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Firsts in Pakistan
National Facts & General Knowledge
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101
The first Chairman of senate was:
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Option B
Explanation
Habibullah Khan Marwat was a prominent jurist and politician who served as the first Chairman of the Senate of Pakistan from 1973 to 1977.
102
The President of first Constituent Assembly of Pakistan was:
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Option A
Explanation
Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah was elected as the first President of the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan on August 11, 1947, just days before independence.
103
The first woman Prime Minister in Pakistan was Benazir Bhutto. She assumed her office in:
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Option B
Explanation
Benazir Bhutto won the general elections in 1988 and was sworn in as Prime Minister in December of that year, becoming the first female head of government in a Muslim country.
104
First female deputy speaker in Pakistan is:
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Option A
Explanation
Begum Jahanara Shahnawaz was a pioneer woman politician who served as the first female Deputy Speaker of the Central Legislative Assembly.
105
The first female Member of Parliament in Pakistan was:
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Begum Shaista Ikramullah was one of the first two women to be elected to the first Constituent Assembly of Pakistan in 1947.
106
The first female minister of education in Pakistan was:
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Option B
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Begum Mahmooda Salim Khan served as the first female minister in West Pakistan, holding the portfolio of Education in the early 1960s.
107
The first female Minister of Population in Pakistan was:
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Dr. Attiya Inayatullah was a prominent social worker and politician who served as the first female Minister for Population Welfare.
108
The first Pakistani minister of information was:
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Explanation
Syeda Abida Hussain was a veteran politician who held several ministerial roles, including serving as the first female Minister of Information.
109
The first female Pakistani minister of finance was:
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Option C
Explanation
During her first term as Prime Minister, Benazir Bhutto kept the portfolio of Finance with herself, effectively becoming the first woman to handle the national budget.
110
Pick out the first female minister of law and human rights in Pakistan?
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Option A
Explanation
Shahida Jamil was appointed as the Minister for Law, Justice, and Human Rights in 1999, becoming the first woman to hold this senior legal cabinet position.
111
The first female "foreign ministry spokesperson" in Pakistan was:
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Tasnim Aslam (often spelled Tasleem) was the first woman to serve as the official spokesperson for Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, representing the country's foreign policy to the media.
112
Dr. Shahida Malik was:
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Option A
Explanation
Dr. Shahida Malik was the first female officer in the Pakistan Army to reach the two-star rank of Major General (M.G.) in the year 2002.
113
Name the bank who provided 80 million loans for making 1st budget of Pakistan:
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Option D
Explanation
Habib Bank provided a crucial loan of 80 million rupees to the newly formed government of Pakistan in 1947 to help manage the country's initial financial requirements and first budget.
114
The banks were nationalized in Pakistan in:
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Explanation
Under the government of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, all major domestic commercial banks were nationalized on January 1, 1974, to bring the financial sector under state control.
115
The first Pakistani to hoist the Pakistani flag at the North and South Pole is:
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Namira Salim is a world-renowned explorer who reached the North Pole in 2007 and the South Pole in 2008, becoming the first Pakistani to do so.
116
The first climber from Pakistan to have summited Mt. Everest on May 17, 2000 was:
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Option A
Explanation
Nazir Sabir made history on May 17, 2000, as the first Pakistani mountaineer to reach the summit of Mount Everest, the world's highest peak.
117
Arfa Abdul Karim Randhawa was a Pakistani student and computer prodigy, who in 2004 at the age of nine years became Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP), the youngest in the world before Babar Iqbal in 2008:
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Arfa Karim held the record for being the youngest MCP from 2004 until 2008 when another Pakistani boy, Babar Iqbal, achieved the title at a younger age.
118
Pakistani pride Aleem Dar has been honored for becoming only the 7th umpire in the history of the cricket to officiate in 150 ODIs when he took the field for the five-ODI series opener between England and Australia at:
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Aleem Dar reached the milestone of umpiring in 150 One Day Internationals at Lord's, the 'Home of Cricket', during an England vs. Australia match.
119
Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy is an Emmy and Oscar award-winning Pakistani-Canadian and:
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Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy is a highly acclaimed journalist and documentary filmmaker who has won two Academy Awards and multiple Emmy Awards for her social-issue films.
120
Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy won an Academy Award for her documentary, Saving Face in 2012. She won an Emmy for her documentary, Pakistan Children of the Taliban in 2010. She is also the first non-American to win the Livingston Award for Young Journalists. She is Pakistan's first female Oscar winner by the press and government:
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With her win for 'Saving Face' in 2012, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy became the first Pakistani to win an Oscar, bringing international recognition to Pakistani cinema and documentary filmmaking.
