Paper 19998.

(A) define the following in few lines:
Perestroika
Ethnic Cleansing
Land Mines Convention
Star Wars Programme
Iron Curtain
(B) The following abbreviations stand for:
OAU
WMD
APAC
OIC
OSCE
(C) Write as asked:
Two main points of Oslo Accord
Two main point of Dayton Agreement
Two main points of Simla Accord
Two main points of Geneva Accord on Afghanistan
Two main points of Helsinki Summit
(D) Who are the following:
Richard Holbrooke
Abdul Rehman Wahid
Javier Solana
Bulent Ecevit
Monica Lowinsky

Paper 1998
8. Write only the correct answer in the Answer Book. Do not reproduce the questions.

(1) Shive Sena is the name of:
(a) An Irish Leader
(b) A politico-fundamentalist party
(c) A famous tourist resort
(d) A religious sect

(2) B. J. Habibie is the:
(a) President of Zambia
(b) Secretary General of SAARC
(c) President of Indonesia
(d) World Squash Champion

(3) MS Mieko Nishimizu is the:
(a) Chairperson of the UN Commission on Refugees:
(b) President of the IMF
(c) Human Right Activist
(d) Vice President of the World Bank

(4) Mobotu Sessesiko was overthrown by:
(a) Laurent Kabila
(b) Robert Mugabe
(c) Kenneth Kaunda
(d) Nelson Mandela

(5) The notorious genocide of 1996 in Africa took place between:
(a) Serbs and Bosnians
(b) Ibos and Yorubas
(c) Zulus and the whites
(d) Hutu and Tutsi

(6) Iraq Invaded Kuwait in:
(a) February 1991
(b) November 1988
(c) August 1990
(d) April 1982

(7) Who wrote “Voyage Through History”?
(a) Chaudhry Muhammad Ali
(b) Musarrt Hussain Zuberi
(c) Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi
(d) Khalid Bin Sayeed

(8) Pakistan carried out its nuclear explosion on:
(a) 23rd March
(b) 7th April
(c) 28th May
(d) 16th October

(9) NAFTA stands for ____________.

(10) “Uneasy Partnership competition and conflict in US – Japanese Trade Relationship” is written by:
(a) John White
(b) Stephen D. Gohen
(c) J. K. Galbraith
(d) John K. Holsti

(11) The First OIC Summit was held in
(a) Rabat
(b) Jaddah
(c) Islamabad
(d) Kuwait

(12) The US and the erstwhile USSR qualified for Super Power status on the basis of:
(a) Huge population
(b) Industrialization
(c) Military arsenals and worldwide interest
(d) Vast area

(13) Who is the author of “Preparing for the Twenty First Century”?
(a) Palmer and Perkins
(b) Peter Calvocoress
(c) Paul Kennedy
(d) E.H.Carr

(14) Kampala is the capital of:
(a) Azerbaijan
(b) Argentina
(c) Albania
(d) Uganda

(15) Pakistan became full member of the NAM in:
(a) 1976
(b) 1949
(c) 1983
(d) 1986

(16) Rasko mountain is situated in:
(a) Punjab
(b) Azad Kashmir
(c) Baluchistan
(d) Northern Areas

(17) One of the following is the world renowned nuclear scientist:
(a) Abdul Qadir
(b) Richard Butler
(c) Abdul Qadeer Khan
(d) Anwar Ibrahim

(18) Name the current Secretary General of the OIC.

(19) Islamabad was the venue of:
(a) 3rd OIC Summit
(b) 2nd OIC Summit
(c) 8th OIC Summit
(d) 5th OIC Summit

(20) Who was the first Asian Secretary General of the United Nations?

Paper 1997


8. Write correct answer to the following questions:


(1) The largest territorial power on earth is:
(a) Canada
(b) USA
(c) China
(d) Russian Federation

(2) Dushanbe is the capital of:
(a) Tajikistan
(b) Uzbekistan
(c) Turkmenistan
(d) Kazakhstan

(3) Kofi Anan is the:
(a) President of Mozambique
(b) Winner of Nobel Peace Prize for 1996
(c) Secretary General of the UN
(d) Chairman of the Organization of African Unity

(4) OSCE stands for:
(a) Organization for Science and Culture in Europe
(b) Organization of Social and Scientific Enterprise
(c) Organization for Security and Cooperation Europe
(d) Organization for space cooperation in Europe

(5) The last British Governor of Hong Kong was?
(a) Chris Hamilton
(b) Chris Patten
(c) George Patten
(d) Christopher Paterson

(6) Larry Collins and Dominique La Pierre wrote:
(a) The Discovery of India
(b) India Wins Freedom
(c) Freedom AT What Price?
(d) Freedom AT Mid Night

(7) Tony Blair is the:
(a) New ruler of Rwanda
(b) New Prime Minister of Great Britain
(c) Captain of Australian hockey team
(d) President of International Monetary Fund

(8) The republic of Botswana is located in:
(a) Southern Africa
(b) West Africa
(c) Latin America
(d) Central Asia

(9) Bill Clinton is the:
(a) 40th president of USA
(b) 42th president of USA
(c) 43th president of USA
(d) 44th president of USA

(10) The Batista regime in Cuba was overthrown by Fidel Castro in:
(a) January 1959
(b) February 1960
(c) May 1961
(d) March 1962

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