The former Secretary-General of the UN, Kofi Annan, belonged to which country?
View answer & explanation Ans: Ghana
Correct Answer: Ghana
Kofi Annan, UN Secretary-General from 1997 to 2006, was from Ghana.
CSS · Federal Public Service Commission · 2025
CSS MPT 2025 GK and Current Affairs fragment Q171-191 - 21 solved MCQs on the UN, WTO, SCO, ARF, Gilgit-Baltistan and Pakistan affairs, with verified answers and explanations. A Sir Adnan booklet fragment, not the full paper.
Paper Snapshot
Questions
21
Time
21
Minutes
Subjects
2
Topics
17
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About this paper
A Sir Adnan booklet headed 'CSS MPT 2025 - GK+CURRENT AFFAIRS' (monster-data 'CSS MPT PAST PAPERS' pack) that prints only Q171-191 of the GK and Current Affairs material, and prints that same run twice (pages 1-2 and 3-4 are identical). The 21 unique items are published in the standard MCQ format with authored distractors, verified answers and explanations; the second copy is not double-counted. Two booklet answers are corrected to the standard facts (WTO membership 1995, not 1996; ARF admission July 2004, not April), and the Gilgit-Baltistan 'semi-provincial' description carries a note explaining it is not a constitutional province. Nothing outside Q171-191 was invented, so this file is a fragment, never the full paper or a complete section.
Paper Controls
Subject 1
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2 solved MCQs shown directly below
Correct Answer: Ghana
Kofi Annan, UN Secretary-General from 1997 to 2006, was from Ghana.
Correct Answer: 2030
The 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals, adopted in 2015, are set to be achieved by 2030.
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Correct Answer: Dead Sea
The Dead Sea's extremely high salinity makes it inhospitable to fish and other macroscopic aquatic life, which is why it carries this conventional name.
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Correct Answer: China
Wen Jiabao was Premier of the People's Republic of China from 2003 to 2013.
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Correct Answer: 5th June
World Environment Day, led by the United Nations Environment Programme, is observed every year on 5 June.
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Correct Answer: Argentina
The Falkland Islands lie in the South Atlantic off the coast of Argentina, which claims sovereignty over them.
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Correct Answer: Turkey
The Lapis Lazuli Corridor is a transit and transport route linking Afghanistan to Turkey, via Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan and Georgia.
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Correct Answer: Paris, France
The 2024 Summer Olympic Games were held in Paris, France.
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Correct Answer: North American Free Trade Agreement
NAFTA stands for the North American Free Trade Agreement, between Canada, Mexico and the United States (in force 1994-2020, succeeded by the USMCA).
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Correct Answer: Caspian Sea
The Caspian Sea, between Europe and Asia, is the world's largest enclosed inland body of water.
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Correct Answer: 2014
Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, following the referendum held there in March 2014.
Subject 2
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Correct Answer: Peace Pipeline
The Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline project is commonly called the Peace Pipeline.
Correct Answer: 2018
Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar was released from detention in Pakistan in October 2018.
Correct Answer: 2017
Pakistan (with India) became a full member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization at the Astana summit in June 2017.
Correct Answer: July
Pakistan was admitted as the 24th participant of the ASEAN Regional Forum on 2 July 2004, in Jakarta, the same day it acceded to the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation.
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Correct Answer: 1969
The princely State of Swat was merged into Pakistan in 1969, becoming part of what was then the North-West Frontier Province.
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Correct Answer: 1995
Pakistan, a GATT contracting party since 1948, became a founding member of the World Trade Organization on 1 January 1995, when the WTO came into being.
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Correct Answer: Four
President Pervez Musharraf's Kashmir proposal is known as his four-point formula.
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Correct Answer: Semi-Provincial
Gilgit-Baltistan is administered as a semi-autonomous region with its own elected assembly and government, but it is not a province under the Constitution of Pakistan; 'semi-provincial' is the conventional one-liner description of that status.
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Correct Answer: National Engineering and Scientific Commission
NESCOM stands for the National Engineering and Scientific Commission, a Pakistani scientific and engineering organisation.
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Correct Answer: 2017
Operation Radd-ul-Fasaad, the nationwide counter-terrorism operation, was launched in February 2017.
Source & verification
Built by GK360 from verified bank questions — every answer rechecked before publishing. Where the source printed no options, the answer options were prepared by GK360; the questions and correct answers are the verified originals.
Questions
No. The booklet prints only Q171-191, and it prints that run twice (identical copies). Only those 21 unique items are published here; nothing outside Q171-191 was invented, so this is a fragment, not the full paper or a complete section.
21 published of 21 unique printed items; none dropped. The booklet's second copy of Q171-191 is an exact duplicate and was not counted twice.
Yes, two, both flagged in keyFlag: printed Q185 (WTO membership) is corrected from 1996 to 1995, Pakistan being a founding WTO member from 1 January 1995; printed Q191 (ARF membership) is corrected from April to July, Pakistan having been admitted on 2 July 2004.
'Semi-Provincial' is the booklet's conventional one-liner description: Gilgit-Baltistan has province-like institutions (an elected assembly and government) but is not a province under the Constitution of Pakistan; it is a semi-autonomous administrative territory. The note flag on that question states this.
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