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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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