Geography and Provinces

Geography And Provinces

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  1. Complete the sentence about Karachi with the correct year: The region has been inhabited for several millennia, although Karachi was formally founded as the fortified village of Kolachi only in ______…
  2. Complete the sentence about Karachi with the correct year: According to the ______ Pakistani census, its total population was 20.3 million.
  3. Complete the sentence about Rawalpindi with the correct year: Afterwards, it came in hand of the Gakhars and a chief named Jhanda Khan restored it naming it Rawalpindi in ______, literally meaning the…
  4. Complete the sentence about Multan with the correct year: Multan Subah, formed after reforms of Akbar in ______, was one of the largest provinces of the Mughal Empire.
  5. Complete the sentence about Hyderabad, Sindh with the correct year: The River Indus was changing course around ______, resulting in periodic floods of the then capital of the Kalhora dynasty, Khudabad…
  6. Complete the sentence about Hyderabad, Sindh with the correct year: In ______, Mian Ghulam Shah Kalhoro ordered a fort to be built on one of the three hills of Hyderabad to house and defend his people…
  7. Complete the sentence about Islamabad with the correct year: Built as a planned city along the Margalla Hills in the 1960s and established in ______, Islamabad replaced Karachi as Pakistan's national…
  8. Complete the sentence about Quetta with the correct year: In ______, the Mughal emperor Humayun passed through the Quetta region while fleeing to Safavid Iran following his defeat by Sher Shah Suri.
  9. Complete the sentence about Quetta with the correct year: In ______, the Quetta region came under the authority of the Afghan Hotak dynasty.
  10. Complete the sentence about Quetta with the correct year: Following the establishment of the Durrani Empire in ______, Ahmad Shah Durrani incorporated Quetta into the Afghan state.
  11. Complete the sentence about Quetta with the correct year: During the Second Anglo-Afghan War, British forces occupied Quetta, and in ______ formal control was established through a lease arrangement w…
  12. Complete the sentence about Bahawalpur with the correct year: Bahawalpur was established in ______ by Nawab Bahawal Khan I, after he migrated to the region around Uch from Shikarpur, Sindh.
  13. Complete the sentence about Bahawalpur with the correct year: In ______, the Durrani commander Sirdar Khan attacked Bahawalpur city and destroyed many of its buildings on behalf of Mian Abdul Nabi Kal…
  14. Complete the sentence about Bahawalpur with the correct year: The princely state of Bahawalpur was founded in ______ by Nawab Mohammad Bahawal Khan II after the break-up of the Durrani Empire, and was…
  15. Complete the sentence about Sheikhupura with the correct year: Jehangir laid the foundation of the Sheikhupura Fort in ______, which is situated in the city's centre.
  16. Complete the sentence about Sheikhupura with the correct year: The large area between the Chenab and Ravi rivers were initially consolidated into a single district with Sheikhupura serving as its firs…
  17. Complete the sentence about Rahim Yar Khan with the correct year: In ______, Sadeq Mohammad Khan IV renamed the area to Rahim Yar Khan in honour of his son.
  18. Complete the sentence about Rahim Yar Khan with the correct year: Rahim Yar Khan was a part of the Bahawalpur State until ______, when it became a separate district.
  19. Complete the sentence about Jhang with the correct year: The city of Jhang was built in ______ by Rai Sial, a chief of the Sial tribe.
  20. Complete the sentence about Mardan with the correct year: Around ______ BCE, the area around Mardan was part of the homeland of the Gandhara grave culture.
  21. Complete the sentence about Mardan with the correct year: The nearby Takht-i-Bahi has remains of an ancient Buddhist monastery was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in ______.
  22. Complete the sentence about Mardan with the correct year: The area around Mardan then formed part of the homeland of the Gandhara grave culture around ______ BCE.
  23. Complete the sentence about Abbottabad with the correct year: Abbottabad was founded in ______ during British rule and was named after James Abbott, the first deputy commissioner of Hazara.
  24. Complete the sentence about Abbottabad with the correct year: Haripur, founded by Nalwa in ______, became the capital of Hazara before the establishment of Abbottabad.
