NATIONAL
1. Former CM Punjab Manzoor Wattoo passed away on ______.
(a) Dec. 16 (b) Dec. 17
(c) Dec. 18 (d) None of these
2. The Deosai National Park was established in ______.
(a) 1988 (b) 1993
(c) 2000 (d) None of these
3. On Dec. 17, the fourth Hangor class submarine of Pakistan Navy, named ______, was launched.
(a) Ghazi (b) Taimoor
(c) Aahan (d) None of these
4. On Dec. 17, former foreign secretary ______ was designated to be the secretary general of D-8.
(a) Aiza Chaudhary (b) Sohail Mahmood
(c) Syrus Qazi (d) None of these
5. The current Director General of Pakistan Environmental Protection Agency is ______.
(a) Anwarul Haq (b) Tariq Mehmood
(c) Abrar Hussain (d) None of these
6. On Dec. 18, President Zardari approved the denotification of Justice Tariq Mehmood Jahangiri as a judge of the ______ High Court.
(a) Sindh (b) Lahore
(c) Islamabad (d) None of these
7. On Dec. 18, the EU-Pakistan 15th Joint Commission was held in ______.
(a) Islamabad (b) Brussels
(c) Oslo (d) None of these
8. On ______, Vice Chairman of Voice for Baloch Missing Persons, Mama Qadeer Baloch, passed away.
(a) Dec. 20 (b) Dec. 21
(c) Dec. 24 (d) None of these
9. 'Labzganj' is the first-ever comprehensive online dictionary for the ______ language.
(a) Hindko (b) Brahvi
(c) Balochi (d) None of these
10. On Dec. 21, the commissioning ceremony of 2nd Pakistan Navy MILGEM class ship PNS ______ was held at Istanbul Naval Shipyard.
(a) Taimoor (b) Khaibar
(c) Ghazi (d) None of these
11. On Dec. 21, Pakistan completely outclassed ______ to clinch the Junior Asia Cup title for the first time.
(a) India (b) Bangladesh
(c) Sri Lanka (d) None of these
12. On Dec. 22, Pakistan reached a deal worth over $4 billion to sell conventional military equipment to the ______ National Army.
(a) Sudanese (b) Yemeni
(c) Libyan (d) None of these
13. On Dec. 22, the 2nd Lok Sahaita Int’l Marathon was held in ______.
(a) Sukkur (b) Karachi
(c) Larkana (d) None of these
14. On Dec. 23, Pakistan sold a 75 percent stake in PIA for ______ to an Arif Habib-led consortium.
(a) Rs185 billion (b) Rs165 billion
(c) Rs135 billion (d) None of these
15. The Khunjerab Pass connects China's Xinjiang region with ______ in Pakistan.
(a) Gilgit-Baltistan (b) KP
(c) Balochistan (d) None of these
16. On Dec. 25, the ______ High Court set aside the federal government's power to inactivate a citizen's passport and placing a person on the Passport Control List.
(a) Lahore (b) Islamabad
(c) Sindh (d) None of these
17. The incumbent Chief Executive Officer of the Pakhtunkhwa Energy Development Organisation is ______.
(a) Eng Salman Anwar
(b) Eng Anwarul Haq
(c) Eng. Sanaullah Khan
(d) None of these
18. Dr Shamshad Akhtar, former governor of the State Bank of Pakistan and ex-caretaker federal finance minister, passed away on ______.
(a) Dec. 25 (b) Dec. 27
(c) Dec. 29 (d) None of these
19. On Jan. 01, ______ was appointed as IGP Sindh.
(a) Zulfiqar Larik (b) Javed Odho
(c) Iqbal Dara (d) None of these
20. On Jan. 01, PM Shehbaz Sharif appointed Maulana Tahir Mehmood Ashrafi as his Coordinator for Religious Harmony and Diaspora in the Middle East and ______ countries.
(a) Muslim (b) African
(c) West Asian (d) None of these
21. Dr Faiqa Qureshi, who died on Jan. 2 in USA, was the daughter of Air Marshal ______.
(a) Pervaiz Mehdi Qureshi
(b) Kaleem Saadat
(c) Nur Khan (d) None of these
22. On Jan. 02, ______ was named as Pemra chairperson.
(a) Faiqa Mumtaz (b) Shaukat Ali
(c) Ambreen Jan (d) None of these
23. On Jan. 02, the federal government appointed ______ as the CEO of Small and Medium Enterprises Development Authority.
