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The Karakoram Range in northern Pakistan is home to the highest number of summits.

List of 8000 + mountains in Pakistan

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The term of the Members of Senate is six years, however, one-half of its members retire after every three years.

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Computers primarily use binary language.

It consisting of 0s and 1s, to process and execute commands.

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Home rule movement:

• Its objective was to establish self-government.
• Tilak started the movement in April 1916 at Belgaum while Annie Besant started in September 1916 at Adyar, Madras.
• Tilak’s movement was confined to Maharashtra and Karnataka and the Annie Besant movement was spread to other parts of India.
• The All India Home league ended in 1920 when it elected Mahatma Gandhi as its President and when it merged into the Indian National Congress.
• In 1920, All India Home Rule League changed its name to Swarajya Sabha.

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• Khawaja Moinuddin Chishti Ajmeri was born in 1143 and died in 1236 AD.
• He is also known as Gharīb Nawāz (Benefactor of the Poor).
• He is the most famous Sufi saint of the Chishti order of South Asia.
• His shrine is at Ajmer, Rajasthan, India.

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• Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay wrote the national song 'Vande Mataram', which was a part of his novel Anandamath (1882).
• It is a political novel depicting a Sanyasi army fighting the British soldiers.
• The poem was first sung by Rabindranath Tagore in the 1896 session of the Indian National Congress.
• On 24 January 1950, the Constituent Assembly of India has adopted "Vande Mataram" as a national song.

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• The two Muslims who contributed to writing the Nehru Report were Syed Ali Imam and Shoaib Qureshi.
• The Nehru Report was published on August 28, 1928, at the Lucknow conference.
• It appealed for dominion status and a federal government setup for India.
• The committee was chaired by Motilal Nehru, with Jawaharlal Nehru as a member.
• Muhammad Ali Jinnah voted against this report and responded with his 14 Points.

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Under the new NFC Award formula:

• Balochistan: 9.09% (a significant rise of 10%)
• Punjab: 51.74% from the divisible pool
• Sindh: 24.55%
• Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa: 14.62%

Changes in shares:

• Punjab: Gave up 1.27%
• Sindh: Gave up 0.39%
• Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa: Gave up 0.26%
• Balochistan: Gained overall.

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Mian Fazal Hussain was born in Punjab on July 14th, 1877. 

He belongs to Rajput family.

He was died on July 09, 1936.

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Khowar is the lingua franca of Chitral.

It is also spoken in the Gupis-Yasin and Ghizer districts of Gilgit-Baltistan.

As well in the Upper Swat district.

Sheena is a local language of Gilgit Baltistan.