CURRENT AFFAIRS 2014

IMPORTANT MCQs FOR CURRENT AFFAIRS

1. The name of Pakistans representative to the UN is Abdullah Hussain Haroon

2. Pakistan is a non permanent member of UN Security Council
3. The US Envoy to Pakistan Richard G. Olson
4. OIC has been recently renamed as Organisation of Islamic Cooperation. Previously it
was Organisation of Islamic Conference.
5. The US ambassador to Pakistan is Richard Olson.
6. The current Chairman senate is Syed Nayyer Hussain Bokhari
7. Pakistan leased out Shamsi airbase to UAE
8. Abbotabad Operation was carried out on May 2 2011
9. Abbotabad Commission is headed by Justice Javed Iqbal
10. The President enjoys immunity from criminal proceedings Under Article 248 of the
Constitution
11. Leon Panetta is the US Defence Secretary
12. Salman Khurshid is the minister of external affairs of India
13. P Chidambram is the Home affairs Minister of India
14. Pranab Mukharjee is the president of India
15. Ch Nisar is Minister for foreign affairs
16. Ishaq dar is the Finance Minister of Pakistan
17. John Kery is the current Secretary of the US
18. Joe Biden is the US vice President
19. Ekmelu din Ihsanoglu is the Secretary General of OIC
20. Reko Diq contains copper and gold and is situated in District Chagai ( Balochistan)
21. 2012 Olympics held in London
22. Headquarters of Asian Development are situated (ADB) at Manilla ( Phillipines)
23. Headquarters of OIC are situated at Jedda
24. Headquarters of SCO are situated at Shanghai
25. Headquarters of ECO are situated at Tehran
26. The current secretary General of UN is Ban Ki Moon ( South Korea)
27. Steve Jobs is the founder of apple I phone
28. Parnaab Mukherjee is the President of India
29. Yingluck Shinawatra is the Prime Minister of Thailand
30. Muhammad Hamid Ansari is the Vice President of India
31. Ashraf Mahmood Wathra is the current Acting Governor of State Bank of Pakistan
32. Transparency International is headquartered at Berlin (Germany)
33. Lufthansa is the Airline of Germany
34. Nabil-el Araby is the current secretary General of the Arab League. ( He is from Egypt)
35. National Flower of Pakistan is Jasmine
36. National Sport of Pakistan is Hockey.
37. Markhor is the national animal of Pakistan.
38. Arfa Karim, the youngest software engineer, belongs to Pakistan.
39. RAW stands for research and analysis wing (intelligence agency of India).
40. Mossad is the intelligence agency of Israel.
41. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is the head of state of Liberia. She is one of the three Noble Peace
Prize winners for the year 2011.
42. Chinese Premier is Li Keqiang
43. Xi Jinping is the President of China
44. Abdullah Hussain Haroon is Pakistans permanent representative in the UN.
45. World Trade Organisation (WTO) came into being in 1995
46. David Cameroon is the Prime Minister of UK.
47. Angelina Merkel is the German Chancellor.
48. Christine Lagarde is the new head of IMF.
49. Robert B. Zoellick is the head of World Bank.
50. Headquarters of ECO are situated at Tehran.
51. RCD was established in 1964.
52. Last Presidential elections in Afghanistan were held in 2009.
53. After Pashton , Tajik are the second largest ethnic group in Afghanistan. Hazara are the
third largest group in Afghanistan.
54. Headquarters of South Waziristan are at Wana during summer and Tank during Winter.
55. Headquarters of North Waziristan are at Miramshah
56. Headquarters of Khyber Agency are at Landi Kotal
57. South Waziristan is the largest agency in size in FATA.
58. FATA comprises of seven agencies.
59. APP is the news agency of Pakistan whereas AP ( Associated Press) is the news agency
of the US
60. AFP is the news agency of France.
61. Interfax is the news agency of Russia. It is the news agency of Ukraine also.
62. Reuters is the news agency of UK.
63. PTI is the news agency of India.
64. Xinhua is the news agency of China
65. Yonhap is the news agency of south Korea
66. SPA is the news agency of Saudi Arabia.
67. MFN stands for most favoured nation.
68. SCO was established in 2001.
69. G8, association of the richest and most developed countries of the world comprises of
US, UK, France, Germany, Canada, Italy, Russia, Japan. It has no formal structure.
70. Scandinavian states are Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Norway.
71. TAPI stands for Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India.
72. Bonn Conference was held in November 2011 to discuss post with drawl scenario in
Afghanistan.
73. Pakistan boycotted Bonn Conference because of NATO attack on Salala check post.
74. Next Conference will be held in Chicago in May 2012.
75. Mansoor Ijaz is an American national ( not Pakistani) who has ignited memogate co
76. PNS Mehran was attacked on 22 May 2011.
77. South Sudan Became a Nation on July 9, 2011. South Sudan's capital is Juba. Salva
Kiir, South Sudan's president, signs the interim Constitution
78. Kvitova and Djokovic won Wimbledon Titles in 2011.
79. Yoshiko Noda is the Prime Minister of Japan.
80. Saudi Arabia has recently granted right to vote to women.
81. Palestine became member of UNESCO on 31 October 2011.
82. Mario Monti is the Prime minister of Italy. He has replaced Berlusconi.n
83. Tahrir square is in Egypt.
84. First ever elections were held in Tunis on 24 Oct 2011.
85. On Oct 11, 2011, U.S. Attorney general Eric H. Holder announcedm from Washington
that the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps paid assassins from a
Mexican drug cartel $1.5 million to kill Adel al-Jubeir, Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the
United States.
86. South Sudan is the 193rd member of the UN.

