Escolar Documentos
Profissional Documentos
Cultura Documentos
A. 900 B. 1001
C. 1100 D. None of these
2. Shahab-ud-Din Muhammad Ghuri
defeated Pirthviraj in the year 1192 in
the field of:
A. Panipat B. Nagpur
C. Tarori D. None of these
3. Qutb-ud-Din Aibak was succeeded
on Delhi throne by:
A. Aram Shah
B. Iltumish
C. Razia Sultana D. None of these
4. The downfall of Muslim rule in India
started with the demise of:
A. Akbar B. Aurangzeb
C. Bahadur Shah Zafar
D. None of these
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D. None of these
13. The British Prime Minister Ramsay
Mcdonald announced the Communal
Award in 1932 at the end of:
A. First Round Table Conference
B. Second Round Table Conference
C. Third Round Table Conference
D. None of these
14. All India Muslim League observed
the Direct Action Day on:
A. August 6, 1944
B. August 6, 1945
C. August 6, 1946
D. None of these
15. Objectives Resolution was passed
by the Constituent Assembly of
Pakistan on:
A. March 12, 1947
B. March 12, 1948
C. March 12, 1949
D. None of these
16. With regard the division of power
between Federation and Provinces, the
Constitution of Pakistan (1962) was
provided with:
A. Single list of subjects
B. Two lists of subjects
C. Three lists of subjects
D. None of these
17. The Government of Pakistan
established the Indus River System
Authority in the year:
A. 1960 B. 1970
C. 1980 D. None of these
18. Under the Indus Waters Treaty of
1960 Pakistan has the right to use
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C. Humayun
D. Qudrat Ullah Shahab
25. Who accepted Akbar's "Din-eIllahi"?
A. Todar Mal B. Ma'an Singh
C. Birbal D. None of these
26. Which office held supreme judicial
authority during Mughal rule?
A. King B. Qazi-ul-Qazat
C. Saddar-us-Sadur
D. None of these
27. Who supported Muslim
participation in politics?
A. Wiqar-ul-Mulk
B. Mohsin-ul-Mulk
C. Maulana Zafar Ali khan
D. Allama Iqbal
28. Who is the author of "Hunter Par
Hunter"?
A. Depuy Nazir Ahmed
B. Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
C. Maulana Zafar Ali khan
D. None of these
29. Who drafted "Wardha Scheme"
under the guidance of Gandhi?
A. Abul Kalam Azad
B. Nehru
C. Dr Zakir hussain
D. None of these
30. How many Muslim seats were
secured by All India Muslim League in
1945-46 election of provincial
assemblies?
A. 396 B. 425
C. 441 D. None of these
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constituted to propose the future
constitution of India?
A. Feb 1927 B. Feb 1928
C. Feb 1929 D. None of these
50. When the Congress Ministries
resigned from their offices?
A. Nov 1927 B. Feb 1928
C. Feb 1929 D. None of these
51. When Simla Conference was
concluded with failure?
A. June 14, 1945 B. July 14, 1945
C. Aug 14, 1945
D. None of these
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C. Caliph Abdul Aziz
D. None of these
62. What was the real name of Shah
Waliullah?
A. Qutabuddin Ahmad Faruqi
B. Qutabuddin Ahmad Siddiqui
C. Qutabuddin Ahmad Syed
D. None of these
63. Who was formal teacher of Syed
Ahmad Barelvi?
A. Sheikh Ahmad Sirhindi
B. Shah Waliullah
C. Shah Abdul Aziz
D. None of these
64. Who for the first time translated
the Holy Quran in to Urdu language?
A. Shah Waliullah and Shah Abdul
Aziz
B. Shah Abdul Qadir and Shah
Rafiuddin
C. Syed Ahmad Barelvi and Shah
Ismail Dehlavi
D. None of these
65. Faraizi Movement was primarily a
religious movement. What change
Dudhu Mian brought in the
movement?
A. Transferred it into a guerrilla
movement
B. Transferred it into a political
movement
C. Transferred it into a cultural
movement
D. None of these
66. Which of the following was/were
the drawback(s) of the Government of
India Act 1858?
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Banares launched a movement for the
replacement of Urdu written in
Nasta'leeq by Hindi written in Deva
Nagiri script as the Court language. In
which province(s) was this movement
started?
A. Bengal Province
B. Central Provinces
C. North-western Provinces
D. None of these
72. What was the designation of Sir
Syed Ahmad Khan in M.A.O School at
Aligarh?
A. Secretary, Managing
Committee
B. President Managing Committee
C. Patron Managing Committee
D. None of these
73. Which organization is considered
the first Muslim political body
constituted to represent the Muslims
of the subcontinent as a whole?
A. Anjuman-e-Mussalmanan-eHind
B. Central National Mohammadan
Association
C. Urdu Defence Association
D. None of these
74. Mention the important
announcement(s) that was/were made
by the Governor General Lord
Hardinge in his Darbar at Delhi in
1911?
A. Annulment of the partition
B. Transfer of capital from Calcutta to
Delhi
C. Both of these D. None of these
75. Which Muslim leader left the
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D. None of these
80. In which year Pakistan became
Republic?
A. 1947 B. 1956
C. 1962 D. None of these
81. Who was the governor of Sindh
after Muhammad bin Qasim?
A. Zaid Bin Marwan
B. Yazid Bin Muhallab
C. Abdullah Bin Haris
D. None of these
82. Who was the Mughal emperor who
accepted the British pension firstly?
A. Alamgir-II B. Shah Alam-II
C. Akbar-II
D. None of these
83. Ahmad Shah Abdali launched his
early invasion against:
A. Mughals
B. Marhattas
C. Sikhs D. None of these
was started?
A. 1864 B. 1877
C. 1875 D. None of these
88. Anjuman-i-Himayat e Islam was
started in:
A. 1849 B. 1884
C. 1885 D. None of these
89. The Constitution of All India
Muslim League was written by:
A. Mohsinul Mulk
B. Muhammad Ali Jauhar
C. Nawab Salimullah of Dacca
D. None of these
90. The first session of Muhammadan
Educational Conference was held in
Bengal:
A. 1886 B. 1899
C. 1906 D. None of these
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A. 1928
C. 1931
B. 1929
D.None of these
A. 3000BC -3500BC
B. 4000BC- 4500BC
C. 4500BC-5000BC
D. None of these
99. The most ancient civilization is:
A. Harappa B. Moenjodaro
C.Mehargarh
D.None of these
100. The author of The Case of
Pakistan is:
A. Rafiq Afzal
B. S. M. Ikram
C. I. H. Qureshi
D. None of these
For MCQs
Pakistan's National Anthem was
first released on Radio Pakistan
on August 13, 1954
Written CSS 2015 Special
Thursday, January 01, 2015
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Muhammad Ali Bogra became the
Prime Minister of Pakistan.
1954: Malik Ghulam Muhammad
dissolved the Constituent Assembly
and declared a state of emergency.
11 Aug, 1955: Chaudhary
Muhammad Ali was appointed Prime
Minister of Pakistan
15 Oct, 1955: Iskander Mirza became
the Governor General of Pakistan after
Malik Ghulam Muhammad.
1955: PIA was founded.
23 Mar 1956: First Constitution of
Pakistan was promulgated whereby
Pakistan was declared as Islamic
Republic and Iskander Mirza became
the first President of Pakistan after
implementation of this constitution.
12 Sept 1956: Hussain Shaheed
Suhrawardy became the Prime
Minister replacing Chaudhary
Muhammad Ali.
11 July 1957: Sir Agha Khan died in
Geneva.
Oct 1957: H.S. Suhrawardy resigned
from the premiership and Ismail
Ibrahim Chundrigar was appointed as
the new PM.
16 Dec, 1957: Malik Feroz Khan Noon
replaced I.I. Chundrigar as Prime
Minister.
7 Oct, 1958: First Martial Law was
imposed by Iskander Mirza and 1956
Constitution was abrogated. General
Muhammad Ayub Khan became the
Chief Martial Law Administrator. After
three weeks, General Ayub Khan
ousted Iskander Mirza and declared
himself as the President of Pakistan
and also gave himself the rank of Field
Marshal.
23 Mar, 1960: Foundation stone of
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signed.
1972: Third census in Pakistan was
conducted.
13 Aug, 1973: Bhutto became the
Prime Minister while Fazal Elahi
Chaudhary became the President of
Pakistan.
14 Aug, 1973: 1973 constitution was
promulgated.
20 Dec, 1973: Bhutto laid the
foundations of Pakistan Steel Mill at
Pipri near Karachi.
22 Feb, 1974: Pakistan recognised
Bangladesh in OIC Summit held at
Lahore.
1 July, 1974: Several new
corporations were created out of
Pakistan Industrial Development
Corporation (PIDC), including PMDC,
State Cement Corporation.
1976: Qadianis were declared nonMuslims.
31 July, 1976: Kahuta Engineering
Research Laboratories (KRL) was
founded by Dr A.Q. Khan.
5 July, 1977: Third martial law was
imposed by Gen Zia-ul-Haq. He
postponed the announced elections of
15th October 1977.
7 Aug, 1977: First Pakistani, namely
Ashraf Aman, summited the K2.
16 Sept, 1978: General Zia-ul-Haq
took over as the President after Fazal
Elahi's tenure was over.
Jan, 1979: Pakistan National Shipping
Corporation was founded.
4 Apr, 1979: Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was
hanged.
1981: Fourth census in Pakistan was
held.
6 Feb, 1981: Movement for
restoration of Democracy was
launched.
23 Mar, 1981: Provisional constitution
was enforced after 1973 Constitution
was suspended under Zia's Martial
Law.
1 May, 1981: Kahuta Research
Laboratories was renamed as Khan
Research Laboratories (KRL).
Dec, 1984: Presidential referendum
was held and General Zia-ul-Haq
became the President of Pakistan.
Feb, 1985: General elections were
held on non-party basis.
20 Mar, 1985: General Zia-ul-Haq
nominated Muhammad Khan Junejo as
the Prime Minister of Pakistan.
14 Nov, 1985: 8th Amendment in the
1973 Constitution was passed by the
Senate.
Dec, 1985: Martial Law was lifted and
political parties were banned.
Aug, 1986: Karakoram Highway was
opened for public.
17 Aug, 1988: Zia-ul-Haq died in a
plane crash near Bahawalpur. Ghulam
Ishaq Khan, Chairman Senate,
assumed the office of the President of
Pakistan.
Nov, 1988: Pakistan Peoples Party
won elections. Benazir Bhutto became
the Prime Minister.
16 July, 1990: Pakistan's first satellite
Badr-1 was launched from China.
6 Aug, 1990: Ghulam Ishaq Khan
dismissed Benazir Bhutto accusing her
of corruption. Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi
became the caretaker PM.
24-27 Oct, 1990: Elections for
provincial and national assemblies
were held.
1 Nov, 1990: Nawaz Sharif became
the Prime Minister of Pakistan.
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25 Mar, 1992: Pakistan won its first
cricket world cup beating England.
19 Apr, 1993: Nawaz Sharif was
dismissed by President Ghulam Ishaq
Khan and National Assembly was
dissolved once again. Mr Balakh Sher
Mizari was appointed caretaker PM.
26 May, 1993: Supreme Court
reinstated Nawaz Sharif as the Prime
Minister.
8 July, 1993 President Ghulam
Ishaq Khan and Prime Minister Nawaz
Sharif both resigned dissolving
National and Provincial Assemblies.
Moin Qureshi was appointed as a
caretaker PM and Ghulam Ishaq Khan
as the caretaker President.
19 Oct, 1993: Benazir Bhutto once
again gained power after winning
elections.
13 Nov, 1993: Sardar Farooq Ahmad
Khan Laghari was elected President.
5 Nov, 1996: Benazir government
was dismissed by President Farooq
Laghari.
6 Nov, 1996: Malik Meraj Khalid was
appointed as caretaker PM.
Feb, 1997: Elections were held.
17 Feb, 1997: Nawaz Sharif was reelected as Prime Minister after Muslim
League won with an overwhelming
majority.
28 Oct, 1997: Government of
Pakistan submitted its instrument of
ratification to the Chemical Weapons
Convention (CWC).
1997: Thirteenth and Fourteenth
amendments were passed.
1 Jan, 1998: Rafiq Tarar became the
new President of Pakistan.
1998: Fifth census was held.
28 May, 1998: Five nuclear
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Pakistan on October 18, 2007 after an
eight year exile in Dubai and London.
3 Nov 2007: General Pervez
Musharraf proclaimed a state of
emergency and sacked the Chief
Justice of Pakistan, Justice Iftikhar
Muhammad Chaudhary along with
other 14 judges of the Supreme Court.
28 Nov 2007: General Pervez
Musharraf retired from the Army and
the following day, he was sworn in for
a second presidential term.
27 Dec 2007: Benazir Bhutto was
assassinated when she was leaving an
election rally in Rawalpindi.
18 Feb 2008: General elections were
held in Pakistan.
18 Aug 2008: President Pervez
Musharraf announced his resignation.
9 Sept 2008: Asif Ali Zardari became
the president of Pakistan
19 April 2010: President Asif Ali
Zardari signed historic 18th
amendment.
01 May 2011: US Special Forces
killed Al-Qaida's Chief Osama bin
Laden in a shootout at Abbottabad in
an operation named Geronimo.
19 July 2011: Hina Rabbani Khar took
oath as 26th minister for foreign
affairs.
20 Oct, 2011: Muammar Gaddafi
died from wounds he suffered in an
attack by rebels.
11 Dec, 2011: The United States
evacuated the Shamsi Airbase.
8 April 2012: An avalanche smashed
into a Pakistan Army camp burying at
least 135 soldiers and civilians near
Siachen glacier.
19 June 2012: The Supreme Court of
Pakistan disqualified Prime Minister
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months.
3. Adieu the Bravehearted!
7. The Race Schism
On July 23, the single-engine plane of
17-year-old American-Pakistani pilot
Haris Suleman, who was attempting a
world record of travelling around the
world in 30 days to raise money for
the education of underprivileged
children in Pakistan, crashed in the
sea.
4. Paid in the Same Coin?
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World's Top 10 Stories
Back to Square One, Peace is Still
Elusive, Spilling the Beans?,
Nature's Wrath or Sheer
Ineptness?, Better Late Than
Never!, A Wake-up Call, It's A Big
No!, Historic Yet Insignificant,
Imposed Reconciliation, A Neverending War,
Pakistan Affairs Special
Wednesday, October 01, 2014
Back to Square One!
On Aug 18, New Delhi called off the
Aug 25 meeting of foreign secretaries
of the two countries because of
Pakistani high commissioner's
consultative session with a Hurriyat
leader.
Peace is Still Elusive
On Aug 26, Israel and the Palestinians
agreed to an Egyptian-brokered plan
to end the fighting in Gaza after 50
days of combat in which more than
2,100 Palestinians, most of them
civilians, 64 Israeli soldiers and five
civilians in Israel were killed.
Spilling the Beans?
On Sep 01, the President of PTI,
Makhdoom Hashmi, alleged Imran
Khan of going against the core
committee decision to not to march on
the PM House. He said that the
country has been brought to the verge
of martial law.
Nature's Wrath or Sheer
Ineptness?
On Sep 07, hundreds of thousands of
people were marooned, their houses
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Imposed Reconciliation
On Sep 21, Afghanistan's presidential
rivals, Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah
Abdullah, signed a power-sharing deal
according to which the former will be
the President of Afghanistan whereas
the latter will nominate his choice for
the new post of chief executive.
A Never-ending War
On Sep 23, the US military began
airstrikes against ISIS in Syria.
Fighters, bombers and Tomahawk Land
Attack Missiles are being used in the
attack. The airstrikes focused on the
ISIS stronghold of Raqqa.
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THE JOURNEY STARTS WITH A
BANG!, THINGS FALL APART,
DEMOCRACY: LA AFGHANISTAN,
HAPLESSLY YOURS, MY LORD!,
NOBEL FOR THE NOBLE, A
CRIPPLING DISHONOUR,
SYMBOLIC YET SIGNIFICANT,
ROUTED OR VINDICATED?, OUR
NATIONAL SHAME, THE SOCIAL
MEDIA REVOLUTION
CSS Interview Special
Saturday, November 01, 2014
THE JOURNEY STARTS WITH A
BANG!
On Sep 22, Alibaba Group Holding
Ltd's initial public offering now ranks
the world's biggest in history at $25
billion, after the e-commerce giant and
some of its shareholders sold
additional shares.
THINGS FALL APART
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274-12 to give diplomatic recognition
to Palestine. The symbolic non-binding
vote is an indication of the British
government's shift since the recent
conflict in Gaza.
ROUTED OR VINDICATED?
On Oct 16, Makhdoom Javed Hashmi,
who deserted PTI during sit-in, lost
election to Amir Dogar, an
independent candidate who had the
support of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf, in
NA-149.
Mr Dogar bagged 52,321 votes against
Mr Hashmi's 38,393.
OUR NATIONAL SHAME
On Oct 19, in an extremely shameful
incident, the head office of the
country's leading charity organisation
headed by renowned and widely
respected philanthropist Abdul Sattar
Edhi was robbed. The robbers took
away about Rs30 million worth of gold
and cash.
THE SOCIAL MEDIA REVOLUTION
On October 21, senior officials in Hong
Kong held talks live on television with
protesters clad in T-shirts displaying
the slogan Freedom Now. The
encounter was the first between the
two sides since pro-democracy unrest
broke out in Hong Kong nearly a
month ago.
World Top 10
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4. BREAKING THE SILENCE
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Meliorating the Ties
Nov 19: Chief of the Army Staff (COAS)
General Raheel Sharif went on an
official visit to the US. During the visit,
he was conferred on US Legion of
Merit Medal for brave leadership,
sagacity, vision, efforts for peace and
stability in the region.
Pride of Pakistan
Nov 21: Raniya Hosain, a 15-year-old
Pakistani student, was declared winner
in the Commonwealth Essay
Competition. Her essay about
Pakistans contribution to the
Commonwealth outsmarted 10,000
entries from more than 500 schools in
44 Commonwealth nations.
Simply the Geniuses
Nov 23: While the scientists around
the globe are in search of efficient
enzymes that can simplify the process
of starch hydrolysis for glucose and
maltose production, four scientists
from the University of the Punjab
discovered a novel thermo-acidophilic
enzyme.
63 Not out FOREVER!
Nov 27: Australian batsman Phillip
Hughes died from an injury to his
head, two days after being struck by a
bouncer during a domestic first class
match.
Whither Democracy?
Dec 2: Chan Kin-man, Benny Tai Yiuting and Chu Yiu-ming, the original
founders of Hong Kongs
prodemocracy Occupy Movement
announced they would surrender by
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Dec 24: Pakistans political leadership
agreed to set up special military
courts to try hardened terrorists. The
courts, which will be operative for two
years, will require a constitutional
amendment before they could start
functioning.
was indicted.
Groundbreaking Discovery
On Mar 17, experts at the HarvardSmithsonian Center for Astrophysics
announced detecting the waves of
gravity that rippled through space
right after the Big Bang; a landmark
discovery for understanding how the
universe was born.
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unprecedented lawsuit demanding
that they meet their obligations
toward disarmament.
Asia Pivot Policy
On April 26, US President Barack
Obama reached Malaysia hoping to
energise aloof ties with the country. He
is the first US president to visit
Malaysia since 1966.
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Whose Faith, Whose Girls?, United
We Stand, Divided We Fall, The
Wrath of Nature, Another Plus for
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End of Their Tether, Denouncing
the US Hegemony, Under the
Boots Again, Still the Securest
Area?, Easy SIMs, No More
Stupid!,
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Sunday, June 01, 2014
Whose Faith, Whose Girls?
On the night of 1415 April 2014,
approximately 276 female students
were kidnapped from the Government
Secondary School in the town of
Chibok in Borno State, Nigeria. The
kidnappings were claimed by Boko
Haram.
United We Stand, Divided We Fall
On April 23, President Mahmood
Abbass Palestine Liberation
Organisation (PLO) and Gaza-based
group Hamas agreed to a unity pact.
The move envisions a unity
government within five weeks and
national elections six months later.
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investigation of possible war crimes.
Pakistan.
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Terror Returns
On June 08, ten militants attacked
Karachi Airport killing at least 23
people. Seven terrorists were killed by
the security forces while three blew
themselves up. Fortunately, no plane
was damaged in the attack.
Tensions Mounting
On June 14, Russia cut off gas to
Ukraine in a dispute over unpaid bills
that could disrupt supplies to the rest
of Europe and set back hopes for
peace in the former Soviet republic.
More Power to Your Elbow!
On June 15, Pakistan Army launched a
comprehensive operation Zarb-e-Azb
against local and foreign militants in
North Waziristan. This is the third fullscale military operation launched in
north western belt since 2009.
Ugly Show of Power
On June 17, nine people, including two
women, were killed after clashes
between supporters of PAT chief Dr
Tahir-ul-Qadri and Punjab police.
Clashes started when police started
removing barriers from the road
outside Dr Qadris residence.
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everywhere.
A Pure Feat
On July 02, Pakistans first-ever
highest altitude meteorological
climate station was installed at the K2
Base Camp the Boltoro in the
Karakorum that has started giving the
real time data.
Gaza Bleeds Again
On July 06, the Israel military carried
out 10 air strikes on Gaza in response
to persistent rocket fire into southern
Israel as hopes faded of a renewed
truce with its Islamist foe Hamas.
Something is Fishy
On July 11, former PM Yousuf Raza
Gillani revealed that during his
government an understanding was
reached with the establishment that
President Musharraf would be given an
honourable exit, if he resigned.
Another Feather in CMs Cap
On July 13, Chief Minister Punjab Mian
Shahbaz Sharif inaugurated the signalfree Azadi Chowk flyover that was
completed in a record period of 165
days.
The Real Joga Bonito!
On July 13, Substitute Goetzes
stunning extra-time winner helped
Germany grab their fourth World Cup
crown after a 1-0 victory over
Argentina at the Maracana Stadium,
Rio de Janeiro.
Science Facts
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the definition of a planet. This means
that Pluto is now referred to as a dwarf
planet.
15. Because of lower gravity, a
person who weighs 200 pounds on
earth would only weigh 76 pounds on
the surface of Mars.
16. The only planet that rotates on
its side like a barrel is Uranus. The
only planet that spins backwards
relative to the others is Venus.
17. The first manmade object sent
into space was in 1957 when the
Russian satellite named Sputnik was
launched.
18. It is because of the Suns and
Moons gravity that we have high &
low tides.
19. Hydrogen is the first element on
the periodic table. It has an atomic
number of 1.
It is highly flammable and is the
most common element found in our
universe.
20. Around 1% of the sun's mass is
oxygen.
21. Helium is lighter than the air
around us so it floats, that's why it is
perfect for the balloons.
22. Carbon comes in a number of
different forms (allotropes), these
include diamond, graphite and impure
forms such as coal.
23. Under normal conditions, oil and
water do not mix.
24. Things invisible to the human
eye can often be seen under UV light,
which comes in handy for both
scientists and detectives.
25. Chemical reactions occur all the
time, including through everyday
activities such as cooking.
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War 2, the United States used atomic
bombs on the Japanese cities of
Hiroshima and Nagasaki, leading to
the death of approximately 200000
people.
35. Enriched uranium is a crucial
element of both nuclear weapons and
nuclear power production.
36. Energy from food is usually
measured in joules or calories.
37. Light from the Earth takes just
1.255 seconds to reach the Moon.
38. Sound travels at a speed of
around 767 miles per hour (1,230
kilometres per hour).
39. A magnifying glass uses the
properties of a convex shaped lens to
magnify an image, making it easier to
see.
