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Q41.Quaid-e-Azam's only visit to East Pakistan as Governor-General was in?
Correct Answer: B
Jinnah visited Dhaka in March 1948, declaring Urdu the state language.
Q42.The 18th Amendment renamed NWFP to?
Correct Answer: B
The 18th Amendment (2010) renamed NWFP as Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Q43.The Ahmadis were declared non-Muslims in which year?
Correct Answer: B
The Second Constitutional Amendment (September 1974) declared Ahmadis non-Muslim.
Q44.The first vote of no-confidence to remove a PM succeeded in which year?
Correct Answer: C
Imran Khan was removed via a no-confidence vote in April 2022, a first in Pakistan.
Q45.The steel mill agreement with USSR was signed in which decade?
Correct Answer: B
The Pakistan Steel Mills agreement with the USSR was signed in the early 1970s (commissioned 1985).
Q46.Ayub Khan's "Decade of Development" celebration was held in?
Correct Answer: B
The regime celebrated its 10 years in 1968 amid growing unrest.
Q47.Karachi was separated from Sindh as federal capital territory in?
Correct Answer: B
Karachi was made a centrally administered federal capital area in 1948.
Q48.Moenjodaro was excavated first in which decade?
Correct Answer: B
R.D. Banerji began excavating Mohenjo-Daro in 1922.
Q49.Operation Searchlight in East Pakistan began on?
Correct Answer: A
The military operation in Dhaka began on the night of 25 March 1971.
Q50.Pakistan celebrated its Golden Jubilee of independence in?
Correct Answer: B
The 50th anniversary of independence was celebrated on 14 August 1997.
Q51.Pakistan's first heart transplant/major medical milestone institute SIUT is in?
Correct Answer: B
The Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation in Karachi provides free care.
Q52.Pakistan's first newspaper Dawn was founded in which year?
Correct Answer: A
Jinnah founded Dawn in 1941 in Delhi.
Q53.Pakistan's polio eradication drive leaves it among how many endemic countries?
Correct Answer: B
Pakistan and Afghanistan remain the only polio-endemic countries.
Q54.PTV started transmission in which year?
Correct Answer: B
Pakistan Television began broadcasts from Lahore on 26 November 1964.
Q55.Quaid-e-Azam inaugurated the State Bank on?
Correct Answer: A
SBP was inaugurated on 1 July 1948, one of Quaid's last public appearances.
Q56.Radio Pakistan was established on?
Correct Answer: B
Radio Pakistan came into being with independence on 14 August 1947.
Q57.Reko Diq and Saindak are both located in which district?
Correct Answer: B
Both mineral projects are in Chagai district, Balochistan.
Q58.Shaukat Khanum Memorial Hospital was founded by Imran Khan in which year?
Correct Answer: B
SKMCH Lahore opened in December 1994.
Q59.Swat was cleared of militants in Operation Rah-e-Rast in which year?
Correct Answer: B
The military cleared Swat of TTP militants in mid-2009.
Q60.The 1973 oil embargo benefited Pakistan mainly through?
Correct Answer: B
The Gulf boom created massive employment, making remittances a pillar of the economy.