United Nations

1) The United Nations was established on 24 Oct 1945.

2) Official languages of UN are English, Russian, French,Chinese, Arabic,Spanish
3) There are currently 193 member states.
4) The first meetings of the General Assembly, with 51 nations represented, and the
Security Council, took place in Westminster Central Hall in London in January 1946.
5) Headquarters of UN are situated at international territory New York
6) Headquarters of World Bank and IMF are situated at Washington
7) Headquarters of FAO are situated at Rome
8) Headquarters of UNESCO are situated at Paris
9) Headquarters of UNICEF are situated at New York
10) Headquarters of International Court of Justice are situated at The Hague (The
Netherlands)
11) Security Council consists of 15 members ( Five Permanent and Ten Non Permanent)
12) The Secretary-General is appointed by the General Assembly, after being recommended
by the Security Council.
13) Veto Power is enjoyed by the Permanent members only
14) Headquarters of IAEA are at Vienna
15) Headquarters of ILO are at Geneva
 16) Headquarters of Universal Postal Union are at Bern (Switzerland)
17) Headquarters of World Health Organisation are at Geneva
18) Headquarters of UNHCR are at Geneva
19) Ban Ki Moon is the Secretary General of UN . He is from South Korea.
20) International Court of Justice comprises of 15 judges.
21) Session of UN is held in September every year

Provinces/Territories

Punjab
Governor: Ch Ghulam Sarwar
Chief Ministers: Mian Shahbaz Shareef

Sindh
Governor: Dr. Ishrat-ul-Ibad Khan
Chief Ministers: Qaim Ali Shah

Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
Governor: Engineer Shoukatullah
Chief Ministers: Pervez Khatak

Balochistan
Governor: Muhammad Khan Achakzai
Chief Ministers: Dr Abdul Malik

Gilgit-Baltistan
Governor: Pir Karam Ali Shah
Chief Ministers: Syed Mehdi Shah

Kashmir
Governor: Raja Zulqarnain Khan
Chief Ministers: Sardar Attique

Important Personalities

Bangladesh
President: Zillur Rahman
Prime Minister: Sheikh Hasina

Afghanistan
President: Hamid Karzai
Vice President : Mohammed Fahim and Karim Khalili

Russia
President: Dmitry Medvedev
Prime Minister: Vladimir Putin

Iran
Leader of Iran: Ali Khamenei
President: Hassan Rohani:

Iraq
President: Jalal Talabani
Prime Minister: Nouri al-Maliki

Israel
President : Shimon Peres
Prime Minister: Benjamin Netanyahu

United Kingdom
Monarch: Elizabeth II

France
President: Fraco Holland
Minister: Jean-Marc Ayrault

Germany
President : Christian Wulff (CDU
Chancellor: Anglina Merkal

Canada
Monarch: Elizabeth II
Governor General: David Johnston
Prime Minister: Stephen Harper

Organisations

SAARC

Secretariat: Kathmandu, Nepal

Official languages: English
Establishment: December 8, 1985
SAARC Secretariat was established in Kathmandu on 16 January 1987
Members: (8) Afghanistan , Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri
Lanka

ASEAN
Secretariat: Jakarta, Indonesia
Official languages: English
Secretary-General: Surin Pitsuwan
Establishment
Bangkok Declaration: 8 August 1967
Charter signed on: 16 December 2008
Members: (10) Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore , Thailand, Brunei, Burma
(Myanmar), Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam.

OIC
Secretariat: Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Official languages: Arabic, English, French
Establishment: September 25, 1969
Secretary-General : Ekmeleddin hsanolu (Turkish)
Members: 57 member states
It changed its name from the Organisation of the Islamic Conference on 28 June 2011 and
renamed as Organisation of Islamic Cooperation

ECO
Secretariat: Tehran, Iran
Official languages: English
Establishment: 1985
successor organisation of Regional Cooperation for Development (RCD), founded in 1964,
which ended activities in 1979.
Secretary-General: Yahya Maroofi (Afghani)
Members: 10 member states Iran, Pakistan, Turkey Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.

SCO
Secretariat: Beijing, China
Official languages: Chinese and Russian
Establishment: 2001
Secretary-General: Muratbek Sansyzbayevich Imanaliyev
Members: (6 Members) China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan
successor organization Shanghai Five, founded in 1996; after the inclusion of Uzbekistan in
2001, the members renamed the organisation.
Observers: (4 )Pakistan, India, Iran and Mongolia
Dialogue Partner: Belarus, Sri Lanka and Turkey
Guests: ASEAN, CIS and Turkmenistan