Asia | MCQs

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• On 8 January 2024, Pakistani shooter Kishmala Talat qualified for the Paris 2024 Olympics after bagging a silver medal at the Asian Shooting Championship in Jakarta, Indonesia.
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• Kishmala Talat is the first Pakistani female shooter to qualify for the Paris Olympics 2024.
  
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Pakistan won Men's Hockey Junior Asia Cup

First time: 1988

Second time: 1992

Third time: 1996

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• Pakistan defeated India by 5 wickets in Super Four match of the Asia Cup 2022.
• Played at: Dubai International Cricket Stadium

• Played: 4 September 2022

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• Pakistan defeated India by 5 wickets in Super Four match of the Asia Cup 2022.
• Played at: Dubai International Cricket Stadium

• Played: 4 September 2022

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• India defeated Pakistan by five wickets in T20 in Asia Cup.
• Match played:  28 August 2022
• Match played: at the Dubai Cricket Stadium in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)
  

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• Afghanistan is an Asian Country that gained independence from Great British in 1919
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• Although Afghanistan was never part of the British Empire,
• It gained its independence from Britain after the signing of the Anglo-Afghan Treaty in 1919 – a treaty that granted complete neutral relations between Afghanistan and Britain.

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ð  The Ramon Magsaysay Award, named after a Filipino president killed in a plane crash, was established in 1957.

ð  The Ramon Magsaysay Award dubbed as Asia’s highest award equivalent to Nobel Prize.

ð  Pakistani Dr. Muhammad Amjad Saqib won the Ramon Magsaysay Award for pioneering the idea of Interest-Free Microfinance Programme.

ð  Dr. Amjad Saqib, Founder Akhuwat foundation.

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The loans comprise $0.30 billion in program lending, $1.01 billion from project lending, and $3 million from grants.

The report released: 25th April 2022

Pakistan become the largest recipient of the Asian Development Bank(ADB) loans for the year 2022.

This report was released in April 2023

Pakistan received 5.58 billion US dollars in 2022.

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Batkhela is the main tehsil, city and capital of Malakand District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.