40. 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics was
won by Albert Einstein for his work in
the field of theoretical physics.
41. Most types of energy are either a
form of kinetic energy or potential
energy.
42. Energy can be transformed from
one form to another. In lightning,
electric potential energy transforms
into light, heat and sound energy.
43. The law of conservation of
energy states that energy can only be
transformed, it can't be created or
destroyed.
44. Food contains chemical energy
which is used by living organisms such
as animals to grow and reproduce.
45. Plants use energy from sunlight
during an important process called
photosynthesis.
46. During chemical reactions,
chemical energy is often transformed
into light or heat.
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different liver functions.
29. The aorta is nearly the diameter
of a garden hose.
30. Your left lung is smaller than
your right lung to make room for your
heart.
31. You could remove a large part of
your internal organs and survive.
32. The adrenal glands change size
throughout life.
33. Sneezes regularly exceed 100
mph.
34. Coughs clock in at about 60
mph.
35. Women blink twice as many
times as men do.
36. A full bladder is roughly the size
of a soft ball.
37. Approximately 75% of human
waste is made of water.
38. Feet have 500,000 sweat glands
and can produce more than a pint of
sweat a day.
39. During your lifetime, you will
produce enough saliva to fill two
swimming pools.
40. The average person expels
flatulence 14 times each day.
41. Earwax production is necessary
for good ear health.
42. The largest cell in the human
body is the female egg and the
smallest is the male sperm.
43. The three things pregnant
women dream most of during their
first trimester are frogs, worms and
potted plants.
44. Your teeth start growing six
months before you are born.
45. Babies are always born with blue
eyes.
46. Babies are, pound for pound,
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sunburn damages the blood vessels
extensively.
65. Over 90% of diseases are caused
or complicated by stress.
66. A human head remains
conscious for about 15 to 20 seconds
after it is been decapitated.
67. It takes 17 muscles to smile and
43 to frown.
68. Babies are born with 300 bones,
but by adulthood the number is
reduced to 206.
69. We are about 1 cm taller in the
morning than in the evening.
70. The strongest muscle in the
human body is the tongue.
71. The hardest bone in the human
body is the jawbone.
72. You use 200 muscles to take one
step.
73. The tooth is the only part of the
human body that can't repair itself.
74. It takes twice as long to lose new
muscle if you stop working out than it
did to gain it.
75. Bone is stronger than some
steel.
76. The feet account for one quarter
of all the human body's bones.
77. About 32 million bacteria call
every inch of your skin home.
78. Humans shed and regrow outer
skin cells about every 27 days.
79. Three hundred million cells die in
the human body every minute.
80. Humans shed about 600,000
particles of skin every hour.
81. Every day an adult body
produces 300 billion new cells.
82. Every tongue print is unique.
83. Your body has enough iron in it
to make a nail 3 inches long.
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for social security liabilities, and
employers contribute 11%.
Cayman Islands
This British Overseas Territory mainly
relies on indirect taxation, and there's
no income tax or corporate tax. The
country charges up to 22% as import
duties. It is a thriving offshore financial
centre with over 93,000 registered
companies in 2008. Tourism accounts
for about 70% of the country's GDP.
United Arab Emirates (UAE)
The gross domestic product (GDP) of
UAE is $360 billion. Instead of
deducting from personal income, the
country taxes oil companies up to 55%
in corporate taxes. There are also
other indirect taxes, such as housing
fees, municipal taxes, road tolls, and
service charges.
The Bahamas
The Bahamas relies on offshore
financing and tourism as its main
economic industries. 36% of the
Bahamas' $11.4 billion GDP is from
financial services, and more than 60%
is from tourism. Aside from no income
tax, the country also has no corporate
tax, value added tax, and capital gains
tax.
Qatar
Qatar has a GDP of $183 billion with
more than 50% accounting for oil and
gas export and revenues. In 2013,
Global Finance Magazine named Qatar
the world's richest country. The local
government here also doesn't charge
any road tax, car tax, council tax or
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natural gas, construction, and
agriculture. Even though there isn't
any income tax, Brunei citizens are
required to pay a social security trust
fund at 5% of their salaries, and an
additional 3.5% that goes to their
pension funds. There's also a 12% real
property tax in the country's capital,
Bandar Seri Begawan, and a corporate
tax of 20% for local and non-local
companies.
MCQs
B. Yasin Malik
C. Shabir Shah
D. Azhar Bhat
A. ISI
B. IB
C. ISPR
D. MI
B. AJKPSC
C. BPSC
D. SPSC
A. Saira Afzal
B. Salman Iqbal
A. 7
B. 9
C. Pervez Rashid
Pervez
D. Samina
C. 11
D. 13
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7. The Earthquake Memorial Bridge on
the banks of the River Jhelum was
funded by______.
A. August 18 B. August 22
C. August 24 D. August 27
A. World Bank
B. Asian Development Bank
C. Japan Bank of International
Cooperation (JBIC)
B. Sri Lanka
C. Afghanistan
D. India
B. Javed Hashmi
C. Murad Saeed
B. Attabad Lake
C. Dasu Hydropower Project
D. Manda Dam
A. 2010
B. 2011
C. 2012
D. 2013
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14. The current Speaker of Balochistan
Assembly is ______.
A. Mir Jan Mohammad Jamali
B. Lahore
C. Quetta
D. Islamabad
A. Aug 24
B. Aug 25
A. Sindh
C. Aug 26
D. Aug 28
C. Peshawar D. Islamabad
B. Balochistan
A. First
B. Second
A. UN
B. World Bank
C. Third
D. Seventh
C. IMF
D. ADB
B. Sep 06
A. Aug 29
B. Aug 30
C. Sep 08
D. Sep 10
C. Aug 31
D. Sep 01
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22. International Union for
Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is
headquartered at ______.
A. Geneva, Switzerland
B. Gland, Switzerland
A. Fasih Bukhari
B. Ahmed Tasnim
C. Rome, Italy
C. Aslam Baig
D. Hameed Gul
D. Milan, Italy
B. Qila Abdullah
International
1. On Aug 19, ______ of Pakistan was
appointed on the panel of advisers to
the Commission on Missing Persons
and War Crimes set up by the Sri
Lankan government ______.
D. Quetta
A. Ahmer Bilal Soofi
B. Adil Gilani
C. Asma Jahangir
A. Sep 06
B. Sep 08
D. Ch Aitzaz Ahsan
C. Sep 12
D. Sep 14
A. Fayyaz Leghari
B. Iqbal Mehmood
A. 66
C. 146
B. 87
D. 158
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C. 1981
D. 1984
A. Stanford B. Cambridge
C. California D. Harvard
B. Ahmet Davutoglu
C. Abdullah Gl
D. Blent Arn
A. 1985-90
B. 1991-96
C. 1997-2002
D. 2002-05
A. California
C. Chicago
B. New Jersey
D. New York
A. Jordan
C. Kaum De Heere
C. Saudi Arabia
B. Egypt
D. Iraq
D. Fateh
A. 1978
B. 1980
B. Second
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C. Third
D. Fourth
A. Virginia B. Washington DC
C. Bonn
B. Geneva
D. Berlin
A. Serbia
B. Croatia
C. Luxemburg
D. Ukraine
B. 150,000
C. 200,000 D. 300,000
B. Aug 28
C. Aug 29
D. Aug 31
B. Aug 23
C. Aug 25
D. Aug 26
A. Maulana Rumi
B. Mustafa Kamal Ataturk
C. Osmani King Saleem
A. Demi Lovato
B. Miley Cyrus
D. lk Adatepe
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19. Conference of Western Balkan
States was held on Aug 28 in ______,
Germany.
A. Berlin
B. Bonn
C. Essen
D. Cologne
A. India
B. Bangladesh
C. Iran
D. Pakistan
B. Aug 28
C. Aug 30
D. Sep 04
C. Nepal
D. Guyana
B. John Allen
D. Egypt
A. 10th
B. 12th
B. Lee Jong-wook
C. 15th
D. 20th
C. Margaret Chan
D. Hiroshi Nakajima
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27. At present, the SCO observer
countries are______, Pakistan and
India.
A. 19th
B. 20th
C. 21st
D. 22nd
A. Maldives B. Iran
C. Sri Lanka D. Bangladesh
A. Russian
B. British
C. Danish
D. Japanese
A. 6
B. 8
C. 10
D. 12
A. 12
B. 14
A. Tunisia
C. 57
D. 63
C. Egypt
B. Maldives
D. Thailand
Sports
30. Indonesia got independence from
_____ on 17 August 1945.
A. France
B. Great Britain
C. Russia
D. Netherlands
B. Australia
D. Sri Lanka
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A. Third
B. Fourth
C. Fifth
D. Sixth
B. 30th
C. 34th
D. 36th
B. 2005
C. 2006
D. 2007
C. Third
D. Fourth
B. England
C. Argentina D. Spain
B. Second
C. Third
D. Fourth
B. American
C. Canadian D. British
A. 20
B. 26
C. 29
D. 32
10. On Sep 08, Serena Williams
defeated ______ to win a third
consecutive US Open championship.
B. Second
A. Maria Sharapova
B. Li Na
C. Caroline Wozniacki
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D. Ana Ivanovic
A. 1963
B. 1965
C. 1973
D. 1978
Obituaries
1. Pakistan's first-ever world champion
in any sport, squash star Hashim
Khan, died on ______.
A. Aug 16
B. Aug 18
C. Aug 19
D. Aug 22
A. Bangla
B. Kannada
C. Tamil
2. Former Irish prime minister, Albert
Reynolds, who helped broker the IRA
ceasefire in ______, has died.
D. Hindi
A. 1990
B. 1994
C. 1996
D. 1997
A. Sep 06
B. Sep 07
C. Sep 09
D. Sep 10
A. American B. Iranian
A. American
B. British
C. Canadian D. British
C. French
D. Canadian
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A. Sep 08
B. Sep 10
C. Sep 12
D. Sep 14
D. Bureaucrat
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from making appointments on high
profile positions that violate the
Supreme Court verdict in the Khawaja
Asif case.
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military operation.
Investment Board.
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order to shoot.
The act has provided legal standing to
the federal government and civil
armed forces to keep in custody for 90
days those involved in terrorism,
target killing, kidnapping for ransom
and extortion.
June 27: The Sri Lankan government
cancelled the on-arrival visa facility for
Pakistan, citing security reasons.
June 30: The Senate unanimously
approved the Protection of Pakistan
Bill which gives more powers to
security forces combating terrorism in
the country.
June 30: President Mamnoon Hussain
approved the appointment of Justice
Nasirul Mulk as the new Chief Justice
of the Supreme Court.
June 30: Chief Minister Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa allocated additional
portfolio of Energy and Power to
Muhammad Atif, Minister for
Elementary and Secondary Education,
with immediate effect.
July 02: Pakistan's first-ever highest
altitude meteorological climate station
was installed at the K2 Base Camp
the Boltoro in the Karakorum that has
started giving the real time data.
July 03: Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali
of the Supreme Court was sworn in as
acting Chief Election Commissioner
(CEC) by Chief Justice Tassaduq
Hussain Jillani.
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University Department of Library and
Information Sciences was changed to
Department of Information
Management.
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the apex court.
July 11: The Supreme Court
reinstated Mohammad Malick as the
managing director (MD) of Pakistan
Television (PTV) until a final decision
on his appeal against the July 7 verdict
of the Islamabad High Court (IHC).
July 11: After much debate in and
outside parliament and strong
opposition by certain political parties
and human rights groups, the
Protection of Pakistan Ordinance-2014
was finally signed into law by
President Mamnoon Hussain.
The new law will remain in force for
two years and provides sweeping
powers to law enforcement agencies
and the military to deal with outlaws
and terrorists.
July 13: Pakistan's urban air
pollution is among the most severe in
the world and it engenders significant
damage to human health and the
economy, according to a newly
released report titled Cleaning
Pakistan's Air.
July 13: Chief Minister Punjab Mian
Shahbaz Sharif inaugurated the signalfree Azadi Chowk flyover and an
alternative route of new Circular Road.
The project was completed in a record
period of 165 days at a cost of Rs5.35
billion. The total length of the flyover
interchange is 2.53km and it will
benefit 200,000 vehicles daily.
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MPA from Mian Channu, Pir Shujaat
Hasnain Qureshi 71, passed away.
June 27: Prominent Pashto comedian
Murad Ali, popularly known as Gul Bali,
died.
July 13: Shahzada Mohammad Aslam
Khan Ahmedzai, former commander of
Kalat State Force passed away. He was
90.
July 14: The bureaucrat-turned-writer,
Jamil Ahmed, who was the author of
'The Wandering Falcon', passed away
at the age of 81.
Sports
June 21: Pakistan put up a mixed show
in the 5th Asian Men & Women
Throwball Championship 2014 in Kuala
Lumpur when they finished third in the
women`s competition.
People in News
Asma Jahangir
Qamar-uz-Zaman Chaudhry
On June 29, UN World Meteorological
Organisation's (WMO) Secretary
General appointed Dr Qamar-uzZaman Chaudhry, an eminent
Pakistani climate change expert, his
special envoy on Disaster Risk
Reduction and Climate Services for
Asia.
Mr Muhammad Ali
On July 01, Pakistan Ordnance
Factories General Manager
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Lahore
On June 29, a multi-party conference
was hosted by Pakistan Awami Tehreek
(PAT) came out with a five-point
charter of demands which declared
the ruling party leaders as responsible
for the June 17 Model Town police
action that claimed 10 lives.
Karachi Water and Sewerage Board
On June 29, the Karachi Water and
Sewerage Board sent a bill on account
of provision of water and services
charges for sewerage to the sister of
Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah
and a great leader of Pakistan
Movement, the late Fatima Jinnah, 47
years after her death.
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granted its prized World Heritage
status to the Grotte Chauvet, a
prehistoric cave in southern France
containing the earliest known
figurative drawings.
Delegates at Unesco's World Heritage
Committee met in Doha, Qatar.
June 23: The removal of Syria's
chemical weapons material was
completed, the Joint Mission of the
Organisation for the Prohibition of
Chemical Weapons and the United
Nations (OPCW-UN) announced.
June 23: A Sudanese woman Meriam
Yahia Ibrahim Ishag, 26, who gave
birth in prison after being sentenced
to hang for apostasy, was freed.
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part of an effort to boost London's
position as a centre for Islamic
finance.
June 25: Zhang Zhijun, director of the
Taiwan Affairs Office, China's most
senior official ever to visit Taiwan, met
his counterpart to try to improve
relations after mass protests in Taipei
earlier this year.
June 25: Pentagon chief Chuck Hagel
nominated General John Campbell, an
army officer who commanded troops
in volatile eastern Afghanistan to take
over command of the US-led force in
the country.
June 26: The World Health
Organization called for drastic action
to fight the deadliest Ebola outbreak
on record, as it announced an 11nation meeting to address the growing
crisis.
June 27: Rosneft signed its second
major agreement with BP since
sanctions were imposed on the
Russian oil company's chief executive.
The five-year agreement will supply BP
with up to 12 million tonnes of refined
oil products and involves a prepayment of at least $1.5 billion
arranged by leading global financial
institutions, Rosneft said.
June 27: European Union leaders
picked former Luxembourg Prime
Minister Jean Claude Juncker to
become the bloc's new chief
executive. With the move, the EU
leaders broke a decades-old tradition
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was signed in Beijing July 2013, came
into force, the first such accord
between the Asian giant and a
mainland European economy.
Senior Swiss and Chinese officials
marked the debut of the Free Trade
Agreement (FTA) at a ceremony in the
northern city of Basel, a highly
symbolic location given its historical
status as a hub for commerce along
the River Rhine.
July 01: The European Court of Human
Rights upheld France's controversial
burqa ban, rejecting arguments that
outlawing full-face veils breaches
religious freedom.
July 01: Major General Delali Johnson
Sakyi of Ghana was appointed Chief
Military Observer and Head of Mission
for the United Nations Military
Observers Group in India and Pakistan
by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
July 01: Saudi King Abdullah appointed
Prine Khaled bin Bandar bin Abdul Aziz
as new spy chief.
July 02: NASA launched a satellite
designed to track carbon dioxide, a
leading greenhouse gas that is
responsible for global warming.
July 02: The US Navy promoted a
woman Michelle Howard as vice chief
of naval operations, the number two
job in the service with the rank of a
four-star admiral, for the first time in
its 238-year history, a milestone for
females in the American military.
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counterpart Tony Abbott signed an
economic partnership pact as well as
an agreement on military equipment
and technology transfers.
July 08: India asked a United Nations
military observer group on Kashmir to
vacate a government-provided
bungalow in New Delhi, in a
toughening stance against a mission
that Indians have long opposed.
New Delhi considers the whole of
Kashmir as an integral part of the
country and has bristled against
external involvement in the region
including the U.N. Military Observers
Group on India and Pakistan
(UNMOGIP) that was set up in 1949
after their first war.
July 08: Somalia's Islamist Shebab
rebels launched a major bomb attack
and armed assault against the
country's presidential palace,
penetrating the heavily-fortified
complex and fighting a major gun
battle with security guards.
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delegation from attending the
Farnborough air show because of the
Ukraine crisis.
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grab their fourth World Cup crown
after a 1-0 victory over Argentina at
the Maracana Stadium.
Germany's victory ended the 24-year
wait for a World Cup title and made
them the first side from Europe to be
crowned world champions in the
Americas.
July 13: Brazil's miserable World Cup
campaign ended to a chorus of boos
as the hosts slumped to a 3-0 defeat
against the Netherlands in the third
place playoff match.
July 14: Despite having a golden
trophy in his hand, Lionel Messi just
couldn't look up and smile. This was
the Golden Ball the award for the best
players of the World Cup.
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On June 27, a Roman Catholic Church
tribunal Congregation for the
Doctrine of the Faith ordered to
defrock Jozef Wesolowski, a Polish
archbishop accused of child sex abuse
in the Dominican Republic.
Ravshan Irmatov
On July 06, Uzbekistan referee
Ravshan Irmatov made football history
when he took charge of a record ninth
World Cup game, the quarter-final
between Netherlands and Costa Rica.
Amit Shah
On July 09, India's ruling BJP elevated
controversial leader Amit Shah to the
post of its new party president. Mr
Shah is a close aide from Gujrat of
Prime Minister Narendra Modiand is
being tried in the Sohrabuddin fake
encounter killing after spending some
days in jail.
Dr Masuma Hasan
Kashmir
On July 13, Dr Masuma Hasan, former
Cabinet Secretary and Ambassador of
Pakistan, was named Goodwill
Ambassador of the World NGO Day
Initiative, in recognition of her
experience as Chairperson of The
Pakistan Institute of International
Affairs and her commitment to the
cause of women's empowerment as
President of the Board of Governors of
Aurat Foundation.
Emma Watson
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Britain
On July 10, more than one million
public sector workers went on strike in
Britain over pay and spending cuts by
the government imposed as part of its
austerity programme.
The strike, the biggest since Prime
Minister David Cameron's coalition
government took power in 2010,
involves a wide range of workers from
teachers and civil servants to street
sweepers and park attendants.
Obituaries
June 24: Former Venezuelan president
Ramon Jose Velasquez, known for his
role in opposing dictatorship in the
South American country, died. He was
97. He was the last living former
president of Venezuela.
June 24: Felix Dennis, a flamboyant,
boastfully profligate, immensely
successful British businessman who
built a publishing empire that included
Maxim, America's most successful
young men's lifestyle magazine, died.
He was 67.
June 25: Legendary character actor Eli
Wallach died aged 98.
Wallach made a name for himself in
Hollywood with a string of villainous
and gritty roles in classics such as The
Magnificent Seven, The Good, the Bad
and the Ugly and The Godfather: Part
III.
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age of 90.
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disqualified PML-N MNA Sultan
Mahmood Hinjra in NA-176
(Muzaffargarh).
July 18: The TAPI countries
Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan
and India signed the operational
agreement for laying down the transborder 1,735-kilometre-long pipeline,
starting from the Yolotan-Osman gas
field in Turkmenistan and ending in
India after passing through
Afghanistan and Pakistan.
July 18: A steering committee of the
Higher Education Commission for
support of IDPs from North Waziristan
announced free education along with
Rs5,000 monthly stipends to the
displaced students in all the major
public sector and some private
universities of the province.
July 21: A fact finding mission of the
Human Rights Commission of Pakistan
concluded that the Rangers-led
Karachi operation launched in
September last year had failed to
achieve its targets.
July 21: The Supreme Court
reinstated Hajj Policy 2014, declaring
the decision of Lahore High Court
(LHC) against the allocation of a quota
of 15,000 pilgrims to Hajj group
organisers as null and void.
July 21: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
government launched Rs. 1 billion
Islamic Micro Finance Scheme to
provide loans to around 170,000
people for medium and small
businesses.
The scheme will be implemented
through the sole public-sector bank
operating in the province, Bank of
Khyber.
July 22: Provincial Minister for Higher
Education Mushtaq Ghani replaced
Shah Farman as minister for
information of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
government.
July 22: Islamabad High Court Chief
Justice Muhammad Anwar Khan Kasi
set aside the prime minister's order of
turning down minister's order of
turning down recommendations of the
Central Selection Board (CSB).
July 23: Senior lawyer Syed Mubarak
Raza Kazmi, son-in-law of well-known
zakir Allama Talib Johari, was shot
dead.
July 23: The single-engine plane of
17-year-old American-Pakistani pilot
Haris Suleman, who was attempting a
world record of travelling around the
world in 30 days to raise money for
the education of underprivileged
children in Pakistan, crashed in the sea
on his way from Hawaii to California.
July 23: Pakistan International Airlines
(PIA), the countrys national flag
carrier, is currently operating with just
19 airworthy planes out of a total fleet
of 34 and needs new aircraft to
survive, PIA chairman Muhammad Ali
Gardezi told the Senate Standing
Committee on Rules, Procedures and
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Privileges.
July 24: Former chief justice Iftikhar
Mohammad Chaudhry served a Rs20
billion defamation notice on Pakistan
Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan.
July 24: Pakistan is ranked at 146
the same spot as in the previous year
among the 187 countries in UN's
2013 Human Development Index
(HDI)'s annual rankings. The HDI forms
part of the Human Development
Report (HDR) 2014, a flagship study
produced annually by the United
Nations Development Programme
(UNDP).
July 25: Punjab University's
Department of Zoology and Institute of
Mountain Hazard and Environment
(IMHE) signed a memorandum of
understanding (MoU) with Chinese
Academy of Sciences (CAS).
July 25: The Peshawar High Court
(PHC) restored the services of social
mobilisers of Population Welfare
Department across the province after
suspending the provincial
government's notification.
July 25: Britain restored an
agreement with Pakistan that provides
for the transfer of convicted criminals.
The agreement was declared null and
void by Britain following the release of
three dangerous prisoners from jails
after they were brought to Pakistan
during the previous government.
July 28: The Supreme Court observed
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its convener and MPAs and
educationists as members was formed
to accelerate progress of education
reforms being implemented in Sindh.
Aug 01: US Special Representative for
Afghanistan and Pakistan Daniel
Feldman, currently visiting Kabul,
assumed the charge of office, after his
predecessor Ambassador James
Dobbins concluded his tenure on July
31.
Aug 04: The National Assembly called
for an emergency session of the
Organisation of Islamic Cooperation
(OIC) to take effective action against
the Israeli invasion of Gaza after the
government managed to skip an
opposition sought debate on its
controversial move to call in troops in
Islamabad without any judicial
oversight.
Aug 04: Faqir Jamshed Ahmad Gesu
Daraz, leader of the Pakistan Seraiki
Party (PSP), and his companion were
killed in a bomb blast in Kulachi.
