Pakistan Studies

Question 1

What book on Pakistans history was commissioned by the government in 1947?

Answer 1

Mortimer Wheeler’s Five Thousand Years of Pakistan

Question 2

Geo-coordinates of Pakistan:

Answer 2

24NE to 37NE; 61NE to 75NE

Question 3

Area of Pakistan:

Answer 3

796096 km^2 (36th largest)

Question 4

Pakistan’s coastline:

Answer 4

750 km

Question 5

Pakistan’s borders:

Answer 5

Afghanistan (2252); China (585); India (1610); Iran (805)

Question 6

Percentages of Provinces

Answer 6

Punjab - 25%; Sindh - 18%; KPK and Fata - 12.8%; Islamabad 0.1; Balochistan - 43.6

Question 7

Problems with Pakistan’s Agriculture:

Answer 7

1. Lack of Education
2. Lack of Capital
3. Traditional Methods
4. Salinity and Water logging
5. Division of Land
6. Scarcity of Water
7. Land tenure
8. Soil Erosion
9. Poor marketing
10. Pest and disease
11. Lack of communication and weather reporting
12. Middle men
13. Insufficient loans for farmers
14. Prevailing trend of urbanisation

Question 8

Problems of Pakistan’s education:

Answer 8

Inequality; regional disparity; gender discrimination; lack of technical education; lack of funds; untrained teachers; poverty; ghost schools;

Question 9

Population growth rate:

Answer 9

1951: 1.7
1961 - 2.4
1971 - 3.69
1981 - 3.06
1993 - 2.56
2001 - 2.16
2016 - 2%

Question 10

Causes of population growth:

Answer 10

1. Desire for more hands
2. Desire for sons
3. Early marriages
4. Strong religious beliefs
5. Children are the binding force
6. Afghan refugees
7. Inconsistent policies
8. Expensive contraception
9. Lack of sex education
10. Illiteracy

Question 11

Population welfare programmes:

Answer 11

1. Women’s association; 2. Behbud; 3. Green star; 4. Child welfare; 5.

Question 12

Pakistan today has the lowest ever population growth rate since?

Answer 12

1957

Question 13

Pakistan added —- million people to its population since 2000

Answer 13

60 million – comparable to the entire population of Germany