2007 Timeline

November 2007 Pakistan crisis and other important world events

President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf stood down as the head of the Pakistan Army on November 28, 2007. Musharraf came to power in 1999 by effecting a military coup d'état and he has been since actively supported then by western countries including the United States and the United Kingdom. In 2001 he appointed himself to the office of President of Pakistan and in aim to legitimize his presidency and assure its continuance after the approaching restoration of democracy, he held a referendum on April 30, 2002 to extend his term to five years. After surviving a two assassination attempt in December 2003, Musharraf won a confidence vote in the Electoral College of Pakistan, consisting of both houses of Parliament and the four provincial assemblies on January 1, 2004 and was as a result of this vote re-elected as the President of Pakistan. On October 6, 2007, he won an indirect presidential election by an overwhelming majority. However, on November 3, 2007, before a bench of the Supreme Court of Pakistan was to decide on a petition challenging the constitutional validity of his re-election as president, Musharraf suspended the constitution, jailed several justices and lawyers of the supreme court and declared the state of emergency. On November 22, 2007, Pakistan's Supreme Court dismissed a legal challenge against his re-election and on November 28, 2007, following the pressure for him to give up the army Pervez Musharraf stood down as the Chief of the Army Stuff and named Lt. Gen. Ashfaq Kayani as the head of the Pakistani Army.

Timeline of November 2007 events

November 1
- Prime Minister of Bosnia and Hercegovina Nikola Spiric in protest at efforts by the High Representative and EU Special Representative, Miroslav Lajcak.
- The southern Mexican states of Tabasco and Chiapas were hit by the worst flooding in over 50 years.

November 2
- Tamil Tiger political wing leader S.P. Thamilselvan was killed in a Sri Lankan air force raid.
- Several thousand people protested outside parliament in Georgia's capital Tbilisi calling for early elections and for Saakashvili's resignation.

November 3
- Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf declared state of emergency.

November 4
- Chad released three French journalists and four Spanish air hostesses that were arrested on suspicion of child-kidnapping.

November 6
- Over 50 people, including five members of parliament, were killed by a suicide bomber in northern Afghanistan.

November 7
- Mikheil Saakashvili declared state of emergency.
- 8 people were killed and at least 10 others injured in a shooting at Jokela school in southern Finland.

November 8
- The 8th annual Latin Grammy Awards were held at the Mandalay Bay Events Center at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, US.

November 10
- Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a state of emergency to help fight an oil spill.

November 11
- About 2,000 metric tons of fuel oil leaked near the Black Sea from a Russian oil tanker that split in half after a powerful storm hit the Black Sea. Four other ship sank as well and several more were in trouble.
- Danilo Türk won the second round of the Slovenian Presidential Elections.

November 13
- Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen's coalition won the Danish Parliamentary elections.

November 14
- The British military's Skynet 5B was successfully launched from Europe's Kourou spaceport, in French Guiana.
- Prime ministers from North and South Korea met for the first time in 15 years in South Korean capital Seoul.

November 16
- Over 3,000 people were killed after Cyclone Sidr hit Bangladesh.

November 17
- Hashim Thaci's Democratic Party of Kosovo won the Parliamentary Elections in Kosovo. The Serbs boycotted the elections.

November 20
- The UK's HM Revenue and Customs admitted that it misplaced two computer discs which contained the personal details of all families in the United Kingdom with a child under 16.

November 22
- Pakistan's Supreme Court dismissed a legal challenge against the recent re-election of President Pervez Musharraf.

November 23
- Pakistan has been suspended from the Commonwealth until President Musharraf gives up military rule.

November 24
- Australian Labor Party won the Australian Federal Elections.

November 25
- Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) won the Croatian Parliamentary Elections.
- Georgian Mikhail Saakashvili resigned to run in Georgian Presidential Elections in January 2008.

November 26
- Following the deaths of two teenagers whose whose motorcycle collided with a police vehicle broke out riots in the Val-d'Oise department in France. Over 130 policemen were injured and over 70 cars and buildings were burned.

November 28
- President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf stood down as the head of the Pakistan Army.

November 29
- British teacher Gillian Gibbons was jailed for 15 days for allowing children in her class to name a teddy bear Muhammad.
- A Moscow court sentenced the exiled businessman Boris Berezovsky to six years in jail in absentia after finding him guilty of massive embezzlement.
- Parties led by Viktor Yushchenko and Yulia Tymoshenko - both leaders of the 2004 Orange Revolution - agreed to form a coalition.