(a) Adnan Aziz (b) Najam Wali Khan
(c) Nadia Jahangir Seth
(d) None of these
24. On Jan. 03, the PAF conducted the flight test of the indigenously developed ______ weapon system.
(a) Taimoor (b) Khaibar
(c) Fateh (d) None of these
25. On Jan. 04, the seventh round of the Pakistan-China Foreign Ministers' Strategic Dialogue was held in ______.
(a) Islamabad (b) Shanghai
(c) Beijing (d) None of these
26. On Jan. 05, ______ was elected chairman of PSX Board of Directors.
(a) Ruhail Mohammad
(b) Salman Minhas
(c) Ali Jahangir Siddiqui
(d) None of these
27. On Jan. 06, the ______ government formally merged the Levies Force into the provincial Police, and abolished all 'B' areas across the province.
(a) KP (b) Sindh
(c) Balochistan (d) None of these
28. On Jan. 08, the Pakistan Super League (PSL) formally inducted two new franchises – Hyderabad and ______ – into the league.
(a) Multan (b) Faisalabad
(c) Sialkot (d) None of these
29. On Jan. 10, ______ was appointed as new Chairman of Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP).
(a) Dr Kabir Ahmed Sidhu
(b) Dr Shamshad Ahmed Punnu
(c) Farrukh Javed Abbasi
(d) None of these
30. On Jan. 13, Pakistan and ______ signed a grant agreement worth US$18.62 million for improving child health.
(a) Japan (b) Indonesia
(c) Belarus (d) None of these
31. On the 2026 Henley Passport Index, Pakistan has been ranked at ______ position.
(a) 102nd (b) 100th
(c) 98th (d) None of these
32. Pakistan introduced its public sector accounting framework, the New Accounting Model, in ______.
(a) 1985 (b) 2000
(c) 2006 (d) None of these
33. The current prime minister of AJK is ______.
(a) Chauddhary Anwarul Haq
(b) Sultan Mehmood
(c) Raja Faisal Mumtaz Rathore
(d) None of these
34. The State Emblem of Pakistan was adopted in ______.
(a) 1948 (b) 1950
(c) 1954 (d) None of these
35. The Cunningham Clock Tower is located in ______.
(a) Peshawar (b) Karachi
(c) Hyderabad (d) None of these
36. Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan earned his PhD in metallurgical engineering from the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium in ______.
(a) 1964 (b) 1970
(c) 1972 (d) None of these
37. Khanpur Dam is located on the ______ River near Islamabad.
(a) Korang (b) Soan
(c) Haro (d) None of these
38. The only person from Pakistan Air Force who received Nishan-e-Haider is ______.
(a) Lalak Jan (b) Rashid Minhas
(c) Saif Ali Janjua (d) None of these
39. The Karachi-Chaman-Quetta Highway is known as______.
(a) N-10 (b) N-25
(c) N-30 (d) None of these
40. Malakhra game is played in ______.
(a) Balochistan (b) Sindh
(c) GB (d) None of these
INTERNATIONAL
1. On Dec. 17, the US Senate voted to advance a ______ defence bill.
(a) $901 billion (b) $925 billion
(c) $985 billion (d) None of these
2. On Dec. 17, Ousmane Dembele of ______ was named FIFA men's player of the year.
(a) Germany (b) France
(c) Gambia (d) None of these
3. A leader of Bangladesh's 2024 uprising, who was recently killed, was _______.
(a) Nahid Islam (b) Sarjis Alam
(c) Sharif Osman Hadi
(d) None of these
4. On Dec. 18, the US approved $11 billion-worth of arms to _______.
(a) Ukraine (b) Syria
(c) Taiwan (d) None of these
5. The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has declared _______ as the top global sports drug cheater for a third straight year.
(a) India (b) Australia
(c) Russia (d) None of these
6. On Dec. 20, the US military launched Operation _______ on dozens of bases used by IS group in Syria.
(a) Hawkeye Strike (b) Just Cause
(c) Klipklop (d) None of these
7. On Dec. 21, Saudi Arabia and ______ inked an agreement granting mutual exemption from short-stay visa requirements for holders of diplomatic, special and official passports.
(a) India (b) Iran
(c) China (d) None of these
8. On Dec. 22, President Trump appointed Jeff Landry, the governor of ______, as special envoy to Greenland.
(a) California (b) Louisiana
(c) Colorado (d) None of these
9. On Dec. 23, the head of ______ armed forces Lieutenant General Mohammed al-Haddad was killed in a plane crash in Turkiye.
