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12 NOVEMBER 2021
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1) Member countries of “Troika Plus Group” ____? United States, Russia, China, Pakistan
2) Which country hosted the 9th meeting of “Troika Group” on 11 Nov 2021? Pakistan
3) Current US Special Representative for Afghanistan: Thomas West
4) Pakistan got European Union GSP Plus status in which year? 2014
5) Current National Security Advisor of Pakistan: Moeed Yousaf
6) Current Chief Justice of Pakistan: Gulzar Ahmad
7) Special Assistant to Prime Minister Imran Khan on Health: Dr. Faisal Sultan
8) Current chairman of Gawadar Port Authority (GPA): Naseer Ahmad Kashani
9) RABTA stands for: Railway Automated Booking and Travel Assistance (An initiative by
ministry of railway to enhance the efficiency of Pakistan railway)
10) What do you mean by P5+1? It refers to UN Security Council’s five permanent members
namely; China, Russia, United States, United Kingdom and France, plus Germany.
11) JCPOA stands for: Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (It is a 159-page agreement between
Iran and P5+1).
12) Pakistan has been ranked___ in terms of number of diabetes, globally: 10th
13) Current Federal Minister for Food Security and Research: Fakhar Imam
14) Name the fertilizers, the prices of which are getting increased continuously and because of which
the production of two important Rabi crops (Potato and Wheat) may decrease: DAP and Urea
15) Current Kissan Ittihad President: Mian Umair
INTERNATIONAL
1) Robert Koch University is in which country: Germany
2) The biggest producer and user of coal? China
3) The United States has set a goal to decarbonize its economy by: 2060
4) Which country’s Top most party has passed a resolution to cement its ongoing President’s grip on
power? China
5) Total wheat production in Pakistan from 2021-2022: 27 million tons
6) Pakistan’s annual population growth rate is____, according to United States Department of
Agriculture: 2%
13 NOVEMBER 2021
NATIONAL
1) The Sindh Government is going to launch a drive from 15th November against which two
diseases: Measles and Rubella
2) Name the Acting Foreign Minister of Afghanistan, who recently visited Pakistan: Amir Khan
Muttaqi
3) Current Pakistani High Commissioner to India: Sohail Mahmood
4) In November 2021, _____ birth anniversary of Baba Guru Nanak will be celebrated: 552nd
5) Current Chairman of PEMRA (Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority): Mirza Salim
Baig
6) APP is news agency of which country: Pakistan
7) Current United Nation High Commissioner for Refugees: Filippo Grandi
8) Current Head Coach of Pakistan Cricket Team: Matthew Hayden
9) Current Bowling Coach of Pakistan Cricket Team: Vernon philander
10) The Punjab province of Pakistan contributes ___ in the country’s agricultural production: 80%
11) The Punjab province of Pakistan contributes ___ in the country’s agricultural GDP: 66%
12) Current chairman of Pakistan Sugar Mill Association (PSMA): Zaka Ashraf
INTERNATIONAL
1) The member countries of Asia-Pacific Economic Corporation group accounts for ____ of the
World GDP: 60% (Recent virtual meeting of members of Asia-Pacific Economic
Corporation held in November 2021 and it was hosted by New Zealand)
2) Current US secretary of State: Antony Blinken
3) What do you think about IS-K? It stands for Islamic State Khorasan (It is involved in
insurgencies and terrorism activities in Afghanistan)
4) Which country will be the US Diplomatic Representative in Afghanistan? Qatar
5) What is COP26? It was a 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties held on 31st
October- 12th November 2021.
6) Which country hosted the COP26: Glasgow, Scotland
14 NOVEMBER 2021
NATIONAL
1) Name the renowned Television Actor who died on “13 November 2021”: Sohail Asghar (He
played the role of feudal lord in PTV Drama named Chand Girahn)
2) Who is the author of the book “101 Melody Makers”? Sultan Arshad
3) Current Secretary General of Pakistan Red Crescent Society: Dr Adeel
4) Garanth Sahib is holy book of: Sikhism
5) Current Chief Minister of Balochistan: Mir Abdul Qudoos
6) What do you know about Good Friday Agreement? It was a peace deal that was signed on 10
April 1998 and it laid the foundation to build peace in Northern Island
7) Name of short story of Alia Ahmad who has been named for this year’s “Zeenat Haroon Rasheed
Writing Prize”: Najma
8) Who is Author of the book “A Wanderer Between the Worlds? Javed Amir
9) Novel “Legends of Karachi” is written by: Muhammad Ali Samejo
10) Himalayan wildlife Foundation (HWF) established in which year in Islamabad, Pakistan: 1993
11) International Diabetes Day: 14 November
12) Do you know about SANOFI? It is a French multinational Pharmaceutical Corporation.
13) Who is current Chief Justice of the Federal Shariat Court of Pakistan: Muhammad Noor
Miskanzai
14) Current Ambassador of Pakistan to China: Moin ul Haque
INTERNATIONAL
1) Who is founder of Alibaba Group? Jack Ma
2) Who is Player of the Tournament in T-20 World Cup? David Warner
3) Name of warship that China delivered to Pakistan on 9 November 2021: PNS Tughril (The
largest and most advanced warship that China has ever exported)
4) The Boeing Company of Aircrafts belongs to which country: United States
5) Mohamed Salah is an____ professional footballer: Egyptian
6) Current Deputy Secretary of State of the United States: Wendy Shermon
15 NOVEMBER 2021
NATIONAL
1) Which party is playing a role of a “mediator” between Pakistan government and the banned
Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP): The Afgan Taliban
2) According to latest statistics of Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), gender gap among
voters has gone down below: 12 million
3) Name of author of book named as “Brahui aur Balochi ke lisani ravaabit”: Dr. Abdur Razzaq
4) Current speaker of National Assembly of Pakistan: Asad Qaiser
5) Name the country whose cricket team has lifted the 2021 T20 World Cup: Australia
6) Current Captain of New Zealand Cricket Team: Kane Williamson
7) Incumbent Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Reforms: Asad Umer
8) Current Advisor to the Prime Minister Imran Khan on Finance and Revenue: Shaukat Tarin
9) What do you mean by Forex? It is another name of foreign exchange market
10) Name the Saudi Diplomat who was assassinated in Karachi Pakistan in 2011: Hassan Qahtani
11) Name the Al Qaeda chief who was assassinated in Abbottabad on 2 May 2011: Osama Bin
Laden
12) The reason because of which Pakistan is more vulnerable to climate change despite the fact its
emissions are less than 1% in the Global Carbon Trajectory: Geographical Position
13) Current Federal Minister and Adviser to Prime Minister of Pakistan for Climate Change: Malik
Amin Aslam
INTERNATIONAL
1) Current king of Thailand: Maha Vajiralongkron
2) Current UN Secretary General: Antonio Guterres
3) Xi Jinping belongs to which party? Chinese Communist Party
4) Name of Malala’s husband? Asser Malik
5) Who was Wilbur Smith and when he died? He was a south African Novelist and died on 13
November 2021
6) Which Islamic country is going to begin Women’s Football League: Saudi Arabia
7) Australia has won its _____ T20 World Cup in 2021: 1st
8) Current president of Egypt: Abdel Fattah al.Sisi
9) Name of son of Moamer Qadhafi who has registered himself for Libya’s first ever direct
Presidential Elections: Seif al-Islam Qadhafi
10) Russia has begun supplying ____ with “S-400” air defense missile system: India (Last Year US
imposed sanction on Nato ally Turkey for acquiring S-400missiles from Russia)
11) Incumbent head of Russian military cooperation agency: Dmitry Shugayev
16 NOVEMBER 2021
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1) Current chairman of CPEC Authority: Khalid Mansoor
2) Current Islamabad High Court Chief Justice: Athar Minallah
3) Name the world organization who has started dispatching “wheat flour” from Pakistan to
Afghanistan to insure food supply: World Food Organization
4) Vinayak Damodar Savarkar is an____ politician, writer and activist: Indian
5) Current Captain of Australian Cricket team: Aaron Finch
6) Current Australian Trade Commissioner in Pakistan: John Cavanaghon
7) Pakistan has started working with which country for “Relaxing Trade Regulations” for importing
and exporting fruits and Agricultural products: Australia
8) Who is the current head of Pakistan Democratic Party: Maulana Fazlur Rehman
9) Current chairman of Election Commission of Pakistan: Sikandar Sultan Raja
INTERNATIONAL
1) Current prime minister of Iraq: Mustafa al-khadhemi
2) ____ will slap sanctions on Belarus over migrant crisis in coming days: European union
3) _____ Supreme Court has ordered the authorities of the capital and nearby areas to work from
home due to pollution problem: Indian
4) Name the US journalist who was pardoned and released recently after spending 11 years in jail:
Danny Fenster
5) According to a recent study, how many people are dying in Europe due to Air pollution in a year:
300,000
6) When was UN Charter approved: 24 October 1945
7) In which city of Pakistan “PROTON Company” has started its assembling plant: Rahim Yar
Khan
17 NOVEMBER 2021
NATIONAL
1) Name the former president of Pakistan with whom “US Properties Case” is associated: Asif Ali
Zardari
2) Name the bacteria by which we can reduce the spread of dengue fever, chikungunya, Zika fever,
Mayaro and yellow fever viruses: Wolbachia (An important biological method and for this we
use Wolbachia infected mosquitoes to infect vector mosquitoes of viruses)
3) Who is current Federal Minister of Law and Justice in Pakistan: Mohammad Farogh Naseem
4) Who is incumbent “Captain of Pakistan Junior Squad for the Junior Hockey World Cup” which is
going to be held from 24 Nov to 5 December 2021: Rana Abdul Wahab
5) Current Punjab Assembly Speaker: Pervez Elahi
6) Current Chief Minister of Gilgit-Baltistan: Khalid Khursheed
7) Mosquito that can spread dengue fever, chikungunya, Zika fever, Mayaro and yellow fever
viruses: Aedes aegypti
INTERNATIONAL
1) This year’s Junior World Cup will held in which city of the world: Bhubaneswar, India
2) Player of the series in Twenty20 World Cup 2021: David Warner
3) Azeem Rafiq is a____ : Former Yorkshire, English Cricketer (Rafiq was born at Karachi in
Pakistan in 1991 and moved to England in 2001)
4) CAF stands for: Confederation of African Football
5) SAFA stands for: South African Football Association
6) Candiru is an____spy ware Company: Israeli
7) Current president of the Republic of Belarus: Alexander Lukashenko (He has been in power
since 1994)
8) Current US Secretary of State: Antony Blinkon
9) Which country has destroyed one of its own satellite (Cosmos 1408) on November 15, 2021 in
his missile test: Russia
10) Party name of Aung San Suu Kyi: National League for democracy
11) Which country will host Cricket Champions Trophy in 2025: Pakistan
18 NOVEMBER 2021
NATIONAL
1) Current Indian Punjab chief minister: Charanjit Singh Channi
2) Incumbent Advisor to Prime Minister Imran Khan for Parliamentary Affairs: Babar Awan
3) How many bills were passed in the Joint Session of Parliament on 17 November 2021: 33
4) Incumbent Advisor to Prime Minister Imran Khan on Capital Development Authority Affairs: Ali
Nawaz Awan
5) Current Mayer of Lahore: Col Mubashir Javed
6) Dr. Shahzad Khan Bangash is appointed as new secretory of which Province: KPK
7) What is the specificity of partial “lunar eclipse” which is going to take place tomorrow: It is the
longest partial lunar eclipse in 600 years
8) How many bills were passed in Joint Session of Parliament on 17 November 2021, related to
Islamabad: Six
9) Which country has re-designated Pakistan as a Country of Concern (CPC) for violating religious
freedom: USA
10) Current president of Pakistan Sikh Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee: Sardar Ameer Singh
11) Current president and CEO of HBL: Muhammad Aurangzeb
12) HBL has inaugurated its new HBL Prestige Lounge in which city of Pakistan, recently: Sialkot
(HBL has total 12 HBL Prestige Lounge across the country)
13) According to Pakistan bureau of statistics (PBS), current inflation rate of Pakistan___: 9%
14) Ranking of Pakistan for Ease of Doing Business as per report of World Bank: 108 among 190
15) Pakistan’s tax-to-GDP ratio: Around 10%
16) Foreign direct investment (FDI) fell by ___in the first four months of this fiscal year, according to
data issued by state bank of Pakistan: 12%
17) Current Provincial Minister of Punjab for Agriculture: Mr Hussain Jahania Gardezi
INTERNATIONAL
1) Current President of the Sudan: Abdel Fattah al-Burhan
2) According to reports of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which country is boosting
its Uranium stock files: Iran
3) Incumbent Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency: Rafael Mariano
Grossi (He is from Argentina)
4) Current NATO secretary General: Jens Stoltenberg
5) ___ urged the US Congress to unblock assets and lift other sanctions: Afghans
6) US accusing which country responsible for ransomware attacks: Iran
7) Roger Federer is a ____ professional tennis player: Swiss
19 NOVEMBER 2021
NATIONAL
1) Prime Minister Imran Khan on 18 November launched the pilot phase of Digital Power of
Attorney Service for: Overseas Pakistanis
2) Pakistan cotton output raised by: 70%
3) Bazira is an ancient city in Barikot tehsil of Swat, popularly known as: “City of Alexander”.
4) Death anniversary of Khadim Hussain Rizvi:19 November
5) Secretary Aviation and Chairman CAA Board is: Mr. Shoukat Ali
6) Pakistan is preparing for barter trade with which country: Iran
7) Special Assistant to Chief Minister on Energy and Power is: Taj Mohammad Khan
8) Out of 181 countries, Pakistan ranked ___ on the 2020 Global youth development ranking that
evaluates the position of youth in 181 countries around the globe: 162
9) Which food delivery company has launched drone for food delivery in Pakistan: Food Panda
INTERNATIONAL
1) The maximum risk to air travel is from: Fog
2) Daniil Medvedev is the winner of: Tennis US open 2021
3) Who has defeated Estonian Anett Kontaveit to become the first Spaniard to win WTA Final title:
Garbine Muguruza
4) The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has reached an agreement for the procurement of defense
equipment worth more than Rs6.65 billion with which Pakistani company: Global Industrial
and Defense Solution
5) Greta Thunberg belongs to Sweden and She is an: Environmental activist
6) The Belarusian strongman: Alexander Lukashenko
7) US Secretary of Health and Human Services: Xavier Becerra
20 NOVEMBER 2021
NATIONAL
1) Current federal minister for Law and Justice: Barrister Dr. Farogh Naseem
2) Current Parliamentary Secretary for Law and Justice: Maleeka Bukhari
3) CNIC stands for: Computerized National Identity Card
4) Director/Producer of new Pakistani film “Khel Khel Mein”: Nabeel Qureshi and Fizza Ali
Meerza
5) According to SBP, the Current Account Deficit of Pakistan widened by _____in October 2021:
$1.663bn
6) World Children Day: 20 November
7) Name of body that has been established to improve aviation industry to enhance tourism in
Pakistan: AOOA (Aircraft Owners and Operators Association)
8) AOOA founder: Imran Aslam Kahn
9) AOOA President: Capt. Aijaz Ahmed
10) Name the company who owns TikTok: Chinese company ByteDance
11) According to UNICEF around ____ children between five and sixteen in Pakistan remain out of
school: 22.8m
12) World’s second largest out-of-school child population exists in which country: Pakistan
13) Children population percentage stunted in Pakistan: 40%
14) Incumbent Prime minister’s trade and industry advisor: Abdul Razak Dawood
15) Global Gender Gap Index 2021 has ranked Pakistan ____ in terms of gender parity index out of
156 countries: 153rd
16) Do you know about Main Line-1 (ML-1) project: It is an important project of the China
Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). And it will run from Karachi to Peshawar.
17) This year which death anniversary of Faiz Ahmad Faiz was celebrated: 37th
18) Minister for National Food Security and Research: Syed Fakhar Imam
INTERNATIONAL
1) Which country has approved 10 slaughter houses of Pakistani companies for import of meat:
Egypt
2) Average remittances costs of the South Asian Region: 4.6% (Lowest in the world)
3) The Council of European human right commissioner (current): Dunja Mijatovic
4) Who has become first women in American history who held presidential reins: Kamala Harris
5) ICRC stands for: International Committee of the Red Cross
6) Current President of ICRC: Peter Maurer
7) Economy of Afghanistan contracted by which percentage since the Taliban took control in
August: 40%
8) The drying up of the which River has taken people of Isfahan, Iran to streets: Zayandeh Rood
River
9) Name the former ex-lawmaker arrested for “masterminding” and anti-junta attacks in Myanmar:
Maung Kyaw
10) Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest rose by almost which percent in one year: 22%
11) UNCRC stands for: United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (It is an
international human rights treaty for children that was signed by world leaders in 1989)
12) UNICEF stands for: United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund
(Headquarter: New York; Established in 1946)
13) In 2021, UNICEF celebrated its___ anniversary: 75th
21 NOVEMBER 2021
NATIONAL
1) Which country’s team has become most successful team in T-twenty format? Pakistan
2) Who is incumbent DG NADRA: Saqlain Abbas Bukhari
3) Total seats of senate are: 100
4) Who is current Chairman of Supreme Court Bar Association: Ahsan Bhoon
5) Who is chairman of Punjab Public Accounts Committee: Sajid Bhatti
6) There are how many members of Punjab Assembly: 371
7) The mangroves in Pakistan are distributed among the coastlines of: Sindh and Balochistan
8) Chinese Ambassador to Pakistan: Nong Rong
9) OPPO Chinese Company is going to set up a mobile manufacturing unit in which country:
Pakistan
INTERNATIONAL
1) Which parliament is going to declare HAMAS as terrorist organization: British
2) Current US Defense secretary is: Lloyd Austin
3) New chancellor of Germany is: Olaf Scholz
4) Recently, which Indian city is attacked by flood: Andhra pardesh
5) Men US Open Champion: Daniil Medvedev
6) Daniil Medvedev is a ___ professional tennis player: Russian
7) Women US Open Champion: Emma Raducanu
8) Emma Raducanu is a ___ professional tennis player: British
9) Aramco is: Saudi Oil Company
10) World Fisheries Day: November 21
11) World Children’s Day is observed on: November 20
12) OPPO: It is a Chinese consumer electronics and mobile communications company
headquartered in Dongguan, Guangdong
22 NOVEMBER 2021
NATIONAL
1) Founder of Afiniti Group is: Zia Chishti
2) Birth place of iconic Sindhi poet Shaikh Ayaz: Shikarpur
3) Of total Sindh’s rice acreage, Shikarpur has a share of: 15%
4) Name the Rabi crop which is grown on residual moisture of rice crop by many farmers: Wheat
5) Total number of prisons in Pakistan: 116
6) Total number of inmates in Pakistan’s jails: 88,650
7) Current Federal Ombudsman of Pakistan: Syed Tahir Shahbaz
8) Establishment of the Office of Wafaqi Mohtasib in Pakistan: 1983
9) Current IG of Sindh: Mushtaq Mehar
10) Current Chief Minister of Balochistan: Mir Abdul Quddus Bizenjo
11) Who laid the foundation stone for Baba Guru Nanak University in Nankana Sahib: Prime
Minister Imran Khan
12) Majlis Wahdat-e-Muslimeen: It is a Pakistani Shi'a political organization (HQ: Islamabad)
13) Chief of the Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan: Hafiz Saad Rizvi
14) Current Sindh Ombudsman: Ajaz Ali Khan
INTERNATIONAL
1) WMF stands for: World Monument Fund
2) Name the Prime Minister of Sudan who was deposed in a coup last month: Abdalla Hamdok
3) Current prime minister of Israel: Naftali Bennett
4) According to experts misuse of __ jeopardizes effectivity of essential drugs: Antibiotics
5) Around ___ pilgrims came from India to pay homage to Guru Nanak: 3,000
6) Current Minister of External Affairs of the Government of India: Subrahmanyam Jaishankar
23 NOVEMBER 2021
NATIONAL
1) Prime Minster Imran Khan on 22 November approved____ humanitarian aid for Afghanistan:
Rs5 billion.
2) One of the aims of Grand Democratic Alliance is: To defeat the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP)
in the Sindh Province.
3) Current Energy Minister in Pakistan: Hammad Azhar
4) National Security Advisor in Pakistan: Dr. Moeed Yousuf
5) Current Chief Justice of Islamabad High Court: Athar Minallah
6) Incumbent Federal Minister for Human Rights: Dr. Shireen Mazari
7) Current SBP Governor: Dr. Reza Baqir
8) IRSA Act was passed and approved in which year: 1992
9) Water Apportionment Accord was signed in which year: 1991
10) Current Chief Justice of Peshawar High court: Qaiser Rashid Khan
11) Fifth most vulnerable country to climate change in the world: Pakistan (Share less than 1 %)
INTERNATIONAL
1) Name the report in which “Amnesty International” urged Islamabad to stop forcibly disappearing
of suspected terrorists for years without a trial: Living Ghosts
2) Current Chairman of House Foreign Affairs Committee of USA: Gregory Meeks
3) Shrine of “Hazrat Nizamuddin Aulia” is in which city: New Delhi
4) New Delhi was founded as a walled city named: Shahjahanabad
5) This year’s annual Urs of “Hazrat Nizamuddin Aulia” is: 718th
6) Third spiritual successor of “Hazrat Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti”: Hazrat Nizamuddin Aulia
(Sofi Saint of 14th Century, Chistia Order)
7) Do you know about “The Protocol on Visits to Religious Shrines 1974”? It is a bilateral
agreement between India and Pakistan facilitating Indian and Pakistani nationals to visit
certain religious shrines in both countries.
8) “Haaretz” is a newspaper. It belongs to which country: Israel
9) In Paris Climate Agreement 2015, the industrialized nations pledged a financial assistance of
____ to developing countries to mitigate the effects of Climate Change: $100billion
10) First woman in the Bangladesh’s history and second in the Muslim majority countries to head a
democratic government as prime minister: Khaleda Zia
11) Khaleda’s Part name: Bangladesh Nationalist Party
12) According to projection of UNO, with existing policies, earth temperature will rise to “2.7”
degrees Celsius above preindustrial level by: 2100
13) Incumbent president of FIFA: Gianni Infantino
14) The 2022 FIFA World Cup will take place in: Qatar
15) ITTF stands for: International Table Tennis Federation
16) Have you ever heard about “Ping Pong Diplomacy”? It refers to the exchange of table tennis
(ping-pong) players between the United States (US) and People's Republic of China (PRC).
It will celebrate its 50th anniversary this month of 2021.
17) One of the biggest threats to global health today: Antimicrobial Resistance
18) Name the first antibiotic that was discovered in 1928: Penicillin
24 NOVEMBER 2021
NATIONAL
1) In 2023 General Elections how many overseas Pakistanis will exercise their right of franchise for
the first time: 9 million
2) Incumbent Minister for Information Technology: Aminul Haq
3) Name the system launched, recently, by PM Imran Khan in order to check “Tax Evasion” in
sugar industry: Track and Trace System (TTS)
4) Current CM of Balochistan: Mir Abdul Qudoos Bazinjo
5) NCOC stands for: National Command and Operation Center
6) Current secretary of Board of Investment (BoI) in Pakistan: Fareena Mazhar
7) Incumbent Deputy Speaker of National Assembly of Pakistan: Qasim Khan Suri
8) BISP stands for: Benazir Income Support Program
9) Current hijri year: 1443
INTERNATIONAL
1) ______ has announced recently that its member countries will release oil from reserves to try to
cool prices: OPEC+
2) Headquartered of OPEC is in Vienna, Austria. Do you think Austria is an OPEC member state?
NO
3) What is the difference between OPEC and OPEC+? OPEC is an organization of the petroleum
exporting countries. While OPEC+ means the countries that export crude oil apart from
OPEC countries.