Aug 04: The government appointed
retired Lt Gen Mohammad Alam
Khattak as the defence secretary.
Aug 04: The Supreme Court denied
retired Justice Iftikhar Muhammad
Chaudhry access to the official record
of a contempt case which he as chief
justice had initiated against PTI chief
Imran Khan.
Aug 04: New reserves of gas and
condensate were found in Sindh's
Sanghar district.
The PPL, operator of Block 2568-18
(Gambat South) in Sanghar district
with 65 per cent working interest, said
its exploration well Sharf X-1 had
found the new reserves.
Aug 04: Minister of State for
Education and Interior Baleeghur
Rehman disclosed the government is
introducing ethics as a new subject
in public-sector universities across the
country.
Aug 04: Military operation Zarb-eAzab is progressing well as towns of
Miramshah, Mirali, Boya, Degan and
area till Dattakhel have been cleared
of Taliban militants, said Inter-Services
Public Relations (ISPR).
Aug 04: Punjab Ombudsman Javed
Mahmood ordered Chairman Board of
Intermediate and Secondary Education
Sahiwal to give four marks in Urdu
Paper-A to all the students appeared in
the Intermediate part-I examination
2013 as these marks could not be
given due to technical of BISE Sahiwal.
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in Afghanistan and US Army's Vice
Chief of Staff General John F. Campbell
said that Pakistani military offensive in
North Waziristan is a step in the right
direction and there's need for
continuing such actions.
Aug 06: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif
approved the appointment of Dr
Nadeem Javed as Pakistan's chief
economist.
Dr Nadeem Javed holds a Ph.D. in
Economics from France and has an
extensive experience in economic and
finance sector.
Aug 07: Air Marshal Sohail Gul Khan
was appointed Vice Chief of the Air
Staff. Air Marshal Khan was
commissioned in the Pakistan Air Force
in 1979 in the GD (P) branch.
Aug 07: The election tribunal
declared the election of a Pakistan
Tehreek-i-Insaf candidate to a
provincial assembly seat void for
obtaining illegal assistance of a
presiding officer in the constituency.
The runner-up, a Jamaat-i-Islami
candidate, was declared to have won
the PS-93 seat.
Aug 08: Pakistan handed over
Satyasheel Yadav, an Indian Border
Security Force soldier who had
mistakenly entered Pakistani territory,
to BSF officials as a goodwill gesture.
Aug 08: Minister for Information
Technology and Telecommunications
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Pakistan (AGP), in the dock, charging
him with misconduct for having
received more than Rs4.6 million in
what it called excess salary and
privileges in about three years and
demanding his removal through a
presidential reference to the Supreme
Judicial Council.
Aug 11: The Election Tribunal in
Karachi declared the election of
Ghulam Murtaza Jatoi, a member of
the national assembly, void and held
that the winning candidate was not
sagacious, righteous, non-profligate,
honest and Ameen.
The runner-up, a candidate of the
Pakistan Peoples Party, was declared
to have won the NA-211, a National
Assembly seat in Naushahro Feroze.
Aug 11: Maulana Fazlur Rehman was
elected unopposed chief of the Jamiat
Ulema-i-Islam for the fourth three-year
term.
Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Haideri
retained the post of general secretary.
Aug 11: The Supreme Court restored
Pervez Rathore as acting chairman
and Kamaluddin Tipu as member of
the Pakistan Electronic Media
Regulatory Authority (Pemra).
Aug 11: Minister for Planning,
Development and Reforms Ahsan Iqbal
announced various projects, including
a Rs10 billion Endowment Fund, for
promotion of education in the country.
Aug 11: Pakistan Vision 2025,
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Train at Margalla Station, Islamabad.
Aug 14: Interior Minister Chaudhry
Nisar Ali Khan finally announced the
government's decision to allow, in
principle, both the Pakistan Tehreek-iInsaf (PTI) and the Pakistan Awami
Tehreek (PAT) to march on the capital.
Aug 14: Pakistan Navy took over the
command of the multinational naval
counter-terrorism coalition force from
the UK Royal Navy.
The change of command of Combined
Task Force150 took place at the United
States Naval Forces Central Command
Headquarters in Bahrain and
Commodore Sajid Mahmood took over
command of CTF-150 from
Commodore Jeremy Blunden of the
Royal Navy.
Aug 14: On the 68th Independence
Day of Pakistan, the Capital
Development Authority (CDA) raised
highest flag-pole of South Asia in
Islamabad.
The National Flag measuring 60ft x
40ft at height of 215 feet is fluttering
between Islamabad Highway and
sector H-8.
Aug 15: Moving quickly to pre-empt
any possible military action against
the democratically elected
government, a four-judge bench of the
Supreme Court, headed by Chief
Justice Nasir-ul-Mulk and consisting of
Justice Jawwad S. Khawaja, Justice Asif
Saeed Khan Khosa and Justice Mushir
Alam, ordered state functionaries to
act in accordance with the principles
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22 officer of the Foreign Service of
Pakistan, as member Federal Public
Service Commission.
Aug 09: Former judge of the Lahore
High Court and Federal Shariat Court
Sheikh Farooq Ahmed was appointed
as chairman of Federal Service
Tribunal for a period of three years.
Aug 12: Punjab government
appointed Dr Nasir Javed as Special
Secretary Health, Punjab.
Sports
July 23: The Punjab Rugby Association
(PRA) elected Rizwan Malik and
Salman Majeed as president and
secretary of the association
respectively.
July 28: Former Pakistan captain
Salim Malik, who was banned for life
for match fixing in 2000, will have
money from frozen pension funds
released to him by the Pakistan Cricket
Board.
Aug 02: Pakistan boxer Mohammad
Waseem hit back at the judges after
losing the final of the flyweight
category to Australian Andrew
Moloney at the Commonwealth Games
in Glasgow.
Waseem lost by a unanimous decision
with the judges scoring for Moloney in
all three rounds.
Aug 06: The Pakistan and Indian
Punjab sports authorities collaborated
to launch the World Kabaddi League
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who entertained people for more than
three decades, breathed his last. He
was 54.
July 26: Majid Nizami, a veteran
journalist and editor-in-chief of the
Nawai Waqt Group, died. He was 86.
July 28: Shahid Sajjad, a distinguished
artist and the country's premier
sculptor, passed away. He was 77.
Islamabad
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On Aug 07, the Pakistan Model
United Nations (PKMUN) 2014
concluded at Lahore after a day of
committee sessions. During the
sessions, the conference committees
passed their final resolutions on the
crises being addressed as delegates
reached consensus on diverse topics,
including the Iraq Crisis, Unmanned
Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), Women's Rights
and the US in Afghanistan.
People in News
Aamir Bhatti
On July 17, Aamir Bhatti, a young
Pakistani seminarian preparing to
become a Catholic priest in Rome for
the past three years, was selected in
the Vatican cricket team.
Lord Tariq Ahmad
On July 18, Lord Tariq Ahmad of
Wimbledon was promoted to
Parliamentary Under Secretary of
State at UK's Department for
Communities and Local Government.
Tehmina Durrani
On July 24, the French ambassador in
Pakistan gave an award to Tehmina
Durrani for her writings on social and
women development. France
announced the award for Tehmina as
she has been working actively to
highlight the issues concerning
women.
Samina Baig
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peacekeepers of failing to protect the
8,000 slaughtered by ethnic Serb
troops just a few months before the
end of the Bosnian war.
July 17: A Malaysian airliner carrying
295 people from Amsterdam to Kuala
Lumpur crashed in rebel-held east
Ukraine.
Ukraine's government and pro-Russian
insurgents traded blame for the
disaster.
July 17: The World Punjabi Congress
nominated new office-bearers for its
Indian chapter. The new leaders are:
Prof Deepak Manmohan Singh
(director Punjabi Centre, Punjabi
University, Patiala), president; Dr
Vaneeta (Sahitya Award Winner, New
Delhi), vice-president; Prof Ravail
Singh (University of Delhi), general
secretary; Gurbhajan Gill (eminent
writer), secretary; and Veer Davinder
Singh Hakam Wala, in charge Press
and Publicity.
July 17: Sri Lanka appointed a highpowered three member panel of
international experts to advise the
post-war commission appointed last
year to investigate the complaints of
missing persons in Sri Lanka. The
mandate of the commission was
expanded to include an inquiry into
the war crimes allegedly committed by
the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
July 17: A crater was discovered in
Russia's Siberia region. Russian
scientists believe the 60-metre-wide
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plant in Japan, cleared an initial safety
hurdle that could make it the first
nuclear facility to restart under new
safety regulations designed after the
2011 Fukushima disaster.
July 17: The Australian government
repeated laws requiring large
companies to pay for carbon
emissions, fulfilling a key election
promise of Prime Minister Tony Abbott.
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July 21: China agreed to provide
Venezuela with a new $4 billion credit
line, with the money to be repaid by
oil shipments from OPEC member
Venezuela. The deal was inked during
a 24-hour visit to Venezuela by
Chinese President Xi Jinping, who is on
a tour of Latin America.
The money will go into the Joint
Chinese-Venezuela Fund, which
focuses on infrastructure and
economic development in the South
American country.
July 21: Georgian Prime Minister
Irakly Garibashvili fired five ministers
and moved two to other ministerial
positions in the first cabinet reshuffle
since coming to power two years ago.
July 21: June 2014 was the hottest
June since record-keeping began in
1880, according to a monthly report
out by US government climate
scientists.
July 22: A scandal involving expired
meat sold by a China unit of US food
supplier OSI Group spread to Japan, as
McDonald's confirmed that the now
shut factory provided Chicken
McNuggets to its restaurants.
Shanghai authorities shut an OSI plant
a supplier to McDonald's and KFC in
China for mixing out-of-date meat with
fresh product, re-labelling expired
goods and other quality problems.
July 22: Turkish authorities arrested
scores of senior police officers on
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not to set up their own marketplaces
under the law.
July 23: The United Nations launched
an international inquiry into human
rights violations and crimes that may
have been committed by Israel during
its military offensive in the Gaza Strip.
The UN Human Rights Council
condemned the Israeli assault which
involved disproportionate and
indiscriminate attacks, including aerial
bombing of civilian areas, collective
punishment, and the killing of more
than 650 Palestinians.
July 23: The Israelis admitted for the
first time that Hamas has now
hardened into a formidable foe.
July 23: A Somali lawmaker and
prominent singer-songwriter, Saado Ali
Warsame, was shot dead in the capital
Mogadishu by Shebab insurgents.
July 23: The Saudi cabinet decided to
allow women to contest and vote in
the municipal elections to be held next
year in a major step taken against the
background of existing political and
social norms.
July 23: Animal feed manufacturer
Dodson and Horrell launched an
investigation after Queen Elizabeth's
racehorse Estimate tested positive for
the banned substance morphine.
Buckingham Palace said that Estimate,
winner of 2013's Ascot Gold Cup and
runner-up this year, was one of the
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President Viktor Yanukovych in
February.
July 24: Far-right hawk Reuven Rivlin
was sworn in as Israel's 10th president
at a formal ceremony in parliament
which saw elder statesman Shimon
Peres stepping down.
July 24: Save the Children, an
international non-governmental
organisation, expressed deep concern
over the killings of children in Gaza in
the ongoing war.
In a statement issued, it said children
were bearing the brunt of the ongoing
conflict. One in five people being killed
are children and the number has
increased by over 40 per cent since
the ground offensive into Gaza began
on July 17.
July 24: An Air Algerie flight crashed
en route from Ouagadougou in Burkina
Faso to Algiers with 110 passengers on
board.
July 24: The new jihadist rulers of
Iraq's northern city of Mosul
completely levelled the shrine of
Hazrat Yunus (PBUH).
July 24: The United Nations sent its
first humanitarian aid convoy into
rebel-held areas of Syria without
government consent as UN chief Ban
Ki-moon accused warring parties of
denying assistance to millions of
people in need as a tactic of war.
July 25: Kyrgyzstan's exiled former
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a silent killer. This was the 7th annual
World Hepatitis Day.
July 31: Jume Tahir, the governmentappointed imam of China's 600-yearold, and the largest mosque, Id Kah
mosque in the city of Kashgar, was
killed.
July 31: The US House of
Representatives passed a measure
that will let House Speaker John
Boehner of Ohio sue President Barack
Obama for failing to implement parts
of the Affordable Care Act without
authorisation from the Congress.
July 31: Bolivia renounced a visa
exemption agreement with Israel in
protest over its offensive in Gaza, and
declared it a terrorist state.
July 18: Lord Tariq Ahmad of
Wimbledon was promoted as
Parliamentary Under Secretary of
State at the Department for
Communities and Local Government.
His responsibilities will include
departmental business in the House of
Lords, European programmes,
transparency, productivity,
procurement and value of money.
Aug 03: A magnitude 6.3 earthquake
struck south-western China, killing at
least 367 people and leaving 1,881
injured in a remote area of Yunnan
province.
Aug 04: Organisation of Islamic
Conference (OIC) Secretary-General
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continent access electricity for the first
time.
Aug 05: Egypt's president
inaugurated the digging of a new
section of the Suez Canal, a $4 billion
military-led project to expand a key
corridor of world trade that he says
will be finished next year.
Aug 05: An Afghan soldier shot dead
Maj. Gen. Harold J. Greene at an army
training centre, named the Marshal
Fahim National Defence University, in
Kabul. He is the highest-ranking
American officer to be killed since the
September 11, 2001 attacks.
Aug 05: Russian President Vladimir
Putin ordered his government to draft
a response to unacceptable Western
sanctions over Moscow's perceived
backing of pro-Kremlin rebels in
Ukraine's volatile east.
Aug 05: Senior Foreign Office Minister
and Minister for Faith and
Communities Baroness Sayeeda
shocked Prime Minister David
Cameron by tendering her resignation
from the cabinet in protest at morally
indefensible UK government policy on
Israel's aggression on Gaza.
Aug 07: The United States put
Harakat-ul-Mujahideen and all its
affiliates on a list of foreign terrorist
organisations and specially
designated terrorists.
Aug 07: Two Khmer Rouge leaders,
Brother Number Two Nuon Chea, and
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said 150,000 people attended the
march, the third major demonstration
for Gaza in London in the past four
weeks.
Aug 09: An Egyptian court dissolved
the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP),
the political wing of the banned
Muslim Brotherhood.
Aug 12: The UN refugee agency
accused Sri Lanka of breaking
international law in its growing
campaign to kick out Pakistani asylum
seekers without a fair hearing.
Aug 12: Europe's final robot cargo
ship to the International Space Station
(ISS) docked with its target as
scheduled.
Aug 12: The US and Australia signed
an agreement that will allow the two
countries' militaries to train and work
better together as US Marines and
airmen deploy in and out of the
country.
Aug 12: The World Health
Organisation authorised the use of
experimental drugs to fight Ebola as
the death toll topped 1,000 and a
Spanish priest became the first
European to succumb to the latest
outbreak.
Aug 12: A Chinese zoo unveiled
newborn panda triplets billed as the
world's first known surviving trio, in
what it hailed as a miracle given the
animal's famously low reproductive
rate.
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Hewlett-Packard
May 2014: The personal computer
maker announced to cut as many as
16,000 jobs.
Sept 2012: HP said it would lay off
29,000 employees over the next two
years.
Intel Corp
April 2014: The chipmaker had cut
1,500 jobs in Costa Rica.
Jan 2014: Announced plans to reduce
its global workforce of 107,000 by
about 5 per cent this year.
Google Inc.
March 2014: The search giant said it
would cut 1,200 jobs, or 10pc of the
workforce at its then Motorola Mobility
unit, on top of the 4,000 it eliminated
in August 2012.
Texas Instruments (January 2014):
The chipmaker said it would cut 1,100
jobs, or about 3pc of its global
workforce.
Zynga Inc (January 2014): The game
developer said it would shed 314 jobs,
or 15pc of its workforce, to slash costs.
Acer (November 2013): The
Taiwanese computer maker said it
would cut 7pc of its global workforce
of 8,000.
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expensive for investors in a 7.5 per
cent climb since the company
announced record quarterly earnings
at the start of August.
At the close of trade Berkshire A
shares were up $3,500, or 1.8pc, to
$202,850.00.
Obituaries
July 17: Heinz Zemanek, who briefly
put Austria in the vanguard of
European computing in the 1950s with
his May Breeze, the first computer
on mainland Europe to run purely on
transistors instead of vacuum tubes,
died at the age of 94.
July 31: Julio Grondona, the veteran
president of the Argentine Football
Association (AFA) and FIFA vice
president, died at the age of 82.
July 31: Ahed Zaqout, a former
Palestinian national team player, was
killed by an Israeli bomb that hit his
apartment in Gaza.
July 31: US documentary film director
Robert Drew, considered the father of
American cinema verite, died. He was
90 years old.
Aug 04: Dick Smith, Hollywood's
preeminent master of film make-up
who made a young Dustin Hoffman
look like a 121-year-old man and who
made Linda Blair's head spin in The
Exorcist, died. He was 92.
Smith, who was entirely self-taught,
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Aug 13: Legendary actress Lauren
Bacall, an icon of Hollywood's golden
age who lit up the silver screen in a
series of classic movies opposite her
husband Humphrey Bogart, died aged
89.
Sports
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Aug 11: Former world-record holder
Asafa Powell won a 100-metre race in
Brazil in 10.02 seconds, his fastest
mark of the year.
in Zurich.
People in News
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Washington D.C.
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London
On July 22, British Prime Minister
David Cameron called for a worldwide
ban on female genital mutilation and
child marriage as he launched the first
UN-backed Girl Summit on issues
that affect millions around the globe.
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zone', PTI Chairman Imran Khan
ordered his supporters to launch a civil
disobedience movement against the
government.
Aug 17: Pakistan Broadcasting
Corporation (PBC) Director General
Samina Pervez launched a 100-kW
digital transmitter at the Hyderabad
Broadcasting House.
Aug 18: New Delhi called off the Aug
25 meeting of foreign secretaries of
the two countries because of Pakistani
high commissioner's consultative
session with a Hurriyat leader.
Aug 19: ISPR issued a statement after
midnight that called on all
stakeholders to exercise patience,
wisdom and sagacity in the larger
national interest.
Aug 19: The government of Pakistan
awarded Ali Meer, the Khabarnak star,
the Pride of Performance award. Ali
Meer, who is an IT graduate, started
his career as creative manager at Geo
News and created over 100 political
cartoons.
Aug 20: The Supreme Court asked
Imran Khan and Dr Tahirul Qadri to
appear before it to reply to a number
of challenges filed against the sit-ins
being staged on Constitution Avenue
by their parties.
Aug 20: The army refused to mediate
between the government and the
protesting parties to defuse the
political crisis and instead asked both
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the National Assembly, Shah
Mehmood Qureshi, submitted the
resignations of the party legislators to
the Speaker's office.
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chief's intervention to break the
deadlock in talks with protesting
parties.
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Aug 16: National Bank of Pakistan
(NBP) outclassed Pakistan
International Airlines (PIA) in the final
of All Pakistan NBP Hockey
Tournament.
Aug 18: Pakistan's top internationals,
Rashid-ul-Ghazi and Tehsin Gheewala
won the Nishan-i-Haider Pairs Bridge
Tournament.
Aug 18: Former diplomat Shaharyar
Khan was elected chief of Pakistan
Cricket Board for a three-year term. He
is the 30th chairman of the PCB but
the only one to have a second tenure.
He previously had held the post
between December 2003 and October
2006.
Aug 23: Najam Sethi and Shakil
Sheikh, both journalists, were named
to lead two powerful committees of
the Governing Board (GB) of the
Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB).
Three committees titled Executive,
Cricket and Grassroots were formed at
the 30th meeting of the Governing
Board.
Sep 01: Three Pakistanis; president of
the Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF)
Akhtar Rasool, Secretary Rana Mujahid
and a high-profile coach of Pakistani
origin Tayyab Ikram were elected to
important posts during the Asian
Hockey Federation (AHF) elections
held in Kuala Lumpur.
Sep 01: Special Olympics Pakistan
celebrated the fourth annual Eunice
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Hashim Khan died in the United
States. He was 100.
Hashim Khan had won the sport's
premier title, the British Open, seven
times between 1951 and 1958.
Aug 27: Prominent poet of Balochi
language Ghulam Rasool Mulla, a.k.a.
G.R Mulla, who was known for his
nationalistic and revolutionary poetry,
passed away. He was 75.
Aug 29: Senior journalist and editor of
Weekly Quetta Times, Ghulam Tahir,
died. He was 86.
Sep 04: Leading ghazal and playback
singer Habib Wali Mohammad passed
away at the age of 93. He was best
known for his film ghazal 'Aaj Jaane Ki
Zid Na Karo' that catapulted him to
widespread recognition. Making his
appearance at a time when ghazal
singing was getting popular all over
again during the 1960s and 1970s,
Habib Wali Mohammad's singing style
held a certain kind of appeal that was
simpler and more accessible to the
listeners.
Sep 04: Veteran actor Maqsood
Hassan passed away in Karachi.
Sep 05: Former Pakistan Test umpire
Ferozeuddin Butt died. He was 72.
Sep 06: Allama Ali Akbar Kumaili, a
Shia cleric and son of former senator
and Jaffaria Alliance Pakistan chief,
Allama Abbas Kumaili, was killed in
Azizabad area of Karachi.
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Economy
Aug 21: The Port Qasim Authority
(PQA) signed an Implementation
Agreement (IA) with a Chinese
company to allot 200 acres of land for
the development of two coal-based
power plants of 660 megawatt each.
Aug 25: The government awarded a
licence to Canada's Tallahassee
Resources Inc. for exploration of oil
and gas resources in Karak district of
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP).
Aug 27: A joint Pakistan-Germany
business platform called Pakistan
GATE (German Association Trade and
Economy) for the further development
of trade and investment projects was
launched in Berlin.
The Pakistan Embassy in Berlin and
the German Embassy in Islamabad will
serve as patrons through the
respective ambassadors, Syed Hasan
Javed and Cyrill Nunn.
Aug 28: Telenor Pakistan signed an
agreement with its emergency
response partner, the Pakistan Red
Crescent Society (PRCS), to mitigate
the impact of disasters through an
SMS-based early warning system.
Aug 28: The Federation of Pakistan
Chambers of Commerce and Industry
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strategy.
The State Bank will pay $500,314 to
the World Bank for the preparation of
the strategy. The agreement will
expire on February 28, 2015.
Sep 12: Syed Asad Haider Mashadi of
Mian Pervaiz Aslam Group was elected
unopposed as President of the
Rawalpindi Chamber of Commerce and
Industry (RCCI) for the year 2014-15.
Transfers & Postings
Aug 18: The Punjab government
appointed Punjab Counter-Terrorism
Department Additional IG Captain
(retired) Amin Wains as the new CCPO
Lahore. Mr Wains has replaced DIG
Chaudhry Shafique Ahmad who was
removed from the post in connection
with June 17 Model Town carnage.
approved it.
Sep 07: The Chief Justice of
Balochistan High Court, Justice
Ghulam Mustafa Mengal, appointed
the District and Sessions Judge
(Inspection) Quetta, Imtiaz Hussain,
registrar of the High Court of
Balochistan.
Sep 11: The federal government
issued the notification of the
appointment of Ghulam Haider Jamil
as the Inspector of Police Sindh.
Sep 15: The provincial government
appointed Dr Farhat Saleemi as the
vice-chancellor of the Government
College Women University, Lahore.
People & Places
ASMA SHIRAZI
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made by Toh Wei Bin of Singapore who
scored 850 against Rick Kennedy of
Scotland in 2012. No score of 800 plus
has been witnessed in an international
tournament.