(a) Libya's (b) Iraq's
(c) Somalia's (d) None of these
10. On Dec. 25, Nasry Asfura, a son of Palestinian immigrants, was declared winner of the ______ presidential vote.
(a) Jamaican (b) Honduran
(c) Cuban (d) None of these
11. The head of China's Family Planning Commission from 1988 to 1998, who was the one-child policy czar, was ______.
(a) Liu Yuanchun (b) Yang Jiechi
(c) Peng Peiyun (d) None of these
12. On Dec. 26, Russia provided ______ with new financing worth $9 billion for the Akkuyu nuclear power plant.
(a) Mexico (b) Iran
(c) Turkiye (d) None of these
13. Rosatom is the state nuclear energy company of ______.
(a) Russia (b) Ukraine
(c) Qatar (d) None of these
14. India's Dulhasti Stage-II hydropower project will be built on ______ River.
(a) Chenab (b) Yamuna
(c) Sutlej (d) None of these
15. On Dec. 27, Israel formally recognized ______ northern region of Somaliland as an independent state.
(a) Chad's (b) Somalia's
(c) Algeria's (d) None of these
16. The first Green politician elected to a national parliament anywhere in the world was Daniel Brelaz from ______.
(a) Switzerland (b) Denmark
(c) Austria (d) None of these
17. On Dec. 29, Hamas's armed wing confirmed the death of its spokesperson ______.
(a) Abu Marzook (b) Khalil al-Hayya
(c) Abu Obeida (d) None of these
18. On ______, Bangladesh's first woman prime minister, Khaleda Zia, died aged 80.
(a) Dec. 28 (b) Dec. 30
(c) Dec. 31 (d) None of these
19. On Dec. 30, Sonam Yeshey of ______ became the first bowler to take eight wickets in a Twenty20 International.
(a) Nepal (b) UAE
(c) Bhutan (d) None of these
20. Zohran Mamdani was sworn in as New York mayor on ______.
(a) Dec. 27 (b) Dec. 31
(c) Jan. 01 (d) None of these
21. On Jan. 01, Bulgaria became the ______ country to switch to the euro.
(a) 29th (b) 30th
(c) 21st (d) None of these
22. On Jan. 02, ______ carmaker BYD overtook Elon Musk's Tesla as the world's biggest seller of electric vehicles.
(a) Japanese (b) American
(c) Chinese (d) None of these
23. On ______, the US attacked Venezuela and captured its long-serving President Nicolas Maduro.
(a) Jan. 01 (b) Jan. 03
(c) Jan. 05 (d) None of these
24. On Jan. 04, Saudi Arabia designated senior diplomat Major General (Retired) Rajeh Albugami as new ambassador for ______.
(a) Pakistan (b) Iran
(c) Russia (d) None of these
25. On Jan. 05, the embassy of Palestine was officially inaugurated in ______.
(a) Brussels (b) Paris
(c) London (d) None of these
26. On Jan. 08, President Trump ordered the US government to pull out of 66 international organisations, including ______ UN entities.
(a) 29 (b) 31
(c) 60 (d) None of these
27. On Jan. 10, the Council of Foreign Ministers of the OIC held its 22nd extraordinary session in ______.
(a) Riyadh (b) Jeddah
(c) Makkah (d) None of these
28. On Jan. 11, Israel and ______ signed a security pact to expand cooperation on counterterrorism and cyber defence.
(a) USA (b) Somaliland
(c) Germany (d) None of these
29. China has posted the world's largest-ever trade surplus of ______.
(a) $989 billion (b) $1.19 trillion
(c) $1.75 trillion (d) None of these
30. The lev is the currency of ______.
(a) Somalia (b) Austria
(c) Bulgaria (d) None of these
31. AI tool integrated with MS Word and MS Excel is ______.
(a) Siri (b) Copilot
(c) Chinese (d) None of these
32. Permanent Secretariat of SAARC is located at ______.
(a) Dhaka (b) Kathmandu
(c) Colombo (d) None of these
33. The Weimar Triangle is a political grouping of France, Poland and ______.
(a) Germany (b) Italy
(c) Finland (d) None of these
34. The Global Risk Report 2026 has been released by ______.
(a) UNDP (b) WEF
(c) IMF (d) None of these
35. The International Telecommunications Union was founded in ______.
(a) 1847 (b) 1860
(c) 1865 (d) None of these
36. The Montreal Protocol, a landmark global agreement that mandates the phase‑out of ozone‑depleting substances, was adopted in _______.
(a) 1970 (b) 1980
(c) 1987 (d) None of these
37. The Biological Weapons Convention entered into force on ______.
(a) March 26, 1970 (b) March 26, 1972
(c) March 26, 1975 (d) None of these
38. OPEC+, a wider alliance of petroleum-exporting countries, was formed in ______.
(a) 2002 (b) 2010
(c) 2016 (d) None of these
39. The United Nations Alliance of Civilizations was launched in ______.
(a) 2002 (b) 2005
(c) 2010 (d) None of these
40. The Manila-based Asian Development Bank was established in ______.
(a) 1946 (b) 1956
(c) 1966 (d) None of these
