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Topic: CURRENT AFFAIRS (JULY- DECEMBER) 2024

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NATIONAL AFFAIRS-JULY 2024

❖ The institution predicting a 3.5% expansion of Pakistan's economy in FY25: IMF

❖ The first Christian SSG commando officer promoted to major general in Pakistan Army:

Julian Moazzam James

❖ Country ranked as the 4th worst passport for four consecutive years: Pakistan

❖ Pakistan's rank on the Henley Passport Index 2024: 100th

❖ President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev’s state visit to Pakistan occurred on: 11-12 July

2024

❖ The province launching Pakistan’s first air ambulance: Punjab

❖ Winner of the World Championship of Legends 2024, defeating Pakistan in the final:

India

❖ The first Pakistani woman to qualify directly for the Olympics: Kishmala Talat

❖ Pakistani winner of the Tasmanian Open Squash Tournament in Australia: Nasir Iqbal

❖ The first Pakistani woman to conquer 11 peaks over 8,000 meters: Naila Kiani

❖ Number of countries granted digital visa approval to boost business and tourism: 126

Countries

❖ Pakistani nationals executed by Saudi Arabia in 2024: 7

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❖ Number of Pakistani athletes participating in the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris: 7

❖ Foreign Minister of Turkmenistan visiting Pakistan in July 2024: Rashid Meredov

❖ Secretary-General of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) visiting Pakistan in

July 2024: Khusrav Noziri

❖ Senior Al-Qaeda leader and bin Laden’s aide arrested in Punjab, Pakistan, whose name

is: Amin ul Haq

❖ The court in Kenya ruling on the unlawful killing of Pakistani journalist Arshad Sharif by

police: 8 July 2024

❖ First female Chief Justice of Lahore High Court: Justice Aalia Neelum

❖ The first female registrar of Lahore High Court: Abhar Gul Khan

❖ First Muslim parliamentary leader in Heidelberg parliament of Pakistani origin: Waseem

Butt

❖ Bank approving a $400 million loan to aid flood recovery in Pakistan: ADB

❖ First female Deputy Commissioner appointed in Balochistan's history: Ayesha Zehri

❖ Pakistan's representative at the 73rd Miss Universe pageant in Mexico: Noor Xarmina

❖ Pakistani gamer winning the Eco Tekken 8 2024 tournament final: Arsalan Ash

❖ Pakistan's rank improvement in the Global Innovation Index from 119th in 2016 to ___ in

2023: 88th

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❖ Pakistani boxer crowned Asian champion after defeating an Indian rival: Shahir Afridi

❖ Pakistan Navy’s first Offshore Patrol Vessel (OPV) 2600, commissioned at Constanta Port

in Romania, named: PNS HUNAIN

❖ Captain of Pakistan's women's cricket team for the Women's Asia Cup 2024: Nida Dar

❖ Tallest Pakistani man who passed away at the age of 30 on 2 July 2024: Zia Rashid

❖ PM Shehbaz Sharif’s visit to Tehran for the inauguration of Iran’s newly elected President,

Dr. Masoud Pezeshkian: 30 July 2024

❖ Chief of the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) visited Pakistan in July: Filippo

Grandi

❖ Judges appointed as ad hoc judges in Pakistan’s Supreme Court by President Asif Ali

Zardari for one year: Justice (retd) Tariq Masood and Justice (retd) Mazhar Alam

Miankhel

INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS-JULY 2024

❖ Country joining the Shanghai Cooperation Organization as the 10th member on 4 July

2024: Belarus

❖ Newly elected President of Iran: Masoud Pezeshkian

❖ New Prime Minister of Nepal: Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli

❖ Dates of the Paris Olympics 2024: July 26 - August 11

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❖ Host city for the 2024 Summer Olympics was: Paris, France

❖ Motto of the 2024 Summer Olympics: Games Wide Open

❖ Number of sports featured at the 2024 Olympics: 32

❖ Countries banned from the Paris Olympics due to the Ukraine conflict: Russia and

Belarus

❖ Winner of the Euro Cup 2024 final: Spain

❖ Country that built the world's first carbon fiber passenger train: China

❖ Country aiming to create the core of a new space station by 2030: Russia

❖ Location of the 24th SCO Council of Heads of State summit on 3-4 July 2024: Astana,

Kazakhstan

❖ Country reporting the first case of robot suicide: South Korea

❖ Venue of the third United Nations conference on Afghanistan: Doha, Qatar

❖ Space agency that captured an image of Olympus Mons using Mars Odyssey: NASA

❖ Country developing the Sentinel Nuclear Missile: USA

❖ Country whose scientists developed a robot face with living skin: Japan

❖ World's most powerful passport in 2024 according to Henley Passport Index: Singapore

❖ Country with the weakest passport in 2024: Afghanistan

❖ First Muslim country to host the Basketball World Cup in 2027: Qatar

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❖ Japanese climbers who went missing while attempting to scale K2: Kazuya Hirade and