MOHAMMAD AFZAL KHAN
On Aug 24, Mohammad Afzal Khan, a
former official of the Election
Commission of Pakistan (ECP) who was
directly involved in the preparations
for and execution of the general
elections of 2013, alleged that the
general elections were 'massively
rigged' and pointed the finger squarely
at former chief justice Iftikhar
Mohammad Chaudhry and retired
Justice Riaz Ahmed Kiani, the ECP
member from Punjab.
REEMA ABBASI
On Aug 31, a Pakistani journalist and
author of 'Historic Temples in Pakistan:
A Call to Conscience,' Reema Abbasi,
was honoured as the best literary
personality of the year at the Fifth
Rajiv Gandhi Excellence Awards held in
New Delhi.
MEHRAN SATTAR, IQRA KHALID &
KAINAT ZULQADAR
On Sep 12, Mehran Sattar, son of a
fruit-seller, Iqra Khalid, daughter of an
iron merchant and Kainat Zulqadar,
daughter of an expatriate, clinched
the first three positions in the
intermediate examination conducted
by BISE Multan.
LARKANA
On Aug 19, a seminar 'Provincial
policy dialogue on early marriages and
domestic violence' was held in
Larkana where speakers called for
establishing committees at district
level to ensure implementation of laws
protecting womens rights and curbing
underage marriages.
The seminar was held under the
auspices of a non-governmental
organisation, Shirkatgah.
KARACHI
On Aug 25, the three-day workshop
on 'Bio-invasion and ballast water
management' was organised by Saarc
Coastal Zone Management Centre in
collaboration with Climate Change
Division.
Experts from Sri Lanka, the Maldives,
Bangladesh and Afghanistan also
attended the event.
ISLAMABAD
On Aug 28, a public defence of a PhD
thesis titled, Role of Maritime
Strategy in National Security: A Case
Study of Gwadar was held at National
Defence University, Islamabad. Cdr (r)
Azhar Ahmad highlighted the
importance of his research and
convinced the audience about the
need of paying more attention to the
maritime sector.
LAHORE
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On Aug 28, USAID-funded
assessment and strengthening
programme organised a two-day
conference on Public Sector
Leadership in 21st Century Pakistan;
Challenges and Best Practices kicked
off at the Lahore University of
Management Sciences (LUMS).
ISLAMABAD
On Sep 15, a roundtable conference
was held at Heinrich Boll Stiftung
(HBS), Islamabad where the speakers
said that Pakistan should not look
towards any other Muslim country for
adopting a governance system as its
indigenous model is perfect. Rights
activist Tahira Abdullah mediated the
session.
The dialogue series 'Governance,
community and religion' is a joint
effort of the Centre for Research and
Security Studies (CRSS) and Heinrich
Boll Stiftung (HBS), Islamabad.
International
Aug 16: The death toll from landslides
and flooding triggered by torrential
monsoon rains in Nepal and northern
India climbed to at least 109.
Aug 16: Sri Lanka's defence minister
was directed by a court to suspend the
decision to deport those registered
with the UNHCR, granting interim
relief to asylum seekers and refugees
from Pakistan.
Aug 16: A man died after 35-people,
including several children, were found
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as head of Indian government but
does not enjoy head of state
immunity for claims arising from his
tenure as finance minister, from 1991
to 1996.
Aug 20: India removed the chief
executive of its film censorship board,
Mr Rakesh Kumar, after he was
arrested on accusations of taking
70,000 rupees as bribe to clear a
movie for screening.
Aug 21: The United States offered
new rewards for information on
leading to the location of Aziz
Haqqani, Khalil al-Rahman Haqqani,
Yahya Haqqani and Abdul Rauf Zakir;
four key leaders of the Haqqani
Network and also increased a
previously announced reward offer for
information about the group's current
leader, Sirajuddin Haqqani.
The US Department of State's Rewards
for Justice Programme announced that
the government had authorised $5
million rewards of up to each for
information.
Aug 21: Indonesia's highest court
unanimously upheld the recent
presidential election result, paving the
way for Joko Widodo to take over as
leader of the world's third largest
democracy.
Aug 21: A giant flag in support of
Palestinians in Gaza was unfurled from
the Manhattan Bridge.
Aug 21: The Indian government
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place in the Hamreen area of Diyala
province.
Aug 22: South African wildlife
authorities said they have found
dozens of dead jackals at a popular
game park in the country's worst
ever incident of poisoning.
Aug 22: The ice bucket challenge's
phenomenal success is making other
charitable organisations rethink how
they connect with a younger
generation of potential donors. Since
the ALS Association began tracking
the campaign's progress on July 29, it
has raised more than $53.3 million
from 1.1 million new donors in what is
one of the most viral philanthropic
social media campaigns in history.
Aug 22: The Pentagon violated US law
when it controversially swapped a
soldier held in captivity for five years
in Afghanistan for five Taliban
detainees without giving lawmakers
sufficient notice, congressional
investigators said.
The Pentagon used $988,400 of its
wartime funding for the transfer that
freed Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl.
Aug 23: Almost 200,000 people have
been killed in Syria since the country
fell into conflict in 2011, according to a
report by UN Human Rights
Commission released in Geneva.
A total of 191,369 people were killed
between March 2011, when the
conflict erupted, and April 2014,
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centrist members of his Socialist-led
government.
Aug 26: The United Nations Children's
Fund undertook the largest emergency
supply operation in the organisation's
history in a single month by shipping
1,000 metric tonnes of life-saving
supplies for children caught in the
world's most urgent crises.
Aug 26: The presidents of Russia and
Ukraine sat down for talks, meeting
face-to-face for the first time since
June on the fighting that has engulfed
Ukraine's separatist east.
Russia's Vladimir Putin and Ukraine's
Petro Poroshenko were joined by the
presidents of Belarus and Kazakhstan
and three senior officials from the
European Union in the Belarusian
capital of Minsk.
Aug 26: A Jewish centre in Mumbai
that was stormed by heavily armed
militants during 2008 Mumbai attacks
reopened.
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Syrian side of the Golan Heights and
surrounded 81 others.
The 43 peacekeepers from Fiji were
forced to surrender their weapons and
taken hostage near the Quneitra
crossing, but 81 Filipino blue helmets
held their
ground and refused to disarm.
Aug 28: Recep Tayyip Erdogan was
sworn in as Turkey's president,
cementing his position as its most
powerful leader of recent times.
Aug 29: The United States delivered
an emergency shipment of weapons to
Lebanon's military as part of a broader
regional effort to combat the growing
threat posed by Islamic extremists.
The Lebanese government had
requested the weapons after militants
from Syria attacked the Lebanese
border town of Arsal, killing and
kidnapping soldiers and police.
Aug 29: The number of refugees from
the Syrian conflict had topped three
million, the UN said.
In Geneva, UN refugee agency chief
Antonio Guterres said Syria had
become the biggest humanitarian
emergency of our era after a million
people joined the exodus in the past
year alone.
Aug 30: Lesotho Prime Minister Tom
Thabane fled after soldiers seized
power in a coup, despite the military
denying it overthrew the tiny
mountain kingdom's government.
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to-air missile, the Talash-3, and two
radar systems to improve its defences.
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on a lesser culpable homicide charge.
Sep 11: The West hit Russia with new
sanctions over its role in the Ukraine
conflict after Kiev admitted losing
more ground to the rebels.
Sep 11: MasterCard lost its challenge
at Europe's highest court against an
EU ban on its cross-border card fees.
Sep 12: Retired US Marine general
John Allen, former commander of
American forces in Afghanistan, was
appointed coordinator of the
international effort against the Islamic
State, formerly known as the Islamic
State of Iraq and Al Sham (ISIS).
Sep 12: The worst-ever Ebola
outbreak killed more than 2,400
people, the UN said, as Cuba pledged
the largest foreign medical team
deployed so far in the west African
health crisis.
World Health Organisation chief
Margaret Chan warned the spiralling
epidemic of the murderous tropical
virus demanded a stronger, faster
response from the international
community.
Sep 12: German authorities banned
all activity on behalf of the Islamic
State extremist group, including the
distribution of propaganda material
and the display of its symbols.
The decree issued closes a legal gap
that made it difficult to prosecute
Islamic State supporters in Germany.
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The sporting competition, which
involved almost 4,000 athletes aged
between 14 and 18, ended with the
host nation finishing as the most
successful country with 38 golds.
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Richard Attenborough, who appeared
in films such as Brighton Rock, The
Great Escape and Jurassic Park, in a
career spanning six decades, died at
the age of 90.
Sep 02: South African Norman
Gordon, who was the oldest former
Test cricketer, died aged 103 in
Johannesburg.
Sep 04: Acerbic comedian Joan Rivers
died in New York. She was 81.
Sep 11: Richard Kiel, who played the
towering steel-toothed baddie Jaws
in two James Bond movies, died. He
was 74.
Sep 12: Former Northern Irish first
minister Ian Paisley, the firebrand
Protestant leader who struck a power
sharing deal with former foes Sinn
Fein, died at the age of 88.
Sep 14: Japanese actress and singer
Yoshiko 'Shirley' Yamaguchi, who was
nearly executed in China at the end of
World War II, died at the age of 94.
Science
Aug 21: After a remarkable analysis
of bacterial DNA from 1,000-year-old
mummies, scientists have proposed a
new hypothesis for how tuberculosis
arose and spread around the world.
The disease originated less than 6,000
years ago in Africa, they say, and took
a surprising route to reach the New
World: It was carried across the
Atlantic by seals.
Sep 04: The Milky Way galaxy resides
on the outskirts of a massive,
previously unknown galaxy supercluster, named Laniakea, from
Hawaiian words for immeasurable
heaven.
The discovery stems from a new
mapping technique that combines not
only the distances between more than
8,000 nearby galaxies, but also their
relative motions.
Sep 10: Earth's protective but fragile
ozone layer is beginning to recover,
largely because of the phase-out since
the 1980s of certain chemicals used in
refrigerants and aerosol cans, a UN
scientific panel reported in a rare
piece of good news about the health of
the planet. Scientists said the
development demonstrates that when
the world comes together, it can
counteract a brewing ecological crisis.
In 1974, Molina and F. Sherwood
Rowland wrote a scientific study
forecasting the ozone depletion
problem. They won the 1995 Nobel
Prize in chemistry for their work.
The ozone layer had been thinning
since the late 1970s. Man-made
chlorofluorocarbons, called CFCs,
released chlorine and bromine, which
destroyed ozone molecules high in the
air.
People & Places
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MILEY CYRUS
On Aug 25, a famous American diva
Miley Cyrus won the award for Video
of the Year for her hit single
Wrecking Ball, at the 2014 MTV
Video Music Awards.
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Jayawardene ended his glittering test
career that spanned 17 years.
ANKARA, TURKEY
On Aug 26, thousands of people
formed the world's largest portrait of
Mustafa Kamal Ataturk, the founder of
the modern Turkish republic. At least
6,000 volunteers gathered outside the
Anitkabir mausoleum, Ataturk's final
resting place, to form the larger-thanlife portrait for an event marking
Turkey's Victory.
BERLIN
On Aug 28, the German Chancellor
Angela Merkel hosted the 'West Balkan
Conference' at the chancellery. The
conference was convened to thrash
out measures to bring about economy
prosperity and political stability in the
South-East European region.
NAIROBI, KENYA
On Sep 02, African leaders and
delegates attended the Africa Union
Peace and Security Council Summit on
Terrorism held at the Kenyatta
International Convention Centre in
Nairobi, Kenya.
NEW YORK, USA
On Sep 08, key discoveries about
breast cancer, Parkinson's disease and
the body's handling of defective
proteins earned prestigious medical
awards, the Lasker Award, for five
scientists.
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On Sep 09, a 232-carat white
diamond worth as much as $20 million
was discovered in Cullinan, east of
Pretoria at a South African mine famed
for its big-gem finds.
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National
Sep 16: Angry passengers of a PIA
aircraft forced two late-arriving
politicians Senator Rehman Malik
and MNA Dr Ramesh Vankwani to
get off the plane because they had
caused a flight delay of an hour and
45 minutes.
Sep 16: The Islamabad police
registered a criminal case against
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, some
federal ministers and police officials
under an order issued by a district and
sessions court.
Sep 16: Launching the first heritage
preservation project in Sindh, US
Ambassador Richard G. Olson
announced that more than $260,000
would be spent on the restoration of
400-year-old tombs of Mir Sultan
Ibrahim (1556-1592 AD), the ruler of
the Turkhan dynasty, and Amir Sultan
Muhammad at the Makli necropolis,
one of the largest cemeteries in the
world.
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Acting Governor Rana Iqbal abolished
the warring Punjab Textbook Board
and the Punjab Curriculum Authority,
merging their functions into a new
Punjab Curriculum and Textbook
Board.
Sep 19: WAPDA signed a joint venture
project contract with Sinohydro and
Hajvairy Group worth Rs.14.544 billion
for the construction of civil works for
Keyal Khwar Hydropower Project.
Sep 22: The federal cabinet decided
to lift a ban on government jobs, to
disburse Rs. 25,000 to each family
affected by floods before Eidul Azha,
and provide temporary relief to power
consumers who over-billed recently.
Sep 22: The Election Commission of
Pakistan (ECP) tacitly held returning
officers (ROs) responsible for the mess
created in various constituencies in
the General Elections 2013.
Sep 23: A multi-party conference
titled 'Administrative provinces and
demand for dividing Sindh is a
conspiracy against Sindh, country and
peace, rejected a call of the MQM to
create more administrative units in
Sindh.
The conference was jointly organised
by the Jamiat Ulema-i-Pakistan and the
Qaumi Awami Tehreek.
Sep 24: President Mamnoon Hussain
signed Gas Infrastructure
Development Cess (GIDC) Ordinance
2014 to provide a legal cover to gas
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manoeuvring capability, Nasr is a
quick-response system with shoot and
scoot attributes. It contributes to the
full spectrum deterrence against the
prevailing threat spectrum.
Sep 26: The US government will
provide $41.8 million to improve
Pakistan's law-enforcement capability,
fight narcotics trafficking and reform
its criminal justice system.
A bilateral assistance agreement to
this effect was signed by US
Ambassador Richard Olson and
Economic Affairs Division Secretary
Mohammad Saleem Sethi.
Sep 26: An investigative reporter
Umar Cheema won Coalition on Right
to Information's RTI Annual Champion
Award for his efforts to promote right
to information through investigative
reporting. In citizen's category,
Sabahat Ghaznavi won the 1st Annual
Champion Award. He was given award
on first known case of citizen using KP
RTI law for getting job.
In organizations category, Centre for
Governance and Public Accountability
won the CRTI-RTI Annual Champion
Award. CGPA has not only been
advocating for RTI law for Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa, but it has also
submitted 143 information requests to
contribute to the implementation of
this law.
Sep 26: Irfan Qaisar Sheikh was
posted as Chairperson Punjab
Technical Education and Vocational
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restrained the Chairman of the
Balochistan Public Service
Commission, Ashraf Magsi, from taking
part in interviews for jobs in
government departments.
Sep 30: The Balochistan Assembly
passed a resolution unanimously
seeking the return of Khan of Kalat
Agha Suleman Daud. The resolution
was tabled by Sardar Abdul Rehman
Khetran of the JUI-F.
Oct 01: Veteran politician Javed
Hashmi announced his resignation as
the president and member of the PTI,
in protest against what he called
undemocratic attitude of its chairman,
Imran Khan.
Oct 01: Pakistan ranks 62nd in the
foreign direct investment friendly
countries but it does not reflect its
potential and available resources,
necessitating a comprehensive
strategy to overcome low local and
foreign investment phenomenon.
Oct 01: Indonesian government
conferred the highest Military Awards
of 'Bintang Jalsena Utama and Bintang
Yudha Dharma Utama' on Chief of
Naval Staff Admiral Muhammad Asif
Sandila, in recognition of his
meritorious services and significant
contribution in strengthening ties
between the naval forces of Indonesia
and Pakistan.
Oct 02: Pakistan cautiously welcomed
the signing of the Bilateral Security
Agreement (BSA) by Afghanistan and
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Altaf Bosan was removed from his
position and was replaced by Dr Umar
Qadir Baloch, brother of Federal
Minister Abdul Qadir Baloch and a
senior grade 21 officer.
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and condensate in Sindh. The
discovery was made from exploratory
well Kinza X-1 in Sanghar district.
Transfers & Appointments
Sep 18: Maj Gen Bilal Akbar took over
as the 12th director general of
Pakistan Rangers, Sindh.
Sep 22: The government appointed Lt
Gen Rizwan Akhtar as next chief of the
Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). He will
take charge when his predecessor Lt
Gen Zaheerul Islam retires on
November 7.
Sep 24: President Mamnoon Hussain
on the advice of the prime minister,
approved the appointment of Arshad
Bhatti, former federal secretary
Punjab, Syed Arshad Ali, former
federal secretary Sindh, Qazi Afaq
Hussain, former additional secretary
Punjab and Syed Rafique Hussain Shah
retired district & sessions judge KP, as
Federal Services Tribunal members.
Sep 25: The PML-N government
posted Arif Ahmed Khan, an additional
secretary, as Member (Oil), Oil and
Gas Regulatory Authority (OGRA), on a
temporary basis, and extended
contracts of Managing Director SNGPL,
Arif Hameed, and MD of the PSO,
Amjad Pervez Janjua.
Sep 26: Deputy Secretary
Establishment Division, Islamabad,
Munir Jan Baloch, was appointed
Director General Planning and
Development of Gwadar Port.
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Obituaries
Sep 23: Former international athlete
and retired Deputy Superintendent of
Police Syed Abid Hussain died. He was
72.
Oct 04: Najeebullah Khan Niazi, an
MPA from PP-49 in Bhakkar, died of a
cardiac arrest.
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Oct 09: Saeed Hasan Shah, a former
Pakistan Table Tennis Federation
(PTTF) president, died in Lahore. He
was 80.
Places in News
Paris, France
Sept 16: The 35th edition of Texworld
was held in Paris, in which 881
exhibitors from all over the world,
including China, Pakistan, Thailand,
India, Indonesia, Turkey and
Bangladesh participated. The Trade
Development Authority of Pakistan
(TDAP) has arranged national pavilion
in the exhibition.
Oct 13: The three-day International
Gender Responsive Policing (GRP)
Conference kicked off at a local hotel
in Islamabad with the theme that the
GRP can foster peaceful societies.
The police officers participating from
20 OIC countries along with
international human rights activists,
philanthropists and gender experts
emphasized on the need to have a
gender sensitized police.
People in News
Maulvi Agha Muhammad
On Sep 16, The Election Commission
of Pakistan (ECP) de-notified the
membership of a JUI-F MNA Maulvi
Agha Muhammad in a fake degree
case. He was elected from NA-261
Pishin-Ziarat.
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Zarar Sehgal
Rafay Baloch
On Sep 25, Zarar Sehgal, a New Yorkbased Pakistani American attorney,
was declared as Lawyer of the Year
for Team of the Year 2014 in Asset
Finance and Leasing category by Legal
500, the world's largest legal referral
firm.
Zubair Ahmad
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Rafay is a professional penetration
tester and author of the book 'Ethical
Hacking and Penetration Testing
Guide', identified a major vulnerability
in the Android Open Source Platform
(AOSP) Browser.
International
Sep 16: Sweden's Social Democratic
party, which ended its longest spell in
opposition in a century, formed a weak
minority government. Stefan Lfven,
the incoming prime minister, insisted
the new government would be
functional.
Sep 16: The number of hungry people
in the world has dropped by 100
million over the last 10 years but one
in nine are still undernourished, with
Asia home to the majority of the
underfed, the UN said.
The UN's food agencies said the global
number was down over 200 million
since the early 1990s, but warned that
despite the progress made, about
805 million people in the world, or one
in nine, suffer from hunger.
Sep 16: Ukraine ratified a sweeping
agreement with the European Union
and sought to blunt the independence
drive of Russia-backed separatists by
offering them temporary and limited
self-rule.
Sep 16: US President Barack Obama
included both India and Pakistan
among 22 major illicit drug producing
or drug-transit countries. Afghanistan
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England.
Despite a surge in nationalist support
in the final fortnight of the campaign,
the No secured 55.3 per cent of the
vote against 44.7 per cent for the proindependence Yes camp.
Sep 19: Both chambers of the US
Congress authorised President Barack
Obama to arm and train moderate
rebels in Syria to fight Islamic State
militants. The Senate approved a $1
trillion government-funding bill that
gives the president new authority to
battle the IS.
Sep 19: French jets carried out their
first air strike against Islamic State
militants in Iraq.
Sep 19: Pronouncing foreign leaders'
names is a headache for newsreaders
the world over but it proved the
downfall of one Indian news-caster,
who mistook the visiting Chinese
president's name for the Roman
numeral XI, calling him Eleven
Jinping on air.
Sep 20: New Zealand's ruling National
Party stormed to a third term in
government in the country's general
election. Prime Minister John Key's
centre-right party won 48.1 per cent of
the vote, translating into 61 of 121
parliamentary seats.
Sep 20: The rival candidates in
Afghanistan's messy election for a new
president finally struck a powersharing deal.
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Syria's three-year-old civil war.
Sep 23: A US court sentenced Osama
bin Laden's son-in-law and former AlQaeda spokesman Sulaiman Abu
Ghaith to life in prison.
Sep 23: A prominent academic from
China's mostly-Muslim Uighur
minority, Ilham Tohti, was jailed for life
for separatism. The EU, United
States and human rights groups had
all been calling for the release of Ilham
Tohti, a persistent but moderate
government critic who campaigned for
minority rights in the vast western
region.
Sep 23: The Turkish government
announced to lift a ban on female
students wearing the Islamic
headscarf at high school.
Sep 24: India's top court cancelled
more than 200 government permits
for coal mines and handed down fines
worth hundreds of millions of dollars to
companies after the licensing process
was deemed illegal.
Sep 24: Muslim cleric Abu Qatada
walked free form a Jordanian jail after
being cleared of charges of conspiring
in a plot to attack tourists.
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Council passed a resolution
condemning so-called vulture funds
like the ones pursuing Buenos Aires for
payment on the Argentine bonds they
hold.
Sep 26: The European Union's recent
decision to appoint a special
ambassador accredited to the
Association of Southeast Asian Nations
(Asean) was seen as a welcome and
long-awaited step forward in the EU's
relations with one of the world's most
dynamic and rapidly growing regions.
As a statement by the European
External Action Service the EU's
foreign ministry underlined, the
important decision reflects Europe's
growing engagement with Asean and
an ambition to upgrade the existing
partnership with the Southeast Asian
countries grouping to a strategic one.
Sep 26: British Parliament gave
approval by 524 votes to 43 for Britain
to join the US-led coalition in airstrikes
against Islamic State (IS) fighters in
Iraq.
Labour MP Rushanara Ali immediately
resigned from the party's front bench
after the result was announced.
Sep 27: Catalonia's president, Artur
Mas i Gavarr, formally called a
referendum to be held on
November 9 to decide whether
Spain's richest region should be
independent.
Sep 27: The chief minister of India's
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Palawan facing the South China Sea.
Sep 29: Afghanistan inaugurated its
first new president in a decade,
swearing in technocrat Ashraf Ghani to
head a power-sharing government.
Mr Abdullah Abdullah took over as
country's CEO.
Sep 29: Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu and his Indian
counterpart, Narendra Modi, pledged
to boost cooperation in the most
substantive interaction between the
two countries' leaders in 11 years.
