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Pakistan Affairs & Current Affairs

✓ The North-South gas pipeline will transport LNG from Karachi to Lahore ✓ Abdul

Sattar Edhi Died on July 8, 2016, Karachi.

✓ Oct 16: Pakistan became the first head of the Saarc’s Anti Corruption Forum

(ACF) for a year.

✓ Oct 16: Comrade Lakhano Behrani — one of the first flag-bearers of leftist

movements in Sindh — passed away.

✓ Oct 15: The International Day of Rural Women is observed

✓ Oct 15: Brazil won the inaugural BRICS U-17 Football Tournament 2016 held at

Goa on the occasion of the 8th BRICS summit.

✓ Oct 16: The World Food Day was observed globally

✓ Russia will invest $2 billion in the construction of North-South gas pipeline.

✓ The total length of North-South gas pipeline is 1,100 km

✓ Around 12.4 billion m3 of gas would be transported from Karachi to Lahore per

annum through North-South gas pipeline.

✓ Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif inaugurated construction of 393 km long Sukkur-

Multan section of Karachi-Lahore Motorway in Sukkur on 6 May 2016

✓ The total length of Karachi-Lahore Motorway is 1,100 km

✓ Pakistan issued 10-year Eurobonds of $500 million in the international

Eurobond market on 25 September 2015.

✓ The pricing of the Eurobonds were held on 24 September 2015

✓ The coupon rate of Eurobonds issued on 25 September 2015 is 8.25%

✓ After Islamabad and Muzaffarabad, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on 2 May 2016

launched the National Health Program in Quetta

✓ The Iranian President Dr. Hassan Rouhani arrived in Pakistan for a two-day visit

on 25 March 2016

✓ The National Action Plan announced on 25 December 2014 by Prime Minister

Nawaz Sharif is a 20 point counter terrorism plan.

✓ The construction work on Karachi green line (or Karachi Metro bus service) was

inaugurated on 26 February 2016

✓ The estimated cost of the Karachi green line is Rs 16,085 billion.

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✓ On 31 December 2015 PM's National Health Program was launched in

Islamabad

✓ On 25 February 2016 PM's National Health Program was launched in

Muzaffarabad

✓ According to the National Health Program poor people would get free

treatment of common illnesses up to Rs.50,000

According to the National Health Program poor people would get free

treatment of serious medical conditions up to Rs.300,000

In the first phase of Thar Coal Power Project 660 MW of electricity will be

generated.

✓ Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) was formed by merging Lahore, Karachi and

Islamabad stock exchanges on 11 January 2016

✓ The under construction Gulpur hydropower project to generate 102 MW of

electricity is located in Kotli

✓ The under construction Bhikki Power Plant to generate 1180 MW of electricity

is located in Sheikhupura

✓ The under construction Haveli Bahadur Shah Power Plant to generate 1230 MW

of electricity is in Jhang

✓ Moody's on 11 June 2015 upgraded Pakistan's foreign currency issuer and

senior unsecured bond ratings from Caa1 to B3

✓ Shanghai Cooperation Organization approved membership of Pakistan into the

organization on 10 July 2015

✓ Through TAPI gas pipeline Afghanistan, Pakistan and India will receive natural

gas from Turkmenistan

✓ The construction of TAPI gas pipeline began on 13 December 2015, and the

expected completion date is December 2018

✓ Pakistan will receive 14 billion m3 natural gas from Turkmenistan per year.

✓ Pakistan-Qatar deal to import LNG from Qatar to Pakistan is a government-to-

government contract for 15 years.

✓ Pakistan-Qatar LNG contract was signed on 10 February 2016

✓ According to the Pakistan-Qatar LNG deal Pakistan will receive 3.75 million tons

of LNG annually.

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✓ The first match of Pakistan Super League (PSL) T20 was played on 24 February

2016 in UAE.

✓ The Pakistan Super League (PSL) T20-2016 was won by Islamabad

✓ Nandipur Power Plant is located in Gujranwala

✓ Pakistan launched Operation Zarb-e-Azb in North Waziristan on 15 June 2014

✓ The GDP growth for the financial year 2015-16 was 5.0%

✓ Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy won Oscars award 2015 for the second time for her

documentary movie A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness

✓ The first shaheed female pilot of Pakistan Air Force is Marium Mukhtiar

✓ The youngest Nobel Prize laureate, Malala Yousafzai won Nobel Peace Prize for

the year 2014

✓ Dr Abdus Salam won Nobel Prize for the year 1979 in the field of Physics The

agriculture sector contributes 20.88 % towards national GDP.

The industrial sector contributes 20.30 % towards national GDP.

✓ The agriculture sector generates 43.5 % of employment.

✓ The population growth rate in Pakistan is 1.92 percent.

✓ The government of Pakistan is trying to add electricity generation of 10,400

MW to national grid by 2017- 18.

✓ Pakistan conducted the first use of its military drone, "Burraq", in Shawal Valley

of North Waziristan on 7 September 2015

✓ Pakistan won the Cricket T20 World Cup in 2009 ✓ Pakistan has won squash

men's world open for 14 times.

✓ The Vision 2025 aims to serve 4 functions.