Kenro Nakajima

❖ European Commission president elected for a second term: Ursula von der Leyen

❖ Re-elected President of the European Parliament: Roberta Metsola

❖ Cause of student protests in Bangladesh: Job quota discrimination

❖ United Kingdom’s first Female Muslim Lord Chancellor: Shabana Mahmood

❖ Date of the 2024 United Kingdom general election: 4 July 2024

❖ Winner of the UK parliamentary elections: Labour Party

❖ Britain’s 58th Prime Minister: Keir Starmer

❖ Country recently introducing new 3D Holographic Banknotes: Japan

❖ World's oldest cave art depicting humans and pigs found in: Indonesia

❖ First woman to command Canada’s armed forces as Chief of Defense Staff: General

Jennie Carignan

❖ Country planning to launch Space Tourism by 2025: United Arab Emirates

❖ First-ever Miss AI crowned as: Kenza Layli

❖ Women Asia Cup 2024 champion: Sri Lanka

❖ 2024-25 'SCO Tourism and Cultural Capital': Qingdao, China

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❖ Hezbollah top commander killed in an Israeli airstrike in southern Beirut on July 30, 2024:

Fuad Shukr

❖ Hamas leader recently assassinated in Iran on 31 July 2024: Ismail Haniyeh

NATIONAL AFFAIRS-AUGUST 2024

❖ The German cyclist was robbed in Lahore’s North Cantt police area on: August 3, 2024.

❖ The provincial government that gave Rs500,000 as a goodwill gesture to the robbed

German cyclist is: Punjab.

❖ Pakistan’s rank in the Olympic Games Paris 2024 Medal Table is: 62.

❖ Pakistan won a total of this many medals at the Paris Olympics 2024: 1.

❖ The current Chairman of the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) is: Rashid Mahmood

Langrial.

❖ In August 2024, Pakistan announced a support package for families of missing persons

worth: Rs5 million.

❖ Imam Masjid Al Nabawi visited Pakistan in August 2024, named: Dr. Salah Bin

Mohammad Al-Budair.

❖ On August 10, 2024, Pakistan issued a postage stamp themed 'Azm-e-Istehkam'

featuring: Arshad Nadeem.

❖ National Minorities Day in Pakistan is observed on: August 11.

❖ Rawalpindi’s first female Chief Traffic Officer (CTO) is: Beenish Fatima.

❖ The first ISI head to face a court-martial is: Lt. Gen. Faiz Hameed.

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❖ Former ISI head Faiz Hameed was arrested on charges related to: Top City housing

scheme scandal.

❖ Asia's first case of clade 1b mpox was identified in mid-August in: Pakistan.

❖ A freelance web developer, who was involved in cyberterrorism in UK, was arrested in

August 2024 in the city: Lahore.

❖ The German Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development visited Pakistan in

August 2024, named: Svenja Schulze.

❖ On August 25, 2024, the BLA's attacks in Balochistan resulted in at least: 74 fatalities.

❖ The BLA announced the attacks under the name: Operation Hereof.

❖ The Himmat Card for assisting vulnerable segments was launched by the province:

Punjab.

❖ The location for the 8th session of the Pakistan-Oman Bilateral Political Consultations is:

Muscat.

❖ The 8th session of the Pakistan-Oman Bilateral Political Consultations will be held on:

August 27, 2024.

❖ The UN Special Representative for Afghanistan visited Pakistan in August 2024, named:

Indrika Ratwatte.

❖ The date for the 50th Session of the OIC Council of Foreign Ministers, held in Yaoundé,

Republic of Cameroon, was: August 29, 2024.

❖ Javelin thrower Arshad Nadeem was conferred with the Hilal-i-Imtiaz on: August 29,

2024.

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS-AUGUST 2024

❖ Countries involved in the most extensive prisoner exchange with the US since the Cold

War on August 1, 2024: Russia

❖ Muslim country that blocked Instagram on August 2, 2024, in response to the removal of

posts about Ismail Haniyeh’s death: Turkiye

❖ Bangladesh's 2024 quota reform movement was against discriminatory_____% quota for

descendants of freedom fighters at: 30%.

