Explanation

 The figure for Pakistan includes only native Urdu-speakers, known as Muhajirs, and not other ethnic groups of Pakistan who may fluently speak Urdu as a first or second language.

Explanation

Pashto has ی, ې, ۀ, and ۍ for additional vowels and diphthongs as well.

Pashto uses all 28 letters of the Arabic alphabet, and shares 3 letters (چ, پ, and ژ) with Persian and Urdu in the additional letters.

Explanation

It has a total of 52 letters, augmenting the Persian with digraphs and eighteen new letters (ڄ ٺ ٽ ٿ ڀ ٻ ڙ ڍ ڊ ڏ ڌ ڇ ڃ ڦ ڻ ڱ ڳ ڪ) for sounds particular to Sindhi and other Indo-Aryan languages

Explanation

It has a total of 52 letters, augmenting the Persian with digraphs and eighteen new letters (ڄ ٺ ٽ ٿ ڀ ٻ ڙ ڍ ڊ ڏ ڌ ڇ ڃ ڦ ڻ ڱ ڳ ڪ) for sounds particular to Sindhi and other Indo-Aryan languages

Explanation

The Karakoram Pass is a 5,540 m or 18,176 ft mountain pass between India and China in the Karakoram Range.  'Karakoram' literally means 'Black Gravel' in Mongolic. 

Elevation: 5,540 m

Location: China–India border

Range: Karakoram

Explanation

In the Hindu Kush, passes connect Pakistan with Afghanistan and China. 

All passes in the Hindu Kush mountains connect Pakistan with:

• China
• Afghanistan
• Tajikistan
• Iran
• Afghanistan.
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The Hindu Kush is a mountain range that runs from northeast to southwest, 

The Hindu Kush range starts near the Pamir Mountains,

Explanation

Karakar pass is located in: Hindu Kush, KPK

 Important Passes of Pakistan

1. Khyber Pass 

connects: Peshawar to Kabul

connects: Pakistan to Afghanistan

Height 1070 meters, 3510 feet 

2. Bolan Pass 

Connects: JCB and Sibi with Quetta 

Height: 1793 meters, 5884 feet 

3. Lowari Pass 

Connects: Chitral with Dir 

Height: 3118 meters, 10230 feet 

4. Broghil Pass 

Location: Pakistan & Afghanistan border 

Height: 3798 meters, 12460 feet 

5. Malakand Pass 

Connects: Dir with Chitral 

Height: 1362 meters, 4468 feet 

6. Shandur pass

Connects: Gupis/Gilgit with Chitral 

Height: 3700 meters, 12139 feet 

7. Khanjerab Pass (top most in Pakistan) 

Other name: Friendship Gate

Connects: China with Pakistan 

Height: 4693 meters, 15397 feet 

8. Dorah pass

Connects: Badakhshan province of Afghanistan with Chitral 

Height: 4300 meters, 14108 feet 

9. Babusar Pass 

Connects: Mansehra/Abbotabad with Gilgit

10. Kohat Pass

Connects: Kohat with Peshawar 

11. Khojak Pass

Connects: Qilla Abdullah with Chaman

12. Tochi Pass

Connects: Ghazni with Bannu

13. Karakar Pass

Connects: Mingora with Buner 

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Explanation

Highest Temperature in Pakistan

Happened: 28 May 2017

Location: Turbat, Balochistan

Gauge: 53.5°C

 Note: It equaled the previous record which was set in Mohenjo Daro on May 27, 2010.

Explanation

The constituency of Gilgit Baltistan Assembly is called GBA.

A total of 33 seats are in the assembly.

Explanation

Pakistan has decided to elevate the status of Gilgit-Baltistan to that of a full-fledged province.

India has conveyed to Pakistan that the entire Union territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, including the areas of Gilgit and Baltistan, are Integral parts of the country. Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan is to announce constitutional rights for the province soon.

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