✓ The Parliament passed a bill to convert PIA into a public limited company on 11

April 2016

✓ The president of China arrived in Pakistan for two day visit on 20 April 2015

✓ The bill for 21st amendment in the constitution of Pakistan was passed from the

national assembly of Pakistan on 6 January 2015

✓ The provisions of the 21st amendment shall remain in force for a period of 2

year(s).

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✓ The president of China on his visit to Pakistan signed development projects of

worth $46 billion ✓ The proposed motorway from Gawadar to Kashghar is

about 3000 km.

✓ Turkish Justice and Development Party has been in power since 2002

✓ Dr Ishrat-ul-Ibad has been Governor of Sindh since 2002

✓ The 21st amendment has amended the first schedule of the constitution and the

article175 ✓ International Court of Arbitration sets minimum flow of 9 m3/sec

into the Neelum River.

✓ The Installed Capacity of Neelum–Jhelum Hydropower Plant is 969 MW.

✓ Who is the current Chief Minister of Baluchistan? Sanaullah Zehri

✓ Who is the current governor of KPK? Iqbal Zafar Jhagra

✓ Who is the current governor of Baluchistan? Muhammad Khan Achakzai

✓ What is the portfolio of Engineer Khurram Dastgir? Minister for Commerce

✓ What is the portfolio of Rana Tanveer Hussain? Minister for Defence

Production

✓ Who is the current chairman of NAB? Qamar Zaman Chaudhry

✓ Who is the current chairman of PEMRA? Absar Alam

✓ Who is the current president of National Bank of Pakistan? Ahmed Iqbal Ashraf

✓ Who is the current chairman of Higher Education Commission (HEC)? Ahmed

Iqbal Ashraf

✓ Who is the current Minister of State for Information Technology & Telecom?

Anusha Rahman

✓ Who is the current Attorney General of Pakistan? Ashtar Ausaf

✓ Who is the governor State Bank of Pakistan? Ashraf Mahmood Wathra

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What is the current portfolio of Akram Khan Durrani? Minister for Housing and

Works

Who is the current Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on National Affairs?

Irfan Siddiqui

Who is the current Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs?

Tariq Fatimi

✓ Who is the current Special Adviser to the Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs?

Sartaj Aziz

✓ Who is the current Special Assistant to the Prime Minister and chairman Board

of Investment Miftah Ismail

✓ Who is the current Minister of State for National Health Services? Saira Afzal

Tarar

✓ Who is the current Minister for States and Frontier Regions? Lt. Gen. (R) Abdul

Qadir Baloch

✓ Who is the current National Security Advisor of Pakistan? Lt. Gen. (R) Naseer

Khan Janjua

✓ Diamer-Bhasha Dam has been planned on the river Indus ✓ Dasu Dam is

located in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

✓ Salt Mine, Khewra is located in Jhelum district.

✓ Which river does NOT flow from Jammu and Kashmir? Ravi

✓ Who serves as the acting president in the absence of president? Chairman

Senate

✓ Standard and Poor's (S&P) on 5 May 2015 has raised Pakistan's credit rating

outlook from stable to positive

✓ The headquarter of Navy is located in Islamabad.

✓ The Head Office of Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan (ICAP) is in

Karachi

✓ The GSP Plus status to Pakistan has been granted till 2017

✓ The first session of All India Muslim League was presided over by Sir Adamjee

Pir Bhai

✓ The first president of All India Muslim League were Sir Aga Khan

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✓ The GSP Plus status will allow Pakistan to export products without duties to 27

European States. ✓ The largest source of electricity generation in Pakistan is

Thermal ✓ Pakistan has a coastline of about 1046 km.

✓ The Jhimpir Wind Power Plant is located in Thatta

✓ Dar-ul-Uloom Deoband was founded by Maulana Muhammad Qasim

Nanautawi

✓ Sindh Madrasah-tul-Islam, Karachi was founded by Aga Hassan Ali Afandi ✓

The objective resolution of Pakistan was passed on March 12, 1949

✓ Jahangir allowed East India Company to reside and build factories in Surat.

✓ Muhammad Ali Bogra's formula was presented to the constituent assembly on

October 7, 1953

✓ The constitution of 1973 was came into effect on August 14, 1973

✓ A total of 22 amendments to the constitution of 1973 have been passed by the

Parliament.

Faisal Mosque was built by a/an Turkish

architect. The governor of Punjab is Rafique

Rajwana Mirani Dam is located in Turbat

District.

✓ The Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline was officially inaugurated on March 11,

2013

✓ The Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline is also called Peace Pipeline ✓ Foreign Secretary

of Pakistan is Aizaz Chaudhry ✓ Number of Districts in Sindh province are 29.

✓ Who chose the name of Pakistan? Chaudry Rehmat Ali

✓ Who was convicted in Rawalpindi Conspiracy Case? Faiz Ahmed Faiz

✓ The foundation stone of Diamer-Bhasha Dam was laid by Yousuf Raza Gilani

✓ Who is the current permanent representative of Pakistan to the United

Nations? Maliha Lodhi

✓ Contract to operate Gwadar Port was given to China

✓ Iran to set up oil refinery in Gwadar

✓ Before General Elections 2013, who was the caretaker Prime Minister of

Pakistan? Mir Hazara Khan

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✓ Who serves as the acting Prime Minister in the absence of Prime Minister?

Speaker National Assembly

✓ General Elections 2013 were held on 11 May 2013

✓ Pakistani film Lamha won best film award in United States.