❖ End date of the 2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement: 3 August 2024 (started on 6

June 2024)

❖ Date Sheikh Hasina resigned as Bangladesh’s PM and fled to India: August 5, 2024

❖ Host country for the first BIMSTEC business summit in 2024: India

❖ Date Yunus-led interim government in Bangladesh was formed: 6 August 2024

❖ Current Chief Adviser (Interim) head of government in Bangladesh: Mohammad Yunus

❖ Date of Israel's attack on the al-Tabin school in Gaza City, killing over 100 people: 10

August 2024

❖ Country that deployed a guided missile submarine to the Middle East on August 11,

2024, after top Hamas and Hezbollah members' deaths: USA

❖ Rwandan President sworn in for the 4th term on August 11, 2024: Paul Kagame

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❖ Date WHO declared Mpox a Global Public Health Emergency: August 18, 2024

❖ Country that introduced the ‘AIM-174B,’ a long-range air-to-air missile in the Indo-

Pacific: United States

❖ Country that reintroduced compulsory military service in August 2024: Serbia

❖ Newest and youngest Prime Minister of Thailand sworn in August 2024: Paetongtarn

Shinawatra

❖ Country that joined as the 18th member state of the United Nations Command in South

Korea in August 2024: Germany

❖ Number of nations participating in the 2024 Summer Paralympics: 170

❖ Host of the 2024 Summer Paralympics from August 28 to September 8, 2024: Paris,

France

❖ Country whose Supreme Court ordered social media platform X (formerly Twitter) to be

shut down on August 30, 2024: Brazil

❖ Countries winning most medals in the Paris 2024 Olympics: USA & China (Both won 40,

40)

❖ Country winning most silver medals in the Paris 2024 Olympics: USA (44)

❖ Country winning most bronze medals in the Paris 2024 Olympics: USA (42)

❖ Arshad Nadeem won Pakistan's only gold medal in javelin throw with a distance of:

92.97 meters

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NATIONAL AFFAIRS-SEPTEMBER 2024

❖ First Pakistani female official to join the ICC International Panel of Development Umpires:

Saleema Imtiaz

❖ Appointed as the 33rd Foreign Secretary of Pakistan: Amna Baloch

❖ Appointed as FPSC chairman on 5th September 2024: Lt Gen. Akhtar Nawaz Satti

❖ First woman appointed as AIG in Gilgit Baltistan: Tahira Yasub

❖ Country securing the Bronze Medal (3rd place) in the Asian Hockey Champions Trophy:

Pakistan

❖ Global ranking of Pakistan's e-commerce sector as per recent reports: 46th largest

market

❖ First Central Asian country set to access Gwadar Port under CPEC: Turkmenistan

❖ U.S. Congressman was awarded with Sitara-i-Khidmat for fostering Pakistan-U.S. ties:

Alexander N. Green

❖ Punjab approved the establishment of 'Local Government Caucus and Punjab Border

Areas Development Caucus (PBADC)’ on: 9 September 2024

❖ Team winning a Test match series against Pakistan for the first time: Bangladesh

❖ Country conducting Joint Exercise Elang Strike-II (September 8 to September 16,

2024) with Pakistan at the NCTC: Indonesia

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❖ Deputy Prime Minister of Russia leading a delegation to Pakistan on 18-19 September

2024: Alexei Overchuk

❖ Required members to amend the Constitution of Pakistan: 224 in National Assembly

and 64 in Senate

❖ Punjab government responsible for constructing 500,000 houses under the Scheme:

"Apna Ghar Apni Chhat"

❖ Pakistan is elected as a board member of: IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency)

❖ Date of PM Shehbaz Sharif’s address at the 79th UNGA session: 27 September 2024

❖ New DG ISI (26th) appointed on 23 September 2024: Lt. Gen Asim Malik

❖ Pakistan cuts 150,000 Jobs and dissolved______ Ministries dissolved as austerity

measures for the IMF loan: Six

❖ Theme of the 1st National Tourism (27 September 2024) Awards of Excellence:

Celebrating Peace through Tourism

❖ Country purchasing JF-17 Block III jets from Pakistan in a $1.6 billion deal: Azerbaijan

❖ Province launching the "Ekhtiyar Awam Ka" app for public complaint registration: Khyber

Pakhtunkhwa (KP)

❖ Renowned Pakistani cricket umpire retiring at the end of the 2024-25 domestic season:

Aleem Dar

❖ First Pakistani designer on the Business of Fashion 500 list: Faraz Manan

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❖ President of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) visiting Pakistan in September 2024:

Masatsugu Asakawa

❖ Pakistan’s ranking in the 2024 Asia Power Index: 16th (out of 27countries)

❖ New Defence Secretary of Pakistan (28 September 2024): Lt Gen Muhammad Ali

❖ Two Pakistani female peacekeepers awarded the UN Gender Advocacy Award (20 Sept

2024): Major Sania Safdar and Major Komal Masood

❖ Recent development in Pakistan's digital infrastructure for connectivity enhancement:

Launch of PakSat-MM1

❖ Pakistan's position in the 2024 UN E-Government Development Index (EGDI): 136th

INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS-SEPTEMBER 2024

❖ Recently in September 2024, the first player to score 900 career goals in football:

Cristiano Ronaldo

❖ Country launching the Chamran-1 research satellite successfully: Iran

❖ Space agency planning to deliver a nuclear reactor to the moon by the early 2030s:

