Learn about Pakistan
Introduction
Pakistan,
officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia. It is
the world’s sixth-most populous country with a population exceeding 212,742,631
people. In area, it is the 33rd-largest country, spanning 881,913 square
kilometres (340,509 square miles). Pakistan has a 1,046-kilometre (650-mile)
coastline along the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered
by India to the east, Afghanistan to the west, Iran to the southwest, and China
in the far northeast. It is separated narrowly from Tajikistan by Afghanistan's
Wakhan Corridor in the northwest, and also shares a maritime border with Oman.
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Some Quick Facts about Pakistan
1. Capital:
Islamabad
2. Largest
City: Karachi
3. Official
Language: English, Urdu
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Formation Day: 14 August 1947
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Currency: Pakistani Rupee
6. States:
No States but 4 Provinces
6. Tourist
places: Naltar Valley,
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| Naltar Valley |
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| Gojal Valley |
7. Famous Food: Briyani
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| Pakistani Briyani |
General Knowledge Questions on Pakistan
Question 1: How many times India and Pakistan had war?
Answer: Three declared war and one undeclared war
Relations between India and Pakistan have been complex and largely hostile due to a number of historical and political events. Relations between the two states have been defined by the violent partition of British India in 1947, the Kashmir conflict and the numerous military conflicts fought between the two nations. Consequently, their relationship has been plagued by hostility and suspicion.
Soon after their independence, India and Pakistan established diplomatic relations but the violent partition and numerous territorial claims would overshadow their relationship. Since their Independence, the two countries have fought three major wars, one undeclared war and have been involved in numerous armed skirmishes and military standoffs.
Question 2: what was the result of all wars had between India and Pakistan?
Answer: India and Pakistan fought four wars. following are the results:
First Indo-Pakistani War (1947–1948)
Result: Ceasefire -Partitioning of Kashmir between India and Pakistan.
Second Indo-Pakistani War (1965)
Result: Decisive Indian victory - The Tashkent Declaration was a peace agreement between India and Pakistan signed on 10 January 1966 that resolved the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.
Siachen conflict (1984)
Result: Decisive Indian victory - India annexed the Siachen Glacier.
Kargil War (1999)
Result: Decisive Indian victory - India regains possession of Kargil.
Question 3: Who is the first Governor General of Pakistan?
Answer: Mohammed Ali Jinnah
Muhammad Ali Jinnah (born Mahomedali Jinnahbhai; 25 December 1876 – 11 September 1948) was a lawyer, politician, and the founder of Pakistan. Jinnah served as the leader of the All-India Muslim League from 1913 until Pakistan's independence on 14 August 1947, and then as Pakistan's first Governor-General until his death. He is revered in Pakistan as Quaid-i-Azam ("Great Leader") and Baba-i-Qaum ("Father of the Nation"). His birthday is considered a national holiday in Pakistan.
Question 4: When Musharraf overthrew the government of Nawaz Sharif what designation did he take?
Answer: Chief Executive
Question 5: In which year did Pakistan win the Cricket World Cup?
Answer: 1992
The final of the 1992 ICC Cricket World Cup was played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne on 25 March 1992. The match was won by Pakistan under their captain Imran Khan who defeated England by 22 runs to lift their first ever World Cup trophy. This was the second Cricket World Cup final to be played outside England and the first in Australia. 87,182 spectators turned out to see the final and the stadium was fully packed during the match.
Question 6: When did Pakistan win Olympic gold medal in Hockey for the first time?
Answer: 1960
Pakistan first participated at the Olympic Games in 1948 in London, and has sent athletes to compete in every Summer Olympic Games since then, except when they participated in the American-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Soviet Union. The National Olympic Committee for Pakistan was created in 1948. Rome 1960 has been the most successful Olympics for Pakistan so far, with Pakistan winning two medals: a gold medal in field hockey and a bronze medal in wrestling.
