1999 - Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ousted in a bloodless military coup led by General Pervez Musharraf. Coup is widely condemned, Pakistan is suspended from Commonwealth.
2000 - Nawaz Sharif given life imprisonment over hijacking and terrorism charges
2000 -Sharif goes into exile in Saudi Arabia after being pardoned by military authorities
2001-Gen Pervez Musharraf anoints himself as president without forfeiting his post as chief of army. He replaces the figurehead President, Rafiq Tarar, who vacates his position after the parliament that elected him was dissolved
2001-Musharraf meets then Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee in the first summit between the two neighbours in more than two years. The meeting ends without any success because of differences over Kashmir
2001- Musharraf offers all help to the US in its fight against terrorism and supports attacks on Afghanistan post September 9/11.This leads to a waiver of some sanctions imposed after Pakistan's nuclear tests in 1998, but others were retained put in place after Musharraf's coup
2001 -India imposes sanctions against Pakistan, to force it to take action against militant groups blamed for a suicide attack on parliament in New Delhi. Pakistan does a tit-for-tat with similar sanctions
2002 -President Musharraf bans two militant groups - Lashkar-e-Toiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad but they continue operations openly
2002 -Musharraf wins another five years in office in a referendum criticized as unconstitutional and fraught with irregularities
2002 - First general election since the 1999 military coup results in a hung Parliament. Parties haggle over the make-up of a coalition. Religious parties fare better than expected
2002 - Mir Zafarullah Jamali chosen Prime Minister by the National Assembly
2003 -Pakistan declares a Kashmir ceasefire, which is swiftly matched by India
2003 - Pakistan and India agree to resume direct air links and to allow overflights of each other's planes from beginning of 2004 after two-year ban
2004 -Pakistan readmitted to Commonwealth
2004 - Shaukat Aziz is sworn in as Prime Minister. In July he escaped unhurt from an apparent assassination attempt
2005 - Bus services, the first in 60 years, operate between Muzaffarabad in Pakistani-occupied Kashmir and Srinagar on the Indian side
2006 -Security forces kill prominent Balochistan tribal leader, Nawab Akbar Bugti. Protests over his death turn violent
2006-Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif sign the ‘Charter for democracy’ in London
2007 -Islamabad rejects an assertion by the head of US National Intelligence that al-Qaeda leaders are hiding out in Pakistan.
2007 - Tension mounts between the government and the radical Red Mosque in Islamabad.
2007 -President Musharraf suspends the Chief Justice Iftakar Mohammed Chaudhry, triggering a wave of anger across the country
2007 - Pakistan and India sign an agreement aimed at reducing the risk of accidental nuclear war.
2007 - Several people are killed in Karachi during rival demonstrations sparked by the dismissal of Chief Justice Iftikar Mohammed Chaudhry
2007 - Security forces storm the Red Mosque complex in Islamabad following a week-long siege.
2007-Supreme Court reinstates Chief Justice Chaudhry marking a huge victory of the judiciary over Musharraf’s autocratic regime
2007- Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf meets former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in Abu Dhabi on a pre-election power-sharing deal
2007 - Supreme Court rules Sharif can return from exile.
2007 - Sharif returns but is sent back to exile within hours.
2007-Pakistan's Supreme Court dismissed challenges to President Pervez Musharraf's bid to seek re-election, clearing a major hurdle for the army chief's expected victory in an October 6 vote
2007- Musharraf names Kiani his successor as army chief and announced a pardon for Benazir Bhutto amid growing opposition to his attempts to be re-elected president on October 6.
2007-Bhutto set to return from exile on October 18 and power-sharing talks with Musharraf have been stalled
2007 October 06- Musharraf wins Presudential election but an official declaration is awaited.
2007 October 18- Exiled PPP leader Benazir Bhutto Presidential returns to Pakistan after 8 years. Three deadly blasts leave 130 killed and hundreds injured at a rally to celebrate her arrival.
2007 October-November - Steep rise in violence in Pakistan with extremists launching daily suicide attacks and taking several army personnel as hosteges.
2007 November 01 - Benazir Bhutto leaves for Dubai.
2007 November 03 - Emergency declared in Pakistan.
First Published: Saturday, November 03, 2007, 00:00