Explanation

• Choudhry Rahmat Ali coined the name "Pakistan"
•  He first used the name in his pamphlet titled "Now or Never; Are We to Live or Perish Forever?"
• On January 28, 1933.
• The word means "Land of the Pure" in Persian and Urdu (Pak means pure, and stan means land)
• He first thought of the name in 1932 while on a London bus,
• The name was also designed as an acronym for the Muslim-majority regions of northern British India
• Punjab
• Afghania (North-West Frontier Province)
• Kashmir
• Sindh
• Baluchistan 
  

Explanation

• The Line of Control (LoC) was established in 1949 after the Karachi Agreement.
• It was following the first Indo-Pak war over Kashmir.
• It was originally called the Ceasefire Line and renamed the LoC in the 1972 Simla Agreement.
• The LoC is approximately 740 km long.

Last verified on 03-09-2026

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• Alexander Graham Bell is credited as the inventor of the telephone.
• He was awarded the first successful patent for it.
• The telephone was invented in 1876.
• Bell made the first-ever telephone call to his assistant Thomas Watson.

Last verified on 31-03-2026

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• In MS Excel, every formula and function starts with the equal sign (=).
• The = tells Excel that the cell contains a formula, not plain text.
• Functions such as SUM, AVERAGE, and IF also begin with =.
• Without the =, Excel treats the entry as ordinary text.

Last verified on 10-02-2026

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• HTTP stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol.
• It is a protocol for fetching resources such as HTML documents.
• It provides secure communication over a computer network.
•  It can also be used to fetch parts of documents to update Web pages on demand.
• https://www.google.com is called the URL.

Last verified on 04-06-2026

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• The total area of pakistan 881,913 km².
• In old books area of Pakistan is 796096 sq km.
• Pakistan is a country in South Asia.
• Pakistan world's second-largest Muslim population.

Additional information:

• Pakistan is the 33rd-largest country by area.
• The total cultivated area in Pakistan is 25%.
• The total forest area of Pakistan is estimated at 6.20 million hectares.
• The forest cover of Pakistan is 5.7%.

Last verified on 02-05-2026

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• Location: London, England
• Big Ben is a clock at British parliament building.
• Architect: Augustus Pugin
• Height: 96 m

Last verified on 12-08-2026

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• A computer program that translates one program instruction at a time into machine language is called an Interpreter.
• Interpreters are commonly associated with languages such as Python, JavaScript, and BASIC.

Additional information:

• Compiler: Translates the complete program before execution.
• Assembler: Converts assembly language into machine code.
• Machine Language: Uses binary instructions understood directly by the computer.

Last verified on 10-08-2026

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• The phrase "Out of the blue" means Unexpectedly/Suddenly.
• It refers to something happening without warning or surprise, like a sudden event or occurrence.

Last verified on 06-08-2026

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Gurdeep Singh of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf became the first turban-clad Sikh

He is a representative from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan's Senate.

He secured 103 votes.

While Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam's Ranjeet Singh got 25 votes.

Awami National Party's Asif Bhatti received 12 votes.