Explanation

Article 35A was abrogated by the Modi Government on 5th August 2019 to indulge in demographic engineering.

On 5 August 2019, the Parliament of India voted in favour of a resolution tabled by Home Minister Amit Shah to revoke the temporary special status, or autonomy, granted under Article 370 of the Indian Constitution to Jammu and Kashmir

Explanation

Know everything about Musharraf

Born: Delhi (August 11, 1943)

Graduated: Pakistan Military Academy at Kakul (1964)

Appointed chief of army staff: October 1998

Appointer: Nawaz Sharif

Musharraf became 10th president of Pakistan in 2001 until 2008.

Coup: October 12, 1999 (declared a state of emergency)

In June 2001, Musharraf became the president of Pakistan.

In 2006, Musharraf’s autobiography titled In the Line of Fire was published.

In March 2007, Musharraf suspended then chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry.

Musharraf imposed a state of emergency on November 3, 2007.

Resigned from his position of army chief November 2007

Replacer: General Ashfaq Pervaiz Kayani

Musharraf lifted the emergency on December 15, 2007.

In 2010, Musharraf launched his political party — All Pakistan Muslim League (APML).

He flew to Dubai on March 17, 2016

On December 17, 2019, a special court handed Musharraf death sentence in the high treason case (only military ruler to be sentenced to death)

Died: 5 February 2023

Dying place: Dubai, UAE

Disease: amyloidosis

Aged: 79

Buried: Karachi

Explanation

Muhammad Yousaf is Snooker Player

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Muhammad Yousaf was born in 1952

Nominations: Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy 

Mohammed Yousuf is a Pakistani snooker player.

He is the winner of the 1994 IBSF World Snooker Championship,

2006 IBSF World Masters Championship,

and 1998 ACBS Asian Snooker Championship.

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Explanation

fertile desert  زرخیز صحرا

In Sindh, lies the world’s only fertile desert in the world.

The Thar Desert stretches is one of the world’s largest deserts and is the only fertile desert across the globe.

Around 85% of the desert is in India while the remaining part is in Sindh

Explanation

Maulvi Tamizuddin Khan was the Speaker of Pakistan's Constituent Assembly from 1948 to 1954 and National Assembly of Pakistan between 1962 and 1963. 

Born: March 1889, Faridpur District, Bangladesh

Died: August 19, 1963, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Party: Muslim League

Explanation

The awards were received by the winners on 23 March 2005

Name Arif Lohar

Field Arts

Specialization folk music

Country Punjab

Province Pakistan

Explanation

Pakistan received only 34 out of 921 industrial units in united India.

It included cotton textile, cigarettes, sugar, rice husking, cotton ginning, and flour milling industries.

These industries contributed only 7% of GDP.

It employed just over 26,000 people.

Explanation

Radd-ul-Fasaad is a military operation.

It was start by COAS Qamar Javed Bajwa across all states of Pakistan, on 22 February 2017. 

Explanation

The Hub power station is the first and largest power station to be financed by the private sector in Southern Asia and one of the largest private power projects in the newly industrialized world.

Explanation

On 16 May 2023, National Security Committee decided to observe May 9 — when multiple incidents of violence and vandalism were reported amid protests sparked by PTI chief Imran Khan’s arrest — as “Black Day” at the national level.