Pakistan | MCQs

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Baluchistan got the status of a province on 1st July 1970

Baluchistan province is located in South West of Pakistan.

Baluchistan covers 42 percent of the area of Pakistan

Capital of Baluchistan is Quetta.

The area of Baluchistan is 3,47,190 Km2.

Baluchistan is the biggest province of Pakistan by area

Balochistan was given the status of a province during the era of Yahiha Khan

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• Operation Zarb-e-Azb, started by Army Chief General Raheel Sharif, ran from June 15, 2014, to February 22, 2017, in Pakistan.
• It including North Waziristan, FATA, Karachi, Balochistan, and Punjab.
• Operation Radd-ul-Fasaad, launched on February 22, 2017.
• It is an intensive nationwide operation against terror groups led by Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa.

Explanation

Youm-e-Takbeer is celebrated on May 28

It is celebrated  in commemoration of the Chagai-I and Chagai-II series of nuclear tests

This day made Pakistan the seventh nuclear state of the world

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Explanation

Murree receives the highest rainfall in all of Pakistan with an annual average of more than 1500 mm.

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The area having the lowest rainfall in Pakistan is Nokhudi (Balochistan)

Equatorial regions receive rainfall throughout the year

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Pakistan became an "Islamic Republic" in its 1956 constitution.

This constitution was the first to declare Pakistan as an Islamic Republic, reflecting the country's identity as a democratic state founded on the principles of Islam.

**Additional Info**

The constitution was adopted on March 23, 1956.

The 1956 Constitution was abrogated in 1958

when President Iskander Mirza imposed martial law and declared himself the Chief Martial Law Administrator

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Tirich Mir is the highest mountain in the Hindu Kush range

It’s the 33rd-highest peak in the world.

It is the highest mountain in the world

Tirich Mir is located in the Chitral District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Tirich Mir height: 7708 meters 

Its first recorded climber on 21 July 1950 by a Norwegian

Additional Information:

Pakistan Highest Peaks List:

Himalayas range: Nanga Parbat

K-2: Krakarm range

Kirthar: Zardak peak

Koh e Suleman: Takhat e Sulaimani

Salt range: Sakesar

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Know everything about Musharraf

Born: Delhi (August 11, 1943)

Graduated: Pakistan Military Academy at Kakul (1964)

Appointed chief of army staff: October 1998

Appointer: Nawaz Sharif

Musharraf became 10th president of Pakistan in 2001 until 2008.

Coup: October 12, 1999 (declared a state of emergency)

In June 2001, Musharraf became the president of Pakistan.

In 2006, Musharraf’s autobiography titled In the Line of Fire was published.

In March 2007, Musharraf suspended then chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry.

Musharraf imposed a state of emergency on November 3, 2007.

Resigned from his position of army chief November 2007

Replacer: General Ashfaq Pervaiz Kayani

Musharraf lifted the emergency on December 15, 2007.

In 2010, Musharraf launched his political party — All Pakistan Muslim League (APML).

He flew to Dubai on March 17, 2016

On December 17, 2019, a special court handed Musharraf death sentence in the high treason case (only military ruler to be sentenced to death)

Died: 5 February 2023

Dying place: Dubai, UAE

Disease: amyloidosis

Aged: 79

Buried: Karachi

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The highest military award is Nishan-e-Haider

Captain Raja Muhammad Sarwar, the country's first recipient of Nishan-i-Haider.

Nishan-e-Pakistan: Highest Civil Award 

Tamgha-e- Khidmat: Smallest Civil Award 

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The Simla Conference of 1945 was a meeting between the Viceroy of India Lord Wavell and the major political leaders of British India at the Viceregal Lodge in Simla.

Lord Wavell

Field Marshal Archibald Percival Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, GCB, GCSI, GCIE, CMG, MC, KStJ, PC was a senior officer of the British Army.

He served in the Second Boer War, the Bazar Valley Campaign and the First World War, during which he was wounded in the Second Battle of Ypres

Born: May 5, 1883, Colchester, United Kingdom

Died: May 24, 1950, Westminster, London, United Kingdom

Full name: Archibald Percival Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell

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