  25. Complete the sentence about Abbottabad with the correct year: In January ______, during his tenure, Abbott founded the town that became Abbottabad.
  26. Complete the sentence about Mingora with the correct year: At Loe Banr, Butkara II and Matalai, Italian archaeologists unearthed 475 Indo-Aryan graves dated between ______ and 170 BC and two horse ske…
  27. Complete the sentence about Kasur with the correct year: In ______ CE, Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni, took over the region under the Ghaznavid dynasty.
  28. Complete the sentence about Mirpur Khas with the correct year: The Talpur dynasty conquered Sindh in ______, and under Mir Fath Ali Khan, Sindh was divided into three smaller regions to be ruled by me…
  29. Complete the sentence about Mirpur Khas with the correct year: The opening of the Jamrao Canal in ______ made Mirpur Khas stand out of the rest of the towns in the district.
  30. Complete the sentence about Chiniot with the correct year: Chiniot suffered heavily during the Durrani invasion of the late ______.
  31. Complete the sentence about Chiniot with the correct year: Chiniot was captured by Ranjit Singh in ______, and thereafter became part of the Sikh Empire.
  32. Complete the sentence about Jacobabad with the correct year: According to the ______ Census of Pakistan, in Jacobabad City, Sindhi is overwhelmingly dominant, spoken by 90.16% of the population.
  33. Complete the sentence about Khuzdar with the correct year: By ______, after Khudadad's death, the authority of Kalat was restored.
  34. Complete the sentence about Khuzdar with the correct year: Under a treaty with Kalat, the British appointed a political agent at Khuzdar in ______.
  35. Complete the sentence about Khuzdar with the correct year: British assistance continued until ______, after which the area was acceded to Pakistan and became a democracy.
  36. Complete the sentence about Chaman with the correct year: Chaman has been used by NATO forces as a major supply route into Afghanistan since ______.
  37. Complete the sentence about Muzaffarabad with the correct year: Muzaffarabad was founded in ______ by Sultan Muzaffar Khan, chief of the Bomba tribe who ruled Kashmir.
  38. Complete the sentence about Skardu with the correct year: Around the year ______, Maqpon Bokha was crowned ruler and founded the city of Skardu as his capital.
  39. Complete the sentence about Murree with the correct year: Construction of the town started in ______ on the hills of Murree as a sanatorium for British troops.
  40. Complete the sentence about Murree with the correct year: The permanent town of Murree was constructed in ______ and a church was consecrated shortly thereafter.
  41. Complete the sentence about Murree with the correct year: Since the independence of Pakistan in ______, Murree has retained its position as a popular hill station, noted for its pleasant summer weathe…
  42. Complete the sentence about Swat Valley with the correct year: The State of Swat became a princely state under British suzerainty as part of the British Raj in ______.
  43. Complete the sentence about Swat Valley with the correct year: In ______, following the Partition of Pakistan and India, Swat acceded to the Dominion of Pakistan.
  44. Complete the sentence about Chitral with the correct year: Raís dynasty began to rule over Chitral in ______, which came to an end in the 15th century.
  45. Complete the sentence about Chitral with the correct year: From ______ onwards Chitral was the capital of the kingdom of Chitral under the rule of the Katūr dynasty.
  46. Complete the sentence about Chitral with the correct year: The British garrison faced a month-long siege at Chitral Fort by the Chitralis in ______ during the Chitral Expedition.
  47. Complete the sentence about Chitral with the correct year: In ______, following the partition of the British India, the princely states were given the choice to either remain independent or accede to…
  48. Complete the sentence about Kaghan Valley with the correct year: Landslides triggered by the devastating ______ Kashmir earthquake destroyed many passes leading into the valley, though roads have sinc…
  49. Complete the sentence about Neelum Valley with the correct year: The Neelum District was part of the Muzaffarabad District until ______.
  50. Complete the sentence about Fairy Meadows with the correct year: In ______, the Government of Pakistan declared Fairy Meadows a National Park.
  51. Complete the sentence about Fairy Meadows with the correct year: In ______, the World Health Organization declared it the second-deadliest road on the planet.
