NTS NAT-IA (Arts / Humanities Track) Pakistan Affairs: Practice MCQs with Answers

NTS NAT-IA (Arts / Humanities Track) Pakistan Affairs Practice sample MCQs

1. Q1. Who presides over the Senate when it is in session?

   • A) The President of Pakistan as default chair
   • B) The Prime Minister by convention
   • C) The Speaker of the National Assembly
   • D) The Chairman of the Senate

   Answer: The Chairman of the Senate

2. Q2. The range of the Hatf-I missile is _________.

   • A) 90 km
   • B) 100 km
   • C) 65 km
   • D) 105 km

   Answer: 90 km

3. Q3. Which of the following deserts is known as the 'friendly desert'?

   • A) Thar
   • B) Cholistan
   • C) Thal
   • D) Nara

   Answer: Thal

4. Q4. Article 58(2)(b) famously enabled repeated presidential dissolution of the National Assembly and entered the 1973 text mainly through which amendment cycle associated with militarised executive politics after 1977?

   • A) The Fifth Constitutional Amendment
   • B) The Sixth Constitutional Amendment
   • C) The Eighth Constitutional Amendment
   • D) The Thirteenth Constitutional Amendment

   Answer: The Eighth Constitutional Amendment

5. Q5. Mountain geography tightening: hallmark habitat realism most commonly linked with markhor’s survival ranges for exam facts?

   • A) Arabian dunes interior
   • B) Thar saline flats
   • C) Southern Baloch shrub steppe lowlands exclusively
   • D) North-Western rocky mountains

   Answer: North-Western rocky mountains

6. Q6. A timeline card lists three events: Quaid-i-Azam’s death, Liaquat’s assassination, adoption of the 1956 Constitution. Which option orders them correctly?

   • A) 1956 Constitution, then Quaid’s death, then Liaquat’s death
   • B) Quaid’s death, then Liaquat’s death, then 1956 Constitution
   • C) Liaquat’s death, then Quaid’s death, then 1956 Constitution
   • D) Quaid’s death, then 1956 Constitution, then Liaquat’s death

   Answer: Quaid’s death, then Liaquat’s death, then 1956 Constitution

7. Q7. Article 6 of the 1973 Constitution defines which offence as high treason?

   • A) Sedition against the armed forces
   • B) Abrogation or subversion of the Constitution
   • C) Espionage on behalf of a foreign power
   • D) Defamation of state institutions

   Answer: Abrogation or subversion of the Constitution

8. Q8. The Pakistan-Iran Gas Pipeline project (IP Pipeline) — Iran to Pakistan — was also known by what name?

   • A) Silk Route Pipeline
   • B) Gulf Energy Corridor
   • C) Peace Pipeline
   • D) Makran Energy Link

   Answer: Peace Pipeline

9. Q9. Allama Iqbal is also called "Shair-e-Mashriq" which means what in English?

   • A) Poet of the West
   • B) Poet of the Nation
   • C) Poet of Islam
   • D) Poet of the East

   Answer: Poet of the East

10. Q10. Which Viceroy of India announced the Mountbatten Plan (3 June Plan) for the partition of India?

    • A) Lord Wavell
    • B) Lord Mountbatten
    • C) Lord Linlithgow
    • D) Lord Irwin

    Answer: Lord Mountbatten

11. Q11. Minto Park is now officially called __________.

    • A) Jinnah Park
    • B) Iqbal Park
    • C) Lawrence Park
    • D) Patriot Park

    Answer: Iqbal Park

12. Q12. In 1955, the Muslim League formed a coalition government with which party?

    • A) United Front
    • B) Jamaat-e-Islami
    • C) Republican Party
    • D) Awami National Party

    Answer: Republican Party

13. Q13. When were banks nationalized in Pakistan?

    • A) in 1974
    • B) in 1972
    • C) in 1975
    • D) in 1977

    Answer: in 1972

14. Q14. Allama Muhammad Iqbal articulated separate Muslim Northwestern Indian nationhood aspiration in Presidential Address Muslim League Alliance session Allahabad in which colonial year?

    • A) 1927
    • B) 1916
    • C) 1930
    • D) 1906

    Answer: 1930

15. Q15. The Urdu-Hindi Controversy, an important forerunner to the partition of British India, started in:

    • A) 1857
    • B) 1867
    • C) 1877
    • D) 1885

    Answer: 1867

16. Q16. The office of District Magistrate was abolished by the ___________.

    • A) Local Government Ordinance, 2001
    • B) Amendments in the code of Criminal Procedure
    • C) 18th Amendment in the Constitution
    • D) Police Order, 2002

    Answer: Police Order, 2002

17. Q17. A timeline card asks you to place four career moments of Muhammad Ali Jinnah in strict chronological order. Which sequence is correct?

    • A) Called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn, joined Indian National Congress, elected to Imperial Legislative Council, became President of the Muslim League
    • B) Became President of the Muslim League, joined the Congress, elected to Imperial Legislative Council, called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn
    • C) Elected to Imperial Legislative Council, called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn, joined the Congress, became Muslim League President
    • D) Joined the Congress, became Muslim League President, called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn, elected to Imperial Legislative Council

    Answer: Called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn, joined Indian National Congress, elected to Imperial Legislative Council, became President of the Muslim League

18. Q18. The pivot point of Pakistan's foreign policy is:

    • A) Defense
    • B) Kashmir
    • C) Trade and Commerce
    • D) All of these

    Answer: All of these

19. Q19. In India, English education was first initiated in Bengal in:

    • A) in 1813
    • B) in 1829
    • C) in 1835
    • D) in 1854

    Answer: in 1835

20. Q20. What was Tipu Sultan's real name?

    • A) Haider Ali
    • B) Fateh Ali Khan
    • C) Mir Sadiq
    • D) Kharak Singh

    Answer: Fateh Ali Khan

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