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History And Heritage

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  1. Complete the sentence about Muhammad Ali Jinnah with the correct year: In ______, however, Jinnah resigned from the Congress when it agreed to follow a campaign of satyagraha, which he regarded as pol…
  2. Complete the sentence about Muhammad Ali Jinnah with the correct year: In ______, the Muslim League, led by Jinnah, passed the Lahore Resolution.
  3. Complete the sentence about Muhammad Ali Jinnah with the correct year: Jinnah died at age 71 in September ______, just over a year after Pakistan gained independence from the United Kingdom.
  4. Complete the sentence about Liaquat Ali Khan with the correct year: In March ______, he survived an attempted coup by left-wing political opponents and segments of the Pakistani military.
  5. Complete the sentence about Liaquat Ali Khan with the correct year: After the death of his father in ______, he attended Oxford University's Exeter College to pursue his higher education.
  6. Complete the sentence about Muhammad Iqbal with the correct year: In ______, he departed from India to pursue further education in Europe, first in England and later in Germany.
  7. Complete the sentence about Fatima Jinnah with the correct year: After obtaining a dental degree from the University of Calcutta in ______, she became the first woman to qualify as a dentist in Britis…
  8. Complete the sentence about Fatima Jinnah with the correct year: Fatima died in Karachi on 9 July ______, sparking controversy with rumours of unnatural causes.
  9. Complete the sentence about Sir Syed Ahmad Khan with the correct year: During the Indian Mutiny of ______, he remained loyal to the British Raj and was noted for his actions in saving European lives.
  10. Complete the sentence about Sir Syed Ahmad Khan with the correct year: In ______, he founded the Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College, the first Muslim university in Southern Asia.
  11. Complete the sentence about All-India Muslim League with the correct year: In ______, Sir Syed founded the All-India Muhammadan Educational Conference, but a self-imposed ban prevented it from discuss…
  12. Complete the sentence about All-India Muslim League with the correct year: The formation of a Muslim political party on the national level was seen as essential by ______.
  13. Complete the sentence about All-India Muslim League with the correct year: The first stage of its formation was the meeting held at Lucknow in September ______, with representatives from all over Indi…
  14. Complete the sentence about Lahore Resolution with the correct year: Jinnah in an article in the London weekly Time & Tide on 9 March ______.
  15. Complete the sentence about Partition of India with the correct year: The partition of India in ______ was the division of British India into two independent dominion states, the Union of India and Do…
  16. Complete the sentence about Partition of India with the correct year: The partition was set forth in the Indian Independence Act ______ and resulted in the end of the British Raj, or Crown rule in Ind…
  17. Complete the sentence about Partition of India with the correct year: The secession of Bangladesh from Pakistan in ______ was a later partition of Pakistan, and not of India.
  18. Complete the sentence about Partition of India with the correct year: In ______, Viceroy of India Lord Curzon split it into the Muslim-majority province of Eastern Bengal and Assam and the Hindu-major…
  19. Complete the sentence about Radcliffe Line with the correct year: The demarcation line was published on 17 August ______, two days after the independence of Pakistan and India.
  20. Complete the sentence about Radcliffe Line with the correct year: Bengal had in fact been partitioned by the then viceroy Lord Curzon in ______, along with its adjoining regions.
  21. Complete the sentence about Radcliffe Line with the correct year: Proposals for partitioning Punjab had been made starting in ______.
  22. Complete the sentence about Radcliffe Line with the correct year: After the ______ Lahore resolution of the Muslim League demanding Pakistan, B.
