National 1. On Oct 16, ______ became the first head of the Saarc’s Anti-Corruption Forum (ACF). (a) Sri Lanka    (b) India (c) Bhutan    (d) Pakistan 2. The country director of the United Nations Population Fund is ______. (a) Haji Ahmed Malik (b) Syed Qamaruzzaman Shah (c) Dr Hassan Mohtashami (d) Christine Lagarde 3. The reverse side of the 10-rupee coin, …

NATIONAL Oct 16: Pakistan became the first head of the Saarc’s Anti-Corruption Forum (ACF) for a year. Oct 17: Third unit of the Chashma nuclear power project in Pakistan went into operation. Highlights China’s first overseas reactor at Chashma went into operation in 2000, while the second was completed in 2011. It is the third, and the fourth will be …

National 1. On Sep 17, ______ clinched the Cool & Cool presents Jazz National T20 Cup. (a) Lahore Blues    (b) Karachi Whites (c) Lahore Whites    (d) Karachi Blues 2. Renowned scholar and intellectual Professor Mir Abdullah Jan Jamaldini died on ______. (a) Sep 16    (b) Sep 18 (c) Sep 20    (d) Sep 22 3. Pakistan’s rank on the in the …

 NATIONAL Sep 17: Karachi Blues won the National T20 Cup. Sep 21: PM Nawaz Sharif addressed the 71st session of the United Nations General Assembly. Sep 21: Misbah-ul-Haq received the ICC’s Test championship mace becoming the ninth captain to receive the honour. Other Captains: Steve Waugh, Ricky Ponting, Michael Clarke, Steve Smith (Australia), M. S. Dhoni (India), Andrew Strauss (England), …

 NATIONAL Aug 16: Former ambassador Mohammad Masood Khan, a PML-N candidate, was elected as the president of AJK. Profile of Masood Khan 1. Masood Khan was born in Rawalakot, Poonch. 2. Before joining the Foreign Service of Pakistan in 1980, he was a Lecturer in English. 3. He was a TV presenter and newscaster with Radio Pakistan. 4. He was …

NATIONAL July 19: Pakistan and China signed an agreement of implementing a project of manufacture and maintenance of the chandelier of the Mazar-i-Quaid. July 21: The PML-N secured a landslide victory in Azad Jammu and Kashmir elections by securing 32 out of 41 seats. July 24: Mangal Bagh, the fugitive head of the outlawed militant group Lashkar-e-Islam, was killed in …

On 16th of July 1945 a desert outside Alamogordo, New Mexico, witnessed the test of world’s first nuclear device named the “Gadget”. J. Robert Oppenheimer, often called the “father of the atomic bomb” for leading the Manhattan Project named the site of the test as ‘Trinity’ – a name that evoked his intellectual mysticism. This was the ushering in of …

NATIONAL June 16: The US House of Representative rejected 2 amendments aimed to cut the Coalition Support Fund for Pakistan. June 16: Punjab police completed operation Zarb-e-Aahan . June 18: The 10th annual edition of the Global Peace Index found Pakistan as the 11th least peaceful country on the planet. June 19: The government terminated 10,000 Lungi Holders and suspended …

The spectre of populism has gripped the world nowadays. We are living in a dangerous time of transition where industrial capitalism is breaking down and we don’t yet have a viable alternative. Incumbent politicians are still clinging to fixing the existing system while insurgent populists are arguing for big changes. This, to a large degree, explains the scary rise of …

NATIONAL May 18: The jirga of Harban tribe of Khyber PK and Thor tribe of Gilgit-Baltistan settled the boundary dispute between the two sides. May 19: The Japanese government approved a loan of $59 million for the polio eradication programme in Pakistan in collaboration with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. May 20: Pakistan applied for the membership of the …