NASA

❖ Newly appointed Prime Minister of Jordan: Jafar Hassan

❖ Theme of UNGA79 held from 10th to 30th September 2024: Leaving no one behind

❖ New president of Sri Lanka is (22 Sept 2024): Anura Kumara Dissanayake

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❖ New Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, sworn in on 24 September 2024: Harini Amarasuriya

❖ First country to receive WHO Verification for Eliminating Leprosy: Jordan

❖ Host of the "BRICS National Security Advisers’ meeting": Russia

❖ New member of the BRICS New Development Bank (NDB) in September 2024: Algeria

❖ Date of the Japan-Australia-India-U.S. (Quad) Leaders’ Meeting: September 21, 2024

(Wilmington, Delaware, USA)

❖ Temporary companion Earth is expected to gain, known as a mini-moon: 2024 PT5

❖ Host city for the Commonwealth Games 2026: Glasgow

❖ Country winning the most medals at the Paris 2024 Summer Paralympic Games: China

❖ Country unveiling the new suicide drone ‘Shahed-136B’: Iran

❖ New UN member taking a seat at the 79th session of the UN General Assembly:

Palestine

❖ Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, killed in an Israeli strike on: 28 September 2024

❖ New leader of Hezbollah after Nasrallah’s death: Naim Qassem

❖ First female spokesperson appointed by Iran: Dr. Fateh Mohajerani

❖ Newest non-regional member of the Asian Development Bank (ADB): Israel (69th

member)

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❖ Ninth edition of the ICC Women's T20 World Cup scheduled from: 3 to 20 October

2024

❖ Host of the world’s largest naval defense exhibition 'EURONAVAL 2024': France

❖ Country launching the ballistic missile system named “Jihad”: Iran

❖ the Fath-360 Missile is of which country: Iran

❖ Location of the “Ocean-24” naval exercise by Russia and China: Sea of Japan

NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

OCTOBER-2024

❖ ADB's projected growth rate for Pakistan's economy in fiscal year 2025: 2.8%

❖ Pakistan's first animated movie submitted for the 2025 Oscars: Glass Worker

❖ Leader included in Time Magazine’s '2024 Time 100 Next' list for Baloch rights: Dr.

Mahrang Baloch

❖ Date of Malaysian PM Anwar Ibrahim's arrival in Pakistan: October 2, 2024

❖ Award conferred upon Malaysian PM Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim by Pakistan's President:

Nishan-e-Pakistan

❖ Country whose Prime Minister visited Pakistan on October 2, 2024: Malaysia

❖ Associate professor from Agha Khan University nominated for Goalkeeper Award: Dr.

Zahra Hoodbhoy

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❖ First Pakistani alpinist to conquer all 14 highest peaks: Sirbaz Khan

❖ Location of Pakistan's first government autism school: Lahore

❖ Cybersecurity expert from Karachi inducted into NASA's Hall of Fame: Usama Saleem

❖ Expected completion year for Pakistan Railways' rail line from Thar Coal Mines to Port

Qasim: 2025

❖ Name of the bilateral naval exercise between Pakistan and Qatar: Asad Al-Bahar -3

❖ First Pakistani to win the Karate Combat World Lightweight Championship: Shahzaib

Rind

❖ Section under Anti-Terrorism Act declaring PTM 'unlawful': Section 11B

❖ Date observed for Solidarity Day with Palestine in Pakistan: October 7, 2024

❖ Religious scholar awarded an Honorary Ph.D. by the Governor of Sindh: Zakir Naik

❖ Location of the 2024 World Culture Festival hosted by the Art Council: Karachi, Pakistan

❖ Dates for the 23rd meeting of the SCO Council of Heads of Government (CHG): October

15-16

❖ Department abolished by Punjab government for price control: Food Department

❖ New department created by Punjab government for price control and commodities

management: Punjab Price Control and Commodities Management Department

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❖ Day commemorated on October 8 to remember the 2005 earthquake: National Disaster

Awareness Day

❖ Company licensed by EDB to assemble Pakistan's first electric SUV: Regal Automobiles

❖ Pakistan's rank in the Global Innovation Index (GII) 2024: 91st

❖ Female elephant in Karachi Zoo shifted to Safari Park: Madhubala

❖ Pakistan’s rank in the Global Hunger Index 2024: 109th

❖ Female visual artist from Sindh known as the ‘Girl with golden fingers’: Humaira Abid

❖ Youngest Pakistani mountaineer to summit all fourteen 8,000-metre peaks: Shehroze

Kashif

❖ Country whose delegation visited Pakistan for a three-day official visit on October 9,

2024: Saudi Arabia

❖ Name of the Saudi Minister for Investment who visited Pakistan on October 9, 2024:

Sheikh Khalid Bin Abdul Aziz Al Faleh

❖ Date when retired Lt-Gen Akhtar Nawaz Satti took oath as FPSC chairman: October 9,

2024

❖ Company that launched Pakistan’s first ‘800 Gbps per wavelength’ internet service: PTCL