  23. Complete the sentence about Cabinet Mission Plan with the correct year: Jinnah explained in a letter to Karachi mayor Hatim Alavi on 10 June ______ that the acceptance of the Cabinet Mission Plan was…
  24. Complete the sentence about Simla Conference with the correct year: The Simla Conference was a meeting between Lord Wavell, the viceroy of India, and the major political leaders of British India at th…
  25. Complete the sentence about Simla Conference with the correct year: On 14 June ______ Lord Wavell announced a plan for a new Executive Council in which all members except the Viceroy and the Commander…
  26. Complete the sentence about Simla Conference with the correct year: Prime Minister Winston Churchill as head of the war cabinet proposed Field Marshal Wavell's name to his cabinet in mid-June ______…
  27. Complete the sentence about Simla Conference with the correct year: Gandhi launched the Quit India Movement on 8th August ______, after which he was arrested with other Congress lieutenants like Javah…
  28. Complete the sentence about Simla Conference with the correct year: Now he decided to launch his ''Satyagraha'', he commenced after the early morning breakfast on 10 February ______ a fast for 21 days…
  29. Complete the sentence about Two-nation theory with the correct year: Theodore Beck, who played a major role in founding of the All-India Muslim League in ______, was supportive of two-nation theory.
  30. Complete the sentence about Ayub Khan with the correct year: After the Partition of British India in August ______, he joined the Pakistan Army and was posted in East Bengal.
  31. Complete the sentence about Ayub Khan with the correct year: In ______, he became the first native commander-in-chief, succeeding General Gracey.
  32. Complete the sentence about Ayub Khan with the correct year: Relations with neighboring China were strengthened, but his alignment with the US worsened relations with the Soviet Union in ______.
  33. Complete the sentence about Yahya Khan with the correct year: Khan was commissioned into the British Indian Army in ______ and fought in the Second World War in the Mediterranean theatre.
  34. Complete the sentence about Yahya Khan with the correct year: In the wake of nationwide protests against Ayub Khan's government, he resigned from the presidency and transferred authority to Yahya Khan…
  35. Complete the sentence about Yahya Khan with the correct year: In December ______, Khan ordered pre-emptive strikes against the Mukti Bahini-allied Indian Army, resulting in another war with India.
  36. Complete the sentence about Yahya Khan with the correct year: Khan remained under house surveillance prior to ______ when he was released by Fazle Haq.
  37. Complete the sentence about Yahya Khan with the correct year: Yahya Khan, whose full name was Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan Qizilbash, was born during the British Raj, on 4 February ______ in the town of C…
  38. Complete the sentence about Benazir Bhutto with the correct year: In ______ she returned to Pakistan during her father Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's socialist government; shortly afterward, her father was ous…
  39. Complete the sentence about Benazir Bhutto with the correct year: Bhutto was repeatedly imprisoned by Zia-ul-Haq's military government and self-exiled to Britain in ______.
  40. Complete the sentence about Benazir Bhutto with the correct year: A widening corruption inquiry culminated in a ______ conviction in a Swiss court.
  41. Complete the sentence about Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq with the correct year: In ______, he led a military training mission to Jordan, proving instrumental to defeating the Black September insurgency against…
  42. Complete the sentence about Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq with the correct year: Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto appointed Zia Chief of Army Staff in ______.
  43. Complete the sentence about Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq with the correct year: Assuming the presidency in ______, Zia played a major role in the Soviet-Afghan War.
  44. Complete the sentence about Nawaz Sharif with the correct year: Nawaz entered into politics in ______, when he was appointed by President Zia as the minister of finance for the province of Punjab.
  45. Complete the sentence about Nawaz Sharif with the correct year: In ______, Nawaz was again removed from office by the Supreme Court of Pakistan following the Panama Papers case.
  46. Complete the sentence about Imran Khan with the correct year: As a cricketer, he captained the Pakistan national cricket team to victory in the ______ Cricket World Cup.
  47. Complete the sentence about Asif Ali Zardari with the correct year: When Bhutto's government was dismissed by President Ghulam Ishaq Khan in ______, Zardari was widely criticized for involvement in co…
  48. Complete the sentence about Asif Ali Zardari with the correct year: When Bhutto was reelected in ______, Zardari served as Federal Investment Minister and Chairperson of Pakistan Environmental Protect…
  49. Complete the sentence about Yusuf Raza Gilani with the correct year: Gilani was arrested in ______ on accusations of corruption by military president Pervez Musharraf and was imprisoned for around six…
  50. Complete the sentence about Yusuf Raza Gilani with the correct year: Furthermore, Gilani initiated ineffective foreign policies, nationalisation programmes and founded the University of Swat in July _…
  51. Complete the sentence about Mamnoon Hussain with the correct year: Mamnoon Hussain was born in Agra, British India in ______ to Ustad Zafar Hussain.
