February 2008 in Pakistan

*February 24: Pakistani censors cause most of the Earth's Internet users to lose access to the Internet site YouTube for up to two hours. [http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jK947o0YBMDoiVH1VXDrsSqIwu7wD8V1LMN80 (AP via Google News)]
*February 19: Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, the chairman of Pakistan's governing party, the pro-Musharraf Pakistan Muslim League (Q) (PML-Q) concedes defeat after preliminary results show that it cannot retain a majority in the Parliament of Pakistan. [http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/ruling-party-concedes-in-pakistan/2008/02/19/1203190816684.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1 (AFP/AP via "The Melbourne Age")]
*February 18: Voters in Pakistan go to the polls in the Pakistani general election, 2008. [http://news.smh.com.au/voting-begins-in-pakistan-election/20080218-1sqo.html (AP via "Sydney Morning Herald")] Early results show that anti-Musharraf parties Pakistan Peoples Party and Pakistan Muslim League (N) are emerging as victorious. Pakistan Muslim League (Q), the party supporting Pervez Musharraf, has been defeated with its leaders losing their seats. [http://www.geo.tv/home/ (Geo Television Network)]
*February 16: 37 people are killed in a suicide car bombing in Pakistan's tribal region after a meeting of the Pakistan Peoples Party, reports say. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7248445.stm (BBC News)]
*February 13:
**Pervez Musharraf stands down as the head of the Pakistan Army. [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,313348,00.html (Fox News)]
**General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani succeeds Musharraf as the 14th Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army.Fact|date=December 2007
*February 8: Scotland Yard detectives investigating the death of former Prime Minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto say that she died from the effect of a bomb blast not gunfire. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7234147.stm (BBC News)]