4) Which country promised on 23 November 2021 to look for options to “infuse liquidity” into the
banking system of Afghanistan without benefiting Taliban? The US
5) Falcon 9 is a reusable, two-stage rocket designed and manufactured by: SpaceX
6) The Double Asteroids Redirection Test or DART is the first full scale planetary defense test that
tries a method of deflect Asteroids. Name the organization behind this mission? NASA
7) Name the flight of British Airways that was swept in by Sadam Hussein’s troops in 1990 in
Kuwait: BA fight 149
8) According to recently release Global Nutrition Report (GNR) what percentage of world
population currently eats either too little or too much: 48%
9) The GNR estimates the nutrition spending will need to increase by nearly _____ annually until
2030 to meet stunting, wasting maternal anaemia and breastfeeding targets alone: 4billion
10) Name the human right activist whose arrest in Indian-held Jammu and Kashmir is condemned by
Pakistan recently? Khuram Parvez
11) Do you know about TPLF? It stands for Tigray People Liberation Front. It is a left-wing
ethnic nationalist group, now leading political party, and former ruling party of Ethiopia.
Now it designated as a terrorist organization by the Ethiopian government under Abiy
Ahmed.
12) According to world prediction in Ethiopia war may escalate because of: Rebel TPLF
13) Lira is currency of which country? Turkey
14) Indian Air Force (IAF) pilot Abhinandan Varthaman, who was captured by Pakistan in 2019, was
awarded by_____, India's third-highest gallantry medal: Vir Chakra
25 NOVEMBER 2021
NATIONAL
1) Purpose of “Sohni Dharti Remittances Program (SDRP)” recently launched by Prime Minister
Imran Khan: To encourage the use of formal channels for remittances
2) PPDA stands for: Pakistan Petroleum Dealers Association
3) Incumbent PPDA chairman: Abdul Sami Khan
4) Current Minister for National Food Security and Research: Syed Fakhar Imam
5) Wheat Minimum Support Price fixed by Centre: Rs1, 950 per 40kg
6) Wheat Minimum Support Price fixed by Sindh Government: Rs2, 200 per 40kg
7) FMPAC stands for: Fertilizer Manufacturers of Pakistan Advisory Council
8) Under which Act “SMOG” has been declared as a calamity in Pakistan: Punjab National
Calamities (Prevention and Release) Act 1958
9) Incumbent Pakistani Representative in the United Nations Population Fund Activities (UNFPA):
DR. Bakhtior Kadirov
10) Current Sindh Energy Minister: Imtiaz Ahmed Shaikh
11) Special Assistant to Prime Minister for “Overseas Pakistanis”: Zulfiqar Bukhari
12) Current WAPDA chairman: Retired Lt Gen Muzammil Hussain
13) Which country has launched a way to combat Air Pollution via Anti-Smog Squad Vans?
Pakistan
14) Current Minister of State for Climate Change: Zartaj Gul
15) Current Advisor to Prime Minister on Climate Change: Malik Amin Aslam
16) The National Police Academy of Pakistan is located in which city: Islamabad
17) Chairman of Pakistan Ulema Council & Special Representative for Religious Affairs and
Interfaith Harmony: Tahir Mehmood Ashrafi
18) Current chairman of Capital Development Authority: Amer Ali Ahmad
19) Current Capital City Police Officer or CCPO, Lahore: Fayyaz Ahmed
20) Name the surface-to-surface ballistic missile tested by Pakistan on 25 November 2021: Shaheen-
1A
INTERNATIONAL
1) Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted on: 10 Dec, 1948
2) TOLO news is ____ news channel: Afghanistan's
3) Capital city of Solomon Islands: Honiara
4) Second most populated country in the world: India
5) Which country has reported a greater number of women as compared to men recently and for the
first time? India
6) UN has launched an effort to end violence against women by which year: 2030
7) Current UN Secretary General: Antonio Guterres
8) Who is incumbent President of the United Nations General Assembly? Volkan Bozkır (Turkish
Politician)
9) Newly elected president of INTERPOL: Dr. Ahmed Naser Al-Raisi (Emirati general)
10) Al-Shabaab is terrorist group in which country? Somalia
11) Karnak Temple and Luxor Temple are found in which country: Egypt
12) Egypt has unveiled “Rams Road” on 25 November 2021. It will connect following temples:
Karnak Temple and Luxor Temple
13) Which community of Afghanistan accepted the Taliban government in the country in a meeting
held on 25 November 2021: Hazara
27 NOVEMBER 2021
NATIONAL
1) Current Defence Secretary of Pakistan: Lt. Gen. Mian Hilal Hussain (R)
2) BEITA VILLAGE is located where? Occupied West Bank
3) Current Federal Minster for Industries and Production in Pakistan? Makhdom Khusro
Bakhtiyar
4) Purpose behind “Student Solidarity March 2021”? Restoration of Student Unions
5) NADRA was established in which year: 2000
6) The first and only woman in Pakistan to reach the rank of three star general: Nigar Johar
7) First ever female colonel Commandant of Army Medical Corps: Nigar Johar
8) Name the three child rights bills approved by Parliament on 26 November 2021: Juvenile Justice
System (Amendment) Bill 2021, The Islamabad Capital Territory Child Protection
Amendment Bill 2021, The National Commission on the Rights of the Children Amendment
bill 2021
9) PSX stands for: Pakistan Stock Exchange
10) According to recent reports of “World Bank” the incidence of Poverty in Pakistan dropped
to____ from 5.4pc a year ago: 4.2pc
11) Mention the year selected for 7th census in Pakistan: 2022
12) Prime minister Imran Khan awarded Top Bank Award to which bank under “Kamyab Jawan
Program”: The Bank of Punjab
13) Current chairman of Board of Investment in Pakistan: Muhammad Azhar Ahsan
INTERNATIONAL
1) Incumbent NATO Secretary General: Jens Stoltenberg
2) Incumbent Italian Prime Minister: Mario Draghi
3) Which two countries have signed a treaty recently to end their past violence: France and Italy
4) Current Prime Minister of France: Jean Castex
5) IAEA head: Rafael Grossi
6) Current Arminian Prime Minister: Nikol Pashinyan
7) Current Azerbaijani President: Ilham Aliyev
8) Name the peace deal that ended fighting in the separatist region of Nagormo-Karanbakh:
Moscow-brokered Peace deal
9) Name given to new Covid Variant detected in South Africa: Omicron
10) Current India’s Foreign Minister: Subrahmanyam Jaishankar
11) Current Russia’s Foreign Minister: Sergey Lavrov
12) Current China’s Foreign Minister: Wang Yi
13) Australia’s 47th Test Captain: Pat Cummunis (Ex: Tim Piane)
28 NOVEMBER 2021
NATIONAL
1) Founder of Bahria Town: Malik Riaz
2) Current Chief of Hindu Nationalist Organization, RSS: Mohan Bhagwat
3) “Ormara Port” is located in which province of Pakistan: Baluchistan
4) Year of establishment of the “Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR)”: 1949
5) Current Federal Minister for Aviation: Mian Ghulam Sarwar Khan
6) ____ will inaugurate work on the 123.6km-long “Tourism Highway” next month: Punjab
Government
7) Incumbent Special Assistant to PM on Climate Change: Malik Amin Aslam
8) Ongoing Minister of State on Climate Change: Zartaj Gul
9) “Calaise city” is located in which country: France
10) Recently, at least 27 people died after Migrant Boat capsizes. This tragedy took place in: English
Channel
11) The most affected region with AMR in “South Asia” is: Pakistan
12) Do you know the functioning of “DISCOS” in Pakistan: These are “Electric Distribution
Companies”. And such distribution companies are responsible for distribution of electricity
in their respective allocated areas.
13) Incumbent Sindh CM’s Advisor on Agriculture: Manzoor Wassan
14) Which international organization has recently released a report “Macro Poverty outlook in
Pakistan: World Bank
INTERNATIONAL
1) According to WHO estimates the Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) could result in ____ deaths a
year b 2050: 10m
2) Next week’s WTO meeting, the global trade body’s biggest gathering in the four years, has been
postponed due to the new Omicron Covid-19. This meeting was going to take place in: Geneva
3) New Director- General of WTO: Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
4) The world’s most widely used phosphorous fertilizer is: DAP
5) Name the storm that hit the northern UK on 27 November 2021: Storm Arwen
6) Current chief of WHO: Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
7) Novak Djokovic is a ____ professional tennis player: Serbian
8) The Taliban co-founder and new Prime Minister of Afghanistan: Mullah Muhammad Hassan
Akhund
29 NOVEMBER 2021
NATIONAL
1) Current Deputy Chairman of Senate: Mirza Muhammad Afridi
2) Kidney Hill Park is located in: Karachi
3) MQM-P leader: Khawaja Izhar ul hasan
4) Current Minister of Education and Professional Training: Shafqat Mahmood
5) Current National Assembly Deputy Speaker: Qasim Suri
6) Pakistan’s first ever National Security Policy (NSP) will cover the period of: 2022-2026
7) Current Parliamentary Secretary for law and Justice: Barrister Maleeka Ali Bukhari
8) Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Health: Dr. Faisal Sultan
9) Leader of Baluchistan Chapter of PTI: Sardar Yar Mohammad Rind
10) IWMB stands for: Islamabad Wildlife Management Board
11) Author of book, “The Sole Spokesman: Jinnah, the Muslim League”: Dr. Ayesha Jalal
12) Current National Security Advisor: Dr. Moeed Yusuf
13) Due to electricity theft annual loss to railways in Pakistan: Rs. 2-billion
14) Editor in-Chief of Jhang Group: Mir Shakeel ur Rahman
15) FATA merged in KPK in: May 2018
16) ECNEC stands for: Executive Committee of National Economic Council
17) FFBL stands for: Fauji Fertilizer Bin Qasim Limited
INTERNATIONAL
1) Author of books “On Human Nature” and “The Ants”: Edward O. Wilson (Died on 27 Dec)
2) “Pul-e-Charkhi Prison” is in: Afghanistan (As well its largest park)
3) The nicknames of Edward O. Wilson: "The New Darwin", "Darwin's natural heir" or "The
Darwin of the 21st century"
4) Desmond Tutu, who died recently, got noble peace prize in which year: 1984
5) 40th president of USA: Ronald Regen
6) Worldwide, Urea Price per bag: Rs11, 000 (In Pakistan Rs1, 800)
7) Bangladesh’s export has reached to: $40billion (Pakistan’s $25 billion)
8) The Sierra Nevada is a mountain range in: Western United States
9) Capital city of Germany: Berlin
10) Memorial is Russia's: Oldest and most prominent human rights organization (Closed
recently)
30 NOVEMBER 2021
NATIONAL
1) According to latest data, the most virulent strain of Covid-19 is: Omicron
2) Current Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Health: Dr. Faisal Sultan
3) 35th and current Attorney General of Pakistan: Khalid Jawed Khan
4) The aim behind the agreement signed between “State Bank of Pakistan (SBP)” and Saudi Fund for
Development (SFD), recently: To improve the foreign exchange reserves of SBP.
5) SFD Chief Executive Officer: Sultan Bin Abdul Rahman Al-Marshad
6) Name the two remaining female elephants in Pakistan: Noor Jehan and Madhubala (Four Paws
suggested to shift them from Karachi Zoo to Safari Park, Karachi)
7) What you know about Four Paws: It is a global animal welfare organization based
in Vienna, Austria.
8) Which country recently offered to host next month a meeting of the Organization of Islamic
Cooperation (OIC): Pakistan
9) Slogan used by protesters in ongoing demonstrations in Balochistan: Gwadar ko haq do
10) PFUJ stands for: Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists
11) What you know about Akhuwat Islamic Microfinance: It provides interest-free loans to the
underprivileged people to enable them to get out of poverty through sustainable pathways.
(Current Chairman: Dr. Amjad Saqib)
12) Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Capital Development Authority Affairs: Ali Nawaz
Awan
13) Which country has decided to open more border trade points with Iran? Pakistan
14) Which border had been closed in Pakistan for last two years: Khunjrab Pass
15) Pakistan has achieved a bumper rice crop of about ____ this year: 9 million tonnes
INTERNATIONAL
1) Which country carried out another test of hypersonic missile on 29 November 2021: Russia
(Missile name: zircon hypersonic cruise missile)
2) Current prime minister of Fiji: Frank Bainimarama
3) Who is author of book “Veil of Silence”: Salvatore Cernuzio
4) Headquarter of International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN): Gland,
Switzerland
5) Name the animal which was placed by IUCN on its Red List in 2017 but now bounce back in Israel:
Mountain Gazelles
6) Current Prime Minister of Lebanon: Najib Makati
7) Incumbent king of Morocco: King Muhammad VI
8) International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People: 29 November
9) Which country announced to try its level best for a resumption of Israeli-Palestinian peace
negotiations: Morocco
10) Name the twitter CEO stepped down recently: Jack Dorsey (Next: Parag Agarwal)
11) Current prime minister of Sweden: Magdalena Andersson (Country’s first female prime
minister. Although she resigned last week but parliament re-elected her as PM)
1 DECEMBER 2021
NATIONAL
1) What was the speciality of recently released audit report in Pakistan? It pointed out billions of
rupees irregularities in Covid-19 expenditure, vaccination process and Ehsaas Relief Program.
2) According to latest statistics of “Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS)”, November
(2021) inflation rate in Pakistan hit ____, highest in 20 months: 11.5pc
3) Name the MNA and Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement leader to whom “Supreme Court” granted bail
on 30 Nov, 2021: Muhammad Ali Wazir
4) “The News International” newspaper belongs to which country: Pakistan
5) Pakistan bought its two elephants, namely Sonu ans Malaka, from which country: Tanzania
(2009)
6) World AIDS Day: 1 December
7) New Chairman of Fafen (Free and Fair Election Network): Ms Mossarat Qadeem
8) Under the amended Local Government Ordinance (LGO), federal government has decided to
separate which sector from local government of Islamabad, recently: Education
9) Ashfaq Saleem Mirza was a philosopher, thinker, critic, poet and translator from which country:
Pakistan
10) Current Ambassador of South Korea to Pakistan: Suh Sangpyo
11) Kinnow exports are likely to fall by “35pc” this year. What are the reasons behind it? Increase in
sea freight costs and the adverse effects of climatic changes on the fruit’s production.
12) Who is patron-in-chief of All Pakistan Fruit and Vegetable Exporters, Importers and Merchants
Association (PFVA)? Waheed Ahmed
13) Which Mobile Phone Company has finally started the production of mobile phones in Pakistan?
Samsung (The Company aims to manufacture 3m handsets every year)
INTERNATIONAL
1) The Port of Dunkirk is _____ port? French
2) Riga is the capital of: Latvia
3) Current NATO Secretary General: Jens Stoltenberg
4) La Vanguardia is a _____ daily newspaper: Spanish
5) Sweden’s first Trans minster: Lina Axelsson Kihlblom
6) Author of book “Will You Love Me Now”? Lina Axelsson Kihlblom
7) Do you know about world’s newest republic? Barbados
8) Barbados became republic on which date? 30 November 2021.
9) Capital city of Barbados: Bridgetown
10) Barbados’ first president: Dame Sandra Mason
11) National Heroes Square is located in which country? Barbados
2 DECEMBER 2021
NATIONAL
1) The Punjab Cabinet approved the Punjab Local Government Act, 2021 on which date: 24 Nov,
2021
2) Nishan-e-Pakistan Monument is located in which city of Pakistan: Karachi
3) Which bank of Pakistan has won the prestigious “Bank of the Year 2021 – PAKISTAN” award by
“THE BANKER”? Allied Bank
4) Name the airport of Pakistan that has started working as “International Airport”, recently?
Skardu Airport
5) Current chief justice of Sindh High Court? Syed Sajjad Ali Shah
6) Do you know about Visual Flight Rules? It is a set of regulations that an aircraft can operate in
clear visual conditions such as sunny, clear days.
7) Recently, YouTube Pakistan released a list of top trending videos and top content creator in the
country. Which drama took the number one spot on the top trending videos? KHODA
OR MUHABAT
8) Which two banks of Pakistan signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to promote
financial inclusion in Pakistan on 1st December 2021? The United Bank Limited (UBL) and U
Microfinance Bank limited (U Bank)
9) PTV was founded in which year: 1964
10) The Punjab Irrigation Department has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with which
International Body to find climate resilient solutions to improve water governance? International
Water Management Institute
11) Incumbent Punjab Irrigation Minister? Mohsin Laghari
INTERNATIONAL
1) World Health Organization (WHO) was founded on: 7 April 1948 (Current Chief: Tedros
Adhanom)
2) Name the project recently planned by European Union to Counter China’s Belt and Road strategy:
Global Gateway (Worth: $300 billion)
3) On Wednesday, US accused which country of “Economic Warfare” against Australia? China
4) Name the school of USA where a terrorist opened fire and killed students on 1st December 2021:
Michigan High School
5) US Special Representative for Afghanistan: Thomas West
6) Do you know about G77? It is a Group at the United Nations. And it is a coalition of 134
developing nations. (Its latest meeting held on 1st December, and it was 45th meeting)
7) Current Ukrainian President: Volodymyr Zelenskiy
8) Pakistan on 1st December 2021, discussed defence cybersecurity cooperation with which
country? Russia
9) Current National Security Advisor of Pakistan: Dr, Moeed Yusuf
3RD DECEMBER 2021
NATIONAL
1) The government on Thursday finalized a ‘Mini-budget’ involving fiscal adjustments and
expenditure cuts worth ____ as part of an understanding with the IMF to cool down the
overheating economy? Rs600 billion
2) Incumbent Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Poverty Alleviation and Social Welfare: Dr.
Sania Nishtar
3) Pakistan Medical and Dental Council has been replaced by: Pakistan Medical Commission
4) International Day of Persons with Disabilities: 3rd December
5) Current chairman of Pashtunkhwa Mili Awami Party (PkMAP): Mehmood KhanAchakzai
6) Current Chief Justice of Balochistan High Court: Justice NaeemAkhtar Afghan
7) On Thursday, Punjab Minister for Agriculture inaugurated the “Engro Learning Centre (ELC)” at
the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad. Who is current Punjab Minister for Agriculture? Syed
Hussain Jhania Gardazi
8) Ranking of Pakistan on Global Gender Index, 2021: 153rd out of 156th
9) Current Special Assistant to Prime Minister on E-Commerce: Aon Abbas Buppi
10) Name the fertilizers whose prices have shot through the roof these days in
Pakistan: Di-ammonium Phosphate (DAP), Nitro Phosphate and Urea
INTERNATIONAL
1) Do you know about Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund (ARTF)? It is a multi-donor trust fund
administered by the World Bank. Latest NewsThe World Bank Board has approved the transfer
of $280 million from the Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund to two aid agencies to help
Afghanistan deal with the humanitarian crisis of brewing.
2) Current Chancellor of Australia who has announced to step down soon? Alexander Schallenberg
3) Current US Defence Secretary: Lloyd Austin
4) KPL is news agency of which country? LAOS
5) Hamas Group of Gaza founded on: 10 Dec, 1987
6) Which country’s President removed finance minister as country’s currency crash, recently?
Turkey
4TH DECEMBER 2021
NATIONAL
1) Yesterday, furious workers of a garment factory in Sialkot tortured their “Sri Lankan” manger to
death over allegations of blasphemy and set the body to fire.
What was the name of that manger? Priyantha Kumara (Company: Rajco Industries)
5) Do you know about K-IV Project? It is a Greater Karachi Water Supply Scheme. It will start in
next three to four months and likely to be completed by October 2023.
6) NAB arrested Speaker of which provincial Assembly on Friday? Sindh
7) Who has been elected as new Balochistan Assembly speaker on Thursday? Mir
Jan Muhammad Khan Jamali
INTERNATIONAL
1) Incumbent European Union’s envoy to Afghanistan: Thomas Niklasson 2) Do you know
about M16? It is UK’s external intelligence agency
INTERNATIONAL
1) Name the New Zealand's Mumbai born spinner who claimed a record-equaling 10 wickets in an
innings recently: Ajaz Patel (he has become only the third bowler in cricket history to achieve
the feat on Saturday)
2) Current Lebanese PM: Najib Mikati
3) Which country is trying to normalize the relationships between Saudi Arabia and Lebanon?
Turkey
4) International soil day: 5th December
5) Which party won narrowly Germany’s 26 Sept, 2021 elections? Social Democratic Party
6) Capital city of Ukraine: Kiev
7) On 4th December, total eclipse plunged which continent into darkness: Antarctica
8) Sehatmandi Project (to resolve health) is associated with which country: Afghanistan
9) Natanz nuclear facility is part of ____ nuclear program: Iran’s
6TH DECEMBER 2021
NATIONAL
1) What is the name of person who tried to save the life of Priyantha Kumara? Malik Adnan (PM
Pakistan announced Tamgha-e-Shujaat for him)
2) With which country Pakistan signed two agreements on Sunday related to workers’ recruitment
and skills verification of Pakistani workers being applied in that country: Saudi Arabia
3) Do you know what is “Fiscal Responsibility and Debt Limitation Act 2005”? It binds the
government to reduce the total public debt and maintain it within prudent limits.
4) The Telangana Rebellion was a peasant rebellion against the feudal lords of the Telangana region
of India between _____________? 1946-1951
5) Author of the book Mughanni -i- Aatish Nafas with subtitle Makhdom Mohuiddin Aur Telanghana
Tehreek? Mazhar Jameel
6) Which federal minister of Pakistan will visit Brussels from 6-8 December 2021? Shah Mahmood
Qureshi
7) Current chairman of the National Assembly’s Standing Committee on CPEC? Abrar Sher Ali
8) Incumbent Special Assistant to PM on Political Communication? Shahbaz Gill
Which international Organization has vowed recently to deepen partnership with Pakistan for
building climate resilience and promoting green agenda? Untied Nation Development Program
9) Name the Pakistan Navy Ship (PNS) that visited DAKAR, the capital of Senegal and established a
free medical Camp there? Alamgir
10) According to latest Household Integrated Economic Survey (HIES) 2028-2019, Pakistan’s average
monthly household income: Rs41, 545
11) Who is current Chief Conservator of Forests- Mangroves & Rangelands, Sindh? Riaz Waghan
INTERNATIONAL
1) Next year’s winter Olympics will take place in: Beijing
2) Lesbos is a ____ island: Greek
3) _____ took to their beaches on Sunday to protest against plans by Royal Dutch Shell to do seismic
oil exploration? South Africans
4) Yemen’s war was started in which year? In 2014 when Houthis took over Saana, capital city of
Yemen
5) Which US Senator and war hero died on Sunday? Bob Dole
6) Which type of cancer in most common in Pakistan? Breast Cancer
7) Nagaland is a state in which country? India
8) Name the volcano which erupted in Indonesia recently and killed at least 14 people on Java
Island? Semeru
7TH DECEMBER 2021
NATIONAL
1) Which country has recently allowed direct flights from Pakistan as well as opened direct banking
links to enhance scope of scholarship for “Science Education” in the country? Russia
2) Despite having Child Marriage Restraint Act 2013, which province of Pakistan has seen an overall
increase in girls “Child Marriage” between 2014-15 and 2018-19? Sindh
3) Current HEC Executive Director: Dr. Shaista Sohail
4) Pakistan first ever “Plastic Road” was built in which city of Pakistan? Islamabad
(That is a 1km long road of Ataturk Avenue)
5) Which companies of Pakistan have participated in implementation of first ever “Plastic Road
Project” in Pakistan? Coca Cola, National Incubation Centre and
CDA
6) Current chairman of capital development authority (CDA)? Amer Ali Ahmed
The senate standing committee on human rights on Monday approved the protection against
harassment of women at workplace (Amendment) 2021. This law binds the courts to decide such
cases within____? 90 Days
7) Pakistan water week, 2021: 6th-9th December
8) Ranking of Pakistan on Global Hunger Index 2021? 107 out of 118
INTERNATIONAL
1) IWMI stands for? International Water Management Institute
2) Incumbent Director General of IWMI? Mark Smith
3) According to FAO estimates, how much food is lost and wasted in the world yearly?