❖ Pakistan's rank in the 2024 Asian Power Index (API): 5th

❖ Country with the world’s 4th largest oil & gas reserves: Pakistan

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❖ Province that recently launched Online Driving License Services: Sindh

❖ Date of passing for veteran actor Abid Kashmiri, Nigar Award winner for ‘Bazaar-e-Husn’:

October 11, 2024

❖ Weather phenomenon expected to cause dry conditions in Pakistan, as per FAO report

(October 11, 2024): La Nina

❖ Pakistani actress appointed by UNICEF as Pakistan’s First National Ambassador for Child

Rights: Saba Qamar

❖ Name of the Baloch Liberation Army’s (BLA) ‘intelligence and analysis’ wing revealed

after the October 6, 2024, Karachi attack: Zirab

❖ Date of the Punjab Assembly’s passage of the “Punjab Enforcement and Regulatory

Authority (PERA) bill”: October 11, 2024

❖ Headquarters location of the Punjab Enforcement and Regulatory Authority (PERA) as

per the bill: Lahore

❖ Chairperson of the Punjab Enforcement and Regulatory Authority (PERA) according to

the PERA bill: Chief Minister

❖ Location for the SCO Summit presided over by PM Shehbaz Sharif as Chair of the Council

of Heads of Government: Jinnah Convention Centre

❖ Position of the Council of Heads of Government in SCO's decision-making hierarchy:

Second-highest

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❖ Li Qiang’s visit on 14 October, 2024 is the first by a Chinese premier to Pakistan: in 11

years

❖ Project inaugurated in a virtual ceremony by Chinese PM Li Qiang and PM Shahbaz

Sharif: Gwadar International Airport

❖ IMF's recommended annual GDP investment by Pakistan in climate resilience and

adaptation: one percent

❖ Pakistani who won the ‘gold medal’ at the Sixth Asian Taekwondo Open Championship

in kyorugi discipline on October 16, 2024: Shahzaib Khan

❖ Last visit to Pakistan by an Indian foreign minister: 2015

❖ First time in nearly how many years an Indian foreign minister traveled to Pakistan

(October 15, 2024): After 9 years

❖ Proposed institution establishment by heads of delegations at SCO Summit 2024 in

Islamabad: SCO Development Bank, SCO Development Fund, SCO Investment Fund

❖ Date when the Senate of Pakistan passed the “Establishment of Special Courts Bill” for

property-related cases of overseas Pakistanis: October 17, 2024

❖ Country signing a subsidiary agreement with Pakistan for the ‘Climate Resilient and

Adaptive Water Allocation in Pakistan’ project: Australia

❖ Date when the Supreme Court set aside the government job quota scheme for family

members of low-grade employees (medical retirement, service death, disability):

October 18, 2024

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❖ Pakistan’s score in the ‘Freedom on the Net 2024’ report by Freedom House: 27th

❖ Representative of India at the 23rd SCO Council of Heads of Government Meeting 2024

in Pakistan: Dr. S Jaishankar

❖ Poverty rate prediction for Pakistan through Fiscal Year 2026 according to the ‘Macro

Poverty Outlook for Pakistan’ by the World Bank (October 18, 2024): 40%

❖ Authority empowered by the 26th amendment to appoint the next CJP from among

three senior judges: Prime Minister

❖ Amendment in the Constitution of Pakistan approved in October 2024: 26th

❖ Retirement age for a Supreme Court judge under the 26th amendment in the 1973

Constitution: 65 years

❖ Majority by which the Senate and National Assembly of Pakistan passed "The

Constitution (Twenty-Sixth Amendment) Act, 2024" in October 2024: 2/3rd

❖ Role of the senior-most judge of each Constitutional Bench according to the 26th

amendment: Presiding Officer

❖ Term set for the "Chief Justice Supreme Court of Pakistan" under the 26th amendment: 3

Years

❖ Panel from which the 12-member Parliamentary Committee will nominate the new Chief

Justice of Pakistan under the 26th amendment: Three Most Senior Judges

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❖ According to the 26th amendment, the appointment of the Chief Justice of the Supreme

Court of Pakistan is finalized by: President of Pakistan

❖ Date set for the complete eradication of Riba (Interest) from Pakistan under "The

Constitution (Twenty-Sixth Amendment) Act, 2024": January 1, 2028

❖ Country finalizing an agreement with Pakistan for the procurement of telemetry and

weather stations for flood forecasting: Japan

❖ Japanese organization financing RS. 4.22bn for Pakistan's telemetry and weather stations

installation: Japan International Cooperation Agency

❖ Body that criticized the passage of the 26th Constitutional Amendment for its impact on

judicial independence and human rights: International Commission of Jurists

❖ Chairman of the Judicial Commission of Pakistan (JCP): Chief Justice

❖ According to "The Constitution (Twenty-Sixth Amendment) Act, 2024," the final approval

of the nominated Chief Justice of Pakistan goes to: President

❖ Total amendments officially approved and incorporated into the 1973 Constitution to

date: 26

❖ Individual who secured a gold medal at the Mr. Universe 2024 competition by the World

