Explanation

• Pakistan and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) reached a 37-month EFF agreement in 2024.
• The program amounted to approximately US$7 billion.
• The IMF Executive Board approved the arrangement on 25 September 2024.
• The EFF aimed to support Pakistan’s economic stability, reforms, and external financing needs.

Last verified on 06-09-2026

Explanation

• The Dr. A. Q. Khan Research Laboratories (KRL) was established in Kahuta, Pakistan on July 31, 1976.
• The KRL was founded by Pakistani nuclear physicist and metallurgical engineer Abdul Qadeer Khan.
• He is known as the father of Pakistan's atomic bomb.
• The lab was created in response to India's first nuclear bomb test in 1974.
• Khan was the lab's senior scientist and chairman until he retired in 2001.

Last verified on 23-10-2026

Explanation

As of February 3, 2026, Rao Abdul Kareem has been appointed as the new Inspector General (IG) of Punjab Police, succeeding Dr. Usman Anwar.

Last updated on 21-2-2026

Explanation

• The Battle of Chawinda was fought between Pakistan and India in September 1965 during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.
• It took place near Chawinda in the Sialkot sector of Punjab, Pakistan.

Additional information:

• The Battle of Kursk (1943) is famous as one of the largest armoured battles of World War II.

Last verified on 23-10-2026

Explanation

• Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy was the Premier (Chief Minister) of undivided Bengal from 24 April 1946 to 14 August 1947.
• He belonged to the All-India Muslim League.
• He supported a proposal for a united, independent Bengal during the 1947 partition discussions.
• Bengal was partitioned in August 1947 into West Bengal (India) and East Bengal (Pakistan), which later became Bangladesh in 1971.

Last verified on 22-10-2026