Sep 30: Officials from Afghanistan
and the United States signed a longdelayed bilateral security agreement
to allow American troops to stay in the
country after the end of the year
2014, fulfilling a campaign promise by
new President Ashraf Ghani.
Afghan National Security Adviser Hanif
Atmar and US Ambassador James
Cunningham signed the BSA.
Sep 30: The world's first interactive
microbe zoo, Micropia museum,
opened in Amsterdam, shining new
light on the tiny creatures that make
up two-thirds of all living matter and
are vital for our planet's future.
Sep 30: US President Barack Obama
and Indian Prime Minister Narendra
Modi coined a Hindi phrase chalein
saath saath as the central premise of
a defining 21st century partnership
between their countries.
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Oct 04: Latvia's ruling centre-right
coalition led by Prime Minister
Laimdota Straujuma scored a
resounding majority in elections.
Oct 08: If countries do not take urgent
steps to stop ocean acidification, the
global economy could be losing as
much as $1 trillion a year by the end
of the century, a United Nations report
said.
The report, an updated synthesis of
the Impact of Ocean Acidification on
Marine Biodiversity, was issued by the
Convention on Biological Diversity
(CBD) at the 12th meeting of the
Conference of the Parties to the CBD.
Oct 08: Facebook is officially the
owner of WhatsApp, after the
acquisition was finalised. The deal
price has risen from $19 billion to
$21.8 billion.
Oct 09: A federal judge in New York
rejected a bid by Aafia Siddiqui to
have her conviction for shooting at
American soldiers overturned.
Judge Richard Berman issued the
ruling.
Oct 10: Britain's anti-EU UK
Independence Party won its first seat
in the House of Commons.
Oct 10: A Japanese court ordered
Google to delete search results linking
the claimant to a crime he did not
commit, the latest in a series of rulings
around the world on what search
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Development Bank (ADB) agreed to
establish a framework for improved
cooperation among member states of
the South Asian Association for
Regional Cooperation (Saarc) to
combat the diseases.
Oct 15: A snowstorm and avalanche
in Nepal's Himalayas killed 17 trekkers
and guides nine foreigners and
eight Nepalese on a popular hiking
route, while more than 100 others
remain out of contact.
Oct 15: Australian novelist Richard
Flanagan won the prestigious $79,530
Man Booker prize for literature, for his
novel 'The Narrow Road to the Deep
North', set during the building of the
Thailand-Burma 'Death Railway' in
World War Two.
Economy
Sep 19: Chinese online giant, Alibaba,
made its historic Wall Street trading
debut. Alibaba leapt from an offering
price of $68 to $92.07 in the first
trades, then headed to nearly $100
before settling back at the close to
$93.89, a hefty gain of 38 per cent.
Sep 22: Alibaba Group Holding Ltd's
initial public offering now ranks the
world's biggest in history at $25
billion, after the e-commerce giant and
some of its shareholders sold
additional shares.
Sep 23: The European Central Bank
launched the new 10-euro banknote.
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Sep 16: Tony Auth, a Pulitzer Prizewinning cartoonist who for more than
40 years drew sharp and often darkly
comic lines of attack across the
spectrum of American life, finding
absurdities in all corners of it, died. He
was 72.
Science
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consists of a cell body, from which
protrude spindly appendages called
dendrites and axons. Dendrites are
branchlike structures that receive
signals from other nerve cells and
deliver them to the cell body. The
neuron then processes the signals and
zaps along information to the next cell
via a long projection called the axon.
People in News
Elizabeth Holmes
America's youngest self-made female
billionaire, 30-year-old Elizabeth
Holmes, was a college dropout. But,
the company she founded has the
potential to change healthcare for
millions of Americans.
Elizabeth Holmes left Stanford
University at 19 with a plan to start
her own company. For money, she
cashed out the funds her parents had
saved for tuition. Now, she counts
billionaire Larry Ellison as an investor
and has former secretaries of state on
her board.
Kjell Stefan Lfven
Kjell Stefan Lfven, the 33rd Prime
Minster of Sweden, had worked as a
welder before becoming an active
trade unionist and rising to lead the
powerful IF Metall from 2006 to 2012.
Jason Isbell
On Sep 18, singer-songwriter Jason
Isbell won artist, album and song of
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the year awards at the Americana
Honors & Awards.
Padmini Prakash
On Sep 20, Lotus News, an Indian
television news station, recruited the
country's first transgender news
anchor, Padmini Prakash, five months
after a court ruled that transgender
people be recognised as a legal third
gender.
Jack Ma
On Sep 23, Jack Ma of e-commerce
giant Alibaba became China's richest
person with a fortune of $25 billion, an
annual wealth ranking for the country
showed.
Ma, who had to persuade friends to
give him $60,000 to start Alibaba just
15 years ago after being rejected by
US venture capitalists, now leads a
company valued at more than $200bn
after listing on the New York Stock
Exchange.
Edward Snowden & Alan
Rusbridger
On Sep 24, the former NSA contactor,
Edward Snowden, won the 2014 Right
Livelihood Award, a Swedish human
rights award sometimes referred to as
the alternative Nobel, for his
disclosures of top secret surveillance
programmes. He split the honorary
portion of the Award with Alan
Rusbridger, editor of British newspaper
The Guardian.
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the UN General Assembly, was held at
UNHQ in New York from 22nd to 23rd
September, bringing together Heads
of State and Government, Member
States, hundreds of Indigenous
representatives from around the
world, UN agencies and civil society
representatives. It marked the
opening of the UN General Assembly's
annual general debate.
New York, USA
On Sep 23, more than 120 heads of
states and governments, business,
finance and civil society
representatives announced
commitments that will reduce
emissions, enhance resistance to
climate change and mobilise financing
for climate action at the UN Climate
Change Summit opened.
Makkah, Saudi Arabia
On Oct 03, Saudi Arabia's grand mufti
Sheikh Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh asked
Muslim leaders that they must strike
the enemies of Islam with an iron
hand, in his Haj sermon, in apparent
condemnation of the Islamic State (IS)
group.
MCQs
National
1. Mir Sultan Ibrahim was a ruler of the
Turkhan dynasty which ruled ______,
from 1551 to 1608 AD.
A. Delhi
B. Punjab
C. Sindh
D. Hyderabad
2. On Sep 17, the US launched
'Ambassador's Fund for Culture
Preservation (AFCP)', in ______.
A. Punjab B. Sindh
C. FATA
D. Balochistan
3. On Sep 18, Maj Gen Bilal Akbar took
over as the ______ DG of Pakistan
Rangers, Sindh.
A. 12th
B. 17th
C. 23rd
D. 29th
4. The Country Director of the UNDP in
Pakistan, Marc-Andr Franche, is a
Colombian and ______ national.
A. Australian B. Canadian
C. Serbian D. French
5. On Sep 19, ______ signed a joint
venture project contract with
Sinohydro and Hajvairy Group for the
construction of civil works for Keyal
Khwar Hydropower Project.
A. NEPRA B. Punjab
C. Khyber PK D. WAPDA
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______ youths from the Federally
Administered Tribal Areas will be
inducted into the army over five years.
A. 10,000 B. 14,000
C. 18,000 D. 25,000
20. Grand Jamia Mosque in Bahria
Town Lahore, completed at the cost of
about Rs4 billion, is the world's ______
largest mosque.
A. 3rd
B. 5th
C. 6th
D. 7th
21. Education activist Malala Yousufzai
became the youngest Nobel Laureate
ever when she won the 2014 Nobel
Peace Prize at the age of ______.
A. 15 years B. 16 years
C. 17 years D. 18 years
22. The 61st Conference of
Commonwealth Parliamentary
Assembly (CPA) will be held in ______.
A. Pakistan B. Bangladesh
C. Malaysia
D. Australia
23. The first electricity ever generated
in the territories we now call Pakistan
was from a microhydel scheme in
______.
A. Zhob
B. Qila Abdullah
C. Abbottabad D. Renala Khurd
24. On Oct 14, the Pakistan Petroleum
Limited announced discovery of gas
and condensate in Sindh's ______
district.
A. Sanghar B. Larkana
C. Thatta D. Badin
International
1. The founder and chairman of the
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7. On Sep 19, the US Senate approved
a $1 trillion government-funding bill
that gives the president new authority
for ______.
A. Homeland Security
B. Combating Taliban
C. UN Fund
D. Battling the IS
8. Premata Aotearoa, the 121-seat
Parliament of New Zealand, is located
in ______.
A. Hokitika B. Auckland
C. Wellington D. Christchurch
9. Afghanistan's former finance
minister Ashraf Ghani was declared
country's next president on ______.
A. Sep 18 B. Sep 19
C. Sep 20 D. Sep 21
10. On Sep 22, ______ president swore
in the government of incoming Prime
Minster Ewa Kopacz.
A. Serbia's B. Poland's
C. Sweden's D. Ukraine's
11. The United States and its Arab
allies bombed Syria for the first time
on ______.
A. Sep 20 B. Sep 22
C. Sep 23 D. Sep 27
12. Nasa's spacecraft that is orbiting
Mars to study how the Red Planet's
climate changed over time is named
______.
A. MAVEN B. Orion
C. MPCV
D. Dawn
13. On Sep 23, a US court sentenced
Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, Osama bin
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new president in a decade, Ashraf
Ghani, on ______.
A. Sep 26 B. Sep 27
C. Sep 28 D. Sep 29
21. According to the US-Afghanistan
BSA, ______ American troops shall
remain in Afghanistan after 2014.
A. 9000
B. 9800
C. 10500
D. 15000
22. On Oct 1, ______ and Kazakhstan
initialled an agreement on jointly
building and operating what would
become Kazakhstan's only nuclear
power plant.
A. US
B. Germany
C. Russia D. China
23. On Oct 03, ______ announced that
it would recognise a new Palestinian
state, becoming the first European
country to make such a move.
A. France B. Sweden
C. Germany D. Denmark
24. On Oct 08, Facebook officially
became the owner of ______.
A. Twitter B. Viber
C. Skype
D. WhatsApp
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C. Zhu Lin
D. Li Na
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A. Oct 4
C. Oct 8
B. Oct 6
D. Oct
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after having joined it.
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Vladimirovich called on Mr Sartaj Aziz,
Adviser to the Prime Minister on
National Security and Foreign Affairs,
Syed Tariq Fatemi, Special Assistant to
the Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs
and Mr Aizaz A. Chaudhry, Foreign
Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs. They discussed bilateral,
regional and global issues of mutual
interest.
Oct 21: The Pakistan Awami Tehreek
(PAT) chief declared an end to his
party's sit-in on Constitution Avenue,
Islamabad.
Oct 21: The United States designated
Khan Said Sajna, the deputy leader of
outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan
(TTP), a global terrorist. The
designation list also includes Ramzi
Mawafi, a former physician of Al
Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
Oct 21: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif
approved Apna Rozgar Scheme for
the unemployed youth through which
vehicles will be provided to jobless
youth on soft-terms.
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Programme (UNDP) and International
Labour Organization (ILO) reached an
agreement to train IDPs, who fled their
towns due to ongoing military
operation 'Zarb-e-Azb', in various skills
and facilitate them in getting jobs.
Around 200 men and women will be
selected for this training and
employment programme under the
UNDP's 'Community Resilience Project
for NWA (North Waziristan Agency)
Displaced Families'.
Oct 23: The Prime Minister's
Inspection Commission observed that
distribution companies (Discos) have
installed new metres which run at
least 30-35 per cent faster than the
old ones.
Oct 24: Workers of Pink Ribbon
Campaign and the PHA expressed
solidarity with breast cancer patients
and sensitised the masses about the
hazards of breast cancer by arranging
pink lights at Liberty Market, Lahore
roundabout on occasion of
International Mammogram Day.
Oct 24: Speaking at a ceremony held
in connection with the World Polio day,
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif
announced imposing polio emergency
in the country.
Oct 24: The government barred the
Punjab Food Authority (PFA) from
checking the quality of wheat stored
at flour mills and issuing them
licences.
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Nov 13: Pakistan conducted a
successful training launch of ShaheenII, also known as Hatf-VI, ballistic
missile.
Sports
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Government College University,
Lahore.
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leaders and institutions as its
inaugural class of Asia Game
Changers.
Sameena Jabeen Ahmed
Oct 21: A Pakistani-born actress
Sameena Jabeen Ahmed bagged the
Best Actress award for her lead role in
music video director Daniel Wolfe's
debut feature film Catch Me Daddy.
Malala Yousafzai
Oct 22: Malala Yousufzai, a rights
activist and youngest-ever recipient of
the Nobel Peace Prize, now received
the US Liberty Medal and pledged her
$100,000 award to promote education
in Pakistan.
Khizr Imran Tajammul
Oct 25: A young Pakistani innovator,
Khizr Imran Tajammul, won the first
prize at the Rwanga Social Startup
Competition held at the fifth One
Young World summit in Dublin, Ireland.
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Microsoft Certified professional,
accomplishing the feat at the age of
five years, 11 months toppling
Pakistani Mehroz Yawar who passed
the exam at the practically ancient
age of six and a half.
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Peshawar
Oct 19: The two-day Afghan Cultural
Show concluded at Nishtar Hall with a
pledge to celebrate the Afghan
Cultural International Day every year
regularly and work for the promotion
of cultural activists.
Lahore
Village Dulmial, Pakistan
Oct 22: The first-ever international
conference in Pakistan on a crucial
topic of Forensic Science and Justice
began at Government College
University Lahore under the auspices
of the university's Chemistry
Department, Punjab Forensic Science
Agency (PFSA) and Higher Education
Commission.
Lahore
Oct 28: Pakistan Human Capital
Forum (PHCF) held HR Services Best
Practices Seminar at Royal Palm
Country Club, Lahore.
The Sanjan Nagar Public
Education Trust
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Tournament 2014 Lahore was
organized by TEEN TIMES, Pakistan's
first infotainment magazine, and a
project of Jahangir Books since 1923
at a local restaurant. 64 students from
Lahore's most prestigious institutions
participated in this 3-day event. The
team consisting of Muhammad Hamza
and Muaaz Atif from Beaconhouse
Newlands Campus, Lahore, emerged
as the winner. They were presented
beautiful shields and certificates for
their brilliant performance.
International
Oct 16: The UN General Assembly
elected five new non-permanent
members Angola, Malaysia, New
Zealand Spain and Venezuela to serve
on the Security Council for two-year
terms. They will take up their seats on
January 1, 2015.
Oct 16: Chinese censors blocked the
website of Britain's national
broadcaster, the BBC, in China.
Oct 16: A court in Britain ruled that
Ilyas Ashar, who smuggled to Britain a
10-year-old deaf and mute girl from
Pakistan, and kept her as a slave for
almost a decade, will have to pay the
girl $160,000.
states.
Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a bill
making it the official state snack.
Oct 17: A US survey conducted by
Washington-based Pew Research
Centre in 44 countries among 48,643
respondents, from March 17 to June 5,
2014 revealed that:
In Pakistan, people were more
concerned about nuclear weapons
than religious and ethnic hatred as a
major threat to their security.
In India, people see religious and
ethnic hatred as a greater threat,
although, like Pakistan, India too is a
nuclear state.
In the Middle East, which is engulfed in
growing conflicts, people saw religious
and ethnic hatred is the greatest
threat to the world.
Oct 17: The US Federal Reserve chief
Janet Yellen warned that the gap
between the rich and the poor in the
United States has reached a near 100year high, and is still widening.
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of American military reservists to
support humanitarian aid efforts
against the Ebola outbreak in West
Africa.
Oct 17: Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo
Abe sent religious offerings to Tokyo's
Yasukuni Shrine honouring the war
dead including convicted wartime
leaders, as dozens of lawmakers
prayed at the site in a ceremony that
drew a rebuke from China.
Many Asian victims of Japan's wartime
atrocities, especially China and the
Koreas, see the shrine as a symbol of
militarism.
Oct 17: India's top court granted bail
to Jayalalithaa Jayaram, a 66-year-old
ex-film star and a long-time head of
Tamil Nadu, jailed last month for
corruption.
Oct 17: India successfully test-fired its
first domestically built nuclear capable
and long-range cruise missile
'Nirbhay', or 'fearless', marking
another step in building up the
country's defence prowess.
Oct 17: Nigeria's military and
presidency claimed to have reached a
deal with Boko Haram militants on a
ceasefire and the release of more than
200 kidnapped schoolgirls.
Oct 17: American Vice President Joe
Biden's son, Hunter Biden, was
discharged from the US Navy reserve
after testing positive for cocaine.
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neighbouring Turkey said it would help
Iraqi Kurds to join the fight.
Oct 20: The World Health
Organization declared two major
African countries, Nigeria and Senegal,
Ebola free.
Oct 20: No bacon for breakfast, a
room for prayers and a Quran on your
bedside table: a hotel in Moscow
launched a special halal service as
Russia tries to attract visitors from the
Muslim world.
Oct 20: Joko Widodo, Indonesia's first
president from outside the political
and military elite, was sworn in as
leader of the world's third-biggest
democracy.
Oct 21: The White House announced
that detained American tourist Jeffrey
Fowle was released by North Korea.
Oct 21: A renowned Congolese
gynaecologist, Doctor Denis Mukwege
won the European Parliament's
prestigious Sakharov human rights
prize for his work in helping thousands
of gang rape victims in the Democratic
Republic of Congo.
Parliament president Martin Schulz
announced the award for Mukwege,
who has previously been tipped
several times for the Nobel Peace
Prize, for his work in treating the
appalling injuries inflicted on the
victims.
Oct 21: Olympic and Paralympic
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and boost its domestic defence
industry.
Oct 26: New Indonesian President
Joko Widodo unveiled a cabinet
including the country's first female
foreign minister, Retno Marsudi, as
well as political allies and technocrats
in key economic posts.
Oct 26: British troops ended their
combat operations in Afghanistan as
they and US Marines handed over two
huge adjacent bases to the Afghan
military, 13 years after a US-led
invasion launched the long and costly
war against the Taliban.
Oct 26: Israeli President Reuven Rivlin
acknowledged past and present
wrongdoings to Israel's Arabs, while
calling for calm in the wake of growing
unrest in east Jerusalem and the West
Bank.
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documents.
Oct 30: Angry demonstrators went on
the rampage in Burkina Faso, setting
parliament ablaze in a surge of
violence that forced the government
to scrap a vote on controversial plans
to allow President Blaise Compaore to
extend his 27-year rule.
Oct 30: Sweden officially recognised
the state of Palestine, becoming the
first major European country to do so.
Oct 31: The head of Burkina Faso's
armed forces took power after
President Blaise Compaore resigned.
Oct 31: Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, the
Swedish co-founder of file-sharing
website The Pirate Bay, was sentenced
to three years and six months in jail in
the largest hacking case in Denmark's
history.
Nov 02: Mir Quasem Ali, an official of
the Jamaat-e-Islami party Bangladesh
and a media tycoon, was sentenced to
death for war crimes.
Nov 03: Prime Minister Victor Ponta
won the first round of Romania's
presidential election, a step towards a
victory that would consolidate his
leftist party's hold on power.
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crisis in decades, pledged greater
energy cooperation with Greece and
Cyprus, a diplomatic move that
opened up the possibility of progress
in talks to import natural gas from
Cyprus.
Nov 08: Everything I Never Told
You, the debut novel by author
Celeste Ng about a teenage girl
growing up in a mixed race family in
the American Midwest in the 1970s,
was named Amazon's best book of
2014.
Nov 08: The African Union raised
$28.5m from the continent's
wealthiest individuals and firms for a
fund to fight the Ebola outbreak
ravaging three West African nations.
Nov 09: Yemen sworn in a 29-member
cabinet including members of Saleh's
powerful General People's Congress
(GPC) and others seen as close to the
Huthi insurgents.
Nov 09: For the first time in 30 years
the alleged genocide of Sikhs in 1984
by the Indian army was documented
by the UN High Commissioner for
Human Rights.
UN Human Rights Officer Stenfano
Sensi recorded the testimony of the
1984 witnesses and received
documentary evidence on the role of
Congress leaders in the killings.
Nov 09: Indian Prime Minister
Narendra Modi expanded his council of
ministers inducting 21 new faces.
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Nov 14: Boko Haram seized the northeastern Nigerian town of Chibok, from
where 276 girls were kidnapped more
than six months ago.
Nov 15: Turkey and the United States
agreed a plan under which some 2,000
fighters from the moderate Syrian
opposition would be trained on Turkish
soil.
Sports
Oct 19: Cristiano Ronaldo netted
his14th and 15th goals to break a
record that had stood since the 194344 season when Oviedo's Esteban
Echevarria scored 14 goals through
the first eight rounds.
Oct 20: Ben Martin captured his first
US PGA Tour title at the Shriners
Hospital Open.
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Oct 28: Portuguese star footballer
Cristiano Ronaldo won three awards as
he was named best striker and best
player of the 2013-14 La Liga
campaign, while he was also
presented with the best goal of the
season award at the Spanish Football
League (LFP) gala in Madrid.
Oct 29: FIFA President Sepp Blatter
revealed the logo for the 2018 World
Cup in Russia with the help of a crew
of cosmonauts.
The logo depicts the World Cup trophy
in red and blue, colours from the
Russian flag, with gold trim.
Oct 30: Nepal recorded their sixth win
in seven matches to claim the World
Cricket League (WCL) Division Three
Crown.
Nov 09: South Korea's Lee Mi-Hyang
won a nail-biting playoff to triumph in
the Mizuno Classic, birdying the fifth
extra hole to claim her first LPGA title.
Nov 09: Kenya's Felix Kipchirchir
Kandie won the Athens classic
marathon in a course record of two
hours, 10 minutes and 37 seconds.
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airport.
Oct 21: Ayatollah Mohammad Reza
Mahdavi Kani, the chairman of Iran's
Assembly of Experts, the clerics who
appoint, and can dismiss the country's
supreme leader, died.
Oct 21: Gough Whitlam, a flamboyant
Australian prime minister and
controversial social reformer whose
grip on power was cut short by a bitter
constitutional crisis, died at the age of
98.
Oct 22: Legendary former Washington
Post editor Ben Bradlee, who oversaw
reporting on the Watergate scandal
that brought down US president
Richard Nixon, died. He was 93.
Oct 23: Ghulam Azam, a leader of the
Jamaat-i-Islami in Bangladesh, died,
just over a year after he was
sentenced to 90 years in prison on
charges of masterminding atrocities
during the military operation in 1971.
He was 91.
Oct 29: Zambian President Michael
Sata, an abrasive figure nicknamed
King Cobra because of his venomous
tongue, died in London.
Nov 03: A renowned Marathi and
Bollywood actor Sadashiv Amrapurkar
passed away. He was 64.
Nov 05: Flamenco great Manitas de
Plata, the gypsy guitarist of humble
origins who made a fortune from his
virtuoso talent, died.
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reached a deal to avert potentially
steep duties on Mexican sugar imports
to the United States, defusing a
months-long dispute.
Oct 31: Britain announced to pay
back bonds issued by then finance
minister Winston Churchill to cover
debts from World War I, as well as the
Napoleonic and Crimean campaigns.
The 4% Consols bonds came out in
1927, partly to refinance National War
Bonds originating from WWI that were
widely touted as a patriotic
investment during the war years.
Oct 31: Russian and Ukrainian
officials reached an agreement to
resume Russian deliveries of natural
gas to prevent shortages over the
winter.
Nov 01: Egypt signed $350 million
worth of financing agreements with
Saudi Arabia, aimed at upgrading its
power grid and securing imports of
petroleum products.
Nov 08: China will contribute $40
billion to set up a Silk Road
infrastructure fund to boost
connectivity across Asia, President Xi
Jinping announced. This is the latest
Chinese project to spread the largesse
of its own economic growth.