1.3 billion tonnes (It accounts for almost 33 % of total food produced globally)
4) The Samsung Company belongs to which country? South Korea
5) New Chancellor of Austria who has sworn recently? Karl Nehammer
6) ICC stands for? International Criminal Court (HQ: The Hague)
7) ______prosecutor has defended omitting the United States from an investigation in
Afghanistan, saying the “worst crimes” were committed by the Taliban and the ISIL (ISIS):
International Criminal Court
8) The Nobel Prize in Literature 2021 was awarded to: Abdulrazak Gurnah
9) The Nobel Prize in Physics 2021 was awarded to: Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and
Giorgio Parisi
10) Current Sudan's Prime Minister: Abdalla Hamdok
11) Which country recently proclaimed diplomatic boycott of Beijing Olympics: USA
12) Which two countries vowed joint push recently to open Kabul Airport? Turkey and Qatar
13) Which anti-partied member of African National Council (ANC) died on Monday?
Ebrahim Ismail
8TH DECEMBER 2021
NATIONAL
1) The business community in Sialkot has collected how much amount for the family of “Priyantha
Kumara”: $100,000
2) PDM is an alliance of how many parties: 08
3) PPMA stands for: Pakistan Pharmaceutical Manufacturer Association
4) Current chairman of PPMA: Mansoor Dilawar
5) According to PPMA, medicines have seen an increase of ____ during PTI’s tenure: 500pc
6) Current chief of Jamaat- e-Islami: Sirajul Haq
7) Makhniyal forests are located in: Haripur tehsil
8) Do you know about “Celestyal Experience”? It is a cruise ship. It has been purchased from Italy.
9) Name Bahrain's Commander who visited Pakistan recently and lauded
Pakistan’s measures in controlling Covid-19: Maj Gen Dr. Sheikh
Salman
INTERNATIONAL
1) UN’s human right chief has denounced “sham trial” against which personality: Aung Suu Kyi
2) How many Afghans are facing “Food Insecurity” currently: 22.8m (Sources: WFP and FAO)
3) Round Table Conferences among Congress, Muslim League and British held at which place: No.
10 Downing Street
4) According to Forbes data, world's richest person is Elon Musk. Do you know his balance? $265
billion
5) According to latest “World Inequality Report”, women’s share of total global income from work is
less than: 35%
6) BBC has recently released a list of 100 world’s most inspiring women. Which country’s women
made up half of the list: Afghanistan
7) Which country recently dropped Friday as weekly holiday: UAE
9TH DECEMBER 2021
NATIONAL
1) Which country has skipped the “Democracy Summit” because China and Russia were not being
invited in that summit by USA: Pakistan
2) Current chief of Election Commission of Pakistan: Sikandar Sultan Raja
3) Incumbent chief of Naval Staff: Admiral Mohammad Amjad khan Niazi
4) On 9th December, Pakistan tested which type of missile in Karachi: Surface-to-Air missile
5) Google search engine recently released a list of top searches in Pakistan. Which game remained
top searches on google in this country? Cricket
6) Which province’s government asked Sindh to stop fishermen from entering in its waters?
Balochistan
7) Which bank on Wednesday approved a $603 million loan to support Ehsaas Social Protection
Programme? ADB
8) First three signatories of project “Mazar-i-Sharif-Kabul-Peshawar corridor”: Pakistan,
Uzbekistan and Afghanistan. (Singed in Tashkent on 2 February,2021)
9) Which Pakistani film maker and anthropologist won an international award for short film “Out
Swing” recently? Samar Minallah
10) Pakistan on 9th December opened a new border with which country? Iran
11) Current minister of Economic Affairs in Pakistan: Omar Ayub Khan
12) According to latest survey conducted by Transparency International titled “National Corruption
Perception Survey (NCPS) 2021, more than 50% people blamed ____ for rising inflation and
unemployment in the country: Incompetence of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf (PTI)
INTERNATIONAL
1) Saudi Journalist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered in Istanbul in which year: 2018
2) Indian defense minister died in helicopter crash on 9th December: Gen Bipin Rawat
3) Name of student whose murder compelled the “Bangladeshi Government” to announce death
sentence of 20 university students who were involved in his killing?
Abrar Fahad
4) Who is new chancellor of Germany who sworn on 9th December: Olaf Scholz (party: Social
Democratic Party)
5) Daily Mirror ___ newspaper: British
6) Which Indian cricketer has replaced Virat Kohli as India’s ODI captain? Rohit Sharma
7) India’s first chief of defense staff: Gen Bipin Rawat
10TH DECEMBER 2021
NATIONAL
1) On 9 Jan, 2022, Pakistan Navy flotilla visited ___ during overseas deployment: Oman
2) Incumbent Sindh Local Government Minister: Nasir Hussain Shah
3) Witter of book, “Jabir Ali Syed: Hayat Aur Adabi Khidmaat”: Dr. Aneela Saleem
4) Author of book, “Iqbal Ka Fanni Irtqa”: Jabir Ali Syed
5) Greater Karachi Water Supply Scheme commonly known as: K-IV
6) CTD stands for: Counter Terrorism Department
7) USIP stands for: United States Institute of Peace
8) Current Chairman of UK-Pakistan Business Council: Mian Kashif Ashfaq
9) Sulman Bin Qudoos is port of: Oman
INTERNATIONAL
1) Current US Secretary of State: Antony Blinkon
2) Cox Bazar is a city of: Bangladesh
3) Age of Nelson Mendela when he died: 95
4) Nelson Mendala was selected as first president of democratic South Africa in: May 1994 (Held
role until June 1999)
5) Haaretz is newspaper of: Israel
6) Whitley Bay is a seaside town on the northeast coast of: England
7) Almaty is a city of: Kazakhstan
8) Capital city of Nigeria: Abuja
9) Current president of Sri Lanka: Gotabaya Rajapaksa
10) Incumbent Chinese foreign minister: Wang Yi
11) Recently Sri Lanka asked which country to restructure repayment of debt: China
11 DECEMBER 2021
NATIONAL
1) Recently which international organization blamed “World Bank” over Pakistan economy woes?
European Union
2) Which institute of Pakistan has organized 14th International Urdu Conference? Art Council of
Pakistan
3) Author of book of short stories “Mutthi Bhar Kahaniyan”? Javed Siddique (Indian)
4) “Waqaat Ki Bhag” book was written by? Khalid Fateh Muhammad
5) Helpline of PDMA (Provincial Disaster Management Authority) Punjab? 1129
6) Pakistan Citizen Portal was launched in which year? 2018
7) Leader of the movement “Gawadar Ko Haq Do”? Maulana Hidayat-u-Rahman
8) The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved two policy and project loans worth ____ for
Pakistan’s energy sector reforms and improvement of health and civic facilities? $685 million
9) ICAO stands for: International Civil Aviation Organization
10) Incumbent British High Commissioner to Pakistan: Christian Turner
11) Current Special Representative of Prime Minister on Religious Harmony? Hafiz Tahir Ashrafi
12) Who has been appointed as chairman of the Council of Islamic Finance Services Board (IFSB),
Malaysia, for 2022? The governor of State Bank of Pakistan, Dr. Raza Baqir
INTERNATIONAL
1) Official residential place of the President of Paris? Elysee Palace
2) Capital city of Albania? Tirana
3) In which country about 54 people died when the truck smuggling migrants crashed? Mexico
4) what you know about SenseTime Group? It is a Chinese artificial intelligence company
5) Current CEO of Tesla and SpaceX: Elon Musk
6) Winners of Nobel Peace Prize 2021? Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov
7) Rappler is a ____ online news website: Philippine
8) Capital city of Nicaragua? Managua
9) Theme of this year’s Human Right Day: Equality (Decided bu UN)
10) WHO is using which term for Smog? New Tobacco
11) International Mountain Day:
11 DECEMBER 2021
NATIONAL
1) Current IG of Punjab Police is: Inam Ghani
2) Founder and leader of “Muhajir Qaumi Movement”: Afaq Ahmad
3) The Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) Administration order was issued on: December 31, 1980.
4) CIR stands for: Credit Information Report.
5) Incumbent speaker of National Assembly: Asad Qaiser
6) Recently, PM Imran Khan inaugurated “Green Line” bus service in Karachi. Do you know in which
year it was launched by PML-N (the then government)? 2016
7) The Islamic State Khorasan (IS-K) militant group works in which countries? Pakistan and
Afghanistan
8) Under which amendment to the constitution General Zia ul Haq inserted Article 58 (2-B) in 1985?
8th
9) Author of book” Pen and Politics: Resistance in Pakistan”: Dr. Nazir Mahmood
INTERNATIONAL
1) First Arab country to open embassy in Israel: UAE
2) Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Yair Lapid
3) Name the elite parliamentary unit of Bangladesh on which US imposed sanctions on 11th Dec for
“Human Right Abuse”: Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)
4) Kentucky is a state of which country: United States
5) The Abraham Accords are a joint statement made between Israel, the United States and the
United Arab Emirates on: August 13, 2020
6) Which country branded US democracy a “Weapon of Mass Destruction” on 11th December
following the Us-organized Summit for Democracy? China
7) The Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund (ARTF) is a multi-donor trust fund administered by:
World Bank
13TH DECEMBER 2021
NATIONAL
1) Incumbent chairman of Federal Board and Revenue (FBR): Dr. Ashfaq Ahmad
2) Recently, Hamas celebrated its _____ foundation day: 34th (Hamas is an Palestinian nationalist
group, Founded in 1987, HQ: Gaza)
3) Who is current leader of TTP? Noor Wali Mehsud
4) Current minister of state for Information: Farrukh Habib
5) NRO stands for: National Reconciliation Ordinance
6) Federal Information and Broadcasting Minister: Fawad Chaudhary
7) Incumbent chairman of Pak Sarzameen Party (PSP): Syed Mustafa Kamal
8) Global prices of pulses per tonne have surged by $100 to___ over the last two months: 600$
9) Incumbent President of AJK: Barristor Sultan Mahmood
10) Incumbent PM of AJK: Sardar Abdul Qayyum Niazi
11) Incumbent FIA Director-General: Dr Sanaullah Abbasi
12) During first four months of current fiscal year which item of Pakistan has seen an increase of
202pc: Furniture
13) Chief Executive officer of Pakistan Furniture Council: Mian Kashif Ashfaq
INTERNATIONAL
1) Julian Assange, who founded WikiLeaks in 2006, belongs to which country? Australia (Latest
news: UK High Court has allowed the extradition of Julian Assange to the US)
2) Ankara Kaur Dam is located in which province of Pakistan? Balochistan
3) Funding body behind “Peshawar Bus Rapid Transit Project (BRT)”? ADB (Awarded Rs53 Billions)
4) Funding body behind “KP Cities Improvement Project (KPCIP)”? ADB (Awarded Rs98 Billions)
5) RIA Novosti is a _____ news agency: Russian
6) ____ Prime Minister’s Twitter account hacked recently: Indian (And it was the second time)
7) According to WHO, Covid-19 pandemic has pushed ____ people into extreme poverty: 500
million
8) Name the island whose people recently decided to remain part of France: New Caledonia
9) Current UN Special Envoy for Syria: Geir Pedersen
10) Tigray People’s Liberation front (TPLF) is considered a terrorist group of which country? Ethiopia
11) Writer name of Novel “Interview with the Vampire”? Anne Rice (Died on 11 Dec, 2021)
12) First Israeli PM to visit UAE? Naftali Bennett
14TH DECEMBER 2021
NATIONAL
1) Incumbent National Security Adviser of Pakistan: Moeed Yousuf
2) In Pakistan, “Margalla Dialogue 21” has been organized by which institute on 13 December:
Islamabad Policy Research Institute (IPRI)
3) Current Attorney General of Pakistan: Khalid Jawed
4) ICAO stands for: International Civil Aviation Organization
5) First confirmed case of Omicron variant of Covid-19 was observed on which date in Pakistan? 13
Dec
6) According to “Annual Report of Foreign Economics Assistance 2020-2021”, the PTI government
got ____ loans in three years: $34.17billion
7) Newly appointed Ambassador of Japan to Pakistan: Wada Mitsuhiro
8) Recently which country Okayed $4.35m grant for anti-polio programme in Pakistan? Japan
9) WASA stands for: Water and Sanitation Agency
10) “Al-Kassah-III” is a joint military exercise between which two countries? Pakistan and Saudi
Arabia
11) The Balochistan government has banned illegal fishing by trawlers of Sindh and foreign countries
in the limits of ___ nautical miles along the Makran coast: 12
INTERNATIONAL
1) Smoking kills ____ people annually? 7million
2) Real name of Dilip Kumar (an Indian actor film producer)? Muhammad Yusuf Khan
3) Who is known as ”Tragedy King”: Dilip Kumar
4) Bornholm is an island in which sea: Baltic Sea
5) Current Permanent Representative of Russia to the United Nations: Vasily Nebenzya
6) Capital city of Sweden: Stockholm
7) French forces are preparing to pull out from which country: Mali
8) Capital city of Mali: Bamako
9) Which country recorded worlds first known death from Omicron: Britain
10) 70th Miss Universe: Harnaaz Sandhu (Indian)
11) WAM news agency belongs to: UAE
12) Incumbent Minister of Defence in India: Rajnath Singh
15TH DECEMBER 2021
NATIONAL
1) Which bank approved a “$200 million” loan for Pakistan for developing an irrigation system in
Punjab, recently? ADB
2) Pakistan won Twenty20 International series against which country recently? West Indies
3) Sindh Investment Conference on 14 Dec, signed a memorandum of understanding with which
country for setting up a desalinization plant in Karachi? UAE
4) “Pakistan Sarzameen Party” is using the term “Black Law” for? Sindh Local Government
(Amendment) Bill 2021
5) Current chief justice of Sindh High Court: Ahmad Ali Sheikh
6) Incumbent federal minister for Maritime Affairs? Ali Haider Zaidi
7) Recently federal government has decided to stop providing funds for: Provincial Development
Projects
8) NACTA stands for? National Counter Terrorism Authority
9) Current NACTA’s national coordinator: Mehr Khaliq Dad Lak
10) Senic valley location? Skardu Pakistan
11) Ranking of Pakistan on Global Competitiveness Index, 2019? 110 out of 141
12) Right now private investment represents only ____ of GDP of Pakistan: 10pc
INTERNATIONAL
1) International Anti-Corruption Day: 9 December
2) According to “World Inequality Report 2021”, the world’s least unequal place is ____ and the
world’s most unequal region is ___: Western Europe and Middle East respectively.
3) Current Pfizer Chief Scientific Officer: Mikhael Dolsten
4) Incumbent UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights: Nada Al-Nashif
5) Founder of Missionaries of Charity that was established in 1950: Mother Teresa
6) Capital city of Haiti: Port Prince
7) Which country recently suspended talks with US on purchase of F-35 planes, drones worth
$23bn: UAE
16TH DECEMBER 2021
NATIONAL
1) Incumbent Interior Minister of Pakistan: Sheikh Rashid
2) SUPARCO stands for: Pakistan Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (Est: 1961)
3) Current Energy Minister of Pakistan: Hammad Azhar
4) APS attack: 16 Dec, 2014
5) Incumbent Federal Minister for Communication and Postal Services: Muraad Saeed
6) Sukkhur to Multan Motorway: M5
7) Pakistan has decided to open a campus of Allama Iqbal Open University in which country? Kabul,
Afghanistan
8) Which country recently finalized a Rs11.2 billion package to improve education sector in
Afghanistan? Pakistan
9) Current Special Assistant to Prime Minister on National Health Services, Regulations and
Coordination: Dr. Faisal Sultan
10) How many children die before their fifth birthday from mal-nutrition in Pakistan? 177.000
11) Who is current Inspector General of Police, Balochistan, Pakistan? Muhammad Tahir Rai
INTERNATIONAL
1) Which “US Secretary of State” used the term of “Basket Case” for infant state of Bangladesh in
1972? Henry Kissinger
2) Which country is deciding to create a special envoy to combat Islamophobia? USA
3) US House of Representatives have how many Muslim members currently? 3
4) Illhan Umer, a Muslim US Representative was born in which country? Somalia
5) This year Bangladesh celebrated its___ anniversary: 50th
6) Sheikh Mujeeb u Rahman proposed his famous six points in which year? 1966
7) Al-Khansaa and TTP Sunnat-i-Khola are two online magazines. Do you know which organization
launched these two? Al-Qaeeda
8) Russia annexed Crimea in which year? 2014
9) On 15th December, _____conducted a “High-Energy Laser Weapon System Demonstration” on a
static surface target in the Gulf of Aden: USS Portland (United States transport dock)
10) Name the first two Saudi female drivers who are going to compete in “Dakar Rally” next month:
Mashael Al- Obaidan and Dania Akeel
11) In which year “Saudi Arabia Peace Deal” was proposed to normalize relations between Saudi
Arabia and Israel? 2002
12) Parker Solar Probe? It is a NASA’s first mission to touch “the Sun” (According to NASA’s report it
has officially touched the surface of Sun on 15 Dec, 2021)
13) Name the footballer of Argentina who resigned recently because of heart problems? Sergio
Aguero
17TH DECEMBER 2021
NATIONAL
1) Current Amir of “Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan”: Noor Wali Mehsud
2) Who is founder of “Lashkar-e-Taiba” in Pakistan: Hafiz Saeed
3) “Project Manager” of 2008 Mumbai Attack 2008: Sajid Mir
4) Which country’s report recently acknowledged Pakistan’s efforts to counter terrorism? USA
5) Name the person who spoke about anti-PM rant during a “Bol News Programme” recently:
Wajihuddin
6) Gwader protesters ended their 31 days long protest on 16th December as an agreement has been
signed between “Maulana Hidayatur Rehman (leader of Gwader ko Haq do) and : CM of
Balochistan Mir Abdul Qudoos
7) How many points are there in agreement made with the Gwadar Protesters? 11
8) Incumbent Advisor to Prime Minister on CPEC: Khalid Mansoor
9) The percentage of women of 20-24 years in Balochistan who got married before their 18th
birthday: 21pc
10) Which international organization on 16th December supported current Pakistani govt’s nutrition
project? WFP
11) According to the Labour Force survey 2018-2019 (LFS), Pakistan's average wage is: Rs 21, 326
12) Recently Lahore High Court ordered the imposition of fine for traffic violation, especially the
violation of one-ways, of the amount? Rs2,000
13) Which domestic airport has been recently declared as international airport by PM Imran Khan?
Skardu
14) Ranking of Pakistan on “World Press Freedom Index 2021”: 145th out of 180 countries
INTERNATIONAL
1) Total number of journalists killed across the globe this year? 46
2) World’s most deadliest region for journalists according to studies conducted by Reporters San
Frontiers (RSF): South Asia
3) “Super Typhoon Rai” storm hit which country recently? Philippine
4) Current chairman of Cricket South Africa (CSA): Lawson Naidoo
5) El-Nino and La Nino are weather patterns. Do you know in which ocean these two occur? Pacific
Ocean
6) El-Nino occur in ____ while La Nino occur in ___: Winter and Summer respectively
18TH DECEMBER 2021
NATIONAL
1) (A) Sacked Employees (Reinstatement) Ordinance Act was passed in which year and name the (B)
then government: 2010, PPP
2) (C) Incumbent Federal Minister for Economic Affairs: Omar Ayub Khan
3) On 17th December, the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) Okayed “Rs106bn” food subsidy
for which three essential food items? Flour, Pulses and Cocking Oil
4) 17th Extraordinary Session of the Organization of Islamic Corporation (OIC) begins from 18th
December. Do you know the name of the country in which it is going to take place? Pakistan
5) FIA was established on? January 13, 1975 (Director General, Sanaullah Abbasi)
6) Current United Kingdom’s Ambassador in Pakistan: Christian Turner
7) Incumbent Sindh Inspector General of Police: Mushtaq Ahmad Mahar
8) Eight-member “Council of Common Interest” is chaired by? Prime Minister
9) What you know about Council of Common Interest (CCI) and National Economic Council (NEC):
These are two powerful institutions that were created in the Constitution of 1973 to regulate
the Federation.
INTERNATIONAL
1) In which year Untied States withdrew from the Nuclear Agreement known as the “Joint
Comprehensive Plan of Action or JCPOA”: 2018
2) British Prime Minister Boris Johnsen’s party name: Conservative Party
3) Current NATO Secretary General: Jens Stoltenberg
4) Which country on 17th December published a draft security demands that NATO deny
membership to Ukraine and other former Soviet countries and roll back the alliance’s military
deployment in Central and Eastern Europe? Russia
5) Gavle Yule goat, a statute made up of wooden and straw, is erected every year before Christmas
in which country? Sweden
6) Which country is going to establish Afghanistan War Commission? USA
7) On 17th December, the United Nation General Assembly (UNGA) approved which Pakistani-
sponsored resolution? Resolution of supporting the right to self-determination to all, including
Kashmiris.
