharif
• Chief Justice: Muhammad Afzal Zullah

  Events

• Benazir Bhutto is dismissed as Prime Minister of Pakistan on charges of incompetence and corruption.
• 1991 – Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif begins economic liberalisation programme. Islamic Sharia law formally incorporated into legal code.
• 1992 – Government launches campaign to stamp out violence by Urdu-speaking supporters of the Muhajir Qaumi Movement.
• 1993 – Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif resigns under pressure from military. General election brings Benazir Bhutto back to power.
• 1996 – President Farooq Leghari dismisses Benazir Bhutto government amid corruption allegations.
• 1997 – Nawaz Sharif returns as prime minister after Pakistan Muslim League wins elections.
• 1998 – Pakistan conducts its own nuclear tests after India explodes several nuclear devices.
• 1999 April – Benazir Bhutto and husband Asif Ali Zardari Former President of Pakistan convicted of corruption and given jail sentences. Ms Bhutto stays out of the country.
• 1999 May – Kargil War Pakistan-backed forces clash with the Indian military in the icy heights around Kargil in Indian-administered Kashmir.
• 1999 October – General Pervez Musharraf seizes power in coup.
• 2000 April – Nawaz Sharif sentenced to life imprisonment on hijacking and terrorism charges over his actions to prevent the 1999 coup.
• Pucca Qila massacre took place in Hyderabad.

  Deaths

• Najeeb Ahmed, leftist student activist, on 6 April