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forward Cristiano Ronaldo won the
Golden Boot award for scoring the
most goals in Europe's domestic
league's last season.
Maggie Smith
Oct 18: A 79-year-old 'Downton
Abbey' star and veteran actress
Maggie Smith was made a member of
the Order of the Companions of
Honour by Queen Elizabeth, one of
Britain's highest honours.
Malala Yousufzai and Jack Ma
Oct 17: Nobel laureate Malala
Yousafzai and Jack Ma of China's
Alibaba group topped the list of Asian
game changers at a ceremony held at
the United Nations.
Savjibhai Dholakia
Arnold Abbott
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the homeless went into effect in Fort
Lauderdale earlier this year.
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Pyeongchang, South Korea
Oct 17: A UN conference on
preserving the earth's dwindling
resources concluded with
governments making a firm
commitment to double biodiversity aid
to developing countries by 2015 in
Pyeongchang, South Korea. The
gathering, agreed to use average
annual biodiversity funding for the
years 2006-2010 as a baseline to be
doubled by 2015, and then maintained
through 2020.
England
Oct 20: Binge drinking and 24-hour
alcohol shops have caused a
shocking 40 per cent jump in deaths
from liver disease in England revealed
a survey held over a 12-year period. It
found that England is now the only
European country where fatalities from
liver disease are rising, as drinking has
gone down in other parts of Europe.
Beijing, China
London, England
MCQs
National
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National Assembly from ______.
A. NA 118 B. NA 120
C. NA 149 D. NA 156
2. On Oct 17, ______, and the UNDP
pledged 1 million euros for return
and rehabilitation of IDPs of North
Waziristan.
A. Japan
B. Germany
C. UK
D. USA
3. The incumbent chairman of the
Pakistan International Airlines
(PIA) is ______.
A. Nasser N.S. Jaffer
B. M. Ali Gardezi
C. Syed Yawar Ali
D. Dr Miftah Ismail
4. The Sindh Assembly passed
The Sindh Local Government
(Amendment) Bill, 2014 on ______.
A. Oct 18 B. Oct 20
C. Oct 24 D. Oct 26
5. Dr Khawaja Alqama is the ViceChancellor of ______.
A. Quai-i-Azam University
B. University of the Punjab
C. International Islamic University
D. Bahauddin Zakariya University
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B. Enver Baig
C. Nargis Sethi
D. Aftab Anwar Baloch
14. On Oct 22, ______ was elected
as the first president of a new PPP
faction, Pakistan People's Party
Workers (PPP-W) ______.
A. Nahid Khan
B. Dr Safdar Abbasi
C. Abid Minto
D. Mir Abdul Qudoos
15. On Oct 22, the UNDP and
______ reached an agreement to
train IDPs under 'Community
Resilience Project for NWA (North
Waziristan Agency) Displaced
Families'.
A. ILO
B. ADB
C. Unicef D. UNHCR
16. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif
announced imposing polio
emergency in the country on the
occasion of the World Polio Day,
observed on ______.
A. Oct 22 B. Oct 24
C. Oct 26 D. Oct 28
17. The tropical cyclone in the
Arabian Sea that threatened
Pakistan's coastal areas was
named 'Nilofar' by ______.
A. Oman B. India
C. Pakistan D. Sri Lanka
18. The next cyclone in the
Arabian Sea would be named
Priya, a name proposed by
______.
A. Sri Lanka B. India
C. Nepal
D. Bangladesh
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Akhtar took over as the ______
head of powerful Inter Services
Intelligence (ISI) ______ district.
A. 21st
B. 23rd
C. 27th
D. 28th
25. Vice Admiral Khan Hasham bin
Saddique was appointed as Vice
Chief of the Naval Staff on ______.
A. Nov 5
B. Nov 7
C. Nov 9 D. Nov 11
26. On Nov 10, Wafaqi Mohtasib
Salman Faruqui announced
setting up of a 'National
Commission for ______.
A. Women B. Employees
C. Students D. Children
27. On Nov 11, ______ was
appointed as the Director General
of the National Crisis Management
Cell.
A. Saud Aziz
B. Hanif Abbasi
C. Maryam Nawaz
D. Hamza Shahbaz
28. On Nov 13, Pakistan
conducted a successful training
launch of the intermediaterange______, also known as Hatf-VI,
ballistic missile.
A. Shaheen-I B. Nasr
C. Zarb
D. Shaheen-II
B. Secretary General
C. Economic and Social Council
D. General Assembly
2. The Pew Research Center, an
American think tank, is based in
______.
A. New York B. Washington
C. Ohio
D. Philadelphia
3. Janet Yellen is the Chair of the
Board of Governors of the Federal
Reserve System, the central bank
of ______.
A. the US B. Norway
C. Australia D. Austria
4. Japan's Yasukuni Shrine, which
Korea and China see as a symbol
of Japanese militarism, is located
in ______.
A. Osaka B. Kyoto
C. Yokohama D. Tokyo
5. On Oct 17, India successfully
test-fired its first domesticallybuilt nuclear capable and longrange cruise missile named ______.
A. Nirbhay B. Pratap
C. Astra
D. Prahaar
International
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A. China
B. Vietnam
C. Indonesia D. South Korea
8. Renminbi is the basic unit of
_______ currency.
A. Japan's B. England's
C. China's D. Bhutan's
9. ______ and Germany are the two
biggest economies in eurozone.
A. Sweden
B. Norway
C. Luxembourg
D. France
10. On Oct 20, the World Health
Organization declared two major
African countries, Nigeria
and______, Ebola free.
A. Liberia B. Senegal
C. Niger
D. Kenya
11. Joko Widodo, who was sworn
in on Oct 20, is the ______
president of Indonesia; the
world's third-biggest democracy.
A. 4th
B. 5th
C. 7th
D. 9th
12. Christophe de Margerie, who
died in a plane crash at a Moscow
airport on Oct 21, was the chief
executive of French oil giant
______.
A. Total
B. Shell
C. ExxonMobil D. Rosneft
13. Doctor Denis Mukwege, who
won the European Parliament's
prestigious Sakharov human
rights prize belongs to ______.
A. Nigeria B. Zimbabwe
C. DR Congo D. S. Africa
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______.
A. 1944
C. 1954
B. 1948
D. 1956
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Council (ICC) announced a ______
per cent increase in prize money
for 2015 Cricket World Cup.
A. 7.5
B. 10
C. 15
D. 20
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Transmission and Dispatch Company
got the test run of the wind energy
plants at Jhimpir (Nooriabad), near
Hyderabad.
Nov 24: Pakistan has the world's
fastest-growing nuclear programme
capable of making up to 200 nuclear
devices by the year 2020, a report
entitled Strategic Stability in the
Second Nuclear Age Council, released
by the Council on Foreign Relations
said.
Nov 25: The Supreme Court held that
provisions of the National
Accountability Ordinance (NAO), 1999,
are applicable with equal force even to
a person who is not holder of a public
office and ordered to proceed against
a guarantor of Messers Ittefaq
Foundries (Pvt) Ltd in a loan default
case.
Nov 25: The Lahore High Court
suspended the recovery of debt
servicing surcharge (DS-surcharge) on
electricity bills levied by the federal
government at the rate of 30 paisa per
unit.
Nov 25: With a score of 27.8 in the
South Asia Women's Resilience Index,
Pakistan is the worst performer when
it comes to women empowerment in
the face of a disaster, be it natural,
economic and conflict related,
revealed a latest report by the
Economist Intelligence Unit.
Nov 26: Police recovered 26 girls,
aged between five and 11 years, from
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agreed upon.
him).
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was speaking at a meeting with British
Prime Minister David Cameron. They
discussed Pakistan-UK relations, the
regional situation and other issues of
mutual interest.
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Khawaja Asif that GB is not a
constitutional part of Pakistan, was
adopted.
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opening of the video-sharing website.
Dec 13: PTI and the MWM leaders
challenged in the Supreme Court the
appointment of the newly-appointed
Gilgit-Balistan CEC Justice (retd) Tahir
Ali Shah, contending that he was
'unsuitable' for the post because of his
alleged close association with the
ruling PML-N.
Dec 15: An antiterrorism court
declared Dr Tahirul Qadri a proclaimed
offender and issued his arrest
warrants in a case of kidnapping and
attacking policemen as well as arson
at the Lillah motorway interchange.
Economy
Nov 17: The government announced
to lift a ban on new gas schemes in
the country.
Nov 17: The Asian Development Bank
announced an interim plan for six
sectors including energy and
transport; agriculture and natural
resources; rural development; water
supply and other urban infrastructure
and services; finance; and public
sector management to which the ADB
assistance will continue.
Nov 19: The Federation of Pakistan
Chambers of Commerce and Industry
(FPCCI) and Shanghai Chamber of
Commerce China signed an agreement
for the joint construction of maritime
Silk Road economic cooperation and
promotion of common development.
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The report also indicated that the
government had artificially managed
to bring down the fiscal deficit to 5.5
per cent as it did not pay the amount
due in FY14.
Dec 10: Meezan Bank's Annual Report
2013 was awarded the 'Certificate of
Merit' in the private banks category by
South Asian Federation of
Accountants.
Education
Nov 19: Higher Education
Commission Pakistan (HEC) declared
MCom (3 years programme) equal to
MPhil/MS of Commerce.
Dec 15: The University of Agriculture
Faisalabad (UAF) set up Waris Shah
Chair for research on the Punjabi
classic poet.
Appointments and Transfers
Nov 17: President Mamnoon Hussain
administered the oath to retired Maj
Gen Niaz Mohammad Khan Khattak as
chairman of the Federal Public Service
Commission (FPSC).
Nov 19: President Mamnoon Hussain
granted one year extension to
Pakistan Agricultural Research Council
(PARC) Chairman Dr Iftikhar Ahmed.
Nov 21: CEO of Peshawar Electric
Supply Company (Pesco), Brigadier
(Retd) Tariq Saddozai, was appointed
as the chairman of NEPRA for five
years.
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appointed Sher Jahan Mir as caretaker
chief minister of Gilgit-Baltistan after
the legislative assembly completed its
five-year tenure.
Earlier President Mamnoon Hussain,
on recommendation of the prime
minister, made amendments in the GB
Empowerment and Self-governance
Order, 2009, because there was no
provision in the law for setting up a
caretaker government in GilgitBaltistan.
Dec 11: President Mamnoon Hussain,
on the advice of Prime Minister Nawaz
Sharif, approved the appointment of
Justice Fida Muhammad Khan, the
senior-most judge of the Federal
Shariat Court as Acting Chief Justice.
The President authorised Justice
Sheikh Najmul Hasan, the next senior
Judge of the FSC to administer the
oath of office to the Acting Chief
Justice.
Dec 13: The government decided to
appoint Sohail Mahmood as Pakistan's
new ambassador to Turkey. He will be
replacing Muhammad Haroon Shaukat.
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Beach Games at Phuket, Thailand.
Nov 23: Three-year-old bay colt, Risk
Free, lifted the Shah Mardan Shah II Pir
Pagara VII Memorial Cup at the Karachi
Racecourse.
Nov 23: Pakistan kabaddi team won
the silver medal after losing to Iran in
the final of the 4th Asian Beach Games
men's Kabaddi.
Nov 24: Madeha Hussain of Punjab
Law College won a gold medal for the
first time in the Punjab University
Intercollegiate Karate Championships.
Noor Asfia of the same college won
the silver medal.
Dec 4: Star-studded polo team Witribe
Shahsawars won the Grace King land
Polo Cup held at the Lahore Polo Club.
Dec 5: New Zealand beat Pakistan in
the second Twenty20 international in
Dubai to level the two-match series.
Dec 7: India beat two-time winners
and defending champions Pakistan in
a thrilling final to be crowned
champions of Blind Cricket World Cup.
Dec 7: Rawalpindi's Ghazanfar
Mahmood with an aggregate score of
218 retained the trophy of the threeday Chief of Naval Staff (CNS)
Amateur Golf championship at the
Royal Palm Golf Course, Lahore.
Dec 7: Pakistan won the title of men's
International Handball Tournament by
outplaying Yemen in the final played at
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away at 75.
Nov 25: Founder member of Pakistan
Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) and its former
Punjab president Ahsan Rasheed
passed away.
Nov 29: Dr Khalid Mehmood Soomro,
secretary general of the Sindh chapter
of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl, was
gunned down at a mosque adjacent to
Madressah Haqqania in Sukkurs SITE
area. He was 55.
Nov 29: Former Lahore High Court
Chief Justice Rashid Aziz Khan passed
away.
Dec 8: Veteran communist leader
Comrade Sobho Gianchandani died.
He was 95.
Dec 8: Renowned tennis coach
Qamaruddin, the father of Davis
Cupper Nomi Qamar, passed away.
Dec 9: Usman Ahmed Bilour, the
younger son of Awami National Partys
late leader Bashir Ahmad Bilour, died.
He was 43.
Dec 10: Mansoor Malangi, the great
Seraiki singer died. He was 66.
Dec 11: Renowned Pashto poet
Ikramullah Gran Bacha passed away.
He was 73.
Dec 12: Noted scholar and former
Balochistan Education director, Dr
Inamul Haq Kausar, passed away.
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ceremony at the Buckingham Palace.
Nov 26: A gold medal was awarded to
Prof Dr Masood Sadiq, dean of the
Children's Hospital and Institute of
Child Health, by President Mamnoon
Hussain at the opening ceremony of
the 22nd International Biennial
Paediatrics Conference in recognition
of his services in the field of paediatric
cardiology in Pakistan.
Cecil Chaudhry
Nov 29: The government renamed a
portion of Lawrence Road to honour
the late Cecil Chaudhry, a war veteran
of the Pakistan Air Force.
Ushna Suhail
Nov 29: Pakistan ladies tennis
champion and FFC Sports Ambassador
Ushna Suhail became Pakistan's first
female tennis player to enter
International Tennis Federation (ITF)
rankings.
Fawad Khan
Nov 29: Pakistan's Fawad Khan was
honoured with the Best Bollywood
Debut award at the Masala Awards
2014 held in Dubai.
Bilal Tanweer
Dec 3: Writer and translator Bilal
Tanweer won the 2014 Shakti Bhatt
First Book Prize for his novel The
Scatter Here Is Too Great.
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Washington
Nov 18: The Pentagon hosted COAS
Gen Raheel Sharif for talks with top
American defence leaders on USPakistan military-to-military relations.
Gen Sharif's delegation was greeted
with a full honour guard.
Lahore
Islamabad
Lahore
Nov 24: Fifty noted Muslim scholars
and leaders of Islamic movements
from 30 countries reaffirmed their
pledge of peaceful preaching of Islam
and refraining from violence for the
cause.
These leaders came to Pakistan to
attend Jamaat-e-Islami's three-day
convention at Minar-e-Pakistan.
Lahore
Nov 30: The 7th plenary session of
the Asian Parliamentary Assembly
started in Lahore. As many as 126
New Delhi
Dec 12: The India-Pakistan
Parliamentarians Dialogue-VI, which
concluded in New Delhi, suggested
eleven modes which could be used
actively to facilitate the resumption of
dialogue on terms that are mutually
acceptable.
The Dialogue was organised by
Pakistan Institute of Legislative
Development and Transparency
(Pildat).
International
Nov 17: Almost 36 million people are
living as slaves across the globe with
an index listing Mauritania,
Uzbekistan, Haiti, Qatar and India as
the nations where modern-day slavery
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is most prevalent, a report by an
Australia-based human rights group
The Walk Free Foundation, said.
Nov 17: Authorities in Burkina Faso
named former foreign minister Michel
Kafando as countrys transitional
president.
Nov 18: A United Nations General
Assembly committee adopted a
Pakistani-sponsored resolution
reaffirming that the universal
realisation of the right of peoples to
self-determination was a fundamental
condition for the effective guarantee
and observance of human rights.
Nov 19: Sri Lankan President Mahinda
Rajapaksa unconditionally pardoned
and released five Tamil Nadu
fishermen who had been sentenced to
death for drug trafficking by the
Colombo High Court.
Nov 19: Spanish lawmakers adopted
a motion calling on their government
to recognise a Palestinian state. The
motion was adopted nearly
unanimously with 319 in favour, two
against, and one abstention.
Nov 19: Colonel Isaac Zida, the
military officer who took power after
the fall of Burkina Faso president
Blaise Compaore, was named
country's interim prime minister.
Nov 19: Malaysia became the only
Muslim country making it to the top 10
in the Global Giving Index 2014
released by Charities Aid Foundation
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Catalonia's regional court to
investigate possible charges of grave
disobedience, abuse of public funds,
prevarication, usurpation of powers
and obstructing justice against
Catalan regional President Artur Mas
and two other regional officials for
staging the November 9 non-binding
ballot.
Nov 21: The United Nations adopted
the first-ever resolution calling on
governments to stop child marriages.
About 15 million girls worldwide
become child brides each year and
globally, more than 700 million women
were married before the age of 18.
Unless action is taken, some 1.2 billion
girls will be married by 2050, says the
Girls Not Brides coalition of nongovernmental organisations.
Nov 21: US President Barack Obama
announced sweeping immigration
reforms that will allow almost five
million immigrants to legalise their
status in the United States.
Nov 21: In a stunning upset, 17-yearold Pakistani prodigy, Moiz Baig,
defeated Nigel Richards, the reigning
world champion and arguably the
greatest player of all times in the
Scrabble Champions Tournament 2014
in London.
Nov 22: President Barack Obama
signed an order that permits American
personnel to continue to fight the
Taliban and other militant groups that
pose a threat to either the US forces or
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Hagel resigned from his post.
Nov 24: Turkish President Recep
Tayyip Erdoan told a meeting on
women's rights that gender equality
was contrary to nature and said
feminists did not recognise the value
of motherhood.
Nov 24: South Korea's education
minister apologised and the head of
the national exam board resigned
after accepting that there were errors
in two questions in the country's
cutthroat college entrance test.
Nov 25: Nepal and India signed a deal
to build a $1-billion hydropower plant.
The deal allows India's state-owned
company Satluj Jal Vidyut Nigam to
construct a 900-megawatt hydropower
project on Nepal's Arun river, with
electricity expected to be generated
from 2021.
Nov 25: An influential Bangladesh exminister, Abdul Latif Siddique, was
jailed over remarks criticising the
annual Muslim Haj pilgrimage. He had
called the Muslim ritual Haj a waste
of manpower.
Nov 25: A grand jury, comprising nine
white and three black members, in
Ferguson determined that officer
Darren Wilson, who shot and killed
black teenager Michael Brown in
August, should face no charges. Riots
erupted overnight after the decision
was announced.
Nov 25: At a meeting of the Saarc
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human trial of an experimental Ebola
vaccine.
Nov 27: The World Trade Organisation
(WTO) adopted the first worldwide
trade reform in its history. The
agreement means the WTO will
introduce new standards for customs
checks and border procedures.
Streamlining the flow of trade will add
as much as $1 trillion and 21 million
jobs to the world economy.
Nov 29: The World Bank (WB) said it
will loan East African nations $1.2
billion to improve inland waterways
and ports in Kenya and Tanzania, as
part of efforts to boost integration in
the region.
Nov 29: Taiwan's premier, Jiang Yihuah, resigned after his Beijingfriendly ruling party suffered a
landslide defeat at the island's biggest
ever local elections.
Dec 2: Chan Kin-man, Benny Tai Yiuting and Chu Yiu-ming, the original
founders of Hong Kong's prodemocracy Occupy Movement
announced they would surrender by
turning themselves in to police and
urged protesters on the streets to
retreat.
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Dec 2: France's lower house of
parliament voted to urge the
government to recognise a Palestinian
state. The vote, approved with 339
votes to 151, is non-binding.
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Economic and Financial Committee
adopted a resolution outlining the
plan, which was proposed by
developing countries and strongly
backed by Argentina, to develop a new
legal framework to restructure
national debts and avoid the kind of
speculative action that led Argentina
to a second default.
Dec 6: The Maldives declared two
days of public holidays in a bid to
manage fraying tempers and ration
supply following a drinking water
crisis.
Dec 8: The US and Nato closed their
combat command in Afghanistan,
more than 13 years after invading the
country in the wake of the Sept 11
terror attacks to target Al Qaeda and
Osama bin Laden.
Dec 8: In Australia's emotional
opening Test against India in Adelaide,
the late Phillip Hughes was
symbolically named 13th man.
Dec 8: Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah
appointed new ministers for health,
higher education, transport,
agriculture, information and Islamic
affairs as part of the kingdom's
broadest reshuffle of second-tier posts
in years.
Dec 8: The Los Angeles Film Critics
Association named Richard Linklater's
Boyhood, a 12-year experiment,
their best picture of 2014.
Linklater also earned a best director
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freedom.
Dec 10: Time magazine named the
medics who have treated patients
struck with the killer Ebola virus as its
Person of the Year 2014, paying
tribute to their courage and mercy.
Dec 10: E. H. Shepard's original inkdrawing of an iconic literary
illustration depicting Winnie-the-Pooh
and his friends playing poohsticks
sold at auction in London for a recordbreaking 314,500 ($490,470).
The sale of the much-loved A. A. Milne
characters Pooh, Christopher Robin
and Piglet broke the world record for
any book illustration in the sale at
Sotheby's auction house.
Dec 10: President Robert G. Mugabe
of Zimbabwe dismissed his vice
president Joice Mujuru.
Dec 12: US lawmakers approved fresh
economic sanctions against Russia, a
move likely to anger President
Vladimir Putin as American lawmakers
toughen their response to Kremlin's
continued support to rebels in eastern
Ukraine.
Dec 12: The Federal Constitutional
Court, Germany's top court, rejected a
bid by leftist opposition parties to call
former NSA contractor Edward
Snowden as a witness in a
parliamentary probe of US intelligence
activities.
Dec 12: Nearly 6,600 people have
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culture of peace.
Sports
Nov 16: India beat Sri Lanka to secure
a 5-0 series whitewash in the One-day
International series.
Nov 16: Bangladesh thrashed
Zimbabwe by 186 to sweep the test
series 3-0.
Nov 17: American twins Bob and Mike
Bryan claimed the ATP Tour Finals title
for the fourth time.
Nov 18: India seamer Bhuvneshwar
Kumar won the Polly Umrigar Award
for 2013-14 when he was declared
India's best international cricketer for
2013-14.
Nov 21: India clinched the South
Asian Football Federation (SAFF)
Women's Championship, outclassing
Nepal.
Nov 22: Pole vault world record
holder Renaud Lavillenie and Olympic
shot put champion Valerie Adams were
named World Athletes of the Year by
the International Association of
Athletics Federations (IAAF).
Nov 23: British driver Lewis Hamilton
clinched his second Formula One title
with victory at the season-ending Abu
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memory of late Australian batsman
Phillip Hughes.
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Sitara Devi died at a hospital in
Mumbai. She was 94.
Economy
Nov 17: China and Australia sealed a
landmark free trade agreement more
than a decade in the making,
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Fidel Castro
Kathmandu, Nepal
Dec 11: Fidel Castro was awarded
China's version of the Nobel Peace
Prize, with a paper close to the ruling
Communist Party hailing the former
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starved region, as the Saarc summit
overshadowed by Pakistan-India
rivalry ended with little progress
towards regional integration.
Bariyapur, Nepal
Lima, Peru
London, UK
Weird News
London, UK
Dec 9: New Scotland Yard, the
headquarters of London's Metropolitan
Police, was sold to investors from the
UAE, for $580 million.