8) Under the “World Food Programme” how many children in Afghanistan are at risk of
malnutrition? 3.2 million
9) US Special Envoy to Afghanistan: Thomas West
19TH DECEMBER 2021
NATIONAL
1) Current World Bank’s Country Director for Pakistan: Najy Benhassine
2) Which international organization, recently, approved $195 million to improve electricity
distribution in Pakistan? World Bank
3) Current Chief Justice of Pakistan: Gulzar Ahmad
4) ISPR stands for: Inter-Services Public Relations
5) Current Minister for Religious Affairs: Dr Noorul Haq Qadri
6) Current Minister for Human Rights: Dr Shireen Mazari
7) Current Pakistani Hindu Council Chairman: Ramesh Kumar Vankwani
INTERNATIONAL
1) What you know about Nord Stream 2? It is a gas pipeline to allow Germany to effectively
double the amount of gas it imports from Russia
2) Current Russian Foreign Minister: Sergey Lavrov
3) Current Irish Prime Minister: Michel Martin
4) Current Mayor of London: Sadiq Khan
5) Afghanistan Minister for Refugees: Khalil Haqani
6) Barcelona is a city of: Spain
7) Frozen assets of Afghanistan are nearly ____ by USA: $9.5 billion
8) Largest city of West Bank: Hebron
9) International Migrant Day: 18 December
10) Surigao city is located in: Philippine
11) Rafael Nadal belongs to which country: Spain
12) Abu Hamid al-Ghazali died in: 1111 (He was a prominent Muslim scholar of 11th century)
13) Author of book “The Naked Public Square”: Richard J. Neuhaus
14) Under Such a Sheltering Sky (Short Novel) written by: Sarmila Bose
20TH DECEMBER 2021
NATIONAL
1) Recently, which international organization set up a “Humanization Trust Fund and Food Security
Programme” for dealing with the rapidly aggressive crisis in Afghanistan: OIC
2) Recently, who was appointed as “Special Envoy of OIC Secretary General” on Afghanistan? Tariq
Ali Bakheet
3) Incumbent chief of “JAMAAT-I-ISLAMI”: Siraj Ul Haq
Urdu Tanqeed Par Aik Nazar (Criticism) written by: Kaleemuddin Ahmad
4) Current chief of the Naval Staff: Admiral Mohammed Amjad Khan
5) The bilateral naval exercise “THAMAR AL TAY-YIB 2021 (TAT-21)” held in North Arabian Sea,
recently. Do you know the name of both countries? Pakistan and Oman
6) PCGA stands for: Pakistan Cotton Ginner Association
7) A bale of cotton in Pakistan weighs about: 170kg
8) Pakistan’s cotton output stood at in 2021: 7.27 million bales
9) Current Pakistan’s ambassador to USA: Asad Majeed Khan
10) Under which article, Supreme Court reinstated sacked government employees who had lost their
jobs in the light of another decision made by SC in August? Article 184 (3)
INTERNATIONAL
1) “El Pais” newspaper belongs to which country? Spain
2) Strongest typhoon to hit the Philippines this year? Typhoon Rai
3) Incumbent prime minister of Malaysia: Ismail Sabri Yakoob
4) Current military chief of Sudan who led a coup on Oct, 25? General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan
5) Capital city of Sudan: Khartoum
6) Golden Temple situated in: Amritsar
7) Which country recently decided to close schools of Rohingya refugees? Bangladesh
8) CNN stands for: Cable News Network (Current Chairman: Jeff Zucker)
9) Current OIC Secretory General: Hissein Brahim Taha
10) Current Foreign minister of Taliban: Amir Khan Muttaqi
11) Current UN Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator:
Martin Griffiths
21TH DECEMBER 2021
NATIONAL
1) Incumbent chief justice of Islamabad High Court (IHC): Athar Minallah
2) According to latest data of “State Bank of Pakistan (SBP), current account deficit hit ____ in first
five months (July- November) of the current fiscal year: $7billion
3) PFUJ stands for: Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists
4) Current chief Election Commissioner of Pakistan: Sikandar Sultan Raja
5) NLC stands for: National Logistic Cell
6) Provincial minister for agriculture in Balochistan: Mir Asadullah
7) Which bank recently approved $252 million loan for KP dam (Mohmand Dam) and anti-Covid
vaccine support in Pakistan? IDB
8) Current chairman of Council of Common Interest? Dr. Qibla Ayaz
INTERNATIONAL
1) In which year British handed Hong Kong over to China? 1997
2) Which alliance has won the Hong Kong legislative elections held recently? Democratic Alliance
for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB)
3) Capital city of Germany? Berlin
4) Chile’s youngest-ever president-elect: Gabriel Boris
5) Current Turkmenistan Foreign Minister: Meredoc Rashid
6) Which bank will manage the “Humanitarian Trust Fund and Food Security Programme”
established by OIC for Afghanistan, recently? Islamic Development Bank (IDB)
7) Incumbent President of Islamic Development Bank (IDB): Dr Muhammad Suleiman Al-Jasser
8) World’s second largest gas field: Galkynysh (Found in Turkmenistan)
9) Length of pipeline in TAPI (Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India) Gas pipeline project:
1,800- Kilometer (This Pipeline will start from Turkmenistan and end in Fazilka City, India)
10) Incumbent president of Turkmenistan? Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow
11) Current Iranian Foreign Minister: Hossein Amir Abdollahian
12) UNIGME stands for: United Nation Inter-agency Group for Children Mortality Estimation
13) GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) was succeeded by: World Trade Organization
(WTO)
22ND DECEMBER 2021
NATIONAL
1) Incumbent Railway Minister in Pakistan: Azam Khan Swati
2) Pakistan, recently, launched a freight train to boost its trade with which countries? Turkey and
Iran
3) Who is Adviser to Prime Minister on Commerce these days? Abdul Razak Dawood
4) On 21 December, Pakistan tested, successfully, which missile? Enhanced version of Babur Cruise
Missile (1B)….It could have a range of 700-800km
5) Who introduced bone-marrow transplant in Pakistan in 1996? Dr. Shamsi (Died on 21 Dec, 2021)
6) Leader of opposition in Sindh Assembly? Haleem Adil Sheikh
7) Short stories “ Subh Kab ho gii” and “Dhai rupey ka qarza” were written by? Sobho Gianchandani
8) Turkish ambassador to Pakistan: Mustafa Yurdakul
9) Current chief Justice of AJK High Court: Raja Saeed Akram
10) Current Chairman of Board of Investment (BOI) under China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC):
Muhammad Azfar Ahsan
11) Current Chief of the Naval Staff: Admiral Mohammad Amjad Khan Niazi
12) Recently, while working in which area of Pakistan, a joint team of Italian and Pakistani
archaeologists announced that they have found a 2,300 years old Buddhist Temple: Swat
13) To deal for Afghanistan crisis Pakistan proposed a ____ point framework for OIC: 6
INTERNATIONAL
1) Incumbent president of Ukraine: Volodymyr Zelensky
2) Who is current vice President of UAE? Sheikh Mohammad bin Rashid Al-Maktoum
3) Who has been, recently, elected as new mayor of Germany: Franziska Giffey
4) Roman Catholic Church’s World Day of Peace is celebrated on? January 1
5) On 21 December, aid flights into Houthi-held Yemen capital has been halted by: Saudi-held
strikes
6) Iranian General Qassem Soleimani was assassinated in: January 2020
7) “NBC News” belongs to which country? USA
8) Which country, recently, admitted its role in the American Air Strike for killing Iranian General
Qassem Soleimani? Israel
9) Selangor is a wealthiest and densely populated state of which country? Malaysia
10) Capital city of Yemen: Sanaa
23RD DECEMBER 2021
NATIONAL
1) Parliament of Pakistan is known as: Majlis-e-Shoora
2) “Torkhum border” is between which two countries? Pakistan and Afghanistan
3) Current KP Chief Minister: Mehmood Khan
4) Length of Pak- Afghan border: 2600km (Afghan Taliban stopped Pakistan army to fence there
yesterday)
5) Recently, Executive Committee of National Economic Council (ECNEC) approved four
development projects including construction of M-6 Motorway. M-6 will connect Hyderabad
with: Sukkur
6) PIMS stands for: Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences
7) Incumbent leader of “Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM)”: Manzoor Ahmad Pashteen
8) Current Position of Pakistan on Global Gander Gap Report: 153rd out of 156 countries
9) Director of Asian Development Bank (ADB) for Pakistan: Yong Ye
10) Current minister of Economic Affairs: Omar Ayub
11) Current Federal minister for Water Resources: Monis Elahi
12) Current federal minister for Science and Technology: Shibli Fraz
INTERNATIONAL
1) Who is president of United Nation General Assembly: Abdullah Shahid (From Maldives)
2) SANA is news agency of: Syria
3) Which organ of United Nations, recently, adopted a US resolution to facilitate Afghan Aid? UNSC
4) Rogue planets: These are planets that do not orbit around any star.
5) ICAO stands for: International Civil Aviation Organization
6) According to latest report of US department, Islamic- State Khorasan operates in which areas?
Pakistan Afghanistan and Central Asia
7) Do you know Khurram parvez : He is a Kashmiri activist and he is in Indian detention these days
and asked by UN to release.
8) Author of book “Selective Memory”: Shobha De
24TH DECEMBER 2021
NATIONAL
1) Incumbent Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives: Asad Umer
2) Why are political parties of Sindh protesting against Sindh Local Government (Amendment) Bill,
2021? Because under this bill the control of hospitals, schools and some other departments as
well as some of the government functions have been transferred from local bodies to the
provincial government.
3) Current Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Political Communication: Shahbaz Gill
4) Why are teachers of Islamabad protesting these days? Because the government has placed
Islamabad's educational institutions under local government.
5) Current Chief Election Commissioner of Azad Jammu and Kashmir: Justice Abdul Rashid Sulehria
6) According to US State Department Report, Islamic States- Khorasan (IS-K) is composed of how
many groups? 3 (Tehreek-i-Talibaan Pakistan, Afghan Taliban and Islamic Movement of
Uzbekistan)
7) What percent of Pakistani labor force is associated with Agriculture directly or indirectly? 45%
8) Incumbent Federal minister for Food and Nutrition: Syed Fakhar Imam
9) Punjab Minister for Agriculture: Syed Hussain Jahanian Gardezi
INTERNATIONAL
1) AstraZeneca is a ___ pharmaceutical giant: British
2) Ramallah is a ____ city: Palestinian
3) Current Pakistan’s US ambassador: Asad Majeed Khan
4) US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, sent whom to attend the OIC extraordinary session on
Afghanistan, held recently: Thomas West
5) Tiananmen Square is located in: Beijing, China
6) United Nation Security Council Resolution 2615 is about: Flow of money in Afghanistan for
humanitarian crisis
25TH DECEMBER 2021
NATIONAL
1) Pakistani nation is celebrating _________________ anniversary of Quaid-e-Azam on 25th
December: 145th (Born on 25 Dec. 1876)
2) Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) was established on: 23 March 1956
3) The legendary Pakistani artist "Moth Akhtar" was died in: 2011
4) Recently, Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Gulzar Ahmed again proposed the name of Lahore High
Court (LHC) Justice______________________________ for his/her appointment as a judge
of the
Supreme Court (SC): Ayesha Malik
5) Current Advisor to Prime Minister on Parliamentary Affairs: Dr. BabarAwan
6) Which government, recently, launched a multi-million project for restoration of 10 ancient
sites including eight revered by Buddhists? Punjab
7) Current president of "Balochistan National Party Mengal (BNP-M)"? Sardar Akhtar
Mengal
8) Current Australian High Commissioner to Pakistan: DE Geoffrey
9) Which party emerged as the big winner in the IMP polls held recently? JUI-F
10) Last year, Pakistan's software exports stood at: $2 billion (India's were $148 billion)
11) CII stands for: Council of Common Interest (Council of Common interests was formed under
1973 Constitution of Pakistan)
INTERNATIONAL
1) Current Defence Minister of Afghanistan: Mullah Yagoob
2) Mahatma Gandhi was assassinate in: 1948
3) Recently, Saudi Arabia dispatched three visas to which country's diplomates for OIC
posts: Iran
4) Who wrote essay "Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question": Thomas Carlyle
5) Which country's President recently said "My Faith in Islam Stops Me from Raising Bank
Interest Rates"? Turkey's Olji
6) Current Iranian Foreign Minister: Hossein Amir-Abdollahian
7) South Korean first woman President: Park Geun-hye (Elected in 2013)
8) Current President of South Korea: Moon Hae-in
9) Name the ex-president of South Korea who recently received pardon as he/she was in jail
due to corruption charges: Park Geun-hye
10) Which country launched World's first "Dual-mode vehicle" on 24 December. 2021: Japan
11) TASS is state news agency of: Russia
12) Which country's president recently said "Insulting Holy Prophet (PBUH) is not Freedom of
Expression"? Russian President Vladimir Putin
INTERNATIONAL
1) Capital city of Sudan: Khartoum
2) Golden Temple situated in: Amritsar
3) Environmentalist Dr. Anil Prakash Joshi recently has been awarded with which award for Social
Justice 2021: Mother Theresa Memorial Award
4) Which of the following Bollywood Actress has recently released his first book “Bachelors Dad”?
Tussar Kapoor
5) India has become the third top country to host unicorns instead of which these countries: UK
6) Surigao city is located in: Philippine
7) Rafael Nadal belongs to which country: Spain
27TH DECEMBER 2021
NATIONAL
1) Current Pakistani Interior Minister: Sheikh Rashid
2) Incumbent Director General of FIA: Dr. Sanaullah Abbasi
3) 27th December is death anniversary of which famous Pakistani politician: Mohtarma Benazir
Bhutto
4) Prime Minister’s Special Assistant and Chairman of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor Authority:
Khalid Mansoor
5) Grand Democratic Alliance was established on? 23 October, 2017
6) Author of book “Matni tanqeed in Urdu: Fun or Rivayat”: Dr. Khaliq Anjum
7) Urdu Poetry “Adab-e-Hayat” was written by: Muhammad Hussain Azad
8) The shortage and higher price of which fertilizer may affect the wheat crop in Sindh Province:
Urea
9) Current Special Assistant to Prime minister on Climate Change: Malik Amin Aslam
10) Which international organization had agreed to provide 250m euros for clean initiative by PM
Imran Khan? European Union
11) Which Urdu Humorous Poet died on 26 December, 2021? Sarfraz Shahid
INTERNATIONAL
1) Pakistan launched ITI freight train recently. ITI stands for: Islamabad- Tehran –Istanbul
2) Russia annexed Crimean Peninsula in which year: 2014
3) Lufthansa Airline belongs to: Germany
4) Delta Airline belongs to: United States
5) JetBlue Airline is an: American Airline
6) RTBF news Agency belongs to which country? Belgium
7) Name the anti-apartheid leader of South Africa who died on Dec. 26? Archbishop Desmond Tutu
28TH DECEMBER 2021
NATIONAL
1) National Security Committee (NSC) on 27th Dec approved first ever National Security Policy.
2) On 27th December, 2021, PPP marked ___ anniversary of Mohatarma Benzir Bhutto: 14th
3) Gari Khoda Bakhsh is _____ away from Larkana: 22km
4) Current Information Secretary of PML-N: Maryam Aurangzaib
5) PTMA stands for: Pakistan Textile Mills Association
6) Current Energy Minister: Hammad Azhar
7) Incumbent Administrator of Karachi Municipal Corporation (KMC): Murtaza Wahab
8) Current Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs: Ali Muhammad Khan
9) Why PTI government, recently, passed Local Government Ordinance 2021? To place educational
institutions in Islamabad under the control of Mayor instead of education ministry.
10) Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO), the national space
agency, was established in: 1961
11) The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids is ______ non-profit membership organization: American
(Pakistan is also member there)
12) Recently, which country launched a space program to monitor all the projects of the Planning
Division? Pakistan
13) Rico Diq is a __ and __ mining project: Copper and Gold
14) The Daily Star is newspaper of: Balochistan, Pakistan
15) Who has been elected as new chairman of Asia News Network (ANN), recently: Mahfuz Anam
INTERNATIONAL
1) Who wrote book “Price of the Modi Years”:Aakar Patel
2) Mother Teresa founded the “Missionaries of Charity” in: 1950 (She was a Roman Catholic nun
and died in 1997)
3) The Sun is a ____ tabloid newspaper: British
4) Name the IS-linked man accused of plotting a suicide attack in the Saudi Arabia in 2014. :
Muhammad al-Saddam (And Saudi Arabia executed him on 27th Dec, 2021)
5) Capital city of Myanmar: Naypyitaw
6) Aung San Suu Kyi, a Burmese politician, got nobble peace prize in: 1991
7) Japan’s only public broadcaster: NHK
8) Capital city of Somalia: Moga Dishu
9) Current president of Somalia who recently suspended country’s PM, Mohamed Hussein Roble:
Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed
10) Sri Lanka has decided to shut its foreign missions in three countries as dollar crisis worsens. Name
the three countries: Germany, Nigeria and Cyprus
29TH DECEMBER 2021
NATIONAL
1) Current Deputy Chairman of Senate: Mirza Muhammad Afridi
2) Kidney Hill Park is located in: Karachi
3) MQM-P leader: Khawaja Izhar ul hasan
4) Current Minister of Education and Professional Training: Shafqat Mahmood
5) Current National Assembly Deputy Speaker: Qasim Suri
6) Pakistan’s first ever National Security Policy (NSP) will cover the period of: 2022-2026
7) Current Parliamentary Secretary for law and Justice: Barrister Maleeka Ali Bukhari
8) Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Health: Dr. Faisal Sultan
9) Leader of Baluchistan Chapter of PTI: Sardar Yar Mohammad Rind
10) IWMB stands for: Islamabad Wildlife Management Board
11) Author of book, “The Sole Spokesman: Jinnah, the Muslim League”: Dr. Ayesha Jalal
12) Current National Security Advisor: Dr. Moeed Yusuf
13) Due to electricity theft annual loss to railways in Pakistan: Rs. 2-billion
14) Editor in-Chief of Jhang Group: Mir Shakeel ur Rahman
15) FATA merged in KPK in: May 2018
16) ECNEC stands for: Executive Committee of National Economic Council
17) FFBL stands for: Fauji Fertilizer Bin Qasim Limited
INTERNATIONAL
1) Author of books “On Human Nature” and “The Ants”: Edward O. Wilson (Died on 27 Dec)
2) “Pul-e-Charkhi Prison” is in: Afghanistan (As well its largest park)
3) The nicknames of Edward O. Wilson: "The New Darwin", "Darwin's natural heir" or "The Darwin
of the 21st century"
4) Desmond Tutu, who died recently, got noble peace prize in which year: 1984
5) 40th president of USA: Ronald Regen
6) Worldwide ,Urea Price per bag: Rs11, 000 (In Pakistan Rs1, 800)
7) Bangladesh’s export has reached to: $40billion (Pakistan’s $25 billion)
8) The Sierra Nevada is a mountain range in : Western United States
9) Capital city of Germany: Berlin
10) Memorial is Russia's: Oldest and most prominent human rights organization (Closed recently)
30TH DECEMBER 2021
NATIONAL
1) Samadhi Shrine is located in: Teri Village, KPK (Saint: Paramhans Ji Maharaaj)
2) Current Interior Minister of Pakistan: Sheikh Rashid
3) Incumbent KP Chief Minister: Mahmood Khan
4) Current PML-N Parliamentary leader: Khawaja Asif
5) Current leader of Majlis Wahdat-i-Mulimeen: Syed Ali Hussain Naqvi
6) In which year Pakistan was placed in grey list of FATF: 2018
7) Current Director of FIA: Waqar Chauhan
8) Current Secretory of National Health Services (NHS): Aamir Ashraf
9) Current Punjab Health Minister: Dr. Yasmin Rashid
10) SHO stands for: Station House Officer
11) Current Minister of Religious Affairs: Pir Noorul Haq Qadri
12) The temple of Bhong is located in: Rahim Yar Khan
13) ETPB stands for: Evacuee Trust Property Board
14) ETPB established Pakistan Sikh Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee in which year: 1999
15) President and CEO of HBL: Muhammad Aurangzeb
16) Chairman of NADRA: Tariq Malik
17) ECP was established in: 1956
18) Importance of State Bank Amendment Bill 2021: Enhancement of Autonomy of SBP
INTERNATIONAL
1) Nelson Mandela got Noble Peace Prize in: 1993
2) Name the white PM who released Mandela from Captivity: De klerk
3) Name the Island where Nelson Mandela spent 27 years in prison: Robben Island
4) “Take the money and Run” film was directed by: Woody Allen
5) Stand News belongs to which country: Hong Kong
6) After cannabis, ____ is the second most popular drug in the western and Central Europe: Cocain
7) Recently, USA appointed two envoys for Afghan Women. Name that envoys: Rina Amiri and
Stephenie Foster
8) Current Palestinian President: Mahmud Abbas
9) Current Israeli defence minster: Benny Ganz (Met with Palestinian President on 29 Dec)
10) Aceh is an___ province: Indonesian
11) Carlos Sainz belongs to which country? Spain
31ST DECEMBER 2021
NATIONAL
1) Petrol demand hit record ________________________ in FY2021: 8.35m tonnes (Highest-ever)
2) Present Pakistan is facing a gas supply gap of: 1, 300mmfcd
3) According to WHO, there were __________________________ suicides in 2019 in Pakistan: 19,331
4) Current Director General of Karachi Development Authority: Asif Ali Memnon
5) Which provincial cabinet, recently, modifies rules for recruitment of police officers? Sindh
6) Article 175-A of constitution of 1973 deals with: The procedure of appointment of
judges to the Superior Courts
7) Article 209 of constitution of 1973 suggests: Ways to remove Superior Judges
8) 7th Population and Housing Census of Pakistan will held in: 2022
9) Which clause of Local Government Ordinance-2021 place schools of Islamabad under Mayor? Clause
166
10) Founder and Current CEO of Akhuwat Islamic Microfinance (AIM): Dr. Amjad agih
INTERNATIONAL
1) According to research conducted by International Press Institute (IPI) _________________________
journalists were killed in the year of 2021: 45
2) "Death Watch" is annual report/list of: International Press Institute (I P1)
3) "Separation of East Pakistan -the Untold Story" is documentary of: „laved Jabbar
4) In which year Tehran Successfully put its first military satellite in space: April 2020
1STJANUARY 2022
2ND JANUARY 2022
NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL
1) TUTU the archbishop was awarded noble peace prize last week.
2) President of South Africa is Cyril Ramaphosa. Widow of nelson Mandela is Graca
Machel.
3) Former FIA chief Bashir Memon is facing investigation.
4) Pakistan and India exchange the list of prisoners twice a year according to bilateral
councilor access agreement signed in May 1 2008. According to it, Pakistan has 600
Indian prisoners whereas India has 355 prisoners.
5) Rawalpindi contonboard is going to shutdown 454 schools operating on private lands.
6) Pakistan mercantile exchange managing director is Ejaz Ali shah.
7) France is going to ban plastics and EU is going to label nuclear gas energy as green.
8) Palestine authority president is Mehmood Abbas
3RD JANUARY 2022
4TH JANUARY 2022
NATIONAL
1) Which Pakistani cricketer is going to retire from international Cricket? Muhammad
Hafeez
2) In which year Pakistan began fencing its 2, 600-kilometer-long porous border with
Afghanistan: 2017
3) JI-Karachi Chief: Hafiz Naeem ur-Rehman
4) King of Kings Church inaugurated in Pakistan on: 3 Jan, 2022
5) Incumbent Sindh labour Minister: Saeed Ghani
6) ETPB stands for: Evacuee Trust Property Board
7) CPNE stands for: Council of Pakistan Newspaper Edition
8) The apex body of journalists in Pakistan: Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists
9) SKMT stands for: Shaukat Khanam Memorial Trust
10) Special Assistant to PM on Youth Affairs: Usman Dar
11) According to latest news, area under cotton cultivation in Punjab dropped by___ in 2021:
7pc
12) Toba Achakzai and Qila Sufaid are town in: Baochistan
13) According to National Survey of Pakistan, 2018, _________ of our children are
underweight and ___ are stunted: 40pc, over half respectively
14) “Mahngai March” in Pakistan going to start from: 23 March, 2022
15) Government is going to impose tax of ____ on solar energy equipment: 17pc
16) Current Punjab Irrigation minister: Mohsin Laghari
INTERNATIONAL
1) Rajiv Ghanadi in India took power as PM in: 1984
2) Canary Islands belong to: Spain
3) South Korea Capital: Seoul
4) “Sulli Deals” is an: App (Used in India to Harass Indian Muslim Women)
5) Current Iranian President: Ebrahim Raisi
6) Name the Iraq’s commander who died along with Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani
in a US raid on 2020: Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis
7) Founder of Sikhism: Baba Guru Nanak
8) NDS stands for: National Directorate of Security
INTERNATIONAL
1) Webb is newly launched space telescope of: NASA
2) UN High Commissioner for Refugees: Filippo Grandi
3) GitHub is _____ based coding platform: San Francisco
4) Ukraine International Airlines flight that was shot down on January 8, 2020 killing 176
people: PS752
5) Maya Bay is located in: Thailand
6) When UN was born in 1945, it had only ____ members: 73
7) Kashmiris celebrated Jan 5 as: Day of Self-Determination
INTERNATIONAL
1) Pakistan order Twenty-Five J-10C fighter jets from China.
2) Current GCC Secretary General is Dr. Nayef Falah M. AlHajraf.
3) Current Prime Minister to Japan is Fumio Kishida.
4) According to French government 91 percent of French population over-18s is vaccinated.
5) C-NEWS is a French news TV channel.
6) Kazakhstan got independence from Soviet Union in 1991.
7TH JANUARY 2022
NATIONAL
1-Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa is going to retire this November.
2-Azad Jammu and Kashmir prime minister is Sardar Abdul Qayum Niazi.
3-Public Accounts Committee chairman is Rana Tanvir Ahmad.
4-Justice Ayesha A Malik has been nominated for the promotion as a justice of Supreme Court.
5-Adviser to Prime minister on parliamentary affairs is Dr Baber Awan.
6-Special assistant to Prime Miniter on health is Dr Faisal Sultan.
7-Khojak pass at Chaman highway connects Afghanistan to Pakistan.
8-Special assistant to Prime Minister on poverty alleviation and social safety is Dr Sania Nishter.
9-Prime Minister’s advisor on interior and accountability is Shahzad Akbar.
INTERNATIONAL
1-ICAO International civil aviation organization.
2-President UN general assembly is Abdulla Shahid.
3-Kazakhstan’s president is Kassym-Jomart Tokayev.
4-Dubai port giant DP port is going to build an inland port in Azad Jammu and Kashmir.
5-The most populous state of India is Uttar Pradesh.
