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• The oldest news agency in the world is  AFP
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•  French Agence France-Press  (AFP)
•  It was started 1835 in Paris as Agence Havas
• Today it is one of the three largest English-language news agencies, together with AP and Reuters.
• (AFP) is a French private international news agency headquartered in Paris
  

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Walid bin Abdul Malik was the sixth caliph of the Umayyad dynasty, ruling from 705 to 715 CE.

During his reign, the Debal incident occurred in 711 CE, when the Arab governor of Sindh, Muhammad bin Qasim, conquered the port city of Debal (now Karachi) in modern-day Pakistan.

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حضرت عثمان بن عفان نے اسلامی سلطنت میں پہلا جنگی بحری بیڑا تیار کیا۔

یہ بیڑا 29 ہجری میں تیار کیا گیا تھا اور اس کا مقصد بحری جنگی کی صلاحیت کو بہتر بنانا تھا۔

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• On 31 May 1936 Quetta was devasted by an earthquake;
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• An earthquake occurred on 31 May 1935
• An earthquake occurred between 2:33 am and 3:40 am at Quetta.
• The causalities were up to 60,000
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Related Question to Earthquake:

• Attabad lake emerged in the Hunza valley due to an Earthquake
• A powerful earthquake killed at least 1000 people and left scores injured in Afghanistan in the early hours on 22 June 2022.
• Who came to Pakistan after the earthquake as a special representative of UNO's earthquake relief? George Bush Sr.
• Alaska U.S. state has had the most earthquakes
• Which two countries witnessed a massive earthquake on October 30, 2020? Turkey and Greece
• Which province was mostly hit by an earthquake in Afghanistan in June 2022? Paktika

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• An earthquake is a 

  Natural Disaster

• An activity related to an earthquake is Seismic activity

• An earthquake can be simplified as a Shaking of the earth
  The intensity of an earthquake is measured by: the Richter scale

• The earthquake had a magnitude of 7.7 Mw
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• Richter Scale was developed in 1935.
• Seismology is the study of earthquakes.

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• The Bronze Age is a historic period, approximately 3300 BC to 1200 BC,

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• The Bronze Age in the Near East is divided into three main periods (the dates are very approximate):
• EBA - Early Bronze Age (c.3500-2000 BC)
• MBA - Middle Bronze Age (c.2000-1600 BC)
• LBA - Late Bronze Age (c.1600-1200 BC)
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Concept Of The Bronze Age
The Bronze Age was characterized by the use of bronze, the presence of writing in some areas, and other early features of urban civilization.

• Bronze was made by melting tin and copper, and mixing them together.
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The British conquered Sindh in 1843 after their victory in the Battle of Miani.

The annexation of Sindh to British India was formalized through the signing of the Treaty of Annexation in 1847.

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3rd June plan also known as partition plan announced Lord Mountbatten on 3 June 1947.

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Charles Cornwallis is often referred to as the 'Father of Civil Service in India'.

Cornwallis was the Governor-General of India from 1786 to 1793 and again from 1805 to 1806. 

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