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2023 national census (released on 5 August 2023)

Growth rate: 2.55 per cent

Total Pakistan population: 241.49 million

Punjab: 127.68 million

Punjab growth rate: 2.53 percent

Sindh population: 55.69 million

Sindh growth rate: 2.57 percent

Balochistan population: 14.89 million

Balochistan growth rate: 3.2 percent (highest of all)

KPK population: 40.85 million

KPK growth rate: 2.38 percent

Islamabad population: 2.36 million

Islamabad growth rate: 2.81 percent

Pakistan rural population: 61.18 percent

Pakistan Urban population: 38.82 percent

33 million population increased between 2017 and 2023 

110 million population increased between 1998 and 2023 

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Explanation

Cannes Film on 14 April 2022 announced that Joyland, a feature film by Pakistani filmmaker Saim Sadiq is selected to be screened at the 75th anniversary of the prestigious annual film festival

Explanation

Singer Arooj Aftab is the first Pakistani woman to have made it to the Grammys nomination list.

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NSP stands for National Security Policy

The Public version of the NSP was launched on 14 January 2022 

NSP was approved by the federal cabinet on Dec 28, 2021.

Prime Minister Imran Khan reveals the country's first-ever NSP

The policy document is meant for a five-year period (2022-26)

Explanation

The Objectives Resolution was adopted on March 12, 1949.

PM Liaquat Ali Khan, had presented it in the assembly on March 7, 1949.

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Pakistani teenage cueist Ahsan Ramzan became the youngest IBSF world champion in March 2022 after beating Iran's Amir Sarkosh in the final in Qatar.

IBSF World Snooker Championships

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 میں ایک خانہ جنگی کے دوران میں اس کا مشرقی حصہ الگ ہو کر ایک نیا ملک بنگلہ دیش بن گیا۔

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"Ilam-ul-Iqtisad" was the first book of Allama Muhammad Iqbal, published in 1903.

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The search for oil in Pakistan started in 1868

when the first test hole was drilled at Kundal near Mianwali, and continues to the present day.

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In a landmark achievement, Pakistan has joined World Intellectual Property Organization's (WIPO) International Trademark System ‘The Madrid System’, following years of efforts of the country’s Intellectual Property Organization (IPO-Pakistan).

The system allows brand owners to protect their trademarks in over 120 countries through a single and cost-effective procedure

Pakistan becomes the latest 108^th country to deposit its instrument of accession to the Madrid System for international trademark registrations, following the accession of Canada, Brazil and Malaysia (in 2019) and Trinidad and Tobago (early 2021).