✓ Nawaz Sharif sworned in as Prime Minister of Pakistan on 05 June 2013

✓ President Mamnoon Hussain took oath on 09 September 2013

✓ The newest district of Balochistan is Lehri

✓ The first Pakistani woman to scale Mount Everest is Samina Baig

✓ Gomal Zam Dam has been constructed in South Waziristan Agency

✓ Gomal Zam Dam was inaugurated on 12 September 2013 by Khawaja

Muhammad Asif

✓ The first private Hydel Power plant, constructed by Laraib Energy Limited is

located at Mangla

✓ The inauguration ceremony of the Central Asia South Asia (CASA-

1000)electricity transmission line was held on 12 May 2016

✓ Pakistan will receive 1000 MW of electricity from CASA electricity transmission

line.

✓ India has constructed "Baglihar Dam" in Doda district of Occupied Kashmir.

✓ India is constructing "Kishanganga Dam" on the Jhelum River.

✓ The total number of Agencies in Federally Administrated Tribal Areas (FATA) are

7 ✓ General Raheel Ashraf took oath as Army Chief on 29 November 2013 ✓

Militants attacked Quaid's residency in Quetta.

✓ Pakistan will receive 1000 MW of electricity though CASA transmission line

from Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan

Who is the Chief Justice of Pakistan? Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali

The current Chief Justice of Pakistan sworned in on 10 September 2015

Who is the leader of the opposition? Khursheed Shah

✓ Who was the first Muslim Nobel Laureate? Anwar Sadaat

✓ Who is the writer of Urdu Book "Pakistan Naguzeer tha" Syed Hasan Riaz

✓ Global Islamic Finance Awards (GIFA) 2013 was awarded to Shaukat Aziz

✓ Pakistan's per capita income is about $1,512

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✓ Who is the writer of the book "Between dreams and realities: some milestones

in Pakistan's history"? Sartaj Aziz

✓ Who is the Pakistani Ambassador to the United States? Jalil Abbas Jilani

✓ Who is the Federal Minister for Religious Affairs? Sardar Muhammad Yousaf

✓ Pakistan's first LNG terminal is located at Port Qasim

✓ The altitude of K2, the second highest mountain on the Earth is 28251 feet .

✓ The Nehru Report was published in August 1928

✓ Rowlatt Act came into operation in 1919

✓ "All India Khilafat Committee" was formed on 05 July 1919

✓ The Khilafat in Turkey was abolished on 03 March 1924

✓ The Indian Councils Act (Minto-Morley Reforms) was enacted into law in 1909

✓ In March 1920, an Indian Khilafat Deputation visited England. The Deputation

was headed by? Maulana M.A. Johar

✓ Under the Vision-2025 Pakistan has set up 25 goals to be achieved by 2025.

✓ The literacy rate in Pakistan is 58%

✓ Under the Vision-2025 the target to achieve literacy rate by 2025 is 90% ✓

Pakistan has set up a target to become a world champion in 2 sports by 2025.

✓ Pakistan won 5 medals in the Asian Games-2014.

✓ Pakistan has set up a target to win at least 25 medals in Asian Games from

2025.

✓ Pakistan has set up a target to be among 25 largest economies in the world by

2025.

✓ The existence tax to GDP ratio is 9.8

✓ Under the Vision-2025 Pakistan has set up a target to increase tax to GDP ratio

to 18% ✓ Under Vision-2025 Pakistan has to generate 42,000 MW of affordable

electricity by 2025.

✓ Pakistan has set up a target to create at least 5 global Pakistani brands by 2025.

✓ Pakistan's current annual exports is around $25 billion

Pakistan has set up a target to increase the annual exports to $150 billion by

2025.

Under Vision-2015 Pakistan has set up a target to increase the number of tourist

arrivals to 2 million

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The current share of Pakistan Railways in the overall transport sector is 4%

Under Vision-2015 Pakistan has set up a target to increase the share of Pakistan

Railways in the overall transport sector to 20%

✓ The first TV station of Pakistan Television was established in Lahore

✓ Television centers of PTV were established in Karachi and

Rawalpindi/Islamabad in 1967

✓ Television centers of PTV were established in Peshawar and Quetta in 1974

✓ Which newspaper is the oldest Urdu newspaper of Pakistan? Jang

✓ Which newspaper is the oldest English newspaper of Pakistan? Dawn

✓ Urdu newspaper 'Daily Jang' started its publications in 1939

✓ The Daily Jang was founded by Mir Khalil-ur-Rahman

✓ English newspaper 'Daily Dawn' was founded by Quaid-e-Azam

✓ The first issue of the 'Daily Dawn' was printed on 12 October 1942

✓ Urdu newspaper Nawa-i-Waqt was founded by Hameed Nizami

✓ Urdu newspaper 'Daily Nawa-i-Waqt' was launched on March 23, 1940

✓ The first semi governmental television network of Pakistan was STN

✓ Shalimar Television Network (STN) started its broadcast with the name of

People's Television Network (PTN) in 1990

✓ The Supreme Court of Pakistan was created under the Constitution of 1956

✓ The Constitution of 1973 provided for the permanent seat of the Court at

Islamabad.

✓ The construction work of the building of the Supreme Court of Pakistan was

completed on December 31, 1993

✓ The Supreme Court's building design was prepared by a famous Japanese firm,

M/S Kenzo Tange Associates.