  52. Complete the sentence about K2 with the correct year: The summit was reached for the first time by the Italian climbers Lino Lacedelli and Achille Compagnoni on a ______ Italian expedition led by Ardi…
  53. Complete the sentence about Broad Peak with the correct year: The first ascent of this mountain was in June ______, accomplished by Fritz Wintersteller, Marcus Schmuck, Kurt Diemberger, and Hermann Bu…
  54. Complete the sentence about Broad Peak with the correct year: The English name was introduced in ______ by the British explorer Martin Conway, in reference to the similarly named Breithorn in the Alps…
  55. Complete the sentence about Broad Peak with the correct year: In ______, French mountaineer Élisabeth Revol made solo ascents of Broad Peak, Gasherbrum I and Gasherbrum II within 16 days and without t…
  56. Complete the sentence about Gasherbrum I with the correct year: Montgomerie in ______ when he first spotted the peaks of the Karakoram from more than 200 km away during the Great Trigonometric Survey…
  57. Complete the sentence about Gasherbrum I with the correct year: Gasherbrum I was first climbed on July 5, ______, by Pete Schoening and Andy Kauffman of an eight-man American expedition led by Nichola…
  58. Complete the sentence about Karakoram with the correct year: European explorers first visited in the early 19th century, followed by British surveyors starting in ______.
  59. Complete the sentence about Karakoram with the correct year: The Muztagh Pass was crossed in ______ by the expedition of Colonel Francis Younghusband, and the valleys above the Hunza River were explor…
  60. Complete the sentence about Khyber Pass with the correct year: Sikhs under Ranjit Singh captured the Khyber Pass in ______, with the Sikh general Hari Singh Nalwa constructing the Jamrud Fort to safeg…
  61. Complete the sentence about Khyber Pass with the correct year: Following the partition of India in ______, the Khyber Pass became part of Pakistan.
  62. Complete the sentence about Khunjerab Pass with the correct year: The decision to use the Khunjerab Pass for the Karakoram Highway was made in ______.
  63. Complete the sentence about Khunjerab Pass with the correct year: Since 1 June ______, there has been a daily bus service across the boundary from Gilgit to Kashgar, Xinjiang.
  64. Complete the sentence about Khunjerab Pass with the correct year: In ______, consultants were hired to evaluate the construction of a railway through this pass to connect China with transport in Pakis…
  65. Complete the sentence about Karakoram Highway with the correct year: In ______, China, citing the fact that Mintaka would be more susceptible to air strikes, recommended the steeper Khunjerab Pass ins…
  66. Complete the sentence about Indus River with the correct year: The ______ remeasurement suggested the source was a small lake northeast of Mount Kailash, rather than either of the two points previousl…
  67. Complete the sentence about Indus River with the correct year: As of ______, Indus water flows into the Rann of Kutch during its floods breaching flood banks.
  68. Complete the sentence about Chenab River with the correct year: Historically, the Chenab River used to flow east of Multan prior to ______, after which the Beas River occupied its old bed that went by…
  69. Complete the sentence about Chenab River with the correct year: All of these are "run-of-the-river" projects as per the Indus Waters Treaty of ______.
  70. Complete the sentence about Mangla Dam with the correct year: Until ______, the entire irrigation system of Pakistan was fully dependent on unregulated flows of the Indus River and its major tributari…
  71. Complete the sentence about Kalabagh Dam with the correct year: In December ______, Pervez Musharraf announced that he would re-initiate the Kalabagh project to serve the larger interest of Pakistan.
  72. Complete the sentence about Thar Desert with the correct year: The Indus Valley Civilization flourished along the vicinity of the Ghaggar-Hakra River between 3300 BCE to ______ BCE.
  73. Complete the sentence about Punjab, Pakistan with the correct year: The province forms the bulk of the transnational Punjab region, partitioned in ______ between Pakistan and India.
  74. Complete the sentence about Sindh with the correct year: The Aryans migrated from Central Asia after ______ BCE as the Indus Valley Civilisation gradually declined.
