Provinces | MCQs

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When Pakistan was founded in 1947, it consisted of five provinces:

1. East Bengal (now Bangladesh)
2. West Punjab (now Punjab)
3. Sindh
4. North-West Frontier Province (now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa)
5. Baluchistan (now Balochistan)

In 1955, the One Unit policy was introduced, which merged the western provinces into a single unit called West Pakistan, with the provincial capital in Lahore. At the same time, East Bengal was renamed East Pakistan, with its provincial capital in Dhaka.

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The Indus is a transboundary river of Asia and a trans-Himalayan river of South and East Asia.

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Pakistan has 1046 kilometres of coastline along the Arabian Sea.

Some of the important ports of Pakistan are Karachi port, Muhammad Bin Qasim port, and the Gwadar Port.

The Gwadar port is one of the deepest seaports in the world and holds great importance because of its strategic location.

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The fourth NFC award was declared in 1991 by the PML government after successfully reaching the concession with the four provinces.

For the first time in the short history of Pakistan, the fourth NFC Award had recognized the rights of the provinces on natural resources and the provinces were given royalty and gas development surcharge on oil and gas.[8] The first fifth NFC Award was announced in 1995 by Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.

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