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Medium-level Pakistan Studies MCQs on the freedom movement, partition, and early years of Pakistan. Great for FPSC, PPSC, NTS and CSS exam preparation.
1. What name is given to the 1947 mass movement of people across the new India-Pakistan border?
💡 The partition of 1947 triggered one of the largest mass migrations in history, as millions of people crossed the new border in both directions.
2. In which year was the Lucknow Pact signed between the Muslim League and the Indian National Congress?
💡 The Lucknow Pact was signed in 1916, marking a period of cooperation between the Muslim League and the Indian National Congress.
3. What was the immediate political body that governed Pakistan in the period right after independence, before a new constitution was adopted?
💡 The Constituent Assembly of Pakistan served as the country's legislative body and was tasked with drafting its first constitution, eventually completed in 1956.
4. Who was Pakistan's first Finance Minister?
💡 Malik Ghulam Muhammad served as Pakistan's first Finance Minister, later going on to become the country's third Governor-General.
5. Who served as Pakistan's first Foreign Minister?
💡 Sir Muhammad Zafrulla Khan served as Pakistan's first Foreign Minister after independence.
6. Which session of the All-India Muslim League formally adopted the demand for separate states in 1940?
💡 The Lahore session of the All-India Muslim League in March 1940 adopted the Lahore Resolution.
7. Who was the last British Viceroy of India before partition?
💡 Lord Mountbatten served as the last Viceroy of British India and oversaw the transfer of power in 1947.
8. Who headed the boundary commission that determined the borders between India and Pakistan in 1947?
💡 Sir Cyril Radcliffe chaired the boundary commission responsible for drawing the partition lines, known as the Radcliffe Line.
9. Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, an influential 19th-century reformer, founded which institution that became important to Muslim education in the subcontinent?
💡 Sir Syed Ahmad Khan founded the Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College in 1875, which later became Aligarh Muslim University, a key institution for modern Muslim education.
10. In which year did Pakistan adopt its first official flag design, shortly before independence?
💡 Pakistan's national flag was formally adopted on 11 August 1947, just three days before independence.