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• Current Position: 72nd U.S. Secretary of State
• Assumed Office: 21 January 2025
• President: Donald Trump
• Preceded by: Antony Blinken
• Nationality: American
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• The Ottoman Empire emerged in Anatolia around 1299 after the decline of the Seljuk Sultanate of Rum.

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• Founder: Osman I (Osman Ghazi).
• Beginning: Around 1299.
• Capital: Constantinople (present-day Istanbul) became the capital in 1453 after its conquest by Mehmed II.
• End: The Ottoman Sultanate was abolished on 1 November 1922.

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• Winner: The Architects of AI.
• Announcement date: 11 December 2025.
• Organization: TIME magazine, USA.

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• 2024: Donald Trump was named Person of the Year.
• 2023: Taylor Swift was named Person of the Year.

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• In March 1976, Pakistan and France signed an agreement for a plutonium-based reprocessing plant at Chashma.
• The deal included a 600 MW power plant.
• France canceled the deal in August 1978.

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• Pakistan began developing nuclear weapons in 1972 under Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.
• Pakistan conducted nuclear tests in 1998.
• It is now considered a nuclear weapon state.

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• Sawm is the collective noun for a group of locusts.
• Pack is the collective noun used for a group of wolves.
• Both pairs show the relationship between a collective noun and the animal group it describes.

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• Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) — $7.65 trillion (China)

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• Agricultural Bank of China — $6.97 trillion (China)
• China Construction Bank — $6.52 trillion (China)
• Bank of China — $5.48 trillion (China)
• JPMorgan Chase & Co. — $4.42 trillion (United States)

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• IBRD (World Bank): 11 July 1950

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• United Nations (UN/UNO): 30 September 1947.
• FAO: 7 September 1947.
• Commonwealth of Nations: 1947; withdrew in 1972 and rejoined in 1989. 
• WHO: 1948.
• UNESCO: 1949.
• IMF: 11 July 1950. 
• SEATO: 1954; dissolved in 1977.
• CENTO: 1955; dissolved in 1979.
• OIC: 1969.
• SAARC: 1985.
• WTO: 1995.
• Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO): 9 June 2017.

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• Name: Brigadier Dr. Helen Mary Roberts
• Branch: Pakistan Army Medical Corps (as a senior pathologist)
• Service Tenure: 26 years of service
• Announcement Date: June 2024
• Recognition: Promoted by the Selection Board and congratulated by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR)

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• Major General Nigar Johar became Pakistan Army’s first female Lieutenant General in June 2020.

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