✓ After the creation of Pakistan it was decided to assign the monetary operations

of Pakistan to the Reserve Bank of India for a period of one year

✓ The Reserve Bank of India stopped functioning in Pakistan on June 30, 1948

✓ The State Bank of Pakistan started functioning on July 1, 1948 at Victoria

Museum Building, Karachi

✓ The State Bank of Pakistan was inaugurated on July 1, 1948 by Quaid-e-Azam

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✓ Who was the first governor of State Bank of Pakistan? Mr. Zahid Hussain

✓ Who was Pakistan's first High Commissioner to India? Mr. Zahid Hussain

✓ Who is the current Chief Minister of Gilgit-Baltistan? Hafiz Hafeez-ur-Rehman

✓ Who is the current Federal Minister of Kashmir Affairs and Gilgit-Baltistan?

Barjees Tahir

✓ Who is the current governor of Gilgit-Baltistan? Mir Ghazanfar Ali Khan

River Indus originates in the (or the source of River Indus is)

Tibetan Plateau The source of the Kabul River is Hindu Kush

Mountains.

Kabul River enters Pakistan near border crossing at Torkham

✓ The Kabul River joins Indus River near Attock

✓ Pakistan's major export partner is United States

✓ Pakistan's main export item is cotton and cotton manufactures

✓ Pakistan's major import partner is China

✓ The National Library of Pakistan is located in Islamabad

✓ The National Library of Pakistan was established in 1951

✓ Pakistan shares maritime border with Oman

✓ The Himalaya range is home to 9 out of the 10 highest peaks on the Earth.

✓ The Himalaya range span over 5 countries.

✓ The Himalaya range span over the countries: China, India, Pakistan, Nepal and

Bhutan

✓ The three major rivers arise in the Himalaya are Indus, Ganges and

Brahmaputra

✓ The highest mountain in Pakistan is K2. The second highest mountain is Broad

Peak

✓ The Changa Manga forest covers an area of 14,000 acres

✓ The Changa Manga forest is located in the Lahore and Kasur districts.

✓ The Constitution of 1956 was enforced on 23 March 1956

✓ The Constitution of 1962 was enforced on 8 June 1962

✓ The Constitution of 1973 came into effect on 14 August 1973

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✓ Which Constitution proclaimed Pakistan to be an Islamic Republic? 1956

✓ Urdu was made national language of Pakistan in the constitution of 1973

✓ The first Martial Law was imposed on 7 October 1958

✓ The second Martial Law was imposed on 26 March 1969

✓ The third Martial Law was imposed on 5 July 1977

✓ The fourth Martial Law was imposed on 12 October 1999

✓ The first Martial Law was the result of conspiracy by Iskander Mirza

✓ After secession of East Pakistan to Bangladesh on 16 December 1971, Yahya

Khan, the chief Martial Law administrator, resigned on 20 December 1971

✓ The first Commander in Chief of Pakistan Army was Sir Frank Messervy

✓ The first native Commander in Chief of Pakistan Army was Ayub Khan

✓ The only Field Marshal of Pakistan Army was Ayub Khan

The first president of Pakistan was Iskander Mirza

The second president of Pakistan was Ayub Khan

Ayub Khan forced Iskander Mirza to resign and assumed power of president on 27

October 1958

Which amendment of the constitution of 1973 declared Ahmadis as non-

Muslims? 2nd

The only general who abrogated the constitution of Pakistan for two times was

Pervez Musharraf ✓ Pakistan has 2 crop season(s).

✓ In Pakistan the 'Kharif' season is from April to September

✓ In Pakistan the 'Rabi' season is from October to March ✓ In Pakistan the

monsoon season is from July to September ✓ About 4% of land in Pakistan is

covered with forests.

✓ The only fertile desert in the world is Thar desert

✓ The border between Pakistan and Afghanistan is called Durand Line

✓ The length of the Durand Line is about 2250 KM

✓ The Northern Areas of Pakistan along with adjacent areas are also called third

pole of the world ✓ Rann of Kutch Wildlife Sanctuary is located in Badin

District.

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✓ Which is the largest freshwater lake in Pakistan? Manchar Lake ✓ Which is the

second largest freshwater lake in Pakistan? Keenjhar Lake ✓ Lake Manchar is

located in Jamshoro district.

✓ Lake Keenjhar is located in Thatta district.

✓ Reko Diq Mine is famous because of its vast Gold and Iron reserves.

✓ Reko Diq Mine is located in the Chagai district of Balochistan.

✓ In February 2015 reserves of Iron and Copper were found in Chiniot district by

Metallurgical Cooperation of China.

✓ Pakistan is 4th largest producer of cotton in the world.

✓ Pakistan is 3rd largest producer of yarn in the world.