Question 7: Which party was in power in North West Frontier Province at the time of independence?
Answer: Congress
Question 8: When Sindh was annexed by the British what message was sent by Charles Napier to headquaters?
Answer: Peccavi
General Sir Charles James Napier, GCB (/ˈneɪpɪər/;[1] 10 August 1782 – 29 August 1853), was an officer and veteran of the British Army's Peninsular and 1812 campaigns, and later a Major General of the Bombay Army, during which period he led the military conquest of Sindh, before serving as the Governor of Sindh, and Commander-in-Chief in India.
Question 9: Where was General Pervez Musharraf born?
Answer: Delhi
Pervez Musharraf (born 11 August 1943) is a Pakistani politician and retired four-star army general who was the 10th President of Pakistan from 2001 until tendering his resignation, to avoid impeachment, in 2008.
Born in Delhi during British Raj, Musharraf was raised in Karachi and Istanbul. He went on to study mathematics at the Forman Christian College in Lahore and would later study at the Royal College of Defence Studies in 1991. Musharraf entered the Pakistan Military Academy in 1961 and was commissioned in the Pakistan Army in 1964 and went on to play an active role in the Afghan civil war. Musharraf saw action in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 as a second lieutenant; by the 1980s, Musharraf was commanding an artillery brigade. In the 1990s, he was promoted to major general and assigned an infantry division, and later commanded the Special Services Group. Later he served as deputy military secretary and the director general of military operation.
Question 10: Where is the tomb of Mughal Emperor Jahangir?
Answer: Lahore
The Tomb of Jahangir is a 17th-century mausoleum built for the Mughal Emperor Jahangir. The mausoleum dates from 1637, and is located in Shahdara Bagh in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan, along the banks of the Ravi River. The site is famous for its interiors that are extensively embellished with frescoes and marble, and its exterior that is richly decorated with pietra dura. The tomb, along with the adjacent Akbari Sarai and the Tomb of Asif Khan, are part of an ensemble currently on the tentative list for UNESCO World Heritage status.
Question 11: Who succeeded Zia Ul Haque as President of Pakistan?
Answer: Ghulam Ishaq Khan
Ghulam Ishaq Khan (January 20, 1915 – 27 October 2006), was a Pakistani bureaucrat who served as the 7th President of Pakistan, elected in 1988 until his resignation in 1993.
Raised in Bannu, Ghulam Ishaq graduated from Peshawar University and entered the Indian Civil Service, opting for Pakistan after the independence in 1947. Appointed the first chairman of the Water and Power Development Authority by President Ayub Khan in 1961, Ghulam Ishaq also served as Finance Secretary from 1966 to 1970. A year later, he was appointed Governor of the State Bank by President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, before being made Defence Secretary in 1975, assisting with Pakistan's atomic bomb programme. He was retained by President Zia-ul-Haq as Finance Minister in 1977, overseeing the country's highest GDP growth average. Elected Chairman of the Senate in 1985, Ghulam Ishaq was elevated to the presidency after Zia's death in an air crash on August 17, 1988. He was elected president on December 13, as the consensus candidate of the Islami Jamhoori Ittehad and Pakistan People's Party.
Question 12: When did Pakistan become a Republic?
Answer: 23/3/1956
Pakistan adopted a constitution in 1956, becoming an Islamic republic. An ethnic civil war and Indian military intervention in 1971 resulted in the secession of East Pakistan as the new country of Bangladesh.[29] In 1973, Pakistan adopted a new constitution which stipulated that all laws are to conform to the injunctions of Islam as laid down in the Quran and Sunnah.
Question 13: How many times did squash player Jansher Khan win World Open?
Answer: Eight
Jansher Khan (born 15 June 1969, in Peshawar, Pakistan) is a former World No. 1 professional Pakistani squash player. During his career he won the World Open a record eight times, and the British Open six times. Jansher Khan's retirement brought an end to nearly 50 years of domination by Pakistan in the sport of squash.