Fitness Federation in Las Vegas, USA: Rameez Ibrahim

❖ Current Chief Justice of Pakistan: Justice Yahya Afridi

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❖ Location where Justice Yahya Afridi was sworn in as the 30th Chief Justice of Pakistan by

President Asif Ali Zardari on October 26, 2024: Awan-i-Saddar

❖ Leader of the Pakistan delegation to the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting

(CHOGM) 2024 in Apia, Samoa: Mohammad Ishaq Dar

❖ Pakistani senator leading the delegation for Uzbekistan’s 2024 parliamentary elections as

international observers: Senator Irfan Siddiqui

❖ Social media site launching the #DigitalHifazat contest in collaboration with Pakistan

Telecommunication Authority (PTA): TikTok

❖ Superintendent of Police (SP) from Pakistan who received the 2024 International

Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) Global Award: Beenish Fatima

❖ Location of the 45th Annual Forum of ‘Parliamentarians for Global Action (PGA)’ and the

13th Consultative Assembly of Parliamentarians on the International Criminal Court and

Rule of Law: Islamabad, Pakistan

❖ Pakistan's rank in the 2024 World Justice Project’s (WJP) Rule of Law Index out of 142

countries: 129th

❖ Pakistan's tier in the International Telecommunication Union’s (ITU) Global Cybersecurity

Index (GCI) 2024: Tier-1 (Role-modelling)

❖ Host of the two-day 2024 “International Search and Rescue Advisory Group (INSARAG)”

conference in Islamabad on October 29-30, 2024: National Disaster Management

Authority (NDMA)

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❖ Country providing 20 million euros to Pakistan for the second phase of the ‘Billion Tree

Afforestation Support Project’ (BTASP) as of November 2, 2024: Germany

❖ Pakistan's rank in the 2024 ‘Global Impunity Index’ by the Committee to Protect

Journalists out of the 13 worst offenders: 12th

❖ Date when the National Assembly approved the extension of armed forces' heads’

tenure from three to five years: 4 November 2024

❖ Increased number of Supreme Court judges in Pakistan after recent legislation: 34

❖ Winner of the Blind T20 World Cup after defeating Bangladesh by 10 wickets in

Multan: Pakistan

❖ Pakistan’s ranking among the 13 worst offenders in the 2024 ‘Global Impunity Index’:

12th

❖ Pakistan’s ranking in the Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI 2025): 31st

❖ Pakistan’s ranking in the Network Readiness Index 2024 (NRI 2024): 97th

❖ Pakistani airline for which the European Aviation Safety Agency lifted the ban in

November 2024: PIA

❖ Recipient of the "Brain of the Year Award 2025" by The Brain Trust: Dr. Amjad Saqib

❖ Pakistan’s position in the global solar energy market (as per the World Economic

Forum): Sixth-largest

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❖ Dates of the official visit of Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko to Pakistan:

25-27 November 2024

❖ Start date of the 13th edition of the International Defence Exhibition and Seminar

(IDEAS) at Karachi Expo Centre: 24 - 27 November

❖ Theme of International Defence Exhibition and Seminar (IDEAS 2024): Arms for

Peace

❖ First Muslim and South Asian to be appointed as President of the Association of

Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA): Ayla Majid (From Pakistan)

❖ Date when Pakistan secured its first ODI series win in Australia since 2002:

November 2024

❖ Province that approved Pakistan’s first-ever Transgender Education Policy for

inclusivity in schools and colleges: Sindh

❖ Pakistani space agency that joined China’s lunar exploration mission: SUPARCO

❖ Pakistani universities ranked among the top 100 in QS Asia University Rankings:

NUST (67th) and Quaid-i-Azam University (84th)

❖ Pakistani actress honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award at UK Parliament for

contributions to global cinema and women’s empowerment: Mahira Khan

❖ Country that set a new world record by creating the largest human flag: Pakistan

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❖ Iranian Foreign Minister who arrived in Islamabad for a two-day visit to discuss

bilateral ties and Middle East tensions: Seyed Abbas Araghchi

❖ Indigenous missile successfully tested by the Pak-Navy from a warship: SMASH

Ballistic Missile

❖ Province in Pakistan with the highest percentage of out-of-school children (OOSC):

Balochistan (47% out of school)

❖ Out-of-school children (OOSC) percentage in Punjab, KP, and Sindh (as per UNICEF):

Punjab: 14%, KP: 24%, Sindh: 15%

❖ Special coin issued by the State Bank of Pakistan to mark the 555th Jayanti of Baba

Guru Nanak: Rs 55 commemorative coin

❖ City hosting the 28th Annual Conference of the International Association of

Peacekeeping Training Centres (IAPTC) for the first time in Pakistan: Islamabad

❖ Pakistan’s representative at the UN Climate Conference (COP29): PM Shahbaz Sharif