✓ Which sector of Pakistan Economy is also known as Raw Cotton Consuming

sector? Canvas

✓ Which country is situated in the east of Pakistan India

✓ The Objective Resolution of March 12, 1949 was passed by the Constituent

Assemble with what significance It is a Magna Carta of the constitutional

history of Pakistan

✓ Abu-al-Fath Daud was the Ismail ruler of Multan

✓ An agreement for cooperation was signed during Turkish President Kennan

Everno's visit to Pakistan in Feb 1980 in the field of Research and Development

✓ Sindh Muslim League passed on of the following resolutions in 1938 Resolved

to have division of

India on the basis of Two Nation Theory

How many times did squash player Jansher Khan win World Open 8

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Which Pakistani Prime Minister received Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari

Vajpayee when he arrived by bus to Lahore Nawaz Sharif

Which Indian Cardinal was from Karachi Valerian Gracias

✓ Who succeeded Zia Ul Haque as President of Pakistan Ghulam Ishaq Khan

✓ Pakistan opened its first embassy in Iran

✓ First head of state to visit Pakistan in 1947 was Ameer of Kuwait

✓ India stopped the passage of water from the rivers Ravi and Sutluj in April 1948

✓ Quaid-e-Azam relief fund was set up in September 1947

✓ India and Pakistan mutually came to an agreement that Pakistan would get 750

crore Rs. as her share

✓ Pakistan Fund was setup by Quaid in June 1947

✓ White strip in the flag was added in August 1947. When was moon and star added

in the flag Feb 1949.

✓ Who was called the iron man of NWFP Khan Qayyum Khan

✓ Peer Sahib Manki Shareef founded the following party in September 1949 Awami

Muslim League

✓ First Finance Minister of Pakistan was Ghulam Muhammad

✓ First Interior Minister of Pakistan was Fazlur Rehman

✓ Youngest Prime Minister of Pakistan was Benazir Bhutto

✓ First Chairman of the Senate was Habib Ullah Khan

✓ First TV station was at Lahore

✓ First public airline of Pakistan was Orient Airline

✓ First private Airline of Pakistan Hajvery Airline

✓ First female minister of law and human rights was Shahida Jamil

✓ First female Minister of Population Dr. Attiya Inayatullah

✓ First female deputy speaker in Pakistan Begum Jahanara Shahnawaz

✓ First Lady Major General in the Pakistan Army was Dr. Shahida Malik

✓ First Vice President of Pakistan was Nur-ul-Amin

✓ First Joint chief of Staff Committee was General Muhammad Shariff

✓ First governor of Gilgit-Baltistan was Shamma Khalid

✓ First Foreign Minister of Pakistan was Sir Zafarullah Khan

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✓ First SOS village of Pakistan was Lahore

✓ First DNA Test laboratory was established at Islamabad

✓ First female vice chancellor in Pakistan was Najma Najam

First female representative of Pakistan in the UN was Shaista Ikramuliah

First women pilot in Pakistan was Shukriya Khanam

Moen jo Darro was in 1922

✓ Hujjatullah ul Baligha was written by a. Shah Wali Ullah

✓ Barhamo Samraj was founded by Raja Ram Mohan Roy

✓ First President of Congress was W. C. Benerjee

✓ First census in India was made in the period of Lord Mayo

✓ “The Life of Mohammad” was a book written by William Mueer

✓ Sindh was separated from Bombay in: a. 1935

✓ Dar ul Uloom Deoband was founded by Syed Ahmed Nanatovi

✓ The Viceroy of India in 1919 was Lord Chelmsford

✓ The first secretary of Khilafat Committee Moulana Sahuqat Ali.

✓ The first Foreign Minister of Pakistan was Sir Zafrullah Khan ✓ Who was

convicted in Rawalpindi Conspiracy case Faiz Ahmad Faiz ✓ The largest Agency in

the Northern Area of Pakistan is South Waziristan.

✓ General Election of 2013 was held on May 11.

✓ The politician who served as both Governor General and Prime Minister was

Khuwaja Nazimuddin ✓ The British Parliament announced the Independence Act

on 3rd June.

✓ India cut off the flow of canal waters to West Punjab for first time on 1st April

1948.

✓ Kashmir sold to Gulab Singh in 1845.

✓ Operation Desert Shield was launched by US to defend Saudi Arabia in year 1991.

✓ Suez Canal was nationalized by Egypt in July 1956.

✓ International Peace Day is celebrated since 1982

✓ Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in the age of 39. ✓ Operation Enduring

Freedom was launched by US in Afghanistan ✓ Ozone Layer restricts Ultraviolet

Rays.

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✓ World Water Day is celebrated every year on 22 March.

✓ Ecology Deals with Environment

✓ For water purification Alum is used to remove Mud Particles.

✓ Metal used to galvanize iron is called Zinc.

✓ Book of Kings commonly known as “Shahnama” was written by Firdaus Tausi.

✓ Galileo invented Microscope.

✓ The concept that a single dominant power can maintain world peace is called

Hegemonic Stability.

✓ Rational interests persuaded by individual causing collective destruction are called

tragedy of

Common.

✓ Humidity depends upon Temperature, Weather & Location.

The largest part of Hydrosphere is Pacific.

✓ Latitude of a place expresses its regular position relative to Equator.

✓ operation Gibraltar resulted into which war Pakistan-India

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World’s Affairs ✓ In Rio Olympics 2016 which country finished at the top of the table with gold

medals? United States

✓ In Rio Olympics 2016 which country finished at the second number of the table

with gold medals? Great Britain

✓ In Rio Olympics 2016 the men's football gold was won by Brazil ✓ In Rio Olympics

2016 the women's football gold was won by Germany ✓ In Rio Olympics 2016 the

men's volleyball gold was won by Brazil.