Question 14: Who sang Mujko bhi zara lift kara de?
Answer: Adnan Sami
Adnan Sami Khan (born 15 August 1971) is an Indian singer, musician, music composer, pianist and actor. He performs Indian and western music, specially for Hindi movies. His most notable instrument is the piano. He is credited for being the first person to play Indian classical music on the piano in a style he created through the Santoor. A review in US-based Keyboard magazine described him as the fastest keyboard player in the world and called him the keyboard discovery of the nineties. As a multi-platinum recording artist, he has sold the biggest selling independent albums of all time in India. He can play over 35 musical instruments.
He was born in London to Arshad Sami Khan, a Pakistani diplomat of Pashtun origin, and Naureen, who was originally from Jammu and Kashmir state in North India. The Times of India has called him the "Sultan of Music".
Question 15: Who did the title role in the film Henna?
Answer: Zeba Bakhtiar
Zeba Bakhtiar is a Pakistani film and television actress and a television director. She made her television debut with a Pakistan Television Corporation (PTV) drama play, Anarkali (1988). She made her Bollywood debut in Henna in 1991. She is also known for her marriage to Adnan Sami, divorce and custody battles.
Question 16: Which Indian Cardinal was from Karachi?
Answer: Valerian Gracias
Valerian Gracias (23 October 1900 – 11 September 1978) was an Indian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Bombay from 1950 until his death and was elevated to the rank of cardinal in 1953 by Pope Pius XII. Valerian Gracias was born in Karachi, British India (in modern Pakistan), to José (d. 1902) and Carlota Gracias. His parents were from Dramapur/Navelim, Goa, working in Karachi.
Question 17: Which is the national flower of Pakistan?
Answer: Jasmine
In Pakistan, Jasmine is a very common plant and one can find it in any garden. Because of its attractive scent, the white jasmine symbolizes attachment and represents amiability and modesty; therefore, Jasmine was named the "National flower of Pakistan".
Question 18: Who designed Pakistan’s national flag?
Answer: Ameer-ud-din Khidwai
Syed Ameer ud din Kidwai (1901 at Barabanki, United Province, India – 21 August 1973 at Lahore, Pakistan) was an active advocate within the Pakistan Movement and designer of the flag of Pakistan.
Question 19: Which military alliance had Pakistan as its member?
Answer: SEATO
The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) was an international organization for collective defense in Southeast Asia created by the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty, or Manila Pact, signed in September 1954 in Manila, Philippines. The formal institution of SEATO was established on 19 February 1955 at a meeting of treaty partners in Bangkok, Thailand. The organization's headquarters were also in Bangkok. Eight members joined the organization.
Primarily created to block further communist gains in Southeast Asia, SEATO is generally considered a failure because internal conflict and dispute hindered general use of the SEATO military; however, SEATO-funded cultural and educational programs left long-standing effects in Southeast Asia. SEATO was dissolved on 30 June 1977 after many members lost interest and withdrew.
Question 20: Who wrote Pakistan’s first national anthem?
Answer: Jagannath Azad
Jagan Nath Azad (5 December 1918 – 24 July 2004) was an Urdu poet, writer and academician. He wrote over 70 books, including poetry collections, poems, biographies, and travelogues. He was an authority on the life, philosophy and works of Muhammad Iqbal. He served as President of the Iqbal Memorial Trust for a term of five years (1981–85). Azad was elected vice-president of Anjuman Taraqqi-i-Urdu (a national body for the promotion of Urdu under the Ministry of Human Resource Development) in 1989 and President in 1993, remaining in this office till his demise. He was at his writing desk until fifteen days before he died – of carcinoma and a brief illness – at the Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute & Research Centre in New Delhi, India on 24 July 2004. He was 84 and is survived by his wife and five children.
