Explanation

This is for the second time that portfolio of Fayyaz Chohan has been changed. He was first removed as Information Minister in 2019.

Mr Chohan was holding additional charge of information department but he has been allowed to retain the portfolio of Colonies department. Dr Firdous Awan has been appointed as Special Assistant to the Chief Minister on Information in place of Javaid Akhtar.

Updated November 5, 2020

Explanation

The Indian composer and Persian-language poet Amīr Khosrow is the creator of qawwali

Qawwali began to emerge in 8th century Persia.

However, Qawwali, as we know it today, began to take shape in 13th-century India.

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Explanation

Fatima Jinnah: younger sister of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Fatima Jinnah born: 31th July 1893

Fatima Jinnah is referred as:  Madr-e-Millat (Mother of Nation)

Fatima Jinnah died: 9 July 1967

Fatima Jinnah died at age: 71

Fatima Jinnah died: Karachi

Fatima Jinnah profession: Dental Surgeon

AGM  5.2.23

Explanation

Ruth Pfau was a German–Pakistani Catholic nun of the Society of the Daughters of the Heart of Mary, and a physician.

Ruth Pfau moved from Germany to Pakistan in 1961.

Ruth Pfau was honoured with the Hilal-i-Pakistan-, Hilal-i-Imtiaz-, Nishan-i-Quaid-i-Azam-, and the Sitara-i-Quaid-i-Azam award for her services to Pakistan.

Dr Pfau, who was hailed as the Mother Teresa of Pakistan, passed away on 10 August 2017 in Karachi.

Explanation

Explanation

Ibn Battuta was a Muslim Berber-Moroccan scholar, jurist, and explorer who widely traveled the Old World, largely in the lands of Dar al-Islam

The full name of Ibn Battuta was Muhammad Ibn Battuta.

He was born on February 25, 1304

Died: 1369, Marrakesh, Morocco

Place of burial: Tomb of Ibn Battuta, Tangier, Morocco

 his extensive travels covering some 75,000 miles (120,000 km) in trips to almost all of the Muslim countries and as far as China and Sumatra 

Explanation

• Famous folk singer Pathanay Khan was born in Basti Tambu Wali, Kot Addu, in the Muzaffargarh district in 1926.
• Pathanay Khan was a Pakistani Saraiki folk singer who mostly sang Kafis or Ghazals, usually drawing on the Sufi poetry of Khwaja Ghulam Farid and Shah Hussain.

Explanation

Bilquis Bano Edhi HI was a Pakistani nurse

save the lives of over 16,000 children

Bilquis Bano Edhi was: the wife of Abdul Sattar Edhi (married in 1966)

Born: August 14, 1947, Bantwa, India

Bilquis Bano Edhi passed away at the age of 74 on April 15th, 2022 

Awards: Hilal-i-Imtiaz, Ramon Magsaysay Award, Lenin Peace Prize

Resting place: Mewa Shah Graveyard, Karachi

Explanation

The Chishtī Order is a tariqa, an order or school within the mystic Sufi tradition of Sunni Islam.

The Chishti Order is known for its emphasis on love, tolerance, and openness.

It began in Chisht, a small town near Herat, Afghanistan, about 930 AD.

Explanation

Know about Allama Iqbal

Once Allama Iqbal said  Itehad is the basis of our progress.

Father: Sheikh Noor Muhammad

Mother: Imam Bibi

Received PhD: Germany

Title: Poet of the East

Famous books: Bang-e-Dara, Zarb-i-Kalim, Armughan-e-Hijaz

Famous Punjabi Books/Poem: Piyaara Jedi, Baba Bakri Wala

Died: 21 April 1938

Burial: Badshahi Mosque in Lahore