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Pakistan Affairs MCQs with Answers

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Q181. What is the capital of Punjab?

  1. Multan
  2. Lahore
  3. Rawalpindi
  4. Faisalabad
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Correct answer: B. Lahore

Lahore is the capital of Punjab.

Q182. Which city is known as the City of Saints?

  1. Multan
  2. Uch Sharif
  3. Lahore
  4. Bahawalpur
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Correct answer: A. Multan

Multan is called Madina-tul-Auliya.

Q183. Who presided over the Lahore session of 1940?

  1. Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah
  2. Liaquat Ali Khan
  3. Allama Iqbal
  4. Fazlul Haq
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Correct answer: A. Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Jinnah presided over the 27th session.

Q184. When was the Partition of Bengal?

  1. 1906
  2. 1911
  3. 1909
  4. 1905
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Correct answer: D. 1905

Bengal was partitioned in 1905 by Lord Curzon.

Q185. Where is Mazar-e-Quaid designed by?

  1. Nayyar Ali Dada
  2. Louis Kahn
  3. Yahya Merchant
  4. Vedat Dalokay
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Correct answer: C. Yahya Merchant

Yahya Merchant designed Jinnah's mausoleum.

Q186. Pakistan joined SEATO in which year?

  1. 1947
  2. 1960
  3. 1955
  4. 1954
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Correct answer: D. 1954

Pakistan joined SEATO in 1954.

Q187. Which is Pakistan's main source of natural gas?

  1. Mari
  2. Kandhkot
  3. Dhodak
  4. Sui
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Correct answer: D. Sui

Sui gas field in Balochistan was discovered in 1952.

Q188. Who presented the idea of a separate Muslim state at Allahabad in 1930?

  1. Quaid-e-Azam
  2. Allama Muhammad Iqbal
  3. Chaudhry Rahmat Ali
  4. Liaquat Ali Khan
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Correct answer: B. Allama Muhammad Iqbal

Iqbal gave the Allahabad Address on 29 December 1930.

Q189. Which glacier is called the Third Pole region of Pakistan?

  1. Coastal belt
  2. Thar region
  3. Karakoram Himalaya region
  4. Potohar region
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Correct answer: C. Karakoram Himalaya region

The Himalaya-Karakoram-Hindu Kush is called the Third Pole.

Q190. Who headed the Boundary Commission?

  1. Lord Wavell
  2. Sir Stafford Cripps
  3. Sir Cyril Radcliffe
  4. Lord Mountbatten
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Correct answer: C. Sir Cyril Radcliffe

Radcliffe chaired both Punjab and Bengal boundary commissions.

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