✓ Michael Phelps, an American swimmer, won 5 gold medals in Rio Olympics 2016.

✓ Oct 16: The Emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, dissolved the

country’s parliament, setting the stage for an early election.

✓ Oct 16: The eighth BRICS summit concluded in Goa, India. Goa Declaration was

adopted at the end of the summit.

✓ Oct 10: Russian President Vladimir Putin met his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip

Erdogan in at Yildiz Palace in Istanbul.

✓ Oct 11: The 4th BRICS Science, Technology and Innovation Ministerial Meeting was

held at Jaipur, Rajastan.

✓ Oct 11: Ilham Tohti, a jailed scholar from China’s mostly-Muslim Uyghur minority,

was awarded the Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders.

✓ Oct 11: Abdelilah Bekirane was re-appointed as the Prime Minister of Morocco for

second term.

✓ BRICS is the acronym for an association of five major emerging national economies:

Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.

✓ The BRIC designation was first coined by Jim O’Neil of Goldman Sachs in a 2001

paper titled “The World Needs Better Economic BRICs.” ✓ It was established

in2009.

✓ Originally it was known as BRIC before the inclusion of South Africa in 2011.

✓ The first formal summit was held in Yekaterinburg, Russia.

✓ The Paris agreement of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate

Change is to limit global warming well below 2.0 °C

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✓ The Paris agreement was opened for signature for one year on 22 April 2016 ✓ On

22 April 2016 the Paris Agreement was ratified by 15 member states.

✓ The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change deals with

greenhouse gases emissions mitigation

The Paris agreement will enter into force only if 55 countries which produce at

least 55% of the world's greenhouse gas emissions ratify the Agreement.

As of August 2016, 22 countries have ratified the Paris agreement.

✓ The Paris agreement is due to enter into force in 2020

✓ The United States presidential election of 2016 is scheduled for November 8, 2016

✓ The present president of United States, Barack Obama, belongs to Democratic

Party

✓ Donald Trump is the presidential nominee of the Republican Party

✓ Hillary Clinton is the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party

✓ Hillary Clinton has also served as US Secretary of States from 2009 to 2013.

✓ The largest museum in the world is Louvre Museum

✓ The Louvre Museum is located in France

✓ A faction of the Turkish Armed Forces tried to impose Martial Law in the country

on 15 July 2016

✓ The attempted coup was mainly foiled by the People of Turkey

✓ The Turkish government accused that the faction of the army was linked to

Fethullah Gulen

✓ Fethullah Gulen is a religious and political leader lives in self-imposed exile in the

United States

✓ The 2020 Olympics will be held in Tokyo

✓ The FIFA Ballon d'Or 2015 award for the world's best player was won by Lionel

Messi ✓ Lionel Messi won the FIFA Ballon d'Or award for the 5th time.

✓ The Nobel Prize in literature 2015 was won by Svetlana Alexievich

✓ The Nobel Peace Prize 2015 was won by Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet

✓ The Nobel Prize in Economics 2015 was won by Angus Deaton

✓ Angus Deaton, the British-American economist, won Nobel Prize in Economics for

his analysis of Consumption, Poverty and Welfare

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✓ North Korea on 6 January 2016 claimed that it had successfully tested a/an

hydrogen bomb ✓ Time magazine named Angela Merkel its Person of the Year

2015.

✓ Forbes magazine named Vladimir Putin the world's most powerful person of 2015.

✓ On 24 November 2015 Russian jet was shot down by Turkish Air Force.

✓ The Treaty on Accession of the Republic of Crimea to Russia was signed on? 18

March 2014

✓ The Secretary of States of United States is John Kerry

✓ The Vice President of United States is Joe Biden

✓ World's oldest operational space launch facility is located in Kazakhstan

✓ Which country has the largest reserves of oil? Venezuela

In which country It is mandatory for all male citizens aged 18–27 to serve 1 year

in Armed Forces? Russia

Which country is the world's top supplier of weapons? Russia

Which from the following countries is NOT the member of

BRICS? America The President of India is Pranab Mukherjee

✓ The headquarter of Human Rights Watch is located in New York

✓ Which country is the largest producer of oil? Saudi Arabia

✓ Which country has the largest reserves of gas? Russia

✓ Which country is the largest producer of gas? Russia

✓ The River Thames is located in England

✓ In London Olympics 2012, the gold medal, in Men's Field Hockey was won by

Germany

✓ The Most populous city in the world is Tokyo

✓ US special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan is Richard Olson

✓ The capital of Ukraine is Kiev

✓ The head of state of the United Kingdom is Queen Elizabeth II

✓ Which country is the largest producer of cotton in the world? China

✓ The first Muslim Nobel Laureate was Anwar Sadat

✓ Qantas is an airline of Australia

✓ AFP is the news agency of France

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✓ The fastest person of the world is Usain Bolt

✓ The oldest tennis tournament in the world is Wimbledon

✓ The 2015 Wimbledon Championships Singles (Men) title was won by Novak

Djokovic

✓ The 2015 Wimbledon Championships Singles (Women) title was won by Serena

Williams

✓ The fastest century record in ODI of Corey Anderson was broke by AB de Villiers

✓ The 2014 FIFA World Cup was won by Germany

✓ The 2018 FIFA World Cup will be hosted by Russia

✓ The 2022 FIFA World Cup will be hosted by Qatar

✓ Usain Bolt, the fastest man on the Earth, belongs to Jamaica

✓ The World Snooker Championship 2015 was won by Stuart Bingham

✓ The lowest temperature ever recorded on the Earth is -89.2 °C

✓ The lowest temperature was recorded in Antarctica

✓ The highest temperatures ever recorded on the Earth is 56.7 °C

✓ The highest temperature was recorded in California on July 10, 1913

✓ Who is Angela Merkel? Chancellor of Germany

Who is François Hollande? President of France

The current director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is John Brennan

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On 27 February 2013 Iraq's state airline, after 20 years, begins flights to Kuwait

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2015 was awarded to Takaaki Kajita & Arthur B.