6-North Korea has successfully tested two hypersonic missiles this year.
INTERNATIONAL
1-Poite a first black to win best actor Oscar award died at 94.
2-Incumbent president of Khazakistan is Kassym-Jomart Tokayev.
3-Taiban issued ban on posters of women.
INTERNATIONAL
1) Iran shares 900 km border with Afghanistan.
2) Who is the current Foreign Minister of Afghanistan? Amir Khan Mutaqqi
3) Who is the current President of Nigeria? Muhammadu Buhari
INTERNATIONAL
1) Current US Secretary of State: Antony Blinkon
2) Cox Bazar is a city of: Bangladesh
3) Age of Nelson Mendela when he died: 95
4) Nelson Mendala was selected as first president of democratic South Africa in: May 1994
(Held role until June 1999)
5) Haaretz is newspaper of: Israel
6) Whitley Bay is a seaside town on the north east coast of: England
7) Almaty is a city of: Kazakhstan
8) Capital city of Nigeria: Abuja
9) Current president of Sri Lanka: Gotabaya Rajapaksa
10) Incumbent Chinese foreign minister: Wang Yi
11) Recently Sri Lanka asked which country to restructure repayment of debt: China
INTERNATIONAL
1-Beijing was going to host winter Olympics this year, but due to covid 19, it might delay it.
2- European parliament president Sassoli died at the age of 65.
3-Capital of Azerbaijan is Baku, and its currency is Manat.
4- Headquarter of world bank is in Washington Dc.
5- IMF stands for International monetary fund and its headquarter is in Washington Dc.
INTERNATIONAL
1-Head quarter of NATO is in Brussels Belgium.
2-Capital of Russia is Moscow.
3-North Korea’s president is Kim Jong-un
4-North Korea’s capital is Pyongyang
INTERNATIONAL
1-Moscow offered to play a constructive role between India and Pakistan.
2-G77 is a coalition of 134 developing countries.
3-Azerbaijan president is llham Aliyev.
4-Ukraine’s capital is Kiyv.
5-UN secretary general is Antonio Guterres.
16TH JANUARY 2022
17TH JANUARY 2022
NATIONAL
1) According to a recent report, currently 9, 191 Pakistanis are languishing in prisons of 73
countries (Highest number in Saudi Arabia followed by UAE).
2) According to 2019 data from “Nutrition International’s Food Fortification Programme”,
up to 41.7pc women of Reproductive age in Pakistan are anaemic, 18.2pc Iron-deficient,
27. 3pc deficient in Vit A and 79. 9pc in Vit D.
3) Since taking power, PM Imran Khan had taken eight visits of Saudi Arabia, three visits
each of China and UAE and two visits each of Malaysia, Qatar and US and Switzerland.
4) Till now PM Imran Khan remained out of country for how many days due to visits: 47
Days
5) Recently, Pakistan Navy Ship (PNS) Alamgir visited ____ to deploy a free medical
Camp: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
6) Incumbent Chief of Naval Staff: Admiral Mohammad Amjad Khan Niazi
7) Current Special Assistant to PM on Capital Development Authority (CDA) affairs.: Ali
Nawaz
8) How many Pakistanis die each year due to Tuberculosis? 44, 000
9) Incumbent Balochistan Governor: Syed Zahoor Ahmed Agha
10) Pakistan stands at which position on the list of TB high-burden nations: 5th
11) Current Interior minister: Sheikh Rashid
12) Current federal tax ombudsman: Mr. Mushtaq Ahmad Sukhera
13) SEPA stands for: Sindh Environmental Protection Agency
14) Sukkhur-Hyderabad Motorway length: 306-km
15) Current President of Awami National Party: Asfandyar Wali Khan
16) On Dubai International Expo-2020 _____ signed memorandum of understanding with 44
foreign investment companies: KP government
INTERNATIONAL
1) According to UN, World’s the most prosecuted minority? Rohingya
2) 4th Most Populated Country in the worked: Indonesia (Pakistan at 5th)
3) Indonesia is an Archipelago of how many Islands: 17, 508
4) Currently, how many people are on social media? 3.8 billion
5) ___ and ___ are the only countries where Polio is still active: Pakistan and Afghanistan
6) Tek Fog an app created by: BJP IT cell
7) Colleyville is a city in: United States
8) A military power-grab in Myanmar 11 months ago expelled which civilian leader: Aung
San Suu Kyi
9) Tonga is a country of how many islands: 169 (Pacific Ocean)
10) Capital city of Tonga: Nuku’alofa
11) Santa Cruz a city in: California
INTERNATIONAL
1) Istiqlal Mosque located in: Jakarta, Indonesia (The largest mosque in Southeast Asia
and the sixth largest mosque in the world in terms of worshipper capacity)
2) ADNOC oil firm is in which country: UAE
3) Russian- supplied S-400 (Surface to Air missile system) that India is going to deploy on
its border with Pakistan: Triumf
4) India plans to ___ S-400 regiments. Five
5) Cervical Cancer Awareness Month: January
6) “Partygate” Scandal is associated with: Boris Johnson (UK’s PM)
7) WAM is news agency of: UAE
8) Recently, which country of Pacific Ocean observed massive volcanic eruption and
Tsunami? Tonga
9) Name the world’s largest known cut diamond: The Enigma
10) Army Radio belongs to: Israel
11) Recently, __ officials made a rare visit to Israel: Indonesian
12) Supreme Leader od Iran: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
13) One Child Policy of china was proposed by: Deng Xiaoping (In 1980)
14) Winter Storm Izzy is associated with: US
INTERNATIONAL
1) According to International Labor Organization (ILO) ____ Asia-Pacific workers have
lost jobs in Pandemic: 58m
2) Capital city of Peru: Lima
3) Southwest Airline belongs to: America
4) ____ Woman climber started journey K2 base camp on 18 January, 2022: Taiwanese
5) Delta Airline belongs to: America
6) Largest body of human right experts in UN System: Special Procedure Group
7) Youngest EU Parliament Chief: Roberta Metsola (Elected recently)
8) current WHO Head: Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
9) Which Islamic country’s President recently signaled to show leniency in ties with Israel:
Turkey
10) Al-Ekhbariya TV belongs to: Saudi Arabia
11) Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince: Muhammad Bin Salman
12) Abu Dhabi’s Crown Prince: Muhammad Bin Zayed
13) World’s third highest mountain: Kanchenjunga
INTERNATIONAL
1) Russian foreign minister: Sergey Lavroy
2) Taj Lake Palace is located in: India
3) Current Ukrainian President: Volodymyr Zelenskyy
4) Incumbent US Secretary of State: Antony Blinkon
5) Indian PM Indra Ghnadi imposed emergency on: June 25, 1975
6) The latest charges on Aung Suu Kyi are linked to: Renting and buying a helicopter
7) Incumbent US Deputy Secretary of State: Wendy Sharman
8) Current Chief of WHO: Petteri Taalas
9) El Nino hit ___ in 2020: Twice (Normally occur every two or seven years)
10) To discuss crisis in Syria which two country’s Presidents met each other on 19 Jan, 2022:
Russian and Iranian
11) Current Syrian President: Bashar al-Assad
INTERNATIONAL
1) US president and Japanese PM have agreed to pressure China and condemned
North Korea’s spate of missile tests.
2) Finally, US and have Russia promised to ease Ukrainian tensions.
3) First women judge of the Supreme Court: Ayesha Malik
4) According to a national survey, _____ uses 90pc less water and produces at least twice
more than global averages: Netherland
5) Capital city of Ghana: Accra
6) Recently, China condemned ____ Parliament resolution that accused Beijing of carrying
out genocide against its Uyghur Muslim Population: French
7) Hodeida International Airport is an airport in: Yemen
8) Pegasus is a spyware developed by: Israeli company
9) _____ said on 22 Jan that it was re-establishing a physical presence in Afghanistan for
Humanitarian Purposes: The European Union
10) Calcalist: It is an Israeli daily business newspaper
11) These days Iran is in talks with___ to build two new nuclear power units: Russia
12) Group 77 Of UN: It is a coalition of 134 developing countries.
13) Current Japan’s PM: Fumio Kishida
14) What you know about Hydrogen Energy Supply Chain (HESC)? It is a Japanese
Austrian Project intended to produce plentiful and affordable fuel for Japan
INTERNATIONAL
1) Head quarter of NATO is in Brussels Belgium.
2) Capital of Russia is Moscow.
3) North Korea’s president is Kim Jong-un
4) North Korea’s capital is Pyongyang
5) G77 is a coalition of 134 developing countries.
6) Azerbaijan president is llham Aliyev.
7) Ukraine’s capital is Kiyv.
8) UN secretary general is Antonio Guterres.
INTERNATIONAL
1) Soria Moria Hotel is located in: Sweden
2) Foreign minister of Ukraine is Dmytro Kuleba
3) Covid-19 quarantine period has been reduced to: 5 days.
4) Capital city of Sweden: Oslo
5) Capital of Iran is: Tehran
6) Capital of Belgium is: Brussels
7) Current Foreign minister of Taliban: Amir Khan Miqati
8) 130 died in Syria in fight between: IS and Kurdistan
9) Basic purpose of Responsibility to Protect (R2P)? To help protect people from mass
scale humanitarian crisis left in the wake of prolonged conflict. It is a principle of
UNO.
10) Houthi rebels of Yemen are being supported by: Iran
11) ____ Rebels has claimed a drone and missile attack that struck an oil facility and the
airport in the UAE capital, Abu Dhabi: Iran-backed Houthi
INTERNATIONAL
1) NASA has claimed that Tonga eruption was hundreds of times stronger than the US
atomic bomb dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima in August 1945 (Tonga
Volcanic Eruption in last days)
2) On 24 Jan, Yemeni rebels fired missiles at __ and __ as tension soar: UAE and Saudi
Arabia
3) Author of “Politics is for power”: Eitan Hersh
4) On 24 Jan, 2022, which country’s army took over the control of government? Burkina
Faso
5) Current United Nations Secretary General: Antonio Guterres
6) In which country, Taliban met with European Diplomates over the humanitarian crisis in
Afghanistan? Sweden
INTERNATIONAL
1) Which country’s firm is working on developing cameras with facial recognition: Israeli
2) Fox News is a news agency of: USA
3) Blue Diamond Affairs is associated with which two countries: KSA and Thailand
4) Recently, which country’s PM visited KSA to normalize its relations? Thailand
5) Al-Yammah Palace is located in: KSA
6) National day of Australia? 26th January
7) Clipsal is a world famous ____brand of electrical accessories: Australian
8) International customs day: 26 January
9) WCO stands for: World Customs Organization
10) Incumbent Prime minister of Thailand: Prayuth Chan-Chau
11) The Giants Brigades is a: Militia that fights for the Yemeni government. They are
being trained by UAE
12) James Webb Space Telescope (JWST): It has been designed to give the world an
unprecedented glimpse of infant galaxies in the early stages of the universe.
According to recent reports it has arrived at its gravitational parking spot in orbit
around the Sun.
13) Ranking of Pakistan on latest corruption list issued by Transparency International: 140
out of 180
INTERNATIONAL
1) Indian republic day: 26 January
2) Twelfth Play belongs to: Shakespeare
3) Author of book “Shah Abdul Latif of Bhit: His Poetry, Life and times”: H.T. Sorley
4) Oslo is capital city of: Norway
5) Current Norwegian PM: Johan Ghar Store
6) Current European Union Special envoy to Afghanistan: Tomas Niklasson
7) Wall street Journal belongs to: USA
INTERNATIONAL
1) (A) Which country on 27 Jan, 2022, appointed its first woman President? Honduras (B)
(Name: Xiomara Castro)
2) (C) Recently, UN launched a “UN Transitional Engagement Framework (TEF)” in which
country to help people? Afghanistan (It is a plan of 3.6billions)
3) ____ drug watchdog approved first oral Covid treatment: EU (Pill name: Paxlovid)
4) The Yemen’s conflict was emerged in which year: 2014
5) Author of “Pearls of life”: Rene de Obaldia (Died on 27 Jan, 2022)
6) Tower Bridge is located in: London
7) UNAMA stands for: United Nation Assistance Mission in Afghanistan
8) Recently, “Passage Exercise”, a naval exercise, took place between which two countries:
US and Pakistan
INTERNATIONAL
1) Ringelmann Scale is used for: Measuring the apparent density of smoke
2) SANA is news agency of: Syria
3) Marib City in: Yemen
4) UNIDO stands for: United Nations Industrial Development Organization
5) The most trafficked mammal in the world: Scaly Anteater (Endangered Species of
Penguins)
6) Shabwa a city in: Yemen
7) Current French President: Emmanuel Macron
8) Till now, Russia has deployed over ____ troops on Ukraine's Border: 100, 000
9) These days, UN is urging the world to ramp up pressure on _____ Junta to cease violence
against the countries own people and quickly restore civilian rule: Myanmar’s
10) Current UN Human Right Chief: Michelle Bachelet
11) Lunar New Year is a biggest family holiday in ___: China
12) Korean Central News Agency: North Korea
13) Which country recently launched “tactic guided missiles? North Korea (Pyongyang has
conducted six weapons tests in January, including firing hypersonic missiles)
INTERNATIONAL
1) IFPRI stands for: International Food Policy Research Institute
2) The Agri-food system contributes about ____ of the world’s total anthropogenic GHG
emissions. A third
3) Which country’s president recently sacked the head of the state statistics agency after
record inflation? Turkey
4) Which country is going to set aside about “3 trillion Indian rupees” on food and fertilizer
subsidies in its budget next week for 2022-2023? India
5) Current Polish PM: Mateusz Morawiecki
6) Incumbent PM of New Zealand: Jacinda Ardern
7) Al Jazeera is news channel of: Qatar
8) Museumplein square is located in: Amsterdam
9) Ghwayran prison is located in: Syria
10) Giants Bridges: UAE’s trained fighters to compete with Houthis-rebels
11) In which year the East India Company introduced the system of postal hubs in Bombay:
1688
INTERNATIONAL
1) Recently, UN Chief appreciated which two countries for their generosity in hosting
millions of Afghans: Pakistan and Iran
2) Current President of Israel: Isaac Herzog (on 30 Jan, 2022 he was on first official visit
to UAE)
3) Incumbent Afghanistan’s acting deputy PM: Mullah Abdus Salam Hanafi
4) WAM is news agency of: UAE
5) Player Rafael Nadal belongs to: Spain
6) Player Daniil Medvedev belongs to: Russia
7) Currently, who is the United States ambassador to the United Nations? Linda Thomas-
Greenfield
8) The most common form of the highly transmissible Omicron Variant of the SARS CoV-
2: BA. 1
9) Military coup took place on which date in Sudan: 25 October, 2021 (led by General
Abdel Fattah al-Burhan)
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1 FEB 2022
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1) According to “Pakistan Media Freedom Report 2021”, released by Council of Pakistan
Newspaper Editor (CPNE), the state of media freedom worsened in the country last year in
comparison with the previous two years
5) According to “Pakistan Outlook 2022”, economy of Pakistan will grow ___in FY2022: 4.8pc
8) Name the Christian clergyman who was killed in recent days in Peshawar, Pakistan: William Siraj
10) Author of book, “Countering Violent Extremism in Pakistan: Local Actions, Local Voices”: Anita
Weiss
INTERNATIONAL
1) According to latest reports by United Nations the Taliban and their allies have killed more
than 100 security and civilian personals linked to the former US-backed Afghan government
since seizing power in August.
3) Recently, which country test launched an intermediate range ballistic missile capable of reaching
the US territory of Guam? North Korea
8) Qalamoun Mountains form 40-km border between which two countries? Syria-Lebanon
10) Current PM and Ruler of UAE: Sheikh Muhammad bin Rashid Al-Makhtoom
11) Next expected ambassador of Pakistan to USA: Masood Khan (He also served as ambassador of
Pakistan to China in past)
12) Recently, which two country’s delegations met to discuss the way forward for Turkmenistan,
Afghanistan, Pakistan and India (TAPI) gas pipeline Project? Pakistan and Turkmenistan
13) Which player has won Australian open, capturing record 21st Grand Slam Title? Rafael Nadal
2 FEB 2022
NATIONAL
1) NEPRA stands for: National Electric Power Regulatory Authority
2) New Chief Justice of Pakistan: Justice Umar Ata Bandial (took office on 2nd Feb)
5) General inflation measured by consumer price index (CPI) has surged to___ in January, 2022:
13pc
6) Recently, in which area people founded the Ghandara-style Buddha Sculpture: Taxila
7) Once Taxila was a center of Buddhist civilization. It took under: Mauryan King Ashoka
INTERNATIONAL
1) Silkeborg museum is located in: Denmark
2) BJP minister is hoping to integrate Azad Kashmir (AJK) in India by: 2024
3) Tollund Man is one of the best preserved corpse from the Iron Age that have been discovered
to date.
9) On 1st February, 2022, British PM met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy
14) Amenity International on 1st Feb. 2022, labelled Israel an “apatrtheid” state that treats
Palestinians as “an inferior racial group”.
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NATIONAL
1) China and India’s Soybean production has touched 240 million tonnes while Pakistan despite
having great potential is spending huge amount on its imports.
2) China’s Assistant Foreign Minister Wu Jianghao welcomed PM Imran Khan at Beijing Capital
International Airport on 4th Feb.
10) How many bales of cotton Pakistan harvested this year: 7.4 million bales
INTERNATIONAL
1) Russia’s foreign ministry announced recently that it was shutting down the Moscow office of
German public broadcaster Deutsche Welle and withdrawing its staff accreditations in
retaliation for a German move against Russian state RT TV.
2) Recently, US Special Forces conducted a nighttime raid in Syria during which chief of the
militant Islamic State group blew himself and his family up.
9) Which two counties recently signed a new defence memo in signal towards Iran? Israel and
Britain
6 FEB 2022
NATIONAL
1) GPEI stands for: Global Polio Eradication Initiative
3) Public and Representative Office (Disqualification) Act was passed in: 1949
4) Pakistan`s current US ambassador Asad Majeed Public Officers (Disqualification) Order and
Elective Bodies (Disqualification) Order was passed by whom and when? Ayub Khan in 1959
5) The Biden administration has accepted the appointment of Sardar Masood Khan as Pakistan`s
ambassador to the United States on 5th February 2022
7) Recently, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa establishment department has drafted a bill to do away with
the pension and gratuity facility for future government employees after retirement
INTERNATIONAL
1) Capital city of Turkey: Ankara
7) A new body, called the Forum of Islam has been introduced in France to keep the country and
its five million Muslims safe and free of foreign influence
7 FEB 2022
NATIONAL
1) Current Turkish Ambassador in Islamabad: H.E Mr Ihsan Mustafa yurdakul
INTERNATIONAL
1) Current Executive Director of World Food Programme: David Beasley
2) Current chief of ILO: Guy Ryder
5) The Great Hall of the People is a state building located at the Tiananmen Square in Beijing
7) Qatar`s emir met the ruler of the United Arab Emirates for the first time since reconciliation
during an official event at the Beijing Winter Olympics
8) Current Abu Dhabi Crown Prince: Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan
9) Tunisian President Kais Saied on February 6, 2022, dissolved a top independent judicial
watchdog accusing it of bias
10) Queen Elizabeth II on February 6, 2022, became the first British monarch to reign for seven
decades
11) India`s widely loved playback singer Lata Mangeshkar passed away at a Mumbai hospital on
February 6, 2022, due to Covid-19
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1) Spinwam area is in North Waziristan District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
3) K2 mountain is also called “Savage Mountain” due to the extreme difficulty of ascent
4) Current DG ISPR: Babar Iftikhar. He is the 21st and incumbent director-general of the Inter-
Services Public Relations
INTERNATIONAL
1) Capital city of Poland: Warsaw
4) Afghanistan`s main universities reopened on 26th Feb, six months after the Taliban returned to
power
6) On 26th 2022, the US introduced General Licence 20 to ease the flow of humanitarian aid and
commercial activities to ease the flow of humanitarian aid and commercial activities for the
people of Afghanistan
7) Poland and Sweden said they would not play their football World Cup qualifiers against Russia
in March, following Russia`s invasion of Ukraine
28 FEB 2022
NATIONAL
1) The Chaman-Spin Buldak border is between Pakistan and Afghanistan
2) On February 27, 2022, Australia flew into Pakistan for their first cricket tour in 24 years into a
high-security bubble (Australia last toured to Pakistan in 1998)
3) In which year, gunmen attacked a visiting Sri Lanka team in Lahore: 2009
4) With the escalating Russia-Ukraine war, Pakistan has left with fewer import options for
liquefied natural gas (LNG)
5) Current Federal Minister for Planning, Development, Reforms and Special Initiatives: Asad Umar
INTERNATIONAL
1) Lysychansk is a city of: Ukraine
2) Santo Domingo is capital of: Dominican Republic
8) On 27th February, the Russian head of delegation at a major UN climate conference expressed
regrets for his country`s invasion of Ukraine
9) Volodymyr Zelensky was at the height of his career as an actor and comedian before giving it
all up to become president in 2019
6) Pakistan has decided not to participate in the emergency session of the UN General Assembly
that began to discuss the Ukrainian crisis.
INTERNATIONAL
1) Capital of Yemen: Saana
7) The International Olympic Committee urged sports bodies to exclude Russian athletes and
officials from international events, including football`s World Cup following Russian invasion
to Ukraine
5. The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa cabinet on March 1, 2022 approved the draft bill for setting up
special courts in the province to ensure early disposal of business-related disputes
7. Pakistan India Protocol on Visits to Religious Shrines was signed in: 1970
INTERNATIONAL
1. Russian forces stepped up their attacks on populated urban areas on March 1, 2022,
bombarding the central square in Ukraine`s second-largest city and Kyiv`s main TV tower.
5. Recently, WWF, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and other green
groups was launched on the sidelines of a major UN environment met in Nairobi. They said
during meeting that, wealthy countries should provide at least $60 billion every year to the
world`s poorest nations to combat biodiversity loss
4) The International Institute for Justice Excellence (IlJE) an international organisation based in
The Hague, The Netherlands (Holland) has selected former chief justice Asif Saeed Khan Khosa
for the Administration of Justice Excellence Award, 2022.
5) Recently the Tobacconomics Cigarette Tax Scorecard has ranked among the worst-performing
countries
7) Balochistan has become the first province in the country to have introduced e-tendering
INTERNATIONAL
1. The European Union on March 2, 2022 cut seven Russian banks from the Swift payment
system and banned Kremlin-controlled media outlets RT and Sputnik from broadcasting into
the bloc.
4) Recently, United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) bureau selected whom as its vice
president and to represent Pakistan on Global Forum? Special Assistant to PM on Climate
Change Malik Amin Aslam
5) Article 25-A on “Right to Education” was added to the constitution of Pakistan under which
amendment: 18th
6) From now onwards, Pakistan will remain on FATF grey list until June 2022
7) Transgender Persons Act was passed in 2018
11) Currently who is serving as Chief Justice of Pakistan? Umar Ata Bandial
12) Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act(PECA) was passed in which year: 2016
INTERNATIONAL
1) Current President of FATF: Marcus Pleyer (Belongs to Germany)
9) kiru hydroelectric project on which river: Chenab River (In Jammu & Kashmir)
4) Haqooq e Sindh March has been organized by: Shah Mahmood Qureshi
7) PM’s Special Assistant for interfaith Harmony and Middle East and Pakistan Ulema council
chairman: Hafiz Tahir Asherfi
8) Recently Pakistan signed Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA) with which country: Uzbekistan
9) Pakistan makes only 15pc of the manufacturing raw material to produce medicines in the
country while remaining 85pc imports either from India or China
10) The first police station for women in Baluchistan opened its door on 5th March 2022.