❖ City in Pakistan approved for the establishment of the country’s first Tier Four Data

Center: Lahore

❖ Countries that participated in the joint military exercise "Warrior-VIII" in November

2024: Pakistan and China

❖ Country that approved an $18.5 million grant for flood management in Pakistan on 13th

November 2024: Japan

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❖ Bills passed by the National Assembly on 4th November 2024:

o The Supreme Court (Number of Judges) (Amendment) Bill

o The Supreme Court (Practice and Procedure) (Amendment) Bill

o The Islamabad High Court (Amendment) Bill

o The Pakistan Army (Amendment) Bill

o The Pakistan Air Force (Amendment) Bill

o The Pakistan Navy (Amendment) Bill

❖ Total number of bills passed by the government in both houses of parliament on 4th

November 2024: 6

❖ Winner of the IBSF World Snooker Championship 2024: Mohammad Asif

❖ New head coach of the Pakistan Cricket Team: Aaqib Javed

INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS-NOVEMBER 2024

❖ United States presidential election 2024 was held on: Nov 5th, 2024

❖ Winner of the U.S. presidential election in 2024: Donald Trump (belongs Republican

party)

❖ Democratic party symbol is Donkey while symbol of Republican party is Elephant.

❖ Donald Trump is the ____ President of the United States: 47th

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❖ Total number of electors in the U.S. Electoral College: 538

❖ Minimum electoral votes required to win the U.S. presidency: 270

❖ Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that gave women the right to vote: 19th

❖ Term length for a U.S. Senator: 6 years

❖ U.S. state with the most electoral votes: California (54)

❖ The UN Climate Conference COP29, 2024 held in: Baku, Azerbaijan (11 to 22

November 2024)

❖ COP stands for in the context of climate change: Conference of the Parties (started in

1995)

❖ Theme of UN Climate Conference 2024 (COP29): Corporate Sustainability & Climate

Action

❖ President of UN Climate Conference (COP29): H.E. Mukhtar Babayev

❖ International agreement primarily associated with COP meetings: Paris Agreement

❖ COP meetings are organized under which international framework: UNFCCC

❖ 11th President of the Asian Development Bank (ADB): Masato Kanda

❖ First Black woman to lead the UK Conservative Party: Kemi Badenoch

❖ Shigeru Ishiba is the new Prime Minister of which country: Japan

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❖ World’s richest man in history after net worth reached $348 billion (Bloomberg

Billionaires): Elon Musk

❖ Host country of the 30th Conference of the Parties (COP 30) in 2025: Brazil

❖ Country recently hit by Typhoon Kong-Rey: Taiwan

❖ Winner of the Women’s Asian Hockey Champions Trophy 2024: India

❖ Location of the world’s largest coral colony recently discovered: Solomon Islands

❖ Host city of the Asia-Pacific Economic Summit 2024: Lima, Peru

❖ Country recently hit by Super Typhoon Man-yi: Philippines

❖ Location of the 19th G20 Leaders’ Summit: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

❖ First African country to chair the G20: South Africa

❖ Weather phenomenon that caused catastrophic flooding in Spain: DANA storm

❖ Organization that launched the Voyager 2 Spacecraft: NASA

❖ Country where plastic-eating mealworm larvae were discovered: Kenya

❖ Volcano in Flores, Indonesia, that erupted killing at least ten people: Mount Lewotobi

Lakilaki

❖ Israeli officials for whom the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants: PM

Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant

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❖ Host city of the first-ever Ministerial Conference on Ending Violence Against Children

(Nov 2024): Bogotá, Colombia

NATIONAL AFFAIRS-DECEMBER 2024

❖ First Hindu officer in the Police Service of Pakistan (PSP): Rajender Meghwar (ASP)

from Sindh

❖ First female Pakistani chief minister to visit China: Maryam Nawaz

❖ Four Pakistani companies sanctioned by the US for missile development: The National

Development Complex (NDC), Akhtar and Sons Private Limited, Affiliates

International, Rockside Enterprise

❖ New administrative divisions, districts, and tehsils in Punjab as per Governor Sardar

Saleem Haider’s gazette: 10 divisions, 41 districts, 216 tehsils

❖ City that became the 10th division of Punjab: Gujrat

❖ Dates of PM Shehbaz Sharif’s visit to Egypt for the 11th D-8 Summit: 18 to 20

December 2024

❖ Theme of the 11th D-8 Summit: Investing in Youth and Supporting SMEs: Shaping

Tomorrow’s Economy

❖ Host country of the 2025 Champions Trophy: Pakistan

❖ PCB’s chosen neutral venue for the Champions Trophy: UAE

❖ Winner of the 2024 Blind T20 World Cup (held on 4 December 2024): Pakistan

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❖ Team that defeated Pakistan 5-3 in the 2024 Junior Asia Cup hockey final: India