McDonald

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015 was awarded to Tomas Lindahl, Paul

Modrich & Aziz Sancar

✓ The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2015 was awarded to William C.

Campbell, Satoshi Omura & Tu Youyou

✓ Kate Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge, is the wife of Prince William

✓ The Sinai Peninsula is in Egypt

✓ The United States presidential election of 2016 are scheduled for 8 November

2016 ✓ Angela Merkel was elected as Chancellor of Germany for the 3rd time.

✓ The Prime Minister of Pakistan is Nawaz Shareef.

✓ The President of Iran is Hassan Rouhani

✓ The No.1 Tennis Player is Serena Williams

✓ The Defence Secretary of United States is Ashton Carter

✓ The Currency of Lativa is Euro

✓ The oldest news agency in the world is AFP

✓ The headquarter of Transparency International is located in Berlin ✓ NATO is

a/an Military alliance.

✓ The Suez Canal is in Egypt

✓ The Suez Canal connects the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea

✓ Taksim Square is in Istanbul

✓ The Chelyabinsk Meteor hit Russia on 15 February 2013.

✓ Nokia Mobile business was acquired by Microsoft

✓ Motorola Mobile business is now own by Lenovo

✓ Man Booker International Prize 2015 was won by Laszlo Krasznahorkai ✓

Secretary General UNO Ban-Ki-Mon belongs to South Korea.

✓ Currently, there are 193 member states of the United Nations.

✓ Currently, 2 countries hold the status of Observer States in the United Nations.

✓ There are 8 members of SAARC.

✓ Secretary General SAARC Arjun Bahadur Thapa belongs to Nepal

✓ Which from the following countries does NOT yield veto-power? Canada

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✓ Which from the following countries is NOT a non-permanent member of

Security Council?

Lithuania

Al-Jazeera TV Channel belongs to Qatar.

The newest member of the Eurozone is Lithuania

The Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline is also called peace pipeline

How many countries have successfully detonated nuclear weapons?8

Which from the following country has not yet detonated nuclear weapons?

South Korea

✓ The largest helicopter in the world is Mil Mi-26

✓ The Mil Mi-26 helicopter is manufactured by Russia

✓ Which country has the largest warships in the world? United States

✓ The Nimitz-class super carriers, the largest warships, are powered by nuclear

energy

✓ The Nimitz-class super carriers are being replaced by Gerald R. Ford-class

aircraft carriers

✓ NASA, the space agency responsible for the space science program and general

aerospace research is the agency of United States

✓ Roscosmos is the space agency of Russia

✓ JAXA is the space agency of Japan

✓ The athlete who is the most decorated Olympian of all time is Michael Phelps

✓ Michael Phelps is a/an American swimmer.

✓ Michael Phelps has won 28 medals in Olympics.

✓ Michael Phelps won 8 gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Olympics Games.

✓ The Grand Slam tournaments are 4 most important annual tennis events.

✓ Which from the following is NOT among the four Grand Slam tournaments?

Davis Cup

✓ The French Open is played on clay ✓ The Wimbledon is played on grass

✓ Which tournament is the oldest tennis tournament in the world? Wimbledon ✓

The headquarter of NASA is located in Washington, D.C.

✓ Who was the winner of the Men's Singles in Australian Open 2016? Novak

Djokovic

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✓ Who was the winner of the Women's Singles in Australian Open 2016?

Angelique Kerber

✓ Novak Djokovic is a tennis player from Serbia

✓ Angelique Kerber is a tennis player from Germany

✓ Who was the winner of the Men's Singles in French Open 2016? Novak

Djokovic ✓ Who was the winner of the Women's Singles in French Open 2016?

Garbine Muguruza ✓ Garbine Muguruza represents Spain in tennis.

✓ Who was the winner of the Men's Singles in Wimbledon 2016? Andy Murray ✓

Who was the winner of the Women's Singles in Wimbledon 2016? Serena

Williams ✓ Andy Murray represents Great Britain in tennis. Who is the No.1

tennis player (in Men)? Novak Djokovic

Who is the No.1 tennis player (in Women)?Serena Williams

Who won gold medal (Men's Singles) in Rio Olympics 2016? Andy Murray

Who won gold medal (Women's Singles) in Rio Olympics 2016?

Monica Puig Serena Williams is a tennis player from United States

✓ Monica Puig Marchan is tennis player from Puerto Rico

✓ The largest importer of goods in the world is United States

✓ The largest producer of corn in the world is United States

✓ The name of the building built in place of the former World Trade Center is One

World Trade Center

✓ Which country has the largest number of tanks in the world? Russia

✓ The largest producer of nuclear energy in the world is United States

✓ Which country derives 75% of its electricity, the highest percentage in the

world, from nuclear power? France

✓ Which country has the largest stockpile of nuclear weapons in the world?