Tarana-e-Pakistan is claimed to be the first national anthem that was played in Pakistan's national radio on 14 August 1947[1] of Pakistan said to be composed by Jagannath Azad at the request of Mohammad Ali Jinnah but this claim is unsubstantiated. It was never officially adopted as Pakistan's national anthem and the Qaumi Tarana was officially adopted as Pakistan's national anthem in 1950.
Question 21: Which is the national language of Pakistan?
Answer: Urdu
Question 22: What is Pakistan’s film industry known as?
Answer: Lollywood
Lollywood is the oldest film industry of Pakistani cinema, based in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. Since 1929, Lahore has been the center of Pakistani cinema, producing films in both the Punjabi and Urdu languages. Since 2007, however, Karachi has largely overtaken Lahore in Urdu film productions. The word "Lollywood" was coined in the summer of 1989 in Glamour magazine, published from Karachi, by gossip columnist Saleem Nasir.
Question 23: Which is the national animal of Pakistan?
Answer: Markhor
The markhor, also known as the screw horn goat, is a large species of wild goat that is found in northeastern Afghanistan, northern and central Pakistan, Jammu and Kashmir, southern Tajikistan, eastern Turkmenistan, southern Uzbekistan and in the Himalayas. The species was classed by the IUCN as Endangered until 2015 when it was downgraded to Near Threatened, as their numbers have increased in recent years by an estimated 20% for the last decade. The markhor is the national animal of Pakistan.
Question 24: Which is the national bird of Pakistan?
Answer: Chakor
The chukar partridge, or simply chukar (Alectoris chukar), also called Chukor, is a Eurasian upland gamebird in the pheasant family Phasianidae. It has been considered to form a superspecies complex along with the rock partridge, Philby's partridge and Przevalski's partridge and treated in the past as conspecific particularly with the first. This partridge has well marked black and white bars on the flanks and a black band running from the forehead across the eye and running down the head to form a necklace that encloses a white throat.
The chukar is the national bird of Iraq and of Pakistan,
Question 25: Which Pakistani Prime Minister received Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee when he arrived by bus to Lahore?
Answer: Nawaz Shariff
Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif (Urdu/Punjabi: میاں محمد نواز شریف, born 25 December 1949) is a Pakistani businessman and politician who served for three non-consecutive terms as the Prime Minister of Pakistan, and for two terms as the Chief Minister of Punjab.
Question 26: What is the meaning of Pakistan?
Answer: Holy Land
The name Pakistan literally means "land of the pure" in Urdu and Persian. It alludes to the word pak meaning pure in Persian and Pashto. The suffix (-stan) is a Persian word meaning the place of, and also recalls the synonymous (and cognate) Sanskrit word sthana.
The name of the country was coined in 1933 as Pakstan by Choudhry Rahmat Ali, a Pakistan Movement activist, who published it in his pamphlet Now or Never, using it as an acronym ("thirty million Muslim brethren who live in PAKSTAN") referring to the names of the five northern regions of British India: Punjab, Afghania, Kashmir, Sindh, and Baluchistan. The letter i was incorporated to ease pronunciation.
Question 27: What was the major event of 1971?
Answer: Bangladesh broke away from Pakistan during Bangladesh Liberation War.
The Bangladesh Liberation War, also known as the Bangladesh War of Independence, or simply the Liberation War in Bangladesh, was a revolution and armed conflict sparked by the rise of the Bengali nationalist and self-determination movement in what was then East Pakistan during the 1971 Bangladesh genocide. It resulted in the independence of the People's Republic of Bangladesh. The war began after the Pakistani military junta based in West Pakistan launched Operation Searchlight against the people of East Pakistan on the night of 25 March 1971. It pursued the systematic elimination of nationalist Bengali civilians, students, intelligentsia, religious minorities and armed personnel. The junta annulled the results of the 1970 elections and arrested Prime minister-designate Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. The war ended on 16 December 1971 after West Pakistan surrendered.