11) Incumbent Chief of Shia Ulema Council of Pakistan: Allama Sajid Naqvi
INTERNATIONAL
1) Guatemala City is the capital of Guatemala
5) Recently, the cricket world lost two all-time greats of the game namely Rodney Marsh and
Shane Keith
7) Which scientist was awarded the 1921 Nobel Peace Prize? Elbert Einstein
8) FATF has also added UAE to its grey list in its recent meeting.
3) Federal Minister for Training and Development and Special Initiative: Asad Umer
INTERNATIONAL
1) Current Foreign Minister of Russia: Sergey Lavrov
2) At a recent emergency session of UN General Assembly, 141 countries voted for the resolution
condemning Russia and demanding immediate withdrawal of its troops from Ukraine. But 35
countries----- including Pakistan, India and Bangladesh ----abstained
7) First women to sit on the bench of Egypt’s States Council, a top court in the Arab country:
Radwa Helmi
7. Sukkur Barrage is located on the Indus River (Also known as Llyod George Barrage)
INTERNATIONAL
1. Mariupol is city of: Ukraine
4. Name the campaign launched by Moscow in Ukraine on 24th Feb 2022: Special Military
Operation
5. Main Rohingya insurgent group in western Myanmar: Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army
9. Incumbent president of south Korea: Moon Jae-in (This week South Korea going to pick new
president)
10. Le Monde is the national newspaper of: France
11. Ekho Moskvy (Radio Station) and Dozhd (TV channel) belong to which country? Russia
NATIONAL
1) The owner of Tasla Tower (Abdul Qadir) passed away on 7th March 2022
3) Pakistan is going to arrange National Horse and Cattle Show from March 10th to March 12th
5) Global Gender Gap Report 2021, published by World Economic Forum has placed Pakistan
153rd on a list of 156th countries
9) Trade and Investment Framework Agreement is between which two countries: Pakistan and
USA
INTERNATIONAL
1) France army recently claimed that its forces has killed the senior leader (Yahia Djouadi) of Al
Qaeda in the Islamic Maghrab (AQIM)
3) Which International Organization recently published report “Care at work: Investing in care
leave and services from a more gender-equal world of work”: ILO
4) The report “Women, Business and Law 2022” was issued by: World Bank
5) Author of autobiography book: “You can't be neutral on a moving train”: Howard Zinn
7) SBU is the law enforcement authority and main security agency of the ___ government:
Ukrainian
11) Author of book, “Why We Can’s Wait”: Martin Luther King Jr.
2. Right now, PTI, PML-N and PPP have 155, 84 and 56 seats in National Assembly, respectively.
3. According to the latest report of Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), women make
5pc more calls on Skype than men.
4. Pakistan has planned to import 200, 000 tonnes of Urea to mitigate the impact of any possible
shortage during peak Kharif demand amid the global supply disruption due to the Ukraine
Crisis.
5. Current chief justice of Peshawar High Court: Qaiser Rashid Khan
8. Special Assistant to PM and Federal Minister on Poverty Alleviation and Social Safety: Dr Sania
Nishtar
13. Punjab Bonded Labor System (Abolition) Act was passed in: 1992
INTERNATIONAL
1. Writer name of the essay “The End of History” that was written in 1989: Francis Fukuyama
9. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is a branch of the Iranian Armed Forces,
2) The first paired kidney exchange in Pakistan was performed in 2015 at the Sindh Institute of
Urology and Transplantation in Karachi
6) Current Chairman of Nadra (National Database and Registration Authority): Tariq Malik
10) Chaman are Torkham borders are between: Pakatan and Afghanistan
11) Current Chairman of Pakistan Accounts Committee (PAC): Rana Tanveer Hussain
INTERNATIONAL
1) Anglo-Soviet Pact against Germany was passed in: July 1941
7) Novel Pride and Prejudice was written by: Jane Austen (the Novel was published in 1813)
8) Current President of Israel: Isaac Herzog (He met Turkish leader Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara on
9th March 2022)
9) Name the Special Envoy of United Nation High Commissioner for Refugees: Angelina Jolie
10) World’s worst nuclear accident is Ukraine Chernobyl accident of 1986.
11) CKD stands for: chronic kidney disease- CKD (it is a general term used to describe a number of
medical complications affecting the function or structure of the kidney)
12) CKD will be the 5th leading cause of death by 2040. Currently, it is affecting 10-16 per cent of
adult population around the globe.
2) On 9th March 2022 Indian missile flew over 100km inside Pakistan.
3) According to IHC’ last year report, PTI government had issued at least 54 presidential
ordinances during the three years since it to power in July 2018
5) Recently, an antiterrorism court declared Pashtoon Tahfuz Movement Chief Manzoor Ahmad
Pashhen and four party associates proclaimed offenders.
7) Lumpy Skin Disease that is common in cattle of Pakistan is not transmittable to human
8) Incumbent Director General Public Relations of Pakistan Air Force: Air Vice Marshal Tariq Zia
9) Ghazi Barotha Power Project is on: Indus River (Ghazi Barotha is a mega run-of-the-river
hydropower project of WAPDA generating 1450 MW)
10) According to the latest report by Sustainable Social Development Organization (SSDO),
violence against women and children increased in 2021
INTERNATIONAL
1) Sustainable Development Goal “4” is about quality education
3) Author of the book “To Him, I Owe My Life”: Khwaja Sayeed Shahabuddin
6) Russia has banned the export of more than 200 types of foreign-made products and
implements until the end of this year.
11) The Great Hall of the People is a state building of: China
4) Name the Person who clinched the International Billiards and Snooker Federation World
Snooker Championship in Doha recently: Ahsan Ramzan (Pakistani)
5) Recently, a supersonic missile, believed to be mid-range BrahMos, originated from India and
stuck a cold Storage in Mian Chennu
9) Recently, Pakistan acquired the J-10C aircraft from China, the latest version of fourth-
generation J-10 fighters, in response to Rafales bought by India from France.
11) Current Chief of Pakhunkhwa Mili Awami Party: Mahmood Khan Achakzai
12) Distinguished print and broadcast journalist Farhad Zaidi dies on 11th March 2022
13) Current Adviser to Prime Minister on Commerce and Investment: Abdul Razak Dawood
14) Current Ambassador of Japan to Pakistan: Wada Mitsuhiro
15) Recently released report by HRCP titled “Modern Slavery: Trafficking in Women and Girls in
Pakistan” has described Pakistan as a source ‘transit and destination country trafficking’
16) Author of the book In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures: Aijaz Ahmad (Died on 9th March
2022)
17) A collection of interviews “Nothing Human is Alien to Me” is also associated with Aijaz Ahmad
18) On 11th March 2022, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) announced a Task Force to boost
Electronic Warehouse Receipt Financing (EWRF). The goal of EWRF is to promote Agriculture
Finance and Food Security.
INTERNATIONAL
1) Capital City of Bolivia: La Paz
2) Pact of Steel was signed between Hitler and Mussolini on May 22, 1939.
3) Full name of Che Guevara (Cuban Revolutionist): Ernesto Guevara de la Serna (He was shot
dead by Mario Teran Salazar)
INTERNATIONAL
1) Current Prime Minister of Greek: Kyriakos Mitsotakis
2) What you know about OVD-Info: It is an online human rights media project that tracks arrests
and detentions during Protests
3) Capital city of the Czech Republic: Prague
4) Frankfurt is a city of: Germany
5) Ko Samui is an Island of: Thailand
6) Panjshir Valley is a valley in: Afghanistan
7) Writer of the Novel “The Power of The Dog (1967)”: Thomas Savage
8) Recently, the Film “The Power of The Dog” won top two honours at the British Academy Film
Awards.
9) Current Foreign Minister of Turkey: Mevlut Cavusoglu
10) Hamid Karzai International Airport is in: Afghanistan
11) Imam Bakhsh Sehbai was among the prominent scholar and poet of “Persian” during the last
decade of Mughal Era
4) Peca stands for: Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act (It was passed in 2016)
INTERNATIONAL
1) The Wire is a news website of: India
3) Last execution by Saudi Arabia was carried out on 12th March 2022. 81 men were executed
that day
9) According to SIPRI, in the past five years, Europe saw the world’s biggest rise in arms imports
(Europe posted a 19% increase)
12) Current United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights: Michelle Bachelet
5) Textile and clothing exports grew 26pc year-on-year to $12.6 billion in the first eight months
of the fiscal year 2022.
7) A resolution, for setting 15th March as the International Day to Combat Islamophobia, has
been approved by the UN General Assembly. It was presented by Pakistan.
INTERNATIONAL
1) Current Indian Defence Minister: Rajnath Singh
2) An Indian court of Karnataka state recently upheld a local ban on wearing Hijab in classrooms.
8) Dust Storm “La Calima” is common in: Spain, the Canary Islands, Morocco
13) UEFA stands for: Union of European Football Associations (Like FIFA it is a Football Governing
body)
14) Both FIFA and UEFA had decided to suspend the Russian Football Teams to get participating in
competitions organized by either of these football governing bodies
2) Government of Pakistan is aiming to increasing the share of electric vehicles (EVs) to 30 per
cent in total vehicles by 2030
5) Australian Foreign minister Alexander Schallenberg will visit Lahore on 18th March to meet
WAPDA chairman
8) Under National Finance Commission Award, how much amount has been allocated for the
districts merged with KP: Rs110 billion
9) Incumbent Minister for Religious Affairs in Pakistan: Pir Noorul Haq Qadri
INTERNATIONAL
1) Zaporizhia is a city of: Ukraine
2) According to United Nation’s latest report, almost 95pc of the Afghan Population is not eating
enough food
3) According to report, the number of People facing acute hunger in Afghanistan had increased
from 14 million in July 2021 to 23 million in March 2022.
6) According to experts, the world’s oceans are suffocating from a lack of oxygen caused by
global warming and human pollution from sewage and industrial wastes. And these
conditions are creating dead zones in the oceans for fishes
9) Which country’s parliament recently passed The Forest laws to change the border of protected
areas? Kenya
12) Recently, British PM Boris Johnson met with Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Salman for
higher oil output to calm Ukrainian fallout
14) North Korea recently fired a projectile. It was North Korea’s tenth suspected weapons tested
this year
2) According to the latest news, the government has fixed the minimum support price for wheat:
Rs2,200 per 40kg
INTERNATIONAL
1) Seddon Park is a cricket ground in: New Zealand
4) SWAP Transplant Program: Swap transplant typically involves an exchange of organs between
two families, who cannot donate the organ to their own family member because of blood
group mismatch.
5) The main agenda behind the four-day visit of the Australian Foreign Minister in Pakistan: To
improve economic ties
11) Name the ship which recently sunk in Gulf Waters off Iran: Al Salmy 6 (Emirati cargo)
3) Recently, the government claimed to have saved Pakistan from $11 billion penalty in “Reko
Diq” case and reconstituted a project aimed at executing gold and copper reserves from the
site in Balochistan.
4) What is Nauroz in Pakistan: Nowruz is a 13-day celebration and begins with the vernal equinox
when the sun crosses the equator. It is also known as “Jamshedi Nauroz”
8) Senior officials of Pakistan, Uzbekistan and Afghanistan will meet next week in Tashkant for a
trilateral meeting to discuss a potential railway project aimed at laying a railway track linking
Termez, Mazar-i-Sharif, Kabul and Peshawar to promote trade in the region
9) Current Minister of State and Chairman of Board of Investment (BoI): Azfar Ahsan
10) Incumbent Prime Minister of Azad Jammu and Kashmir: Sardar Abdul Qayyum Niazi
11) Current minister for Social Welfare and Baitul Mal: Syed Yawar Abbas Bukhari
12) Current Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on tourism: Azam Jamil
13) SAPM on tourism recently said that tourism would be given the status of an industry, which
would be managed by the private and sector and the government would play the role of a
facilitator and regulator.
INTERNATIONAL
1) Current Amir of Qatar: Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani
3) Recently, Germany agreed a long-term anergy partnership with Qatar as it looks to reduce its
dependence on Russian gas.
9) Which country recently launched a food subsidy program after prices for cooking oil, lentil and
other staples shot up in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: Bangladesh
3) Which country is organizing the 48th session of the council of Foreign Ministers (CFM) of the
Organization of Islamic Cooperation? Pakistan
4) Theme of 48th meeting of OIC: Building Partnership for Unity, Justice, and Development
6) Three day 770th urs of great Sufi Saint Lal Shahbaz Qalandar in Sehwan starts from today
(22nd March)
10) First satellite campus of Virtual University opened in Karachi on 22nd March 2022.
11) According to World Bank, groundwater meets 70pc our national and 50pc agricultural needs
12) The Karachi Water & Sewage Services Improvement Project (KWSIP) funded by: World Bank
INTERNATIONAL
1) Recently, a China Eastern Airline Boeing 737-800 with 132 people on board crashes in
mountains in southern China on a domestic flight after a sudden descent from cruising
altitude
2) Theme of World water day 2022: “Groundwater: Make the invisible visible”
3) The session of the Council of Foreign Ministers (CFM) in 2020 was held in: Niamey
3) On 23rd March this year, Pakistan marked its 82nd Pakistan Day
11) Black box function in Aeroplan: It is an instrument that records the performance and condition
of an aircraft in flight.
12) According to recent data, 1000 pregnant women and more than 88, 000 newborns and
children under five years died at the basic health units and rural health units in Punjab in
2021.
INTERNATIONAL
1) Capital city of Argentina: Buenos Aires
5) WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his fiancée Stella Moris are to marry today (24 March)
11) First women US Secretary of State: Madeleine Albright (died on 24th March 2022)
13) These days efforts are being made to normalize the relations between “some Arab Countries”
and “Syria”
3) Recently, China showed its willingness to extend CPEC to which country: Afghanistan
8) Current Director General of FIA and Inspector General of Sindh Police: Dr Sanaullah Abbasi
9) Pakistan earns about eight thousand billion rupees in tax and non-tax revenues a year.
10) Chief of Air Staff of Pakistan Air Force (PAF): Zaheer Ahmad Babar
13) Name the document adopted at the end of the OIC ‘s session this year: Islamabad Declaration
consisting of 70 points
16) The wait is over. Now Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) will operate non-stop flights to
Sydney from April 22, 2022.
17) By 2050 Pakistan will become the 3rd most populous country in the world with 380 million
mostly poor people.
INTERNATIONAL
1) These days, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi is on official visit to Afghanistan.
4) Recently, China showed its willingness to extend CPEC to which country: Afghanistan
5) Which Muslim country has sought to make an investment in the disputed region, Kashmir? UAE
7) On 25th March 2022, North Korea fired new Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM)
8) Buckingham Palace is a London royal residence and the administrative headquarters of the
monarch of the United Kingdom.
9) Recently a China’s airflight carrying 132 passengers hit in the area of: Ladakh
10) Last day, Chinese Foreign minister also made visit to Delhi
11) Ticks, mosquitoes, fleas and flies are the vectors that transmit the lumpy skin disease from
infected to healthy animals
26TH MARCH 2022
NATIONAL
1) Current DG ISPR: Babar Iftikhar
2) WPV1: Wild poliovirus type 1 (recently the world health organization has extended
restrictions on travel from Pakistan for another three months for transferring the poliovirus to
the African country Malawi)
INTERNATIONAL
1) Saudi Aramco’s Jeddah oil depot hit by Houthi attack on 25th March 26, 2022
2) The United Arab Emirates forged diplomatic ties with Israel in 2020 under a series of US-
brokered delas known as Abraham Lincoln
5) NATO stands for: North Atlantic Treaty Organization (30-nation bloc was established in 1949)
11) Israel said it will host a “historic summit” from 27th March 2022 of top diplomats from the
United States and three Arab States which it has normalized
12) Australia recently declared that the Great Barrier Reef is suffering “mass bleaching” as corals
lose their colour under the stress of warmer seas (Blamed Climate Change)
14) Archeologist claimed to have discovered the secondary gate of Bazira City and some unique
artefacts during fresh excavation in Barikot, swat
15) Author of book “Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy”: Henry A Kissinger
27TH MARCH 2022
NATIONAL
1) Current Sindh Governor: Imran Ismail
2) Sumaira Rahman, a Pakistani woman who served jail time and detention in India for four
years, returns to Pakistan along with her child. She was arrested in 2017 because of her
expired Visa
3) In the last 50 years, Pakistan’s reliance on groundwater has at least tripled, making the
country world’s fourth-largest groundwater user, following three much larger countries----
China, India, and the US
4) A closer looker at the water budget reveals that almost 95pc of Pakistan’s total surface water
is used for Agriculture. Barely, 5pc is left for domestic and commercial use.
5) Government has decided to set up 43 wheat procurement centers in four districts of Lahore
divisions
10) Pakistan recently attended a meeting in Uzbekistan to discuss the construction of a 600km
railway link with Afghanistan and Uzbekistan
INTERNATIONAL
1) Meta is a parent company of: Facebook
2) According to the recent Meta Report on “Global State of Small Business 2022”, over 77pc
small and medium businesses are using the plate form of Facebook to generate revenues
7) Recently, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia signed an agreement to develop the Arash/Dorra gas field
INTERNATIONAL
1. What you know about Barrick Gold: it is the world’s biggest precious metal company
2. Iraq is building a concrete wall along part of its with Syria to stop fighters of the militant
Islamic State Group from infiltration
6. According to recent reports by Pakistani and German n Doctors, 50pc mortality linked to a
high rate of consanguinity
11. Hissein Brahim Taha is a Chadian politician and diplomat who is the 12th and current
secretary-general of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.
12. New peace talks are going to start in Turkey on March 28, 2022
14. These days thousands of people are protesting against abortion in Madrid, Spain
4) A UN report released on March 29, 2022, placed Pakistan among the countries that have done
fairly well in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic
6) Foreign minister of Pakistan Shah Mehmood Qureshi reached China on March 29, 2022, where
he will meet the foreign minister of other countries including Russia, Iran and the Central
Asian States
7) SPARCO stands for: Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission
8) Recently, the National Assembly of Pakistan told Capital Police is facing shortage of over 1,
700 personnel this time.
INTERNATIONAL
1) JCPOA stands for: Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action
2) Recently, Afghanistan’s Taliban instructed all government employees to wear a bearded and
adhere to dress code
5) Recently, US Secretary of State Antoni Blinken and the top diplomates of UAE, Bahrain,
Morocco and Egypt wrapped up a landmark meeting ON Israeli soil vowing to boost
cooperation which would send a strong message to Israeli’s arch-foe Iran
7) According to recent reports, nearly 90 million people in Asia Pacific region are likely to have
been pushed into extreme poverty due to the pandemic’s adverse impacts on livelihood
(report released by tha ADB, UNDP and UN- ESCAP)
8) Dragao stadium is in: Portugal
11) During 94th Academy Award ceremony, WILL SMITH was given the first Oscar award for his
role in King Richard
12) Surprisingly, WILL SMITH have slapped Chris Rock in the face over joke about his wife, during
94th Academy Award ceremony
2) Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has decided to hold local elections in all but two
districts of Balochistan
7) Pakistani Ambassador to China: Moin ul Haque. Anti-Terrorism Act was passed in: 1997
INTERNATIONAL
1) Capital of Senegal: Dakar
2) These days the Russian and Ukrainian negotiators are in Istanbul to revolve the political crisis
between these two countries
10) Recently, America launched a 24/7 direct-to-home satellite delivered television channel for
Afghanistan \
11) Recently, scientists released an image showing the giant ice volcanoes on Pluto
2) Sumaira Rahman, a Pakistani woman who served jail time and detention in India for four
years, returns to Pakistan along with her child. She was arrested in 2017 because of her
expired Visa
3) In the last 50 years, Pakistan’s reliance on groundwater has at least tripled, making the
country world’s fourth-largest groundwater user, following three much larger countries----
China, India, and the US
4) A closer looker at the water budget reveals that almost 95pc of Pakistan’s total surface water
is used for Agriculture. Barely, 5pc is left for domestic and commercial use.
5) Government has decided to set up 43 wheat procurement centers in four districts of Lahore
divisions
10) Pakistan recently attended a meeting in Uzbekistan to discuss the construction of a 600km
railway link with Afghanistan and Uzbekistan
International
2) According to the recent Meta Report on “Global State of Small Business 2022”, over 77pc
small and medium businesses are using the plate form of Facebook to generate revenues
2) Pakistan is the 10th largest rice producer and the country’s exports make up more than 8pc of
the world’s total rice trade
3) This year Pakistan recorded 2.5pc decrease in the production of wheat as compared to last
year’s production
5) Recently, a Solar Lift Irrigation Block Plantation project has been inaugurated in Gilgit-
Baltistan
7) Recently, IRSA (Indus River System Authority) estimated more the 15-pc water shortage
during the kharif season
INTERNATIONAL
1) Once again USA imposed new sanctions on Iran because USA thought Iran is involved in
supplying its ballistic missiles that are being used in different attacks
2) These days Turkey is seeing a thaw in relations with Saudi Arabia which worsened after 2018
killing of Jamal Khashogii inside Saudi Consulate in Turkey
4) These days people of Sri Lanka are protesting for the resignation of Sri Lankan’s President as
the country is passing through its worst crisis
2) Recently, Malaysian minister said they have ample room available for trade expansion with
Pakistan
4) Main purpose of Zarb-e-Azab: To flush out all foreign and local militants hiding in North
Waziristan. It was started in 2014. Recently, the provincial disaster management authority
(PDMA) released aid to the affected people of Operation Zarb-e-Azab
5) According to the latest data, 90pc of Karachi’s industrial, domestic and other solid waste is
simply discharged into cities.
7) In which year, Pakistan and India signed a bilateral protocol which allows both county’s
nationals to visits the religious shrines of each country: 1974
8) The Sindh government on 1st April 2022, signed a letter of intent with four foreign energy
companies for a waste-to-energy project for the production of 150MW daily from garbage
produced in the city
INTERNATIONAL
1) Mar’s (Red Planet) atmosphere is 95pc Carbon dioxide
6) On 1st April 2022, Moscow accused Kyiv of airstrike on a Russian fuel depot
11) India is going to organize the urs of Khawaja Nazimuddin Auliya from Nov 7 to 14 in Delhi
2) Current Federal Minister for Industries and Production: Makhdoom Syed Murtaza Mahmud
3) Pakistan and France have agreed to strengthen and diversify bilateral trade and economic ties
in coming years
9) An acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP) is used to measure movement in the water, both
as waves and currents
INTERNATIONAL
1) Lake Lavarone is in: Italy
2) Turkish and Israel foreign minister said recently that their countries were hoping to expand
economic ties as they seek an end to more than a decade of strained relations
7) Current Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency: Rafael Grossi
8) The Indian government has restricted sugar exports for the first time in six years to prevent a
surge in domestic prices
2) Current Chief of the Naval Staff: Admiral Mohammad Amjab Khan Niazi
3) WAPDA stands for: Water and development Authority (February 22, 1958)
4) Noted mountaineer Abdul Karim, also known as Little Karim, passed away at the age of 68 on
April 4, 2022
5) Pakistan is ranked 54th among 84 countries with high prevalence of tobacco smoking by World
Health Organization
5) Almost the entire global population (99 per cent) breathes air that exceeds WHO air quality
limits and threatens their health.
7) Alcaraz has become the youngest Miami Open champion in the tournament's 37-year history,
besting Djokovic, who was 19 when he won in 2007
2) According to “Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) Punjab Rural 2021”, about six per
cent girls and eight per cent boys are out of school in the rural districts of Punjab
3) PAEC stands for: Engineers and technicians of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission
INTERNATIONAL
1) Currency name of Russia: Ruble
2) Member countries of AUKUS defence alliance (launched in September last year): Australia,
USA, UK
3) According to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Britain, the United States and Australia on April
5, 2022 agreed to cooperate on hypersonic weapons and electronic warfare capabilities
9) Polio is a viral disease of the brain and spinal cord that can cause irreversible paralysis. It
affects mainly children under the age of five.