Russia

✓ Which country has the largest fleet of ballistic missile submarines in the world?

United States

✓ The only country constructing nuclear-powered icebreakers is Russia

✓ Which country has the world's largest forest reserves? Russia

✓ The Russia's forest reserves are called the lungs of Europe

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✓ The United Kingdom EU referendum (or the Brexit referendum) was took place

on 23 June 2016 ✓ In the Brexit referendum 51.9% voted to leave the EU.

✓ To leave the EU, the British government will have to invoke Article 50 of the

Treaty on European Union.

✓ The most populous country in the world is China

✓ Which country has the largest standing military force in the world? China

✓ International Business Machines (IBM) is an American technology company

✓ The headquartered of IBM is located in New York

✓ The nickname of IBM is Big Blue

✓ The slogan of IBM is Think

✓ The most powerful super computers in the world are the Sunway Taihu Light

✓ The Sunway TaihuLight super computers are manufactured by China

✓ The largest telecommunications equipment manufacturer in the world is

Huawei

✓ The headquarter of Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. is located in Shenzhen

✓ The most valuable company in the world is Aramco

The Aramco is a company of Saudi Arabia

The headquarter of BMW is located in Munich

Ferrari is a/an Italian sports car

The headquarter of Mercedes-Benz is located in Stuttgart

Dragon boat racing is a popular traditional sport in China

✓ Which country is often referred to as the "Giant of Africa"? Nigeria

✓ The largest stock exchange on the African continent is the stock exchange of

South Africa

✓ Boko Haram is a terrorist organization in Nigeria

✓ The Williamson Diamond Mine is located in Tanzania

✓ Which mountain is the most difficult mountain to climb and is also called the

killer mountain? Nanga Parbat

✓ The mountain Nanga Parbat is located in Pakistan

✓ The only city which has hosted the Olympics Games for 3 times is Berlin

✓ The largest laboratory in the world is CERN

✓ The only fertile desert in the world is Tharparkar

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✓ The most densely populated desert in the world is Thar Desert

✓ The world's most visited paid monument in the world is Eiffel Tower

✓ The only substance leaving the cooling towers of nuclear power plant is Water

vapour

✓ The largest nuclear power plant in the world is Bruce Nuclear Generating Plant

✓ The Bruce Nuclear Generating Station is located in Canada

✓ The largest machine in the world is Hadron Collider

✓ Which country has the Large Hadron Collider, the largest machine in the world?

Switzerland

✓ On 5 July 2016, NASA's Juno space probe entered orbit of the planet Jupiter ✓

The spacecraft Juno completed the 2.8 billion kilometers distance to Jupiter in 2

years. ✓ The spacecraft will orbit Jupiter 37 times over the course of 20

months.

✓ Cassini-Huygens, an unmanned spacecraft was sent to the planet Saturn

✓ Warren Buffett is an American business magnate, investor and philanthropist.

✓ The headquartered of Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers

(ICANN) is located in Los Angeles

✓ The slogan of ICANN is One World. One Internet ✓ Google is a subsidiary

company of Alphabet Inc.

✓ Internet.org is a partnership between Facebook and other companies to

provide internet services to less developed countries.

✓ Project Loon by Google is a mission to provide internet access to rural and

remote areas. The longest railway tunnel in the world is Gotthard Base Tunnel

Stephen Hawking is a/an British theoretical physicist and cosmologist.

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The world's largest rapid transit system by number of stations is New

York City Subway

The world's largest rapid transit system by route length is Shanghai

Metro system

The Oscar award 2015 for Best Actor was won by Leonardo DiCaprio

✓ The Oscar award 2015 for the best actress was won by Brie Larson

✓ The world's first underground railway system was built in London

✓ The Temple of Jupiter was located in Lebanon

✓ Which company bought the Yahoo's internet business? Verizon

Communications ✓ Verizon Communications acquired Yahoo's internet

business for $4.8 billion.

✓ In 2015, AOL, an American multinational mass media corporation, was

acquired by Verizon Communications for $4.4 billion.

✓ In 2011, Skype was acquired by Microsoft for $8.5 billion.

✓ In June 2016, Microsoft announced plans to acquire LinkedIn for $26.2

billion.

✓ Xbox is a video gaming brand developed and owned by Microsoft

✓ On 24 August 2016, an earthquake of magnitude 6.2 on the moment

magnitude scale, hit Italy killing around 300 people.

✓ On 4 September 2016, Mother Teresa, a Catholic nun was declared a saint

for her services to help poor in India

✓ Who is the current Prime Minister of UK? Theresa May

✓ The 11th G20 summit was held on 4-5 September 2016 in China

✓ For the first time, Nanga Parbat, also called the killer mountain, was

successfully climbed in winter in February 2016

✓ The Samsung is a multinational conglomerate company of South Korea

✓ Philips is a technology company of Netherland

✓ The "Door to Hell", a continuously burning natural gas crater, is located in

Turkmenistan

✓ The only two doubly landlocked countries (countries surrounded by

landlocked countries) in the world are Uzbekistan and Liechtenstein