  52. Complete the sentence about Mamnoon Hussain with the correct year: Initially, an activist with reformist zeal in ______, Hussain became joint secretary of the Pakistan Muslim League's Karachi chapter.
  53. Complete the sentence about Arif Alvi with the correct year: Alvi entered politics in ______ by joining Jamaat-e-Islami, but later resigned and became one of the founding members of the Pakistan Tehre…
  54. Complete the sentence about Arif Alvi with the correct year: Alvi received a master's degree in orthodontics in ______ from the University of the Pacific in San Francisco, California.
  55. Complete the sentence about Arif Alvi with the correct year: In ______, Alvi was Chairman of the first Pakistan International Dental Conference.
  56. Complete the sentence about Arif Alvi with the correct year: In ______, he became Chairman of the Third Pakistan International Dental Conference.
  57. Complete the sentence about Iskander Mirza with the correct year: Mirza lived in the United Kingdom for the remainder of his life and was buried in Iran in ______.
  58. Complete the sentence about Iskander Mirza with the correct year: Mirza was the first Indian graduate of the military college, and gained his commission in the British Indian Army as a 2nd Lt. on 16 J…
  59. Complete the sentence about Iskander Mirza with the correct year: In spite of hailing from Bengal, his military career was mostly spent in the violent North-West Frontier Province of India, participat…
  60. Complete the sentence about Pakistan Peoples Party with the correct year: On 30 November ______, Meraj Muhammad, a devoted communist, was able to gather left-wing leaders in the residency of Dr.
  61. Complete the sentence about Pakistan Peoples Party with the correct year: Rashid who became the founding members of the party, and announced it's establishment on 1 December ______.
  62. Complete the sentence about Pakistan Peoples Party with the correct year: On 5 February ______, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman announced his program of regional autonomy for East Bengal at a news conference.
  63. Complete the sentence about Pakistan Peoples Party with the correct year: In ______, Ayub Khan celebrated his government's "Decade of Development" which was widely disapproved of when the demonstratio…
  64. Complete the sentence about Objectives Resolution with the correct year: Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan presented it in the assembly on 7 March ______.
  65. Complete the sentence about Objectives Resolution with the correct year: As a result, the Constitution of ______, a consensus document, became riddled with internal contradictions regarding citizenshi…
  66. Complete the sentence about Supreme Court of Pakistan with the correct year: In successive years, the Supreme Court was moved to Lahore High Court until the Supreme Court was permanently moved into it…
  67. Complete the sentence about Supreme Court of Pakistan with the correct year: In ______, the Supreme Court consisted of a Chief Justice and six senior judges from Sindh, Punjab, NWFP, Balochistan, and…
  68. Complete the sentence about Federal Shariat Court with the correct year: The court was established in ______ during the government of the President General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq.
  69. Complete the sentence about Prime Minister of Pakistan with the correct year: The first prime minister, Liaquat Ali Khan, exercised central executive powers until his assassination in ______.
  70. Complete the sentence about Prime Minister of Pakistan with the correct year: In ______, the second set of the Constitution completely dissolved the office of prime minister as all powers were transfe…
  71. Complete the sentence about Prime Minister of Pakistan with the correct year: With India intervening in East Pakistan and Pakistan conceding defeat to end the war led to the collapse of the presidenti…
  72. Complete the sentence about President of Pakistan with the correct year: The office of president was created upon the proclamation of the Islamic Republic on 23 March ______.
  73. Complete the sentence about President of Pakistan with the correct year: Following the ______ coup d'etat, the office of prime minister was abolished, leaving the Presidency as the most powerful offic…
  74. Complete the sentence about President of Pakistan with the correct year: In ______, the new Constitution established Parliamentary democracy and reduced the president's role to a ceremonial one.
  75. Complete the sentence about Pakistan Army with the correct year: The Army was officially established in August ______ after the Partition of India.