12) Name the Kuwaiti Prime Minister wo recently resigned along with his cabinet: Sheikh Sabah Al-
Khaled Al Hamad Al Sabah
5) Nemr the first Pakistani female who received her first Grammy in the category of Best
Performance Award: Arooj Aftab (Awarded for song MUHABBAT)
6) The White House on April 6, 2022, announced sanctions targeting Russia’s Top public and
private banks and two daughters of Vladimir Putin, adding pressure on the country’s economy
and its elite over the invasion of Ukraine
7) Former Pakistani ambassador to the United States Asad Majeed has been designated as
Pakistan’s ambassador in Brussels
INTERNATIONAL
1) Capital city of Spain: Madrid
7) Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa will not resign, a minister said on April 3rd, 2022,
despite demonstrations against his handling of the country’s worst economic crisis in decades
and as doctors held street protests over a shortage of medicines.
9) According to World Health Organization almost 99pc of the global population breaths
unhealthy air
10) There are some studies showing that air pollutants contain chemical substances that cause
direct damage to the lungs’ inner lining
2) The theme of World Health Day 2022: “Our Planet, Our Health”
5) The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on April 7th, 2022 proposed conducting General
Elections in the country by October this year
6) Chairman of PPP Bilawal Bhutto recently claimed that the PPP government has established
around 500 health institutions in Sindh
INTERNATIONAL
1) The independent is a ___ newspaper? British
2) The UN General Assembly on April 7, 2022, suspended Russia from its human rights council
following allegations that Russian Soldiers committed systemic human rights violations in
Ukraine
3) Name the Yemeni president who ceded powers to the council amid efforts to end war: Abd-
Rabbu Mansoor
7) Recently, USA and Nato allies pledged more arms to Ukraine in response to the Russian
invasion
8) Saudi Arabia recently claimed that it was sending an ambassador to Lebanon for the first time
since a row broke out last year over the Riyadh-led military intervention
9) Name the galaxy that astronomers have discovered what may be the earliest and most distant
galaxy ever observed: HDI
10) First Black Women to serve on the Supreme Court: Ketanji Brown Jackson
3) The sixth meeting of the joint working group on industrial cooperation between Pakistan and
China held in Islamabad on 8th April to review the progress on special economic zones of the
CPEC
4) The University of Engineering and Technology (UET) five subjects have been internationally
ranked in the latest QS World Universities Ranking
INTERNATIONAL
1) Which movie character is associated with the catchphrase “I’II be back”? William Shakespeare
9) Will Smith was banned on 8th April 2022, from attending the Oscars for the next 10 years
because of slapping the comedian Chris Rock during the ceremony
10) The Kashmir Files is a 2022 Indian Hindi-language drama film written and directed by Vivek
Agnihotri. This film is based on the life of Kashmiri Pandits in 1990, during the Kashmir
insurgency.
11) Taliban diplomat “Jamal Garwal” has been recognized as the Afghan charge d'affaires in
Moscow, Russia
13) Extinction Rebellion (XR) describes itself as an international "non-violent civil disobedience"
movement. Its aim is to end climate crisis
3) National Assembly on April 11, 2022, will elect prime minister after Pakistan Muslim League
Nawaz president Shehbaz Sharif and Pakistan Tehreek-Insaf vice chairman Shah Mahmood
Qureshi on Sunday filed their nomination papers
INTERNATIONAL
1) Largest museum in the world: Louvre
4) The annual military exercises between Indonesian and US armies will include more than a
dozen countries this year, officials said on April 10, 2022, as tensions with China continue to
spike in the region (Garuada Shield)
6) These days Sri Lanka is suffering its worst downturn since independence in 1948.
3) Recently, a martyrs’ monument has been erected at the Police Lines Headquarters Rawalpindi.
It has eight pillars dedicated to different units of the police
7) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Shah Farman on April 11, 2022 resigned after election of
Shehbaz Sharif as the Prime Minister of Pakistan.
INTERNATIONAL
1) Current Italian Prime Minister: Mario Draghi
3) Italy signed a deal with Algaria to boost gas deliveries from energy heavyweight Algeria, as he
steps up efforts to reduce Rome`s heavy reliance on Russian imports on 11th April
2) CCPO Lahore Fayyaz Dev has been removed from his post
3) Article 95 of the constitution of Pakistan deals with: Vote of No Confidence against Prime
Minister
4) According to the latest news, Punjab Stadium would be upgraded for holding the 2023 South
Asian Games (SAG) events in a befitting manner
5) The hydrogen that is produced by renewable sources of solar and wind is called green
hydrogen
INTERNATIONAL
1) Tennis player Kim Clijsters belongs to which country: Belgium (She retired from competitive
tennis for the third time in her career)
2) According to the latest news the “Abraham Lincoln Strike Group” is operating in waters off the
Korean peninsula amid tensions over North Korea’s missile launches and concerns that it
would soon resume testing nuclear weapons
4) Recently, New Zealand fast-bowling spearhead Trent Boult and White Ferns skipper Sophie
Devine won the T20 International Player of the year at New Zealand Cricket Awards
5) The Australian State of Victoria will host the 2026 Commonwealth Games
7) Recently, Sri Lanka announced a default on its $51 billion foreign debts
8) Recently, Taiwan’s military published a handbook on how to prepare for a potential Chinese
invasion
9) According to the latest estimate by Oxfam, 250 million people of Ukraine could be pushed into
extreme poverty in 2022
11) Recently, Ukraine rejected the planned visit of German President Frank-Welter Steinmeier
5) Balochistan governor Syed Zahoor Ahmad Agha has resigned from his post. (PTI member)
7) Punjab Ashiana-i-Iqbal Housing Scheme case is associated with which important personality: PM
Shahbaz Sharif
INTERNATIONAL
1) Shrine of Khawaja Moinuddin Chishti is in: Ajmer, India
8) Recently, the BIONAUT Labs founder from California said that he will start using miniature
robots to treat brain disorders by sending them inside the human skull
10) IS fanatic Ali Harbi Ali has been given a whole-life sentence for murdering Sir David Amess MP
in London courts
12) Infosys Limited is an Indian multinational information technology company that provides
business consulting, information technology and outsourcing services
13) India’s Infosys recently announced to exit Russia business following the Ukraine crisis and
conflict of interest accusations levelled at Rishi Sunak, the British Finance minister.
INTERNATIONAL
1) The My Lai massacre (1969) was one of the most horrific incidents of violence committed
against unarmed civilians during the Vietnam War.
2) Author of Novel Animal Farm: George Orwell
3) Scottie Scheffler is an American professional golfer. He is currently the World Number 1 in the
Official World Golf Ranking and champion of the 2022 Masters Tournament.
4) Sri Lanka is an island of 22 million people
5) Current UN special envoy to Yemen: Hans Grundberg. He recently started his first visit to
Yemen’s held capital on recently
6) In which year Iran- backed Houthi insurgents took control of Sanaa: 2014
7) Current Defence Secretary of US: Llyod Austin
8) Current Indian Defence minister in India: Rajnath Singh
9) US president Joe Biden recently pushed Indian Prime Minister Narender Modi to cut Russian
Oil Imports.
10) Current Italian Prime Minister: Mario Draghi
11) Capital city of Algeria: Algiers
12) Recently Tropical Storm Megi struck the land of the Philippines killing 24 people
13) Current Tweeter CEO: Parag Agrawal
14) Current CEO of Tesla and SpaceX: Elon Musk
15) Current President of Indonesia: Joko Widodo
16) Pralormo Castle location: Italy
17) Lausanne is a city of: Switzerland
17TH APRIL 2022
NATIONAL
1) Current president of AJK: Barrister Sultan Mahmood
3) Bisques Edhi was awarded with many awards including Hilal-i-Imtiaz, the Lenin Peace Prize,
the Mother Thresa International Award for Social Justice and the Ramon Magsaysay Award for
Public Service
INTERNATIONAL
1) Ukraine’s richest man, Rinat Akhmatov, vowed to build the besieged Mariupol, recently.
4) India has accepted the invitation of Pakistan to send its baseball team to Pakistan for next
year’s South Asian Games (SAG)
5) Newly elected Prime Minister of AZAD Jammu and Kashmir: Tanveer Ilyas (14th PM of AJK)
7) Mr. Imran Ismail had resigned as the 33rd governor of the Sindh Province
9) According to some resources despite many negative factors throughout the Rabi Season,
Punjab wheat yield is better than the last year
10) Punjab Intermediate Cities Improvement Investment Project (PICIIP) was inaugurated in: 2018
11) Recently, the Punjab School Education Department (SED) restricted the use of study guides by
private publishers in all the public schools in the province
12) An anti-terrorism court handed down the death sentence to six men in the Pariyantha case on
18th April 2022
INTERNATIONAL
1) Khost and Kunar are areas of: Afghanistan
2) These days Islamophobic incidents in Sweden have created unrest in the country. The unrest
condition was sparked by the leader (Rasmus Paludan) of anti-Islamic group “Hard Line”.
3) Winner of the elite race at the 126th Boston Marathon: Peres Jepchirchir
6) Recently, Turkey said it has launched a new air and ground offensive against outlawed Kurdish
militants in northern Iraq
5) Recently, International Monetary Fund (IMF) forecasted Pakistan’s Economic Growth rate at
4pc during the ongoing fiscal year
6) Current president of Pakistan Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee: Sardar Amir Singh
10) The Punjab University teachers are celebrating today a black day in protest against delay in
provision of different allowances
12) Ilhan Omar, who made history as one of the first Muslim women elected to the US Congress,
arrived in Islamabad on 20th April 2022 for four-day visit to Pakistan
13) The new government od Pakistan has decided to close the Digital Media Wing (DMW)
established by the previous PTI government to disseminate official information to social
media platforms
14) The food and agriculture organization (FAO) of the United Nations signed a grant agreement
for establishing a cold storage facility in Balochistan on 20th April 2022
15) Sports does not have an exclusive ministry in Pakistan rather it is part of the ministry of
interprovincial coordination (IPC) which was added by Fehmida Mirza during the previous
government of PTI
INTERNATIONAL
1) ITF stands for: International Tennis Federation
4) Latest study says that ridges on the icy surface of Jupiter’s moos Europa indicate there are
shallow pockets of water beneath, boosting hopes in the search for extra-territorial life
6) The World Health Organization (WHO) launched its Global Centre for Traditional Medicine
(GCTM) at a site in India recently aimed at unlocking its potential by blending ancient
practices with modern science
5) Pakistan is the fourth most polluted country in the world, with the second-worst quality of air
6) The Ministry of Economic Affairs reports that the ousted PTI government borrowed a total of
$49.295bn from external sources in its 45 months in office
7) Recently, Pakistan’s wicketkeeper-batter Muhammad Rizwan named the leading T20 Cricketer
in the world by the Wisden Almanack
8) Under a mega project, the United Nations International Children’s and Emergency Fund
(UNICEF) will establish medical oxygen plants at four districts of the Punjab and KPK provinces
INTERNATIONAL
1) Recently, Vladimir Putin claimed victory in the biggest battle of the Ukrainian war declaring
the part of Mariupol “liberated”
2) Queen Elizbeth celebrated her 96th birthday at her Sandringham state on 21st April 2022
3) On 21st April 2022, Ministers and officials from the of FATF’s 37 member countries and
affiliates met in Washington to discuss actions to tackle money laundering and terrorist
financing
4) What is Saype? A giant biodegradable land art painting by French-Swiss Artist Guillauma
Legros
8) Elvis Presley was an American popular singer widely known as the “King of Rock and Roll”
9) Sabarmati Ashram was home to Mahatma Gandhi from 1917 to 1930 and served as one of the
main centres of the Indian freedom struggle
12) Islam’s third most sacred site after Makkah and Madina: Al Aqsa Compound
2) According to FATF Pakistan has completed 26 of the 27 action items in its 2018 action plan for
combating money laundering and terrorist financing
4) According to researchers, 18 countries, including Pakistan, could lose over 5pc of protein from
rice and wheat by 2050 due to increased concentration of Carbon dioxide
6) Recently, Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has acquired a state-of-the-art Airbus A320
simulator for pilot training, refresher courses and air safety
INTERNATIONAL
1) “April 21 Declaration of the FATF ministers” reaffirmed the FATF’s role as a global standers-
setter for combatting money laundering, terrorist financing and the financing of proliferation
of weapons of mass destruction
3) This year Asian Track Cycling Championship will be held in: New Delhi India
5) Max Verstappen is a Belgian-Dutch racing driver and the reigning Formula One World
Champion.
6) The International Cricket Council (ICC) recently confirmed Wasim Khan has been appointed as
ICC general manager of cricket
8) Recently, Britain and India agreed to a “new and expanded” defence and security partnership.
9) Recently, the United Sates pledged to help Pakistan in improving its trade volumes,
particularly with the Central Asian Republics (CARs) under the US Agency for International
Development’s (USAID) Pakistan Regional Economic Integration Activity (PREIA)
2) Excessive use of plastic is reducing Agricultural fertility and crop production. According to a
recent report of Food and Agricultural Organization, Agricultural land is contaminated with
large quantities of plastic pollution, with 12.5 million tons of plastic products in agricultural
value chain each year, mainly in the crop production and livestock sector
3) Pakistan is considered one of the largest iodine deficient countries in the region
INTERNATIONAL
1) Okinawa, a chain of islands, belongs to: Japan
4) Vesak Day: This day is being celebrated on 16th may. It commemorates the birth,
enlightenment, and death of Siddhartha Gautama, who is commonly known as Buddha.
6) In the coming days, Pakistan and Iraq will sign an agreement on cooperation in various
sectors, including trade promotion and tariff rationalization, to enhance bilateral economic
and trade ties
9) The Ministry of National Food Security and research has reportedly decided to import three
million tonnes of wheat to keep the next flour year easy
12) According to the Pakistan Meteorological Department” the first solar eclipse of the year 2022,
a partial eclipse, will not be visible from Pakistan.
13) The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has agreed to increase the size of its $6 billion loan
programme by $2 billion and extend it for another year to prop up Pakistan’s balance of
payment position and foreign exchange reserve
INTERNATIONAL
1) Emmanuel Macron is re-elected as French President
2) Current Nigerian President: Muhammadu Buhari
5) The World’s largest security body: The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
(OSCE)
10) US President Joe Biden will visit Israel in the coming months following an invitation from
Israeli PM Naftali Bennett
2) PM Shehbaz Sharif is going to pay his maiden visit to Saudi Arabia on 28th April 2022
3) To curb the rising crime rate in South Punjab, operation Al-Badr has been launched to hunt
10,000 criminals
6) Former PM Nawaz Sharif’s name has been removed from the Exit Control List (ECL) and he has
finally been issued a green passport by the government led by his younger brother Shahbaz
Sharif
INTERNATIONAL
1) Max Verstappen has been named as the 2022 Laureus Sportsman of the year
2) Elaine Thompson-Herash has bagged the 2022 Laureus Sportswoman of the year
3) UK has become the first country to launch the “world’s first vertiport” for drones and flying
taxis
7) Recently, a stone statuette over 4, 500 years old depicting the face of the ancient goddess was
discovered in the southern Gaza Strip.
11) A Japanese woman certified the world’s oldest person died at the age of 119 (Name: Kane
Tanaka) on 25th April 2022
12) Wright brothers flew for the first time in: 1903
13) Marie Curie became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in 1903
2. The Charter of Democracy was signed by Nawaz Sharif of Pakistan Muslim League and Benazir
Bhutto of Pakistan Peoples Party on May 14, 2006, in London.
8. According to the latest Global Cancer Observatory Report for Pakistan the second most
common types of new cancer in 2020 were cancer of the lips and oral cavity
10. Recently, a report named” Macro Poverty Outlook for Pakistan report” was published by
World Bank.
INTERNATIONAL
1. Recently, which international body published the “Commodity Markets Outlook report”? World
Bank
2. Elysée Palace is the official residence of the French president
3. US carmaker General Motors announced recently that it is developing an eclectic version of its
Chevrolet Corvette
7. Recently, which country gave the “Golden Paradise Visa Program,”: Sri Lanka
11. North Korea’s leader recently pledged to speed up the development of his country’s nuclear
arsenals
12. North Korea celebrated the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Korean People’s
Revolutionary Army on 26th April 2022
13. Recently, the United Nations Assembly voted Unanimously to automatically meet within 10
days to debate the situation if any of the Security Council’s five permanent members votes a
resolution
7) Japan established diplomatic relations with Pakistan on April 28, 1952. (Today we are
celebrating 70 years of diplomatic relations with Japan)
INTERNATIONAL
1) Asia Cup is scheduled to start on May 23 in Jakarta Indonesia
2) Capital city of Beirut: Lebanon
4) Recently, a Myanmar court sentenced Aung San Suu Kyi to five years in jail for corruption
6) A recent study of 135 countries has estimated that climate change could see four per cent
global annual economic output lost by 2050
9) According to a UN report, measles cases have surged by nearly 80 per cent worldwide this
year
11) SpaceX launched another mission (Crew-4) to the international space station for NASA
recently
12) The gender gap in adult literacy is largest in central and southern Asia
3) Pakistan is among twenty trading partners which have been placed on the Watch List of the
US government
6) Pakistan Trade Control of Wild Fauna and Flora Act was passed in: 2012
INTERNATIONAL
1) Richest man in the world: Elon Musk
4) Recently, Turkish president Tayyip Erdogan reached Saudi Arabia for betterment of ties with
between the two countries
7) Fossils from some of the largest creatures ever to swim Earth’s ocean ---Whale sized marine
reptiles called the ichthyosaurs--- have been found in a counterintuitive place: a top three
mountains in the Swiss Apls up to 8, 990 feet above sea level
2) Recently, Minister of Climate Change Sherry Rahman announced that glaciers in Pakistan’s
northern mountain ranges, the Hindu Kush, the Himalaya and the Karakorum are melting
rapidly due to rise in temperature and a total of 3, 044 glacial lakes have been developed in
GB and KPK
3) Recently, four Pakistan Weightlifters including Olympian Talha Talib were banned by the
International Weightlifting Federation for Doping
6) The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has asked the government to publish official results
of the seventh population and housing census by year end
INTERNATIONAL
1) Current Governor of Makkah: Khalid Al-Faisal
4) Recently, UAE announced that it will send an astronaut on a six-month mission to space.
5) Recently, Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince and Turkish’s President vowed to reset their
relationships, to end a conflict between the two regional heavyweights since the killing of
journalist Jamal Khashoggi
MAY
4) Recently, Pakistan Prime Minister met with Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman and
discussed ways to strengthen economic, investment and trade ties between the two countries
INTERNATIONAL
1) RTL-Nieuws belongs to which country: Netherland
4) Author of new book. ” Spiritual Heritage of Pakistan: Sufi Poetry in Folk Idiom: Prof Fateh
Muhammad Malik
INTERNATIONAL
1) Changsha is a city of: China
8) Australia recently announced that she will not send her athletes to this year’s Asian Games in
Hangzhou, China
2) According to the 2020 report of the global Climate Risk Index, Pakistan is the sixth most
vulnerable to global warming and climate change country
3) Which country is going to send a team of economic experts to Pakistan to discuss economic
cooperation: UAE
INTERNATIONAL
1) Recently, Qantas announced it would launch the world’s longest non-stop commercial flight,
with passengers set to spend 19 hours in the air travelling from Sydney to London by the end
of 2025
2) Member countries of the Iran Nuclear deal: Russia, China, Germany, France, United States,
Britain, and Iran
3) Which country recently showed their keenness to develop Iron Dome to curb the rise in cyber-
attacks: Israel
12) The United States drew from Iran Nuclear deal in: 2018
3. According to recent announcement by the International Cricket Council, Pakistan has taken
one step up in the ICC Test and one-day international ranking to stand at the fifth place from
sixth
4. World’s youngest and to reach the summit of Kanchenjunga (World’s third highest peak in
Nepal): Shahroz Kashif
6. The “Global Report on Food Crisis” released by Global Network Against Food Crisis, an alliance
of the United Nations, the European Union, government, and non-governmental agencies
working to tackle food crises together, stated that drought conditions in Balochistan and
Sindh and inadequate monsoon rainfall in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa had reduced crop and
livestock production and contributed to rising national food prices
8. Recently, US announced that it wants to work with Pakistan on border security and
counterterrorism
9. Pakistan’s position on the media freedom index has felt. Pakistan was 145th on the 2021 index
and fell to 157th on a list of 180 countries in 2022
INTERNATIONAL
1. Newly elected president of the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC): English actor Stephen Fry
5. A new World Health Organization (WHO) report, which is being considered the most
comprehensive look at the true global toll of the pandemic so far, reveals that the actual
number of deaths from the pandemic was nearly three times more than what official data
showed
8. Recently, German Industrial Giant Siemens unveiled its first hydrogen-powered train (MIREO
PLUS H) developed with rail operator Deutsche Bahn, with a plan to put it into service
regionally in 2024
2) According to PM office (PMO), this year’s wheat production is 26.173m tonnes against a target
of 28.89m tonnes while the estimated consumption would be around 30.79m tonnes
6) According to World Food Programme estimation around 43pc Pakistanis are food-insecure
7) Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Ramiz Raja is set to stay in his post for a couple of weeks
INTERNATIONAL
1) The earth has three layers of verifying temperature: Crust, Mantle, and Core
2) The Governing Olympics Council of Asia (OCA) said recently the Asian Games scheduled to
take place in the Chinese city of Hangzhou in September have been postponed because of the
Covid-19 situation
6) Recently, mining giant Anglo American unveiled the world’s largest hydrogen-powered truck,
a monster weighing in at 220 tones, at a platinum mine in northern South Africa
7) ICRC stands for: International Committee of the Red Cross
8) On 6th May, 2022 US president Joe Biden named Karine Jaen-Pierre as the next White House
Press Secretary, the first Black person to hold the high-profile post
9) Author of the book “My Experiment with Truth”: Gandhi (Wrote this book in Pune’s Yare
Wada Jail)
3) Recently, Sirbaz Khan, 32-years old became the first Pakistani to climb 10 of the world’s 14
highest peaks.
5) Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) chairman Muzammil Hussain has resigned
from his post
INTERNATIONAL
1) Capital city of Kenya: Nairobi
7) According to a latest data, water inflows into major reservoirs due to snow melting on
mountains following increase in temperature
10) According to National Health Services (NHS) over 100, 000 thalassemia patients exist in the
country
INTERNATIONAL
1) Luhansk is a region of: Ukraine
8) Member countries of G7: France, Canada, Germany, Italy, Japan, Britain, the United Sates
5) Punjab Governor Omar Sarfraz Cheema has ceased to hold office on the advice of the prime
minister
INTERNATIONAL
1) Current head coach of Pakistan’s women cricket team: David Hemp
6) Russians celebrate Victory Day on 9th May to commemorate the Soviet defeat of Nazi
Germany in World War II
10) According to UN-backed report, nearly half of Afghanistan’s population are facing acute
hunger
11) According to Iran’s foreign ministry Qatar’s Emir will visit Iran soon
13) Recently, water signs were detected on which moon of Jupiter? Europa
2) Sumaira Rahman, a Pakistani woman who served jail time and detention in India for four
years, returns to Pakistan along with her child. She was arrested in 2017 because of her
expired Visa
3) In the last 50 years, Pakistan’s reliance on groundwater has at least tripled, making the
country world’s fourth-largest groundwater user, following three much larger countries----
China, India, and the US
4) A closer looker at the water budget reveals that almost 95pc of Pakistan’s total surface water
is used for Agriculture. Barely, 5pc is left for domestic and commercial use.
5) Government has decided to set up 43 wheat procurement centers in four districts of Lahore
divisions
10) Pakistan recently attended a meeting in Uzbekistan to discuss the construction of a 600km
railway link with Afghanistan and Uzbekistan
INTERNATIONAL
1) Meta is a parent company of: Facebook
2) According to the recent Meta Report on “Global State of Small Business 2022”, over 77pc
small and medium businesses are using the plate form of Facebook to generate revenues
7) Recently, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia signed an agreement to develop the Arash/Dorra gas field
9) According to a latest survey, only 25% women with degrees are part of labour force
INTERNATIONAL
1) Current information minister: Maryam Aurangzab
2) Sadly, a veteran Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Aqleh, a Palestinian-American who was
among the network’s most prominent figures, was shot dead on 11th May 2022, as she
covered an Israeli army raid in the occupied West Bank
5) According to experts, every heatwave in the world is now made stronger and more likely to
happen because of human-based climate change.