  75. Complete the sentence about Gilgit-Baltistan with the correct year: The territory encompassing present-day Gilgit-Baltistan became a single administrative unit as Federally Administered Northern Areas…
  76. Complete the sentence about Gilgit-Baltistan with the correct year: The rock carvings found in various places in Gilgit-Baltistan, especially in the Passu village of Hunza, suggest a human presence si…
  77. Complete the sentence about Azad Kashmir with the correct year: The following year, the party workers assembled at the house of Sardar Ibrahim on 19 July ______, reversed the decision, demanding that…
  78. Complete the sentence about Azad Kashmir with the correct year: In Spring ______, an uprising against the maharaja broke out in Poonch, an area bordering the Rawalpindi division of West Punjab.
  79. Complete the sentence about Islamabad Capital Territory with the correct year: The area was separated from Rawalpindi District in ______ to form a separate territory administered by the federal govern…
  80. Complete the sentence about Islamabad Capital Territory with the correct year: In ______, land was transferred from the Rawalpindi District of Punjab province to replace the Karachi Federal Capital Te…
  81. Complete the sentence about Rakaposhi with the correct year: The first successful recorded ascent was in ______ by Mike Banks and Tom Patey, members of a British expedition, via the southwest Spur/Rid…
  82. Complete the sentence about Deosai National Park with the correct year: The Deosai National Park was established in ______ to protect the survival of the critically endangered Himalayan brown bear and…
  83. Complete the sentence about Attabad Lake with the correct year: The escalation of water levels persisted until 18 June ______, driven by a disparity between the outflow and inflow dynamics of the newl…
  84. Complete the sentence about Rawal Lake with the correct year: The dam was inaugurated by Ayub Khan in ______ and it served as a major infrastructure progress.
  85. Complete the sentence about Hingol National Park with the correct year: The park's unique rock formations have been attracting tourists from all over the country since the completion of the Makran Coa…
  86. Complete the sentence about Hingol National Park with the correct year: Hingol mud volcanoes ranging in height from 800 to ______ feet are abundant in Hingol National Park, mostly in the Mid-Hor area.
  87. Complete the sentence about Arabian Sea with the correct year: In ______, the International Indian Ocean Expedition was among the first groups to conduct hydrographic surveys in the Arabian Sea.
  88. Complete the sentence about Karachi Port with the correct year: The administration of the port is carried out by the Karachi Port Trust, which was established in ______.
  89. Complete the sentence about Karachi Port with the correct year: In ______ heavy rains silted up the harbour at Kharak, forcing merchants to relocate to the area of modern Karachi.
  90. Complete the sentence about Karachi Port with the correct year: In ______, after two prolonged sieges the town fell to the Talpur Mirs of Sind, who constructed Manora Fort mounted with cannons on Mano…
  91. Complete the sentence about Karachi Port with the correct year: The British were concerned about Russian expansion towards the Arabian Sea, so in ______ they occupied Karachi and later the whole of th…
  92. Complete the sentence about Karachi Port with the correct year: By ______ Karachi was the largest wheat and cotton exporting port in South Asia.
  93. Complete the sentence about Mohenjo-daro with the correct year: When the Indus civilisation went into sudden decline c. ______ BCE, Mohenjo-daro was abandoned.
  94. Complete the sentence about Mohenjo-daro with the correct year: Further excavations were carried out in ______ by Mortimer Wheeler and his trainee, Ahmad Dani and F.
  95. Complete the sentence about Harappa with the correct year: In ______, the site was added to the tentative list for UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
  96. Complete the sentence about Taxila with the correct year: Situated on the eastern bank of the Indus River — the pivotal junction of the South Asia and Central Asia — it was possibly founded around ___…
  97. Complete the sentence about Lahore Fort with the correct year: The foundations of the present fort was laid in ______, during the reign of Akbar, in a syncretic architectural style that featured both…
  98. Complete the sentence about Shalimar Gardens, Lahore with the correct year: In ______, the Shalamar Gardens were inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site as they embody Mughal garden design at the ap…
  99. Complete the sentence about Rohtas Fort with the correct year: The fort remains remarkably intact and was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in ______.
  100. Complete the sentence about Rohtas Fort with the correct year: The construction of Rohtas Fort started in ______ under the supervision of Todar Mal, himself a Punjabi from Lahore.

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