❖ First team in the 21st century to win three ODI series in South Africa (2013, 2021, 2024):

Pakistan

❖ Pakistan’s rankings in mobile internet and broadband speeds: 100th out of 111

countries (mobile internet), 141st out of 158 countries (broadband speeds)

❖ Pakistani awarded the 'Order of Canada' for contributions to maternal and child health:

Dr. Zulfiqar Bhutta

❖ Pakistani recipient of the Sheikh Zayed Award for contributions to traditional and

modern medicine: Dr. Muhammad Iqbal Chaudhry

❖ Countries whose naval vessels participated in joint patrol and passage exercises with

Pakistan Navy’s ship Saif (December 10, 2024): Oman and Spain

❖ Two Pakistani women featured in the BBC 100 Women 2024 list: Hadiqa Kiani and

Mahrang Baloch

❖ Pakistani inducted into the Professional Squash Association (PSA) Hall of Fame: Jansher

Khan

❖ Pakistan’s second-largest trading partner, benefiting from the GSP+ arrangement:

European Union (EU)

❖ First Pakistani to win the Gordon Bell Prize 2024 in Climate Modeling: Dr. Zubair Khalid

❖ Pakistan’s rank in the Network Readiness Index 2024: 97th

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❖ Number of terrorists killed by forces in 2024 (highest ever in a single year, per DG ISPR):

925

❖ "Deadliest year" for Pakistan's security forces: 2024

❖ Security personnel who laid down their lives amid 444 terror attacks across Pakistan in

2024: 685

❖ Elected unopposed as the president of the Pakistan Olympic Association (POA) for 2025-

2029: Arif Saeed

❖ Name of the National Economic Transformation Plan 2024-29 unveiled by PM

Shehbaz Sharif on December 31, 2024: Uraan Pakistan

❖ Country that recently approved the construction of its largest nuclear power plant,

Chashma Unit 5 (C-5): Pakistan

❖ Name of the long-time Safari Park resident elephant that recently passed away: Sonia

❖ Individual who set a world record by joining the IGDP of Reko Diq Mining Company:

Zainab Saeed Bakhsh

❖ Loan amount Punjab is seeking from the ADB to fortify climate resilience: $210 million

INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS-DECEMBER 2024

❖ Richest person of the year 2024: Elon Musk

❖ Brain of the Year Award 2025 (The Brain Trust): Dr. Amjad Saqib

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❖ UNICEF’s description of the "worst year in history for children in conflict": 2024

❖ Most peaceful country in the world: Iceland

❖ Most educated country in the world: South Korea

❖ Country that topped the Henley Passport Index 2024: Japan & Singapore

❖ Country that topped the Global Innovation Index 2024: Switzerland

❖ Country that topped the World Happiness Index 2024: Finland

❖ Country that topped the EIU's Democracy Index 2024: Norway

❖ Worst country to live in 2024: South Sudan

❖ Countries ranked worst for justice in journalist killings: Haiti and Israel

❖ Worst country for women in 2024: Afghanistan

❖ Coalition of Islamist rebel groups that removed Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria: Hayat

Tahrir al-Sham (HTS)

❖ Leader of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS): Muhammad Al Julani

❖ Current and 70th Prime Minister of Syria: Mohammed al-Bashir

❖ Country Bashar al-Assad fled to after the fall of Damascus: Russia

❖ Prime Minister of France when the government collapsed after a no-confidence vote:

Michel Barnier

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❖ Chinese astronauts who set a record with a nine-hour spacewalk outside Tiangong space

station: Cai Xuzhe and Song Lingdong

❖ Director-General of WTO reappointed for a second four-year term: Ngozi Okonjo-

Iweala

❖ Former U.S. president and Nobel Peace Prize recipient who passed away at age 100 on

December 29, 2024: Jimmy Carter (39th president of USA)

❖ Country that implemented a social media ban for children under 16: Australia

❖ Official host of the 2034 FIFA World Cup: Saudi Arabia

❖ New Chair of the International Cricket Council (ICC) from December 1, 2024: Jay Shah

(India)

❖ New President of the Asian Cricket Council replacing Jay Shah: Shammi Silva (Sri Lanka)

❖ New Prime Minister of France: Francois Bayrou

❖ Google launched AI model for weather prediction named: Google Deepmind's GenCast

❖ Google launched a quantum computing chip named: Willow

❖ Country operating the Subaru Telescope: Japan

❖ Country that developed an mRNA vaccine for cancer patients: Russia

❖ First European nation to join the CPTPP: United Kingdom

❖ First person to have a net worth of more than $400 billion: Elon Musk

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❖ Who apologized over the downing of an Azerbaijani plane in Russian airspace: Russian

President Vladimir Putin

❖ Acting president impeached by South Korean parliament: Han Duck-soo

❖ Bird officially declared the national bird of the United States after 250 years: Bald Eagle

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