11) Recently, embattled Sri Lankan president vowed to give up most of his executive powers
3) Recently, Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) confirmed Bismah Maroof will continue to lead the
national women’s limited overs team in the 2022-2023 season
4) Recently, four Pakistan Weightlifters including Olympian Talha Talib were banned by the
International Weightlifting Federation for Doping
8) Export of potatoes rose 9.8% mainly because of robust production of the vegetables
INTERNATIONAL
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1) On 12 May 2022, an international team of astronomers unveiled the first image of a
supermassive black hole at the centre of our own Milky Way galaxy, a cosmic body known as
Sagittarius A*.
4) On 12th May 2022, scientists for the first time grew seeds in soil from the moon. They planted
the seeds of a flowering weed Arabidopsis thaliana
5) Recently, United Nations Human Right Council launched a probe into Russian abuses in
Ukraine. Two countries vote against the resolution, Pakistan among 12 abstentions
4) Pakistan has been ranked 14th among 17 hot and dry countries like Saudi Arabia
5) The Pakistan Super League’s PSL seventh edition added Rs2 billion to the country’s cricket
board reserves
6) Recently, a fire erupted allegedly because of an uprooted electricity pole supporting a high-
tension live wire in area of the Lal Sohanra National Park. And it has destroyed 25-acre forest
area
INTERNATIONAL
1) Liverpool has been winner in FA Cup for seven times
3) Former world champion Amir Khan recently announced his retirement from boxing after a 17-
year professional career
4) The draw for the 2023 Women’s World Cup football, co-hosted by Australia and New Zealand,
will take place in Auckland on October 22 this year, FIFA said recently
6) President of UAE Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al-Nahyan has died on 13th May 2022
7) Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said recently that it was not possible for Turkey to support
the plans of Sweden and Finland to join NATO
8) The world’s richest person, Elon Musk, has put his $44 billion cash deal for Twitter Inc because
of fake account data
3) Exports of textile and clothing has grown to 26.95 pc year-on-year to $16bn in the first 10
months of this fiscal year
INTERNATIONAL
1) Capital city of Egypt: Cairo
2) According to Asian Football Federation, China no longer will host the 2023 Asian Cup finals
due to Covid-19 restrictions
9) According to Chinese news agency, recently, China has completed a test flight of the country’s
first C919 jetliner
10) Myanmar monks celebrated Buddha’s Birthday at junta event on 14th May
11) IS has claimed the responsibility for a recent deadly attack on Egyptian Soldiers in Sinai
2) Recently, PM Shahbaz Sharif made his visit to United Kingdom and UAE where he offered his
condolence on the demise of the country’s sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan
3) These days, reports of rising cases of Cholera and acute watery diarrhea in several areas of the
country
INTERNATIONAL
1) PASDARAN is: Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
2) In which year former US President Donald Trump’s Administration scuttles Iran Nuclear Deal
in which year: 2018
4) Australian all-rounder Andrew Symonds died recently in a car accident on 15th May 2022
8) Finland officially announced its intension recently to join NATO and Sweden’s ruling party said
it backed membership, paving the way for a joint application
2) With which country, Pakistan recently celebrated his 30 years relationship? Tajikistan
4) Recently, “Global Food Policy Report 2022” has cautioned that summer heatwaves are
projected to increase at a rate of 0.71 day per decade in Pakistan
5) According to Minister of Climate Change, Pakistan is among three most water stressed
countries in the world
6) Two Pakistani climbers separately summited the world’s highest peak, Mount Everest, and
fourth highest, Lhotse, In Nepal on 16th May 2022
INTERNATIONAL
1) World Hypertension Day: 17th May
4) Recently, French President, Emmanuel Macron named labour Minister Elizbeth Borne as his
new Prime minister, the first women to head the French government in over 30 years
5) China has dropped its plan to conduct 2023 Asian Cup due to exceptional circumstances
caused by Covid-19 pandemic
6) According to latest news by International Olympic Committee (IOC) Russian members can take
part in this week’s IOC session, despite Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
9) Recently, Iran said it hopes to expand ties with the United Arab Emirates after Sheikh
Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan was elected president of the Gulf country following his half-
brother’s death
2) Pakistan Hockey’s Federation’s national selection committee announced recently that Umar
Bhutta will lead a 20-member Pakistan squad at this month’s Asia Cup
3) This Year’s Asia Cup will be held in Jakarta, Indonesia from May 23
5) Founder of Labour Qaumi Movement Pakistan Mian Abdul Qayyum died o n 17th May 2022
6) In 2019, the Journal Science Advance published a study about the state of world’s glaciers in
the Himalayan Mountain range were melting much faster than they did at the end of the last
century
7) According to WWF, spotted croaker and Japanese Meager are two species of large croakers
(Fish type) found in Pakistan
INTERNATIONAL
1) The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, in its Sixth Assessment Report said that heat
waves and humid heat stress will be more intense and frequent in South Asia this century
6) Current secretary General of World Meteorological Organization (WMO): Prof Petteri Taalas
7) Treaty of Westphalia was signed in: 1648
2) Economic growth rate projections in 2021-2022 by International Monetary Fund and World
bank are 4 and 4.3pc respectively
3) The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has declared forex trading plateforms like OctaFX and Easy
Forex illegal in the country
5) Internationally renowned Pakistani ceramist, Shehrezade Alam, died on 18th May 2022
9) The German Watch Institute has placed Pakistan among top 10 countries which are most
vulnerable to climate change
INTERNATIONAL
1) Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated on May 21, 1991, in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, India
(Perarivalan was arrested then as accused. Now he has been released from jail at 50)
2) Who wrote the essay, “Pakistan: the burden of US aid’ (1962)”: Hamza Alavi
3) In recent days, suddenly, fire started and engulfed thousands of pine trees in Balochistan’s
Sharani district
5) Current federal minister for Information Technology and Telecommunication: Syed Aminul
Haque
9) FIFA World Cup Trophy will come to Pakistan Today (20th May)
10) PIA has announced that it would start direct flights to Syria’s capital Damascus from 28 th May
2022
INTERNATIONAL
1) FIFA announced recently that women referee will officiate matches at the men’s World Cup
for the first time in Qatar this year
3) In which year US-led invasion of Iraq toppled dictator Saddam Hussain: 2003
4) The WMO report confirmed that the past seven years have been the warmest seven years ion
record
5) According to recent “State of the Global Climate report”, four climate change indicators---
greenhouse gas concentration, sea level rise, ocean heat and ocean acidification --- set new
records in 2021. Further, the report says, the concentration of “Greenhouses Gases” has
reached 413.2 parts per million globally, or 149 % of the preindustrial level. And the upper 2,
000m depth of the ocean continued to warm in 2021.
2) According to a report nearly 5, 000 cases of obstetric fistula are being reported in Pakistan
every year
5) 75th World Health Assembly (WHA) began in Geneva on 23rd May 2022
6) Name the forest in which fire is on these days: Shirani Park (Tor-Garh)
7) The popular play for children “Ainak Wala Jin” was first televised by the PTV Lahore Centre in
February 1993 (Munna Lahori performed the role of Zakota jin and Nusrat Ara performed the
role of Bioll Batori)
8) Recently, Pakistan and China reiterated commitment to cementing bilateral relations in the
field of defence, trade, economy, investment, health, agriculture, science and technology and
CPEC to the mutual benefit of the two countries
9) The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) has
listed 12 countries of the region, including Pakistan, which are classified as countries in special
situation, and are deemed more exposed to the ongoing war in Ukraine
10) Amid rising oil consumption and import bill owing to international prices, the government is
examining the possibility of fuel conservation through reduced working days a week
INTERNATIONAL
1) Who is the winner of the Premier League 2022? Manchester city
3) TOLOnews Agency, Ariana TV and Shamshad TV and 1Tv belong to: Afghanistan
5) According to a latest US report many soldiers of the former Afghan government fled to
Pakistan after the fall of Kabul
6) According to a report by UN refugee Agency UNHCR, more than 300, 000 Afghan had fled to
Pakistan between August 2021 and January 2022
7) Good Friday Agreement was signed between the British and Irish people in 1998
8) What you know about “Operation Fly Formula”: this operation has been started b y Biden
administration to import much needed baby formula from Germany
2) Chief justice of Pakistan, Umar Ata Bandial recently has been named among the “100 Most
Influential People of 2022” by Time Magazine. He is widely respected for his personal integrity
5) Current federal minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiative: Ahsan Iqbal
7) Recently, senate approved a bill, seeking separation of the judiciary and the Executive
8) The government has asked all ministries, division, provinces, and public sector enterprises to
immediate surrender their working capital and surplus funds and deposit treasury account
Current Finance minister: Miftah Ismail
INTERNATIONAL
1) GKB Stadium is in: Indonesia
4) Mentor (Hyon Chol Hae) of Kim Jong Un (Current North Korean leader) has been died
6) Current UNHCR’s Director for Asia and the Pacific: Indrika Ratwatte
2) Toba Hassan (Pakistani Cricketer), has taken her first international wicket in her very first over
while playing against Sri Lanka
3) According to the Global Food Policy Report 2022, heatwaves such as the ongoing one in the
country will increase at the shocking rate of 0.71 days per decade in Pakistan.
4) The city and princely state of Bahawalpur acceded to Pakistan on 7 October 1947 under
Nawab Sadiq Muhammad Khan Abbasi V Bahadur.
5) Bahawalpur observed the death anniversary of Nawab Sir Saqib Muhammad Khan Abbasi on
24th May
6) Six peacekeepers from Pakistan will be honored posthumously with “Dag Hammarskjold
Medal” at a ceremony at UN headquarters on May 26
7) According to NHCR, between 2011 to 2021, more than 65% of sanitary workers who died
while unclogging gutters belong to minority communities
INTERNATIONAL
1) Current Chairman of the International Cricket Council (ICC): Greg Barclay
3) Recently, a United Arab Emirates company (GAAC) signed a contract with the Taliban
authorities to provide ground handling services at three Afghanistan’s three airports
4) Recently, Chinese and Russian military planes conducted joint exercises to patrol the Asia-
Pacific region during Biden’s presence in Japan
8) The Amnesty International recently said that 2021 saw a worrying rise in executions and death
sentences
9) According to a latest report by UNICEF (Innocenti Report Card 17: Places and Spaces), the
majority of wealthy countries is creating unhealthy, dangerous and noxious conditions for
children across the word
Current Russian Defence Minister: Sergei Shoigu
2) Pakistani authorities need an immediate ban on export of maize to ensure food security. As
Pakistan is already facing a decline in maize production this year
4) According to Rescue 1122, more than Rs23 million worth trees have burnt in 38 incidents of
bush fire in Narowal district in the first five months of the year.
INTERNATIONAL
1) Current Secretary-General of SCO: Zhang Ming
2) Iga Swiatek is a Polish professional tennis player. She is currently ranked world No. 1 by the
Women's Tennis Association
3) Recently, a New Delhi court ordered life in jail for Yasin Malik for funding “terrorist” activities
and on several other counts
10) Several countries like Argentina, Egypt, India, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Russia, and Serbia have
imposed ban of export of food items to ensure their food security
INTERNATIONAL
1) The World Bank has announced its decision to resume the two separate processes requested
by Pakistan and India in relation to the Kishenganga and Ratle hydroelectric power plants, in
line with its responsibilities under the Indus Waters Treaty.
4) Author of the book “Urdu Mein Ilm-i-Bayan Aur Ilm-i-Badee’ ke Mabahis: Dr. Muzammil
Hussain
6) Chief Minister Hamza Shehbaz has given approval to impose a ban on holding rallies in the
Greater Iqbal Park, saying that the use of this historical park for holding public rallies is
inappropriate.
7) The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the Cabinet on May 28, 2022 decided to
import two million tonnes of wheat
8) The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has decided to invest $25 million in the country`s
top fashion retailers
INTERNATIONAL
1) Capital city of Tunisia: Tunis
3) Fusako Shigenobu, the 76-year-old female founder of the once-feared Japanese Red Army,
walked free from prison, recently.
7) Russian forces on May 28, 2022 announced a latest successful test of their Zircon hypersonic
cruise missile
8) Deadly nose-bleed fever is the worst detected outbreak of which country: Iraq
2) Name the director of film which recently won the Jury Prize in the "Un Certain Regard"
competition: Saim Sadiq
5) The Indus River Basin System receives more than 70pc of its water from the melting of glaciers
located in the Hindukush-Karakoram-Himalaya
INTERNATIONAL
1) Vanarasi is new name of which city of India: Banaras
2) The capital of Monaco is Monte Carlo (Monaco is second smallest country in the world)
3) Sudan’s Army chief Abdel- Fattah al-Burhan has lifted a state of emergency imposed since last
year’s military coupe
4) Verona is a city in northern Italy
5) Who won the 2022 UEFA Champions League (UCL) title: Real Madrid
6) India’s popular Punjabi Singer-actor Shubhdeep Singh Sidhu known as Sidhu Moosewala was
shot dead on 29th November
7) Recently, an 18-year-old Salvador Rolando Ramos fatally shot nineteen students and two
teachers, and wounded seventeen other people at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas,
United State
2) A senior European Union diplomate indicated the “GSP+” status beyond 2023 is possible for
Pakistan.
3) The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly recently passed a proposed law to abolish the pension
and gratuity facility for future government employees after retirement and introduce
contributory pension for them
5) Current minister for National Food Security and Research: Ch. Tariq Basheer Cheema
INTERNATIONAL
1) According to UN report, there are up to 4, 000 TTP fighters holed up in provinces bordering
Pakistan and Afghanistan
2) Which country recently hosted the last meeting of Shanghai Cooperation Organization’s
Regional Anti-Terror Structure (RATS): India (May 2022)
4) Author of autobiographical novel “Necropolis”: Boris Pahor (Died at age of 108 on 30th May
2022)
5) A UN nuclear watchdog said recently that it estimated Iran’s Stockpile of enriched uranium
had grown to more than 18 times the limit laid down in Tehran’s deal with world powers.
JUNE
6) Minister for National Health and Services (NHS): recently announced that Pakistan is the only
country in the Eastern Mediterranean region that would achieve the target of reducing
tobacco use by 30% by 2025
7) Which province of Pakistan recently launched a state-of-the-art Rescue 1122 service? Sindh
8) Current federal ombudsperson for Harassment of Women at the Workplace: Kashmala Tariq
9) Current minister for National Health and Services (NHS): Abdul Qadir Patel
INTERNATIONAL
1) Current Siri Lanka women’s cricket team captain: Chamari Athapaththu
3) On 31st May, Israel signed a free trade deal with the United Arab Emirates, its first with an
Arab country, building on their US brokered normalization of diplomatic relations in 2020.
4) This year’s football world cup is being held in Qatar from Nov 21 to Dec 18
2) Founder and Chairperson of Beaconhouse Group Nasreen Mahmud Kasuri was given the
honorary “Living Legend Award” by a Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) in
recognition of her valuable role towards the development of the education sector in Pakistan
for over four-and-a half decade
6) Current Chief Justice of Peshawar High Court is: Justice Qaiser Rashid Khan
7) The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Pakistan has appointed actor Fawad
Khan as its “National Goodwill Ambassador”.
INTERNATIONAL
1) The first case of monkeypox virus in human was diagnosed in: 1970
3) Recently, the Turkish PM announced to halt talks with Greece due to air space violation
5) What is “FluBot” a term in news these days: A mobile phone scam which spread fake text
messages around the world
7) Krishnakumar Kunnath, who recently died after concert, was from which country? India
2) The federal government has approved the appointment of Ghulam Nabi Memon as Inspector
General (IG) Sindh Police
INTERNATIONAL
1) Martina Trevisan is an Italian professional tennis player.
2) The Taliban administration`s acting foreign minister: Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttagi
3) On June 2, 2022, a team of Indian officials met the acting Taliban foreign minister of
Afghanistan to discuss bilateral ties and humanitarian aid
4) WAFA is news agency of: Palestine
6) A new World Bank report says 733 million people globally have no access to electricity
7) Buckingham Palace is a London royal residence and the administrative headquarters of the
monarch of the United Kingdom.
9) North Korea, which is under sanctions for developing nuclear weapons has taken over as
head of a UN body aimed at striking disarmament deals amid scorn from critics
10) World Health Organization (WHO) adopted the framework Convention on Tobacco Control
(FCTC) in which year: 2003
4) Current president of Azad Jammu and Kashmir: Barrister Sultan Mehmood Khan
6) The government with the support of the UN refugee Agency has completed the verification of
some 1.3 million registered Afghan refugees living in Pakistan
7) Current Director General of the Federal Investigation Agency: Dr. Sanaullah Abbasi
INTERNATIONAL
1) UNODC stands for: United Nations Office on Drug and Crime
2) What is the coldest sea in the world? The White Sea (In Russia)
4) The UN confirmed recently that it has accepted a request from the Turkish government to
change the country’s name from Turkey to Turkiye
7) A new White House report, US Action Plan on Global Water Security, forecasts that Pakistan
will be among the world’s most water-stressed countries, along with other regional states, by
2040
5TH JUNE 2022
NATIONAL
1) Recently, Annual Plan Coordination Committee (APCC) set economic growth target at 5pc with
Rs800bn for next fiscal year
4) According to latest survey by World Bank titled “Plastic Waste: A Journey Down the Indus
Basin in Pakistan”, the river Indus delivers around 10, 000 tonnes of macro-plastics annually to
the Arabian Sea
INTERNATIONAL
1) Al-Ekhbariya channel belongs to: Saudi Arabia
4) Iga Swiątek is a Polish professional tennis player. She is currently ranked world No. 1 by the
Women's Tennis Association,
5) According to International Cricket Council (ICC) chair Greg Barclay Women’s Test matches
should be played over five days
9) Japanese man (Kenichi Horie) has become the world oldest man to sail around the Pacific solo
5) It is quite problematic that the per capita availability has declined fro 2, 150 Cubic Meter to
860 Cubic Meter in Pakistan
INTERNATIONAL
1) North Korean capital is Pyongyang
2) What you know about People`s Protection Units (YPG): It is a Kurdish militia group is active in
areas in Syria
3) Rafael Nadal won a 14th French Open and record-extending 22nd Grand Sam title on 5h June
2022
4) American Devin Haney beat Australia’s George Kambosos and has become the first
undisputed lightweight world champion in modern boxing history
8) Recently, Indian Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) said it had suspended BJP spokeswoman Nupur
Sharma in response to comment she made during a TV debate about the Holy Prophet (PBUH)
10) Recently, North Korea fired eight ballistic missiles, a day after South Korea and United States
ended joint military drills
2) According to data, collected by the World Health Organization and the NHS ministry, every
year 17 million people die of heart diseases across the globe. In 2016 around 19pc death were
reported due to heart-related issues in Pakistan but now, as per reports, this number has gone
up to 29pc.
INTERNATIONAL
1) Rafael Nadal tennis player belongs to which country: Spain
6) Elon Musk recently warned that he might walk out from his $44 billion offer to acquire Twitter
Inc social media network failed to provide data on spam and fake accounts
10) Recently, Zendaya’s “Euphoria” and “Spider-Ma” won the MTV Awards
11) South Korea and the United States fired eight ballistic missiles on 6th June 2022 in response to
North Korean weapons tests the previous day
2) (B) Current Federal Minister for Commerce and Investment: Syed Naveed Qamar
4) (D) According to Sindh health Department’s Communicable Disease Control (CDC) unit, the
nuber of HIV infections in Pakistan jumped 84pc between 2010 and 2020
INTERNATIONAL
1) Current German Foreign Minister who recently meet Pakistani foreign minister: Annalena
Baerbock
5) Recently, which two agencies issued a report titled, “Hunger Hotspot: FAO-WFP Early
Warnings on Acute Food Insecurity”? UN World Food Program (WFP) and Food and
Agriculture Organization (FAO). In this report the warnings have been given about multiple,
looming food crisis across the world
6) Current head of International Atomic Energy Association (IAEA): Rafael Grossi
9) Recently, Russia announced claimed it’s “Full Control” Ukrainian city of Severodonetsk,
2) The world bank says GDP growth in Pakistan is expected to be 4. 0 per cent in 2022-2023
slower from 5.7 per cent in 2020-2021.
INTERNATIONAL
1) Rosneft is a Russian Oil Company
6) According to Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, Iran discounted some of the United Nations
nuclear watchdog’s monitoring camaras on 8th June 2022 after western nations accused
Tehran of Non-Cooperation
2) According to the Economic Survey of Pakistan 2021-2022, only 1.77 pc of GDP was spent on
the education sector last year while literacy rate was recorded at 63pc
3) Lawmaker and television personality Amir Liaqat passed away on 9th June 2022
5) According to the Pakistan Economic survey 2021-2022, the PTI government’s Ten Billion Tree
Tsunami Programme achieved over a billion-tree plantation target till March 2022
7) According to latest Pakistan Economic Survey, the country’s agriculture sector recorded a
remarkable growth of 4.4pc during the outgoing fiscal year’s, surpassing the target of 3.5 pc
and last year’s growth of 3.4pc
8) According to data shared by Punjab Irrigation Department, the canal system in Punjab is facing
up to 75pc water shortage
10) Current Inspector General of Police of Azad Jammu and Kashmir: Dr Amir Ahmad Sheikh
INTERNATIONAL
1) New Zealand national cricket team the Black Caps
4) A united Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women)
and a Pakistani textile mill have signed an agreement to strengthen their cooperation and
promote gender equality at the workplace through capacity building initiatives on harassment
and redressal mechanism and gender responsive policies and procurement among others
7) A giant crocodile faced dinosaur discovered on the Isle of Wight by one of Britain’s best fossil
hunters, was probably the largest predator ever to stalk Europe (It has been named as “White
Rock Spinosaurid”)
8) The Greek Orthodox Church is the largest and wealthiest church in Jerusalem (Israel captured
east Jerusalem in 1967)
4) The federal government has allocated Rs21 billion in the budge for 2022-2023 under a three-
year growth strategy for improving the output of crops and livestock, countering climate
change impact, promoting smart agriculture, value addition and agro-processing
6) UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres recently announced the appointment of Navid Hanif
of Pakistan as assistant secretary general for economic development in the department of
Economic and Social Affairs
7) The federal government has allocated Rs9.6 billion for Climate Change Division under the
Public Service Development Program 2022-2023
8) Recently, the government proposed an allocation of Rs1.523 trillion for defence services for
the fiscal year 2022-2023
INTERNATIONAL
1) Current captain of West Indies cricket team: Nicholas Pooran
6) Scientists said recently that asteroid dust collected by a Japanese space probe contains
organic material that shows some of the building blocks of life on Earth may have been
formed in space
2) Recently, government announced to remove the sales tax on the entire range of farm
machinery most importantly tractors and seeds of important crops like oil seeds
3) The government has allocated Rs 21 billion for three-year growth strategy of agriculture and
its subsector livestock
5) Which Pakistani recently won World Boxing Association (WBA) title on International
Professional Boxing Festival in Gilgit: Usman Wazir
6) Incumbent Federal Minister for Railway: Khwaja Saad Rafique
7) Recently, Food and Agriculture organization (FAO) said in its report on World Food Outlook
that the intensification of demand for rice from all regions of the world, except Asia, could
benefit to Pakistan
INTERNATIONAL
1) Roger Federer is a ___ Swiss player
7) Recently, Saudi Arabia pledged $10 million to help prevent an ageing Yemeni oil tanker (FSO
Safar) from unleashing a potentially catastrophic spill in the red sea bordering its borders