Pakistan Affairs Mcqs/objectives
- Shah Waliullah was the first reformer to appear during the period of Muslim decline.
- Shah Waliullah wrote a book named Izalatul Khifa.
- Shah Waliullah’s philosophy of life is contained in his most famous book: Hujjat ullah al Baligha.
- Ahmad Shah Abdali defeated the Marathas in the Third Battle of Panipat.
- The British under Lord Clive defeated Nawab Sirajuddaulah at the Battle of Plassey in 1757.
- Sir Syed wrote a number of pamphlets and books, the most prominent among them being ‘The Causes of the Indian Revolt’, which he sent to the members of the British Parliament.
- Urdu had replaced Persian as the official language in 1837.
- Sir Syed established a translation society at Ghazipur, in January 1864. Later, this society was renamed the Scientific Society because its purpose was to translate scientific literature into Urdu.
- In 1866, Sir Syed founded the Aligarh Institute Gazette – a magazine devoted to the cultural needs of Muslims having an English education.
- At Aligarh, Sir Syed started a primary school on 24 May 1875; and on 1st January 1877, the viceroy, Lord Lytton, laid the foundation stone of the college.
- The All-India Muhammadan Educational Conference was founded at Aligarh in 1866 by Sir Syed.
- It was the 1867 Hindi-Urdu conflict that had originally led Sir Syed to formulate his Two-Nation theory.
- In 1920, Aligarh College was raised to the status of a university.
- Darul Uloom at Deoband was founded on 30 May 1867 by Maulana Fazlur Rahman.
- Maulana Qasim Nanotvi wrote a book, Tasfiyya-al-Aquaid, to counteract and refute the religious thought of Sir Syed Ahmad Khan.
- Of the prominent Ulema of Deoband, only Allama Shabbir Ahmad Usmani was a supporter of the Pakistan Movement.
- Of all the madrassa founders, Ahmad Reza Khan was the only one to expound the Two-Nation theory. This is contained in his book Al Hujjat al Motmainna.
- The proposal to found the Nadvat-ul-Ulema was floated in Kanpur by Maulana Muhammad Ali Mongeri in 1892.
- Nadvat-ul-Ulema was transferred to Lucknow on 2nd September 1898.
- The Anjuman Himayat-e-Islam was founded on 24 September 1884, by the initiative of Khalifa Hameed ud Din.
- The Anjuman Himayat-e-Islam was founded against the backdrop of Christian missionary activity in Punjab, and the Arya Samaj movement.
- Congress was formed on December 28, 1885, by British civil servant Allan Octavian Hume.
- Hasan Ali Effendi opened the Sindh Madressa on 1st September 1885 and had it formally inaugurated by the viceroy, Lord Dufferin, on 14 November 1887.
- Sindh Madressatul Islam was the alma matter of Quaid-e-Azam.
- Islamia College Peshawar was founded by the personal initiatives led by Sir S.A. Qayyum and Sir George Roos-Keppel in 1913.
- Nawab Mohsin ul Mulk, the new secretary of Aligarh College, organized the Urdu Defence Association on 2nd May 1900 at Aligarh.
- Partition of Bengal was a division of Bengal carried out by the British viceroy in India, Lord Curzon, on 16 October 1905.
- Muslims formed the Simla Deputation on 1st October 1906.
- On 31st January 1856, the Mohammadan Association, with Fazlur Rahman as president and Mohammad Mazhar as secretary was founded.
- The Mohammadan Literary Society was founded in 1863 by Nawab Abdul Latif.
- The first Muslim open political body was established in 1878 by Syed Amir Ali, called the National Mohammadan Association.
- The Karachi Agreement was signed on 27 July 1949 by the military representatives of India and Pakistan, supervised by the United Nations Commission for India and Pakistan, establishing a cease-fire line in the State of Jammu and Kashmir.
- The Tashkent Declaration was signed on 10 January 1966.
- Simla Agreement was signed on 2nd July 1972. by president Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and prime minister Indira Gandhi at Simla.
- The Delhi Agreement was signed on August 28, 1973 between India and Pakistan with the concurrence of Bangladesh.
- The Lahore Declaration was signed on July 2, 1999 by prime ministers Atal Behari Vajpayee and Nawaz Sharif.