National 1. India-Pakistan secretary-level talks took place on Sep 14-15 in _____. (a) Geneva (b) Washington (c) New Delhi (d) Islamabad 2. On Sep 17, PML-N candidate Begum Kulsoom Nawaz Sharif won by-election in ______ constituency. (a) NA-117 (b) NA-120 (c) NA-124 (d) NA-125 3. …
Read More »World in Focus ( Sept-Oct 2017 )
NATIONAL Sep 16: Pakistan asked the World Bank to constitute a court of arbitration to settle its water dispute with India after India and Pakistan secretary-level talks, at the World Bank headquarters in Washington, failed. Sep 16: AJK President Sardar Masood Khan took oath as the chief of the AJK Boy Scouts Association. Sep 16: Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi …
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The World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims was started by the British road crash victim charity, RoadPeace, in 1993, and through the UN General Assembly resolution 60/5 on 26 Oct 2005,it was announced that this remembrance will take place every year on the third Sunday in November. This day is dedicated to remembering those killed or injured in …
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By: Asfand Yar Bhutto “The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy’s not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable.” — Sun Tzu The world politics is changing with the changing …
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The worldwide acclaim Dr Allama Muhammad Iqbal (1877-1938), a revered poet-philosopher and a visionary leader, commanded from both the Eastern and Western critics bears a vivid testimony to his great stature, and earns him the place occupied by very few in the literary world. Whilst chief source of his repute is his timeless poetry, his philosophical thought, too, is no …
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1. If TAP is coded as SZO, then how is FREEZE coded? (a) ATSSTS (b) ESDDYD (c) EQDDYD (d) EQDDZD 2. In a certain code, SUKKUR is written as TTLJVQ, how is TRAINING written in that code? (a) UQBHOHOF (b) UQBHOIOF (c) UQBHOHOI …
Read More »THE NEW DEAL
In his first inaugural address, United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, made an attempt to assess the enormous damage: “The withered leaves of industrial enterprise lie on every side; farmers find no markets for their produce; the savings of many years in thousands of families are gone. More important, a host of unemployed citizens face the grim problem of existence …
Read More »THEORIES OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
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Read More »Tearing Down Misplaced Perceptions about China’s Rise
This July witnessed an intense level of escalated tensions, what came to be known as Doklam standoff, between China and India, which erupted after India, posturing quite belligerently, sent its troops to interrupt the construction of a road by the Chinese military. As the dispute lingered on, it increasingly drew both countries and their masses into an intensely-contested war of …
Read More »Late Marriages and Reproductive Health
Late marriage is a growing phenomenon, especially in the urban areas of Pakistan, due to multiple socioeconomic factors. In our society, this problem consequently affects women in a variety of ways and impedes their efforts on getting settled in their married life. The reproductive health of married women gets affected the most; thereby complicating things for them to survive in …
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