Beijing, China
Dec 12: A multi-billion-dollar manmade river to divert water from
China's south to its parched north was
opened. The central route of the
SouthNorth Water Diversion Project,
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Dec 4: In the first case of its kind, a
New York appeals court rejected an
animal rights advocate's bid to extend
legal personhood to chimpanzees,
saying the primates are incapable of
bearing the responsibilities that come
with having legal rights.
Dec 6: A feline named Frank and
Louie after he was born with two
faces, two mouths, two noses and
three blue eyes died at the age of 15.
Dec 15: A Chinese teenager executed
after being convicted of murder and
rape 18 years ago was declared
innocent by a court, in a rare
overturning of a wrongful conviction.
The 18-year-old, named Hugjiltu and
also known as Qoysiletu, was found
guilty and put to death in Inner
Mongolia in 1996, but doubt was cast
on the verdict when another man
confessed to the crime in 2005.
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National
Dec 16: More than 130 schoolchildren
and 10 other people were killed when
heavily armed militants stormed Army
Public School in Peshawar.
Dec 16: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI)
shelved its plans for countrywide
demonstrations
against
the
government.
Dec
16:
The
Supreme
Court
restrained the Sindh government from
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Research (CERN), the worlds premier
scientific organisation engaged in
investigating fundamental structure of
the universe, as associate member.
CERN Director General Dr Rolf Heuer
on behalf of CERN and Pakistan Atomic
Energy Commission (PAEC) Chairman
Dr
Ansar
Parvez
signed
the
agreement.
Dec 19: A case was registered, at the
Aabpara police station under Section
506 (2), against the chief cleric of Lal
Masjid, Maulana Abdul Aziz, following
a protracted protest by civil society
members against his controversial
statement
on
massacre
of
schoolchildren
in
Peshawar.
Dec 20: The Secretary General of
Organisation of Islamic Cooperation
(OIC), Iyad Amin Madani, announced
that the OIC will organise a peace
conference of ulema and ambassadors
of Muslim countries in Peshawar to
adopt
a
joint
strategy
against
terrorism.
Dec 21: Auditors detected financial
irregularities of up to Rs62,878 million
out of the total expenditures of
Rs444.78 billion, 90 per cent of all
auditable expenditure, committed by
36
departments
of
the
Sindh
government during 2011-12, the audit
report
for
2012-13
claimed.
Dec 21: Four terrorists involved in an
attack on former president Pervez
Musharraf in 2003 named Ghulam
Sarwar Bhatti, Zubair Ahmed, Rasheed
Mehmood Qureshi alias Tipu and
Akhlaq Ahmed alias Roosi, were
hanged in the district jail Faisalabad.
Dec 21: The World Bank, USA and
other western donors committed $1
billion
for
placing
electricity
connectivity among Central Asia and
South Asia through CASA-1000 against
total estimated cost of $1.3 billion.
Dec 22: A Senior PTI leader Sadaqat
Abbasi resigned as president PTI North
Punjab.
Dec 22: Pakistan and Russia signed a
most sought-after energy deal of $1.7
billion for laying a liquefied natural gas
(LNG) pipeline from Karachi to Lahore.
The supply of LNG is expected before
March
2015.
It is for the first time Islamabad and
Moscow have signed an energy pact
decades after their defence deal.
Dec 23: Justice Athar Minallah of the
Islamabad High Court (IHC) stopped
proceedings in the high treason case
till the maintainability of appeals filed
against the special court order to
include
former
president
Pervez
Musharrafs abettors in the case is
decided.
Dec 23: The Punjab Assembly
unanimously
adopted
three
resolutions,
including
the
one
demanding effective legislation to
prevent underage marriages. Two
resolutions
were
withdrawn
one
already under consideration by the
treasury and the other requiring
revision.
Dec
23:
Pakistan
Institute
of
Legislative
Development
and
Transparency (Pildat) rated Jamaat-eIslami (JI) as the most democratic
party and the PML-N as the least
democratic one in its report on
Assessing Internal Democracy in
Major Political Parties of Pakistan.
Dec 23: The PTI appointed MNA
Ghulam Sarwar as President North
Punjab and Zahid Hussain Kazmi as
General
Secretary.
Dec 25: The federal government
established National Food Security
Commission (NFSC), a step forward to
develop a national policy for the longterm sustainability of food security
and
agriculture
development.
The prime minister of Pakistan will be
the chairman of the newly established
NFSC. The NFSC would have its own
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secretariat at the Ministry of National
Food
Security
and
Research,
Islamabad.
Dec 26: The Karachi police launched
an online FIR registration project to
help complainants get their cases
registered
through
the
internet
without
visiting
police
stations.
Dec 27: The government rejected
calls by the United Nations and the
European Union to revive moratorium
on execution of convicts, noting that
capital punishment for terrorists did
not
violate
international
law.
Dec 27: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif
formed a monitoring committee and
15
sub-committees
for
the
implementation of the National Action
Plan (NAP) for eradicating terrorism
and set a timeframe for them to
submit
their
respective
recommendations.
Dec 28: A major fire broke out in a
timber warehouse due to which 450
shops and warehouses, along with 250
houses, were gutted in Old Haji Camp
in the Shershah Police precincts,
causing over a one billion rupees loss.
Dec 29: A huge fire ravaged a threestorey building housing a watch
market in Anarkali Bazaar, Lahore,
leaving
13
people
dead.
Dec 29: Uzair Baloch, an alleged
leader of one of the gangs operating in
crime infested Lyari, was arrested in
Dubai by the Interpol while he was
crossing into the United Arab Emirates
from
Oman
by
road.
Dec 29: The Islamabad High Court
ordered the conditional release of
Zakiur Rahman Lakhvi, the alleged
mastermind of the Mumbai attacks.
Dec 31: With the election on 612
seats reserved for labourers and
peasants, the third phase of local
government elections was completed
in
Balochistan.
Dec 31: Indian Border Security Force
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Service was limited to Wagah border
because
of
terrorism
threats.
Jan 06: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Sensitive
and
Vulnerable
Establishments and Places (Security)
Bill 2014 sailed through the provincial
assembly declaring almost all public
places except mosques the sensitive
establishments and vulnerable places.
Jan 06: The groundbreaking ceremony
of the latest marvel of Islamic
architecture, the Bahria Town Grand
Mosque that will be the biggest
mosque of the world after Harmain
Sharifain,
was
conducted
by
Noshairwan, the eldest employee of
Bahria
Town
Karachi.
Jan 07: President Mamnoon Hussain
gave his ceremonial assent to the 21st
Constitution
Amendment
bill.
Jan 07: Pakistans first-ever centre for
promotion of early education skills and
healthy development of children was
inaugurated at the Academy of
Education Planning and Management
(AEPAM),
Islamabad.
Childrens Global Network (Pakistan) in
collaboration with Open Society and
Ministry of Federal Education and
Professional Training set up the centre.
Jan
07:
The
Pakistan
Tourism
Development Corporation will remain
at the federal level as it is a legal
corporate entity established under the
Company Act, PTDC Managing Director
Kabir
Ahmed
Khan
announced.
After
the
18th
Constitution
Amendment, the status of the PTDC
was
not
clear.
Jan 07: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif
paid an official visit to Bahrain. He said
that Pakistan was keen to work with
Bahrain to further improve economic
relations between the two friendly
countries.
Jan 07: Pakistan, which hosts about
1.6 million Afghan refugees, is the
biggest host country in absolute
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meeting was co-chaired by Adviser to
Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs and
National Security Sartaj Aziz and US
Secretary of State John Kerry at the
Foreign
Office.
Jan 13: The US State Department
declared Mullah Fazlullah, chief of the
outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan, a
specially designated global terrorist.
Jan 13: Pakistan broke its own 16-year
record for the highest number of polio
cases diagnosed in a calendar year,
after the tally of children afflicted by
the debilitating disease crossed the
300
mark.
Jan 13: The federal government
decided to extend the jurisdiction of
the newly-constituted military courts
to Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) and
Gilgit-Baltistan
(GB).
Jan 13: The polio vaccine being used
to fight the crippling disease in our
Islamic
state
is
Halal.
A laboratory controlled by the Drug
Regulatory Authority of Pakistan
(DRAP) has tested the vaccine and
certified
that.
Jan 14: The Punjab government, on
the
directions
of
the
Punjab
Ombudsman, amended the Punjab
Pension Rules, which provide that
divorced daughter and unmarried
sister of a deceased government
employee will also be entitled to
family pension till life after his widow,
infants and unmarried daughters.
Jan 15: Amid protests and walkouts
over other issues, the National
Assembly passed a resolution to
condemn the latest cartoon printed by
a French satirical magazine featuring
the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and
demand
decisive
steps
internationally
to
stop
such
controversies.
The resolution was moved by Minister
for Railways Khawaja Saad Rafique.
Economy
Dec 23: After the fourth and fifth
reviews
of
Pakistans
economic
performance, the IMF released to
Pakistan
US$1.05
billion
under
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
three-year Extended Fund Facility.
Dec 29: The United Business Group
(UBG), led by Iftikhar Ali Malik and S M
Muneer, won the 2015 elections of the
Federation of Pakistan Chambers of
Commerce and Industry (FPCCI).
Dec 30: Expecting a major dip in its
revenue collection, the government
raised the general sales tax on
petroleum products by five per cent,
above the normal 17 per cent.
Dec
30:
Provincial
Environment
Secretary Iqbal Muhammad Chohan
launched the Sialkot Tannery Zone
(STZ) project at Khambraanwala near
Sialkot.
Jan 03: Pakistans per capita income
rose by 10.9 per cent to Rs143,808 for
the fiscal 2013-14 compared with
Rs129,569 in the previous year.
Jan 06: The government agreed in
principle on waiver of sales tax on
replacement of SIMs during the period
from 12th January to 28th February,
2015, charged by FBR provided that a
proper definition of Replacement SIM
was
arrived
at.
Jan 10: The Economic Coordination
Committee of the cabinet imposed
regulatory duty of Rs200 per set on
import
of
mobile
phones.
Jan 14: The Federal Board of Revenue
(FBR) imposed regulatory duty of up to
15 per cent on import of various steel
products.
Education
Dec
28:
The
elementary
and
secondary
education
department
Punjab decided to conduct centralised
examinations for grade five in the
government schools to assess the
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students and teachers properly. The
centralised exam would be conducted
from the next annual examinations.
Mostly, the papers would consist of
multiple choice questions (MCQs) and
a little room would be spared for the
long question.
Elections,
Appointments
&
Transfers
Dec 16: Former University of Gujrat
vice-chancellor Prof Dr Nizamuddin
was appointed chairman of the Punjab
Higher
Education
Commission.
Dec 23: The federal government
appointed
Vadiyya
Khalil
as
chairperson
of
the
Competition
Commission of Pakistan (CCP) for a
period
of
three
years.
She has previously served as a
member CCP from 2010 to 2013 where
she was overseeing the mergers and
acquisitions and advocacy functions of
the
commission.
She has over 20 years of experience in
corporate and commercial banking at
international and national banks.
Dec 24: President Mamnoon Hussain
approved the appointment of Justice
Muhammad Noor Meskanzai as chief
justice of the Balochistan High Court
(BHC).
Dec 25: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif
designated Leila Khan, an MNA of PMLN, as chairperson of the Prime
Ministers Youth Programme (PMYP) on
an honorary basis. She will not draw
any salary or perks and privileges as
chief
of
the
programme.
Dec 30: Arshad Ansari of the
Journalist
Panel
was
re-elected
president of the Lahore Press Club for
year
2015.
Dec 31: Inspector General, National
Highways and Motorways Police,
Zulfiqar Cheema retired from service.
Jan 05: The government announced
appointment of Senator Mushahidullah
Khan
as
a
federal
minister.
Jan 06: Khalid Rahman was appointed
as Managing Director of Sui Southern
Gas Company by Ministry of Petroleum
and Natural Resources w.e.f. January 2,
2015.
Jan 06: Senior bureaucrat Babar
Yaqoob Fateh Mohammad was posted
as the Punjab chief secretary. But, the
notification to this effect was revoked
within
24
hours
Jan 07: Federal Secretary for Ports
and Shipping Khizar Hayat Gondal was
appointed Chief Secretary Punjab
instead of Babar Yaqoob Fateh
Mohammad.
Jan 09: Ziaul Haq was appointed as
new managing director of Telephone
Industries
of
Pakistan
(TIP).
Jan 09: The Pakistan Broadcasters
Association (PBA) elected Mir Ibrahim
Rahman (Geo) as its Chairman and
Sultan Ali Lakhani (Express News) as
Secretary
General.
The board of directors also elected
Mian Aamer Mehmood (Dunya TV),
Muhammad Aslam Kazi (KTN), Shakeel
Masud (Dawn News), Saleem Adil
(Samaa TV), as senior vice chairman,
vice chairman, joint secretary and
finance
secretary
respectively.
Sher Asfandyar Khan, Shazya Amin,
Shahid Jamil, Nazafreen Saigal and
Imran Riyaz were elected on the board
of directors. Taher A. Khan was
appointed
as
internal
election
commissioner to conduct and hold the
elections.
Jan 10: Chaudhry Ishtiaq of the
Professional Group won elections for
the president of the Lahore Bar
Association for year-2015 by defeating
Arshad Jahangir Jhojha of the Friends
Group.
Jahangir
Bhatti
and
Muhammad
Naveed Chughtai were elected vice
presidents.
Jan 10: The Chief Justice Islamabad
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High Court (IHC) posted Raja Jawad
Abbas Hassan, District and Sessions
Judge as Registrar Islamabad High
Court
(IHC).
Jan 10: Shoaib Warsi was redesignated as Chief Operating Officer
and Deputy Managing Director of the
SSGC.
Jan 15: The Prime Minister of
Pakistan, who is also the Chairman
Gilgit-Baltistan
Council,
appointed
Nasir Hussain (Gilgit Division), Haji
Sanaullah
(Baltistan
Division),
Inayatullah Shumall (Diamer Division),
Advocate Mushtaq Ahmad (Gilgit
Division) and Haji Niamatullah (Bunji)
as members of the caretaker cabinet
of Gilgit-Baltistan.
Sports
Dec 19: Skipper Kane Williamson and
Ross Taylor hit half-centuries while
paceman Matt Henry recorded careerbest bowling figures as New Zealand
thumped Pakistan by 68 runs in the
fifth and final one-dayer in Abu Dhabi.
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Jan 03: Public fancy five-year-old bay
horse Hot Man lifted The New Year
Cup.
Jan 03: Ace rider Mohammad Essa
retained the Best Rider of the Year
award at the Karachi Racecourse.
Jan 09: Sarah Mahboob Khan won the
ladies singles final at the Kulsum
Saifullah Khan National Ranking tennis
tournament.
Jan 10: Mohammad Faheem subdued
top seed Abdul Raheem to lift his
maiden national
junior under-21
snooker
title.
Jan 11: Pakistan International Airlines
(PIA) defeated Wapda to win the 61st
National Hockey Championship.
Obituaries
Dec 24: Renowned film director and
lifetime chairman of the Pakistan Film
Directors Association, Aslam Dar,
passed
away
at
78.
Dec 28: A senior journalist Sulaiman
A. Meenai passed away. He was 85.
Dec 29: Syed Nisar Hussain Shah
Latifi, the 11th Sajjada Nashin of the
Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai shrine, died. He
was
67.
Dec 30: Afzal Tauseef, a prolific
progressive writer and columnist,
passed
away.
She
was
78.
Dec 30: Federal Secretary Rashida
Malik, wife of Azad Kashmir IG Malik
Khuda Baksh Awan, passed away at
the
age
of
54.
Jan 05: Prof Fizaur Rehman Khan,
former
principal
of
Government
College University Lahore, passed
away
at
94.
Jan 09: Former Sindh cricket captain
and first class batsman Dr Iqbal Shaikh
died. He was 80.
People
in
News
Hassan
Noman
Dec 16: Hassan Noman, a renowned
soccer player from Burewala, was
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commitment, performance, exemplary
work ethic and dedication in the event
management
sector.
Asif
Ali
Zardari
Dec 30: The chieftainship of the
Zardari tribe was conferred upon
Pakistan Peoples Party co-chairman
and former president Asif Ali Zardari.
He succeeds his father, Raees Hakim
Ali Zardari, who headed the tribe until
his
death
on
May
24,
2011.
Syed
Waqar
Hussain
Shah
Dec 31: Syed Waqar Hussain Shah
became the 12th Sajjada Nashin of the
Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai shrine.
Fiza
Farhan
Jan 07: 28-year-old Fiza Farhan, cofounder of Buksh Foundation, was
included in the list of American
business magazine Forbes list of 30
under 30 social entrepreneurs for
2015.
Places
in
News
Lahore
Dec
16:
Two-day
international
conference on Environment and
Sustainable Development began at
Government College University Lahore
under the auspices of the universitys
Sustainable
Development
Study
Centre (SDSC) and Higher Education
Commission
(HEC).
Pitafi
Village,
Ghotki
Dec 28: The 306th annual Hindu
festival Sindh Shaddani Darbar
got under way at Hayat Pitafi village
near Mirpur Mathelo town of Ghotki
district.
Ormara
Dec 31: A 1.8-metre-long sunfish that
accidentally got entangled in fishing
net off Ormara, Balochistan, was
safely released by fishermen recently.
The sunfish weighed about 450kg.
Gwadar
Jan 07: A 60-inch long leatherback
turtle that accidentally got entangled
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principle, following a series of votes
on the issue in EU nations that
enraged
Israel.
Lawmakers approved the motion by
498 votes to 88 with 111 abstentions.
Dec 17: The Lok Sabha observed a
brief silence in memory of 141
Pakistanis, including at least 132
children, killed by terrorists at a
Peshawar school and passed a
resolution
condemning
the
despicable and cowardly terrorist
attack.
Dec 17: North Korea marked the end
of a three-year mourning period for
the late leader Kim Jong Il, opening the
way for his son, Kim Jong Un, to put a
more personal stamp on the way the
country
is
run.
Dec 18: Boko Haram kidnapped at
least 185 people, including 100
women and children, in northeast
Nigeria.
Dec 18: A Nigerian military court
sentenced 54 soldiers to death for
mutiny after they refused to deploy for
an operation against Boko Haram
Islamists
in
the
northeast.
Dec 18: People around the world lived
on average to a ripe old age of 71.5 in
2013, up from 65.3 in 1990, a study
said, noting the gains came despite
big increases in liver cancer and
chronic
kidney
deaths.
Global life expectancy rose by 5.8
years in men and 6.6 years in women
between
1990
and
2013.
Dec
19:
Indias
government
introduced legislation billed as the
biggest
tax
reform
since
independence.
The
long-awaited
goods and-services tax (GST) would
eliminate a slew of levies currently in
place to create a single internal
market.
Dec 20: Israel was asked by the UN
General Assembly to compensate
Lebanon for $856.4 million in oil spill
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traditional Christmas lottery, which
had Spaniards on tenterhooks for four
hours as the ceremonial draw took
longer than usual to throw up the big
prizes.
Dec 22: Sri Lankas President Mahinda
Rajapakse suffered a setback to his reelection hopes when a key minister
and his minority Muslim party quit the
coalition
government.
Dec 22: Afghan security forces
launched an operation against TTP
militants in an eastern province. TTP
leader Mullah Fazlullah is believed to
be hiding in Afghanistans Kunar
province, which borders Pakistans
restive
tribal
areas.
Dec 23: Suspected tribal separatists
killed at least 33 people, including
women and children, in Indias northeastern
state
of
Assam.
Police suspect militants of the National
Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB)
were
behind
the
attacks.
Dec 23: Lawmakers in Ukraine
overwhelmingly
adopted
a
bill
dropping Ukraines non-aligned status,
a classification given to states such as
Switzerland that refuse to join military
alliances and thus play no part in
wars.
Dec 23: Syed Mohammad Qaisar, a
former junior minister in a Bangladeshi
military government was sentenced to
death after a war crimes tribunal
found him guilty of atrocities during
the countrys war of independence.
Dec 23: Results for Jammu and
Kashmir assembly elections rejected
Narendra Modis plans to repeal Article
370 and with it key constitutional
privileges
that
protect
Kashmiri
Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs against
Delhi-backed cultural and economic
encroachments.
Dec 24: India conferred its highest
civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna, on
former prime minister Atal Bihari
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election
bid.
Dec 28: Nato formally ended its war
in Afghanistan, holding a low-key
ceremony here after 13 years of
conflict that have left the country in
the grip of worsening violence.
Dec 29: Cameroon sent warplanes
into action against Nigerian Boko
Haram fighters for the first time.
Dec 29: China blocked the last
remaining way to access Googles
popular
e-mail
service.
Dec 29: An Egyptian court in the
Mediterranean city of Alexandria
issued an indefinite ban on an annual
Jewish pilgrimage held since 1979
the year Egypt and Israel signed a
peace treaty in the Nile Delta
province of Baheira marking the
birthday of a Moroccan rabbi Yacoub
Abu Hasira, saying it went against
local
traditions.
Dec 29: The soldiers who stand guard
outside Britains royal palaces were
moved behind metal fences because
of fears of a terror attack. The Royal
Guards, a popular tourist attraction
outside royal residences because of
their ceremonial uniforms, have been
separated from the public, with armed
police providing additional protection.
Dec 30: The richest people on Earth
got richer in 2014, adding $92 billion
to their collective fortune in the face of
falling energy prices and geopolitical
turmoil incited by Russian President
Vladimir
Putin.
The net worth of the worlds 400
wealthiest billionaires on December 29
stood at $4.1 trillion, according to the
Bloomberg Billionaires Index, a daily
ranking of the world`s richest.
Dec 30: Amit Shah, the head of
Indias ruling party BJP, was acquitted
of murder, kidnapping and extortion
charges, exonerating the controversial
politician
in
a
trial
that
had
undermined the governments promise
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a trade bloc of former Soviet states,
expanded to four nations when
Armenia formally joined, a day after
the union between Russia, Belarus and
Kazakhstan
began.
Jan
03:
Turkeys
government
authorised the building of the first
church in the country in nearly a
century. The church is for the tiny
Syriac community in Turkey and will be
built in the Istanbul suburb of Yesilkoy
on the shores of the Sea of Marmara,
which already has Greek Orthodox,
Armenian and Catholic churches.
Jan 07: Heavily armed men shouting
religious
slogans
stormed
the
headquarters of a satirical weekly,
Charlie Hebdo, in Paris, killing 12
people.
Jan 07: UN chief Ban Ki-moon
accepted the request by Palestine to
join the International Criminal Court, a
move that would open the way for war
crimes complaints against Israel.
The decision grants the Hague-based
ICC jurisdiction to open cases starting
April 1 on serious crimes committed in
the
Palestinian
territories.
Jan 09: India-held Kashmir was
brought under direct rule by New Delhi
when President Pranab Mukherjee
placed the region under Governors
Rule.
Jan 09: Russia passed a controversial
law
banning
transvestites
and
transsexuals from driving, prompting
sharp criticism from rights activists,
including a prominent Kremlin adviser.
Jan 09: Two brothers suspected of
attacking the offices of French satirical
newspaper Charlie Hebdo were killed
when police stormed their hideout.
Jan 09: A US judge sentenced British
hate preacher Abu Hamza to life
behind bars for 11 terrorism and
kidnapping convictions, calling his
crimes that spanned the globe evil
and
barbaric.
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fiscal year after a tax hike to
accommodate rising outlays for social
security
and
defence.
Jan 14: Japanese Prime Minister
Shinzo Abes government approved a
record $42 billion military budget, with
outlays rising for a third year to
counter Chinas rising military might.
Jan 15: Dark comedy Birdman, and
stylish crime caper The Grand
Budapest Hotel topped the Oscars
nominations list with nine each, firing
the starting gun on the home stretch
of
Hollywoods
awards
race.
