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Preparation of Current Affairs MCQs 2012
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Nobel peace prize 2011 Winners are Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Leymah Gbowee of Liberia and Tawakul Karman of Yemen for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women’s rights to full participation in peace-building work. Nobel Literature prize 2011 Tomas Tranströmer for condensed translucent images which give us fresh access to reality. Nobel Economics prize 2011 Thomas J. Sargent and Christopher A. Sims for their empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy. Nobel Physiology or Medicine prize 2011 Bruce Beutler, Jules A. Hoffmann and Ralph M. Steinman for their discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity. Nobel Chemistry prize 2011 Dan Shechtman for the discovery of quasicrystals. Nobel Physics prize 2011 Saul Perlmutter, Adam G. Riess & Brian P. Schmidt for his contributions to the discovery of the acceleration of the expansion of the universe.
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United Nations
Headquarters: International territoryin New York City, New York, U.S. Official languages: (6) Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish Membership: 193 member states Leaders Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro Establishment United Nations Charter signed 26 June 1945 Entry into force of Charter 24 October 1945 • United Nations General Assembly established in 1945 • General Assembly President Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser • United Nations Security Council established in 1946 • Security Council President Vitaly Churkin • Permanent members: (5 memebers) China, France, Russia, United Kingdom and United States • Non-permanent members (10 memebers) Colombia, Germany, India, Portugal and South Africa (1 January 2011 – 31 December 2012) • Azerbaijan, Guatemala, Morocco, Pakistan and Togo. (1 Jan 2012 – 31 Dec 2013) • Pakistan has become non permanent member of Security council for 7 times. • India has become non permanent member of Security council for 7 times. • Pakistan and India represent Asia-Pacific Group 4 times together. • Pakistan got 129 votes in comparison of Kyrgyzstan (55 votes) and Fiji (1 vote).
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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 İhsanoğlu (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
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India
President: Pratibha Patil Prime Minister: Manmohan Singh (INC) Speaker of the House: Meira Kumar (INC) Foreign Ministers: S. M. Krishna Defense Ministers: A. K. Antony Minister for Home Affairs: Chidambaram Palaniappa Bangladesh President: Zillur Rahman Prime Minister: Sheikh Hasina Afghanistan President: Hamid Karzai Vice President : Mohammed Fahim and Karim Khalili China President: Hu Jintao Russia President: Dmitry Medvedev Prime Minister: Vladimir Putin Iran Leader of Iran: Ali Khamenei President: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad First Vice President: Mohammad-Reza Rahimi: Iraq President: Jalal Talabani Prime Minister: Nouri al-Maliki Israel President : Shimon Peres Prime Minister: Benjamin Netanyahu United Kingdom Monarch: Elizabeth II Prime Minister: David Cameron MP Italy President : Giorgio Napolitano Prime Minister : Mario Monti France President: Nicolas Sarkozy (UMP) Prime Minister: François Fillon (UMP) Germany President : Christian Wulff (CDU Canada Monarch: Elizabeth II Governor General: David Johnston Prime Minister: Stephen Harper
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US
Vice President: Joe Biden US envoy to Afghanistan-Pakistan: Marc Grossman Special Envoy for Middle East Peace: George J. Mitchell White House Chief of Staff: Jacob Lew Secretary of State: Hillary Clinton Chief of Staff of the Army: Raymond T. Odierno Secretary of the Treasury: Timothy Geithner Secretary of Defense: Leon Panetta Attorney General: Eric Holder Secretary of the Interior: Ken Salazar Secretary of Commerce: John Bryson Secretary of Homeland Security: Janet Napolitano Ambassador to the United Nations: Susan Rice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff : General Martin Dempsey
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Commander, U.S. and NATO forces, Afghanistan: John R. Allen
Director of the Central Intelligence Agency: David H. Petraeus
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Cabinet of Pakistan
Prime Minister: Yousaf Raza Gillani Communications: Arbab Alamgir Khan Defense: Ahmad Mukhtar Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs: Maula Bakhsh Chandio Education: Sardar Asif Ahmad Ali Media Information and Mass Broadcasting: Firdous Ashiq Awan Finance, Revenue, Planning and Development, Economic Affairs and Statistics: Abdul Hafeez Shaikh Foreign Affairs: Hina Rabbani Khar Water and Power: Syed Naveed Qamer Railways: Ghulam Ahmad Bilour Religious Affairs: Khurshid Shah Commerce and Agriculture: Makhdoom Sahabuddin States, Frontier Regions, Kashmir Affairs and Gilgit Baltistan: Manzoor Wattoo Interior and Internal Security: Rehman Malik Science and Technology: Mir Changez Jamali Telecommunications: Sardar Alhaj Muhammad Umar Goriej Environment, Minorities, and Human Rights: Samina Khalid Ghurki
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President: Asif Ali Zardari
Chief Justice: Iftikhar Chaudhry Chair of Senate: Farooq Naek (PPP) Speaker NA : Fahmida Mirza (PPP) NA Deputy Speaker: Faisal Karim Kundi Leader of the Opposition: Nisar Ali Khan (PML N) Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan: Yasin Anwar NAB Chairman: Admiral (Rtd) Fasih Bokhari Director-General of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI): Lieutenant-General Ahmad Shuja Pasha Chiefs of Army Staff: General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani Vice Chief of Army Staff: General Tariq Majid
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Governor & CM of Provinces
Punjab
Governor: Latif Khosa Chief Ministers: Mian Shahbaz Shareef Sindh Governor: Dr. Ishrat-ul-Ibad Khan Chief Ministers: Qaim Ali Shah PA Speaker : Nisar Ahmed Khuhro Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Governor: Syed Masood Kausar Chief Ministers: Ameer Haider Khan Hoti Balochistan Governor: Zulfikar Ali Magsi Chief Ministers: Aslam Raisani Gilgit-Baltistan Governor: Pir Karam Ali Shah Chief Ministers: Syed Mehdi Shah Kashmir Governor: Raja Zulqarnain Khan Chief Ministers: Sardar Attique
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