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Global Hunger Index 2025

Total countries: 123

Releaser: Concern Worldwide and Welthungerhilfe

Top-ranked: Armenia

Last-ranked: Somalia (123rd)

Pakistan ranking: 106th

Additional Info:

Global Hunger Index 2024

Edition: 19th

Total countries: 127

Pakistan: 109

Worst ranking: Somalia (127)

Topper: Belarus

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Explanation

Jordan’s King Abdullah II ibn Al Hussein made an official visit to Pakistan in 2025.

He was awarded Nishan e Pakistan in 2025 by Pakistani government.

King Abdullah also conferred the Order of the Bejewelled Grand Cordon of Al-Nahda, one of the kingdom’s highest honours, upon President Zardari.

 Additional Info:

Jordan is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia.

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Raja Faisal Mumtaz Rathore became the became the 16th prime minister of AJK in 2025.

He replaced Chaudhry Anwar-ul-Haq.

He became PM after no-confidence motion against Chaudhry Anwarul Haq succeeded.

He belongs to PPP.

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Updated & verified on 17 Dec 2025 

Explanation

Serena Williams awarded Princess of Asturias Award for Sports 2025

She was awarded in recognition of her extraordinary sporting career

She is a professional tennis player.

She is an American athlete.

Additional Info:

Spanish badminton player Carolina Marin was awarded Princess of Asturias Award for Sports 2024.

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Explanation

Pakistan will host the Asian-Oceanian Computing Industry Organisation (ASOCIO) Digital Summit in November 2026.

24 member countries will participate in this summit.

Additional Info:

ASOCIO is a federation of national IT associations across Asia and Oceania.

The 2025 edition is taking place in November 2025 in Taipei.

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Explanation

In 2025, Bangladesh became the first country in South Asia to join the United Nations (UN) Water Convention.

The UN Water Convention is officially called the Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes.

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About G20 summit 2025

Venue: South Africa

Theme: Solidarity, equality, and sustainability

Note: Donald Trump has said the US will not attend the G20 summit in South Africa over widely discredited claims that white people are being persecuted in the country.

Note: 19th G20 summit has held in Brazil in 2024

Additional information:

G20, Group of the Twenty, is a global organization

G20 was founded in 1999

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Explanation

The current Federal Minister of Science and Technology is Khalid Hussain Magsi.

 Sworn in on 07 March 2025

 He replaced Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui

 Updated on 07 Dec 2025

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The world’s oldest former Olympic champion, ex-track cyclist Charles Coste has died

Coste won gold at the 1948 London Olympics and was a torch bearer at the 2024 Paris Games.

He died in 2025 at the age of 101.

He was the oldest living Olympic champion.

He belonged to France.

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