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Pakistan movement and history
22 Government jobs Pakistan affairs questions with answers and explanations.
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The Lahore Resolution was passed in:
- 1 December 1906
- 2 March 1940
- 3 August 1947
- 4 April 1946
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Correct answer: March 1940
The All India Muslim League passed the Lahore Resolution at Lahore on 23 March 1940.
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Who presided over the Lahore session of the All India Muslim League in 1940?
- 1 Allama Muhammad Iqbal
- 2 Liaquat Ali Khan
- 3 Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah
- 4 Sir Syed Ahmad Khan
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Correct answer: Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Jinnah presided over the session. The resolution was moved by A. K. Fazlul Huq.
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The All India Muslim League was founded in 1906 at:
- 1 Dhaka
- 2 Delhi
- 3 Aligarh
- 4 Lahore
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Correct answer: Dhaka
The League was formed at Dhaka in December 1906 during the Muhammadan Educational Conference.
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Allama Iqbal presented the idea of a separate Muslim state in his address at:
- 1 Simla, 1906
- 2 Lahore, 1940
- 3 Lucknow, 1916
- 4 Allahabad, 1930
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Correct answer: Allahabad, 1930
Iqbal gave his presidential address to the Muslim League session at Allahabad in 1930.
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The Lucknow Pact of 1916 was an agreement between:
- 1 The Muslim League and the Indian National Congress
- 2 The British and the Muslim League
- 3 The Congress and the Hindu Mahasabha
- 4 The Khilafat Committee and the British
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Correct answer: The Muslim League and the Indian National Congress
At Lucknow the League and the Congress agreed on separate electorates and a joint demand for self-government.
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The Fourteen Points of Jinnah were presented in:
- 1 1929
- 2 1916
- 3 1940
- 4 1935
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Correct answer: 1929
Jinnah put forward his Fourteen Points in March 1929 in reply to the Nehru Report.
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The Cabinet Mission came to India in:
- 1 1950
- 2 1939
- 3 1946
- 4 1942
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Correct answer: 1946
The Cabinet Mission arrived in March 1946 to discuss the transfer of power.
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Pakistan came into being on:
- 1 14 August 1947
- 2 15 August 1947
- 3 14 August 1948
- 4 23 March 1940
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Correct answer: 14 August 1947
The Indian Independence Act 1947 created Pakistan, and its first Independence Day is 14 August 1947.
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The first Governor General of Pakistan was:
- 1 Ghulam Muhammad
- 2 Liaquat Ali Khan
- 3 Muhammad Ali Jinnah
- 4 Khawaja Nazimuddin
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Correct answer: Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Jinnah took the oath as Governor General on 15 August 1947.
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The first Prime Minister of Pakistan was:
- 1 Liaquat Ali Khan
- 2 Muhammad Ali Bogra
- 3 Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy
- 4 Chaudhry Muhammad Ali
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Correct answer: Liaquat Ali Khan
Liaquat Ali Khan served from 1947 until his assassination in 1951.
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The Simla Deputation of 1906 was led by:
- 1 Allama Iqbal
- 2 Sir Syed Ahmad Khan
- 3 Aga Khan III
- 4 Liaquat Ali Khan
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Correct answer: Aga Khan III
A group of Muslim leaders led by Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah, Aga Khan III, met Viceroy Lord Minto at Simla in October 1906.
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The Partition of Bengal took place in:
- 1 1905
- 2 1911
- 3 1947
- 4 1919
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Correct answer: 1905
Lord Curzon partitioned Bengal in 1905. It was annulled in 1911.
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The Khilafat Movement in India began in:
- 1 1947
- 2 1906
- 3 1919
- 4 1930
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Correct answer: 1919
The movement to protect the Ottoman Caliphate began around 1919, led by Muhammad Ali Jauhar and Shaukat Ali.
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The Nehru Report of 1928 was a reply to the challenge of:
- 1 Lord Mountbatten
- 2 Lord Birkenhead
- 3 Lord Wavell
- 4 Lord Curzon
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Correct answer: Lord Birkenhead
Birkenhead challenged Indian leaders to frame a constitution that all parties could accept.
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The Round Table Conferences were held in:
- 1 London
- 2 Karachi
- 3 Delhi
- 4 Lahore
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Correct answer: London
Three conferences were held in London between 1930 and 1932.
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The Government of India Act that introduced provincial autonomy was passed in:
- 1 1935
- 2 1919
- 3 1909
- 4 1947
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Correct answer: 1935
The 1935 Act gave provinces autonomy and proposed a federation.
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The provincial elections of 1937 were won in most provinces by the:
- 1 Unionist Party in all provinces
- 2 Indian National Congress
- 3 Muslim League
- 4 Khaksar movement
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Correct answer: Indian National Congress
The Congress formed governments in most provinces, while the Muslim League did poorly.
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The Day of Deliverance was observed by Muslims in December 1939 to mark the end of:
- 1 The Lucknow Pact
- 2 The Second World War
- 3 Congress ministries
- 4 British rule
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Correct answer: Congress ministries
The Congress ministries resigned in 1939 and the League observed a Day of Deliverance.
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The Pakistan Resolution was originally called the:
- 1 Dhaka Resolution
- 2 Karachi Resolution
- 3 Lahore Resolution
- 4 Delhi Resolution
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Correct answer: Lahore Resolution
It was named the Lahore Resolution. Pakistan came into use as a name for it later.
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The last Viceroy of India was:
- 1 Lord Wavell
- 2 Lord Curzon
- 3 Lord Linlithgow
- 4 Lord Mountbatten
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Correct answer: Lord Mountbatten
Mountbatten served from March 1947 and became the first Governor General of independent India.
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The Radcliffe Award of 1947 dealt with:
- 1 The division of the army
- 2 The boundaries of Punjab and Bengal
- 3 The salaries of civil servants
- 4 The princely states
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Correct answer: The boundaries of Punjab and Bengal
Sir Cyril Radcliffe headed the Boundary Commission that drew the borders.
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The first capital of Pakistan was:
- 1 Rawalpindi
- 2 Lahore
- 3 Karachi
- 4 Islamabad
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Correct answer: Karachi
Karachi was the capital until the 1960s, when the capital was moved to Rawalpindi and then to Islamabad.