Jan 15: Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet
Davutoglu
accused
his
Israeli
counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu of
committing crimes against humanity
comparable to those of the gunmen
behind the Paris attacks that left 17
dead.
Jan 15: Pope Francis condemned
killing in Gods name but warned that
religion
could
not
be
insulted,
weighing into a global debate on free
speech ahead of a rapturous welcome
in the Philippines.
Sports
Dec 16: Kumar Sangakkara set a
record for the most runs in a calendar
year.
When former skipper Sangakkara, who
will retire from ODIs after next years
World Cup in Australia and New
Zealand, got to six, he broke Ricky
Pontings
record
for
the
most
international runs, in all formats, for a
calendar
year.
The former Australia captain had
scored
2,833
in
2005.
Dec 17: South African captain Hashim
Amla and his senior lieutenant A.B. de
Villiers both hit centuries as South
Africa took command after early
setbacks on the first day of the first
Test
against
the
West
Indies.
Dec 21: Nicol David regained the
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Jan 11: Roger Federer beat Milos
Raonic at the Brisbane International to
register his 1,000th ATP career win
and
collect
his
83rd
title.
Jan 11: Faf du Plessis smashed 119
from 56 balls with 11 fours and five
sixes to record the highest score by a
South African in the shortest format of
international cricket. His was the
second fastest century in Twenty20
Internationals.
Jan 11: West Indies produced a record
chase against South Africa when they
crossed the target of 232 runs in the
highest successful run chase in
Twenty20 International cricket, beating
Indias 211 against Sri Lanka in 2009.
Jan 13: Snookers great showman
Ronnie OSullivan equalled the record
for century breaks when he rolled in
the 775th of his career at the Masters.
Jan 13: For the third time, Cristiano
Ronaldo was voted the worlds best
football player. He won the FIFA Ballon
dOr award for the second year
running.
Elections
&
Postings
D
ec 31: Beji Caid Essebsi was sworn in
as
Tunisias
first
freely-elected
president.
Jan 09: With heavy support from the
Tamil and Muslim voters, Maithripala
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in
News
Rob
and
Paul
Forkan
Dec 23: A decade after being
orphaned by the Asian tsunami, British
brothers Rob and Paul Forkan are
successful entrepreneurs who are
giving back to the Sri Lankans who
helped
them
by
building
an
orphanage.
The brothers, their two younger
siblings as well as their parents Kevin
and Sandra were relaxing in their hotel
complex on December 26, 2004, when
the giant wave crashed through their
bungalows. Rob and Paul managed to
climb on the roof and clung on as the
water
rushed
by.
Amir
Khan
Dec 24: Amir Khan, a British boxing
champion of Pakistan origin, dedicated
his WBC welterweight title to the
victims of the Taliban attack on a
Peshawar school and announced that
he would auction the pair of shorts,
carrying a waistband made from 24carat gold thread is worth 30,000
pounds, he wore during his latest
match to raise funds for rebuilding the
school
and
for
other
projects.
Hillary
Clinton
Dec 29: Former secretary of state
Hillary Clinton emerged as the woman
most admired by Americans, followed
by television icon Oprah Winfrey and
Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai.
Clinton, a likely 2016 US presidential
candidate, won the honour for the
13th year in a row, earning 12 per
cent
of
the
votes.
Adam
Sandler
Dec 24: Comedian Adam Sandler
topped Forbes list of Hollywoods
most overpaid actors for a second
consecutive year, nudging out Johnny
Depp and Tom Hanks for the honuor.
Thomas
Piketty
Jan 01: Frances influential economist
Thomas Piketty, author of the best-
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Sustainable Development in the GMS
was held in Bangkok, Thailand.
Vietnams Prime Minster Nguyen Tan
Dung, Laos Prime Minister Thongsing
Thammavong,
Cambodias
Prime
Minister Hun Sen, Thailands Prime
Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, Chinas
Premier
Li
Keqiang,
Myanmars
President Thein Sein and Asian
Development Bank (ADB) President
Takehiko Nakao participated in the
event.
Tokyo,
Japan
Jan 14: An investment seminar was
organised by the Japan External Trade
Organisation (Jetro), co-sponsored by
Pakistans Board of Investment (BoI),
in Tokyo. Speaking at the occasion, the
Finance Minister Ishaq Dar sought
Japans technical assistance and
investment in renewable energy
sources such as solar, wind, thermal
and biogas.
Obituaries
Dec 19: Mandy Rice-Davies, a model
implicated in the Profumo affair that
scandalised 1960s Britain and almost
brought down the government, died at
the
age
of
70.
Dec 18: Italian actress Virna Lisi, who
played opposite Hollywood stars
including Frank Sinatra in the 1960s
and later established herself an
acclaimed character actress, died at
the
age
of
78.
Dec 22: Dr Lee W. Wattenberg, a
medical researcher who helped jumpstart the field of cancer prevention,
finding weapons in the food people eat
including chemical compounds in
broccoli, cabbage, coffee and garlic
died
at
92.
Dec 23: Anna Stoehr, a 114-year-old
woman who challenged Facebook after
the social media site wouldnt let her
list
her
real
age,
died.
Dec 23: The former coach of
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Miftah Ismail as chairman Board of
Investment
(BoI).
Jan 10: The Nadra Chairman Tariq
Malik
resigned.
Jan 11: Imran Khan and Abdul Sattar
Edhi were included in the list of the
most admired persons on this planet.
Jan
12:
Belgiums
King
Philip
appointed Dr Ata ul Haq as advisor on
economic
diplomacy.
Jan 15: Senior British diplomat Philip
Barton took over as UKs High
Commissioner
to
Pakistan.
Jan 16: Salman Aslam Butt was
appointed as the attorney general of
Pakistan.
Jan 16: The KP government bifurcated
Kohistan district in Upper and Lower
Kohistan, raising the number of
districts
to
26.
Jan 17: Nawaz Sharif was awarded an
honorary PhD degree by the GCU,
Lahore.
Jan 17: The World Health Organisation
(WHO) declared Peshawar the largest
endemic poliovirus reservoir in the
world.
Jan 24: A Pakistanio stuent, Rai Haris
Manzoor, made a new world record by
passing the O-Level exam at the age
of
9
years.
Jan
26: Former justice Sardar
Muhammad Raza Khan was appointed
as
chairman
Missing
Persons
Commission.
Jan 27: Irfan Siddiqui was appointed
as Special Assistant to Prime Minister
on
National
Affairs.
Feb 03: Former governor SBP, Dr
Shamshad Akhtar, assumed charge as
executive secretary of the Economic
and Social Commission for Asia and
the Pacific (Escap) at its headquarters
in
Bangkok.
Feb 07: The Sindh government
established its own HEC with Dr Asim
Hussain
as
its
chairman.
Feb 12: Pakistani siblings Mirza Ali
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Apr 28: Ashraf Mahmood Wathra was
appointed Governor of the State Bank
of
Pakistan.
Apr 28: Sindh became the first
province to set the minimum age of
marriage
at
18
years.
May 14: The Punjab government
promulgated The Punjab Free and
Compulsory
Education
Ordinance
2014.
May 22: Pakistan and China signed a
$1.6 billion agreement for a metro
train
project
in
Punjab.
May 24: CM Sindh, Syed Qaim Ali
Shah, granted the status of division to
Shaheed
Benazirabad
district.
May 24: Pakistan and China began
their joint air exercises, codenamed
Shaheen-III.
June 01: The relaxation extended to
Pakistan by the WHO expired. Polio
vaccination
certificates
became
mandatory for all people travelling
abroad
June 02: Russia lifted an embargo on
sales of weapons and military
hardware
to
Pakistan.
June 06: The Pemra suspended the
licence of Geo News for 15 days and
fined
it
Rs10
million.
June 12: PNS Dehshat, built at
Karachi Shipyard and Engineering
Works Ltd (KS&EW), was inducted into
Pakistan
Navys
fleet.
June 15: Pakistan Army launched a
comprehensive operation Zarb-e-Azb
in
North
Waziristan.
June 17: Justice Khwaja Imtiaz Ahmad
took oath as chief justice of the Lahore
High
Court.
June 17: 14 people were killed in
Polics-PAT workers clash at Minhajul
Quran headquarters in Model Town,
Lahore.
June 20: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif
launched the PMs Laptop Scheme.
June
25:
The
ground-breaking
ceremony of the 4,320 mega watts
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causing
colossal
losses.
Sep 18: Maj Gen Bilal Akbar took over
as the 12th director general of
Pakistan
Rangers,
Sindh.
Sep 22: The government appointed Lt
Gen Rizwan Akhtar as next chief of the
ISI.
Oct 02: All decimal coins of paisa
1,2,5,10,25 and 50 ceased to be a
legal
tender.
Oct
08:
Admiral
Muhammad
Zakaullah was sworn in as Chief of the
Naval
Staff.
Oct 08: Grand Jamia Mosque, the
worlds 7th largest mosque, was
opened in Bahria Town Lahore.
Oct 10: Education activist Malala
Yousufzai, aged 17, became the
youngest
Nobel
Prize
winner.
Oct 16: The WHO held Pakistan
responsible for nearly 80 per cent of
polio
cases
reported
globally.
Oct 19: The head office of Edhi
Foundation
was
robbed.
Oct 21: Pakistan and Russia held the
2nd Round of Bilateral Strategic
Dialogue.
Oct 21: Dr Tahirul Qadri declared an
end to his partys sit-in on Constitution
Avenue,
Islamabad.
Oct 24: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif
announced imposing polio emergency
in
the
country.
Oct 27: Pakistan won a seat as
member of the administrative council
of the International Telecommunication
Union (ITU), the United Nations
specialised agency for information and
communication
technologies.
Oct 31: The much feared tropical
cyclone Nilofar almost completed its
cycle without hitting Pakistan and
India.
Nov 07: Lt Gen Rizwan Akhtar took
over as the 21st head of ISI,
succeeding retired Lt Gen Zaheerul
Islam.
Nov 12: Maryam Nawaz resigned as
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Mohamed
Morsi
to
death.
Mar 27: PhilippinesMoro Islamic
Liberation Front (MILF) signed an
historic pact with President Benigno
Aquinos
government.
Mar 27: The WHO officially certified
India and 10 other Asian countries free
of
polio.
Apr 05: Afghans flocked to polling
stations
nationwide.
Apr 05: Europe launched the first
satellite
of
its
multibillion-euro
Copernicus Earth observation project.
Apr 07: Indians began voting in the
worlds
biggest
election.
Apr 16: A South Korean ferry MV
Sewol, carrying 462 on board sank.
Apr 17: The Indian government
installed Admiral Robin K. Dhowan as
the
new
navy
chief.
Apr 23: President Mahmood Abbass
PLO and Gaza-based group Hamas
agreed
to
a
unity
pact.
Apr 24: The tiny Pacific republic of the
Marshall Islands sued the United
States and eight other nuclear-armed
countries, accusing them of failing
their obligation to negotiate nuclear
disarmament.
May 02: Landslides buried a village in
northern Afghanistan, killing at least
2600
people.
May 06: The worlds five nuclear
powers, the United States, Russia,
China, Britain and France, signed a
protocol to the Treaty on a Nuclear
Weapons-Free Zone in Central Asia.
May 12: The UN appointed Maj Gen
Kristin Lund as the first woman to
command
UN
peacekeeping
operations.
May 13: Indias government named
Lieutenant General Dalbir Singh Suhag
as
countrys
new
army
chief.
May 20: Thailands army chief
imposed martial law, but insisted the
intervention did not amount to military
coup.
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Aug 05: An Afghan soldier shot dead
Maj. Gen. Harold J. Greene; the
highest-ranking American officer to be
killed
since
9/11.
Aug
13:
Iran-born
Maryam
Mirzakhani became the first woman to
win Fields Medal the Nobel Prize of
mathematics.
Aug 14: The UN announced its
highest level of emergency for the
crisis ignited by the IS militants.
Aug 15: Panama celebrated the
100th anniversary of its famous canal.
Aug 21: Turkeys ruling party chose
Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu to
be
the
new
prime
minister.
Aug 26: A ceasefire was agreed to by
Israel and the Palestinians, ending 50
days of the deadliest violence in a
decade.
Aug 28: Recep Tayyip Erdogan was
sworn in as Turkeys president.
Sep 19: Scots rejected independence
in a referendum that left the centuriesold
United
Kingdom
intact.
Sep 23: A prominent academic from
Chinas
mostly-Muslim
Uighur
minority, Ilham Tohti, was jailed for life
for
separatism.
Sep
24:
Indias
unmanned
Mangalyaan spacecraft successfully
entered the orbit of Mars after a 10month
journey.
Sep 29: Ashraf Ghani became the
new Presidnt of Afghanistan while
Abdullah Abdullah took over as
countrys
CEO.
Sep 30: Afghanistan and the US
signed
the
Bilateral
Security
Agreement.
Sep 30: The worlds first interactive
microbe zoo, Micropia museum,
opened
in
Amsterdam.
Oct 01: Former Norwegian Prime
Minister Jens Stoltenberg took over as
the 13th Secretary General of Nato.
Oct 08: Facebook officially purchased
WhatsAppfor
$21.8
billion.
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Feb 07: Kumar Sangakkara became
the second batsman in history to score
a triple century and a hundred in the
same
match.
Feb 08: The International Cricket
Council
approved
wide
ranging
changes to its structure that puts
India, England and Australia in control
of
the
world
game.
March
04:
Pakistan
defeated
Bangladesh in its biggest run chase in
one-day internationals, reaching 329-7
with
a
ball
to
spare.
Feb 17: Brendon McCullum and
Bradley John Watling of New Zealand
broke the world record for the highest
sixth-wicket partnership with a 352run
stand
against
India.
Feb 17: Kuldeep Yavdav became the
first Indian bowler to take a hat-trick in
Under-19
World
Cup
history.
Feb 26: Mahela Jayawardene became
only second player after Indias Sachin
Tendulkar to appear in 600 or more
intl
matches.
March 01: South Africa won their
maiden ICC Under-19 Cricket World
Cup
title.
March 08: Sri Lanka defeated
Pakistan by five wickets in the final of
the
Asia
Cup.
Mar 30: Ahmed Shehzad became the
first Pakistani batsman to score a
century
in
Twenty-20
cricket.
Mar 23: Australia triumphed in the
Sultan Azlan Shah Cup, claiming their
eighth
title.
Apr
06:
Australia
overpowered
England to win their third consecutive
Womens
World
Twenty20.
Apr 06: Sri Lanka lifted their maiden
World
Twenty20
title.
May 07: Afghanistan won the ACC
Premier
League
title.
June 15: Australia outclassed the
Netherlands to grab their third World
Cup
Hockey
title.
July 12: Englands Joe Root and James
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breathtaking knock
against Sri Lanka.
of
264
runs
ECONOMY
Jan 10: The SECP approved issuance
of first-ever listed Sukuk issue by the
KESC amounting to Rs. 6 billion.
Feb 06: The SBP granted licence to
Sindh Bank for the commencement of
Islamic
banking
operations.
Apr 23: The cellular service providers,
Mobilink, Telenor and Ufone picking up
licences for 3G services while Zong
acquired a licence for both 3G and 4G
services.
May 21: China signed a landmark
deal to buy Russian natural gas.
May 29: Russian President Vladimir
Putin signed a treaty with Kazakhstan
and Belarus creating a vast trading
bloc.
Sep 04: Pakistan assumed charge of
the 10-member ECO Chamber of
Commerce and Industry for three
years.
Sep 19: Chinese online giant, Alibaba,
made its historic Wall Street trading
debut.
Sep 22: Alibaba Group Holding Ltds
initial public offering became the
worlds biggest in history at $25
billion.
Sep 23: The European Central Bank
launched the new 10-euro banknote.
Nov 14: The SBP placed KASB Bank
under moratorium for six months.
Oct 17: The United Kingdom became
the first foreign country to issue
offshore
renminbi
bonds.
Nov 08: Danish company OW Bunker,
the worlds largest ship fuel supplier,
declared bankruptcy.
EVERYDAY
SCIENCE
Jan 17: A critically endangered
species of marine turtle was found for
the
first
time
in
Pakistan.
Jan 23: The fastest ever broadband
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head of Balochistans Marri clan,
Nawab
Khair
Bakhsh
Marri.
May 28: Celebrated African-American
author, poet and civil rights activist
Maya
Angelou.
May 28: Sultan Azlan Shah, the
founder of Sultan Azlan Shah Hockey
Cup.
June 25: Legendary character actor
Eli
Wallach.
July 10: Indias acting legend Zohra
Sehgal.
July 26: A veteran journalist and
editor-in-chief of the Nawai Waqt
Group,
Majid
Nizami.
Aug 03: Veteran politician and the
last crown prince of the princely state
of
Swat,
Miangul
Aurangzeb.
Aug 08: Anita Ghulam Ali former
education
minister
of
Sindh.
Aug 04: Dick Smith, Hollywoods
preeminent master of film make-up.
Aug 12: Robin Williams, the actor
whose madcap comic style made him
one of television and films biggest
stars.
Aug 13: Legendary actress Lauren
Bacall.
Aug 19: Pakistans first-ever world
champion in any sport, squash star
Hashim
Khan.
Aug 22: Acclaimed Indian writer
Udupi
Rajagopalacharya
Ananthamurthy.
Sep 04: Leading ghazal and playback
singer
Habib
Wali
Mohammad.
Sep 15: The longest serving physician
of
the
country
Dr
S.M.
Rab.
Sep 24: Oleg Ivanovsky, a Russian
engineer who helped design Sputnik,
the first satellite to orbit Earth, and
Vostok 1, the craft that carried the
astronaut Yuri Gagarin, the first man in
space.
Oct 21: The chairman of Irans
Assembly
of
Experts
Ayatollah
Mohammad
Reza
Mahdavi
Kani.
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8. The supply of LNG Karachi-Lahore
Pipeline will be available before ______
2015.
(a)
March
(b)
April
(c) May
(d) June
9. The present chairman of the Punjab
Higher Education Commission is
______.
(a)
Dr
Salman
Rizvi
(b)
Dr
Akhtar
Shumar
(c)
Dr
Mhjahid
kamran
(d) Prof Dr Nizamuddin
10. On Dec 23, ______ was appointed
as chairperson of the Competition
Commission of Pakistan (CCP) for a
period
of
three
years.
(a) Leila Khan
(b) Vadiyya Khalil
(c) Salma Rashid (d) Adeeba Butt
11. In its report entitled Assessing
Internal Democracy in Major Political
Parties of Pakistan, the Pildat ranked
______ as the most democratic party.
(a)
JI
(b)
PML-N
(c) PTI
(d) MQM
12. On Dec 24, Justice Muhammad
Noor Meskanzai was appointed as the
chief justice of the ______ High Court.
(a)
Peshawar
(b)
Karachi
(c) Islamabad (d) Balochistan
13. On Dec 25, Prime Minister Nawaz
Sharif designated______ as chairperson
of
the
Prime
Ministers
Youth
Programme
(PMYP).
(a) Fozia Ali
(b) Salma Maroof
(c) Hina Butt (d) Leila Khan
14.
On
Dec
25,
the
federal
government established National Food
Security Commission (NFSC) with
______
as
its
chairman.
(a)
President
(b)
Prime
Minister
(c)
Minister
for
Agriculture
(d) Minister for Water & Power
15. Sindh Shaddani Darbar is an
annual
______
festival.
(a)
Christian
(b)
Parsi
(c) Buddhist (d) Hindu
16. Pakistan Peoples Party cochairman and former president Asif Ali
Zardari became the chief of the
Zardari
tribe
on
______.
(a)
Dec
18
(b)
Dec
25
(c) Dec 28 (d) Dec 30
17. On Dec 30, ______ of the Journalist
Panel was re-elected president of the
Lahore Press Club for year 2015.
(a)
Arshad
Ansari
(b)
Habib
Shaukat
(c)
Sohail
Warraich
(d) Amin Hafeez
18. On Dec 31, Syed Waqar Hussain
Shah became the ______ Sajjada
Nashin of the Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai
shrine.
(a)
11th
(b)
12th
(c) 13th
(d) 14th
19. Pakistan has the ______ highest
number of newborn deaths in the
world.
(a)
Second
(b)
Third
(c) Eighth (d) Eleventh
20. The Punjab Assembly passed The
Punjab Local
Government (Third
Amendment) Bill 2014, on ______.
(a)
Jan
01
(b)
Jan
03
(c) Jan 05 (d) Jan 08
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21. Twenty-first Amendment to the
Constitution of Pakistan 1973 was
approved by both houses of the
parliament
on
______.
(a)
Jan
04
(b)
Jan
05
(c) Jan 06 (d) Jan 09
22. The Bahria Town Grand Mosque
will be the ______ biggest mosque of
the
world.
(a)
Second
(b)
Third
(c) Fourth (d) Fifth
23. On Jan 06, ______ was appointed as
Managing Director of Sui Southern Gas
Company.
(a) Zulfiqar Ali
(b) Habib Asghar
(c) Leila Khan (d) Khalid Rahman
24. On Jan 07, Pakistans first-ever
centre
for
promotion
of
early
education
skills
and
healthy
development
of
children
was
inaugurated
in
______.
(a)
Lahore
(b)
Islamabad
(c) Quetta (d) Karachi
25. On Jan 07, the UNHCR declared
Pakistan, which hosts about ______
Afghan refugees, the biggest host
country
in
absolute
terms.
(a) 1.0 million
(b) 1.6 million
(c) 2.4 million (d) 3.0 million
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5. On Dec 17, Omar Abdirashid Ali
Sharmarke became the first person to
hold the post of Prime Minister of
______
twice.
(a)
Yemen
(b)
Sudan
(c) Somalia (d) Nigeria
7.
The
European
Parliament
overwhelmingly
backed
the
recognition of a Palestinian state on
______.
(a)
Dec
16
(b)
Dec
17
(c) Dec 19 (d) Dec 20
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(a)
1947
(c) 1953
(d) 1954
(b)
1951
Sports
1. The Kabaddi World Cup 2015 was
won
by______.
(a)
Canada
(b)
Iran
(c) India
(d) Pakistan
09,
______
law
passed a
banning
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6. On Jan 13, Portuguese star Cristiano
Ronaldo was voted the worlds best
football player for the ______ time.
(a)
First
(b)
Second
(c) Third (d) Fourth
7. The record of chasing highest target
in a Twenty20 match is held by ______.
(a) South Africa
(b) West Indies
(c) Australia (d) India
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7. Nelson Mandela International Day or
Mandela Day is observed on ______
each year.
A. July 16 B. July 18
C. July 20 D. July 22
8. On July 19, Iran and six world
powers agreed to extend the talks
until______.
A. Nov 24 B. Dec 15
C. Dec 28 D. Dec 31
9. On July 19, it was decided that the
UN team tasked with investigating
allegations of human rights violations
and war crimes against the Sri Lankan
government and the LTTE, will hold
hearings in New York, Geneva and
______.
A. Bangkok B. Colombo
C. New Delhi D. Bonn
10. On July 21, China agreed to
provide ______, a Latin American
country, with a new $4 billion credit
line.
A. Vietnam B. Colombia
C. Mexico D. Venezuela
11. The United States National
Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA) has been
maintaining a global temperature
record since ______.
A. 1880
B. 1895
C. 1937
D. 1987
12. Joko Widodo was elected the
president of ______ on July 22.
A. Philippines B. Malaysia
C. Indonesia D. Thailand
13. The worlds third-biggest
democracy is ______.
A. Indonesia B. India
C. Italy
D. China
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A. Israels
C. Polands
B. Italys
D. Denmarks
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