Pakistan Studies

Before Islamabad was declared the capital of Pakistan, the area was known as Suri Nagar. Rajshahi is a city in Bangladesh, and Gandhara refers to an ancient region in parts of Pakistan and Afghanistan, but neither was the name of the area before Islamabad's establishment.

Harappa, located near Sahiwal, was a major center of the Indus Valley Civilization, one of the world's earliest urban cultures dating back to around 2500 BCE. It is not associated with Greek, Persian, or Muslim civilizations.

The first museum of Pakistan, the Pakistan Museum, was established in Karachi on 17 April 1950, making option B the correct answer.

The princely State of Swat was merged into Pakistan in 1969, ending its status as a separate autonomous region and becoming part of the North-West Frontier Province (now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa).

The first session of the Mohammadan Educational Conference was actually held in December 1906 in Bengal, specifically at Shahbag in Dhaka, East Bengal and Assam Province. Earlier references to 1886 or 1887 relate to the founding of the All-India Muhammadan Educational Conference in Aligarh, but the first session held in Bengal was in 1906. Therefore, none of the years 1886, 1887, or 1889 are correct for the first session in Bengal. The correct answer is 'None of them'.

General Qamar Javed Bajwa is recognized as the first and only Chief of Army Staff (COAS) of Pakistan to have given a briefing to the upper house (Senate) of Pakistan, marking a significant event in civil-military relations in the country.

The Government of India Act 1935 contained 12 parts. This is a well-documented fact in the study of British Indian constitutional history, making option B correct.

The Punjab Government issued an order on 15 March 2024 to remove plaques bearing names of Ministers, MNAs, MPAs, and local leaders on development schemes installed since 1 March 2018. This is a recent directive aimed at depoliticizing development projects and removing political names from public development signage. The date 1 March 2018 is confirmed by multiple recent news sources reporting on this government order. Therefore, the correct answer is option C: 01 March 2018.

Pakistan introduced National Identity Cards (NIC) in 1957, making option B the correct answer. The other years do not correspond to the introduction of NICs in Pakistan.

After Muhammad Bin Qasim's conquest of Sindh, Yazid Bin Muhallab was appointed as the governor of Sindh. Habib bin Muhallab was a governor of other regions but not immediately after Muhammad Bin Qasim in Sindh.