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Q: The 'Tax Policy Office', established in Pakistan under the 2025 IMF program, is mandated to lead medium-term reforms to simplify the tax code and reduce reliance on:

A) Provincial contributions

B) Foreign aid disbursements

C) Ad hoc and temporary tax measures

D) Income taxes on the wealthy

Q: The 'Sino-Pakistan Air Force Joint Exercise' held in 2025, aimed at enhancing interoperability, was code-named:

A) Shaheen-X

B) Shaheen-XI

C) Friendship-25

D) Azm-e-Nau V

Q: The 'UNICEF' report in 2025 highlighted Pakistan's poor progress in achieving global targets related to:

A) Maternal and child health (stunting and malnutrition)

B) Digital currency adoption

C) High-speed rail development

D) Defense export revenues

Q: The 'National Tariff Policy' implemented by Pakistan in late 2025 aims to simplify the tariff structure and reduce:

A) Taxes on imports of luxury goods

B) Protectionist barriers and import duties on essential industrial inputs

C) Export subsidies for the textile sector

D) Excise duties on domestically produced goods

Q: Pakistan's major focus in CPEC Phase II in late 2025 shifted from energy and infrastructure to:

A) Tourism and hospitality

B) Nuclear energy development

C) Military base expansion

D) Industrial cooperation and agricultural modernization

Q: The 'Agri-Policy Dialogue' in late 2025 between Pakistan and the IMF focused heavily on reforms to reduce government intervention in:

A) Fertilizer subsidies

B) Commodity markets to foster competition

C) Water resource management

D) Foreign currency exchange rates

Q: The Pakistan Air Force (PAF) announced plans in late 2025 to procure a new batch of advanced drones (UAVs) developed in cooperation with:

A) Turkey

B) United States

C) China

D) Russia

Q: The 'Karachi-Peshawar Motorway (M-6)' project, a major CPEC component that saw development in 2025, is primarily intended to improve connectivity between:

A) Southern and Northern Pakistan

B) Northern and Eastern Pakistan

C) Balochistan and Sindh

D) Pakistan and Iran

Q: The 'IMF's Governance and Corruption Diagnostic Assessment' (2025) explicitly recommended that Pakistan's Special Investment Facilitation Council (SIFC) must publish:

A) Its quarterly meeting minutes

B) Its full budget allocation details

C) A public list of all its employees

D) Its first annual report with full project disclosure

Q: The 'Benazir Income Support Program (BISP)' primarily utilizes which mechanism for delivering financial assistance to vulnerable women?

A) Bank cheques and cash payments

B) Mobile banking and digital transfers

C) Physical delivery of goods

D) Vouchers for specific stores

Q: The 'Indus Water Treaty (IWT)' allows Pakistan unrestricted use of the waters of which three Western rivers?

A) Ravi, Sutlej, Beas

B) Indus, Jhelum, Chenab

C) Indus, Ravi, Sutlej

D) Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi

Q: The 'IMF Governance Diagnostic Assessment' recommended that Pakistan's Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) publish a strategy to simplify the tax system by:

A) December 2025

B) May 2026

C) January 2027

D) March 2028

Q: Which significant Pakistani city hosted the 'Pakistan International Maritime Expo & Conference (PIMEC)' in 2025?

A) Gawadar

B) Lahore

C) Karachi

D) Quetta

Q: Which significant constitutional body was introduced by Pakistan's 27th Amendment Act, 2025, defining its jurisdiction for the first time?

A) Federal Constitutional Court

B) National Security Council

C) Judicial Reforms Commission

D) Supreme Judicial Council

Q: Pakistan's first domestically manufactured 'Jinnah Class Frigate' was revealed in January 2025 to be equipped with which type of advanced missile?

A) SMASH supersonic ballistic missiles

B) BrahMos cruise missiles

C) Tomahawk land-attack missiles

D) Harpoon anti-ship missiles

Q: Who was appointed as the new official spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) in early 2025?

A) Shafqat Ali Khan

B) Mumtaz Zahra Baloch

C) Ayesha Farooqi

D) Tariq Fatemi

Q: In January 2025, which Asian nation transferred the leadership of the multinational maritime security Combined Task Force 151 (CTF-151) to the Pakistan Navy?

A) China

B) UAE

C) Turkey

D) Saudi Arabia

Q: Which Pakistani cricket legends were inducted into the PCB Hall of Fame 2024 (announced in early 2025)?

A) Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis

B) Javed Miandad and Imran Khan

C) Misbah-ul-Haq and Saeed Anwar

D) Shahid Afridi and Shoaib Akhtar

Q: Which Pakistani province introduced the inaugural 'Chief Minister's Minority Card Program' in 2025?

A) Sindh

B) Punjab

C) Balochistan

D) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Q: The tragic sinking of a migrant vessel in the Atlantic in January 2025, which resulted in significant Pakistani fatalities, originated from which country?

A) Spain

B) Morocco

C) Mauritania

D) Canary Islands