  76. Complete the sentence about Pakistan Army with the correct year: By ______, when it became imperative in Pakistan that India was about to mount a large-scale operation against Pakistan, Gen.
  77. Complete the sentence about Pakistan Navy with the correct year: The Pakistan Navy came into existence on 15 August ______ with the establishment of Pakistan as an independent state from the United Ki…
  78. Complete the sentence about Inter-Services Intelligence with the correct year: The Inter-Services Intelligence was established in ______ by officers of the Pakistan Army after the First Kashmir War, t…
  79. Complete the sentence about Inter-Services Intelligence with the correct year: After the ______ coup d'état, all national intelligence agencies were directly controlled by the president and Chief Mart…
  80. Complete the sentence about Inter-Services Intelligence with the correct year: On 5 July ______ through Operation Fair Play, the ISI began collecting intelligence on the Pakistan Communist Party and t…
  81. Complete the sentence about Indo-Pakistani War of 1947–1948 with the correct year: On 22 October ______, Pakistan's Frontier tribal militias crossed the border of the state.
  82. Complete the sentence about Indo-Pakistani War of 1947–1948 with the correct year: Following the accession of the state to India on 26 October ______, Indian troops were airlifted to Srinagar, the sta…
  83. Complete the sentence about Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 with the correct year: Since the partition of British India in August ______, Pakistan and India remained in contention over several issues.
  84. Complete the sentence about Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 with the correct year: The issue first arose in ______, which ended with India regaining control over the disputed area.
  85. Complete the sentence about Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 with the correct year: After the defeat in ______ Sino-Indian War, the Indian military was undergoing major changes in personnel and equipment.
  86. Complete the sentence about Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 with the correct year: In early March ______, approximately 300 Biharis were slaughtered in riots by Bengali mobs in Chittagong alone.
  87. Complete the sentence about Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 with the correct year: On 26 March ______, Major Ziaur Rahman of the Pakistan Army declared the independence of Bangladesh on behalf of Sheikh Mu…
  88. Complete the sentence about Kargil War with the correct year: A road between Kargil and Skardu exists, which was closed in ______.
  89. Complete the sentence about Bangladesh Liberation War with the correct year: The majority of member states in the United Nations recognized Bangladesh as a sovereign nation in ______.
  90. Complete the sentence about Bangladesh Liberation War with the correct year: A proposal for an independent United Bengal was mooted by Prime Minister Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy in ______ but opposed by…
  91. Complete the sentence about Operation Searchlight with the correct year: The main phase of Operation Searchlight ended with the fall of the last major Bengali-held town to West Pakistan in mid-May ___…
  92. Complete the sentence about Operation Searchlight with the correct year: In early March ______, over 300 Biharis were killed in rioting by Bengali mobs in Chittagong.
  93. Complete the sentence about Tashkent Declaration with the correct year: In accordance with the Tashkent Declaration, talks were held at the ministerial level on 1 and 2 March ______.
  94. Complete the sentence about Tashkent Declaration with the correct year: Journalist, conspiracy theorist, and holocaust denier Gregory Douglas claimed he conducted a series of interviews with American…
  95. Complete the sentence about Pakistan nuclear program with the correct year: Pakistan carried out two nuclear tests, Chagai-I and Chagai-II, both in ______ and underground.
  96. Complete the sentence about Pakistan nuclear program with the correct year: After the Partition of India in ______, India and Pakistan have been in conflict over several issues, including the disputed…
  97. Complete the sentence about Chagai-I with the correct year: Chagai-I is the code name of five simultaneous underground nuclear tests conducted by Pakistan on 28 May ______ at 15:15 PKT.
  98. Complete the sentence about Chagai-I with the correct year: Pakistan's second nuclear test, Chagai-II, followed on 30 May ______.
  99. Complete the sentence about Abdul Qadeer Khan with the correct year: Abdul Qadeer Khan was born on 1 April ______, in Bhopal, a city in the erstwhile British Indian princely state of Bhopal.
  100. Complete the sentence about Abdul Qadeer Khan with the correct year: In ______, while on vacation in The Hague, he met Hendrina "Henny" Reterink, a British passport holder, who had been born in South…

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