General Knowledge — Chapter 7

Agencies, Days & Abbreviations — the Three Lists Papers Recycle

Why this chapter matters: this topic is pure list-learning, and papers love it for exactly that reason — one question, one name, one date, one expansion, no reasoning required. Our verified banks hold 197 questions matching this topic: 65 on days, 23 on news agencies, 22 on intelligence agencies and 87 that ask for a full form or expansion. The days alone are worth more than most whole chapters. Learn the three master tables in this chapter and you bank the marks; mix up two similar names (MI5 with MI6, Reuters with AFP, 21 August with 1 October) and you hand them straight back.

Exam Trend box

• 🔁 Most Repeated: the chapter’s own bank families — the agency-country pairs (intelligence 22, news 23), the days bucket (65) and the expansion bucket (87). No 🔁 claim is made for Section 4A itself.
• ⭐ Must Know: the agency-country pairs, the Pakistan national days and the common expansions above — all still asked across years. No ⭐ claim is made for Section 4A itself.
• 🆕 Newly Appeared / Recent Trend: the 2025 rankings & indexes year (Section 4A) — 23 cited CA-bank rows across 10 month files (Jan–Dec 2025), origin year 2025 marked; no 🔁/⭐ claimed for the table itself — one year only. Global indexes had no home in the notes before this section. The 2025 days & observances year (Section 3A) — the year’s observance themes, which Section 3’s date table never taught: 13 theme rows verified against the issuing bodies, origin year 2025 marked; no 🔁/⭐ claimed for the table itself — one year only.

1. Intelligence & secret agencies — the country table

Papers ask this in one fixed form: “X is the secret agency of which country?” Learn the country column first, the full form second.

Groups papers name (not agencies)

• Al-Qaeda was founded in 1988 (Osama bin Laden, during the Afghan war period) — a militant group, not an agency; papers ask its founding year and its founder separately (PMS Screening 2026 GK High Yield Mock 14, Q5; the 1988 year is a mock-only bank row — the banks’ other Al-Qaeda rows ask the founder — no mark claimed).
• Five Eyes (FVEY) — the signals-intelligence-sharing alliance of five countries: USA, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, under the UKUSA Agreement (1946) — a group, not an agency; papers ask what the term refers to (PMS Screening 2026 GK Final Mock 16, Q8; the banks hold one genuine exam-paper row, PPSC Assistant Director Admin 2025 — below both 🔁 limbs, no mark claimed).
• ISIS first emerged as Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) — founded 2004 by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, rebranded the Islamic State of Iraq in 2006 — the lineage the mock keys (PMS Screening 2026 GK Final Mock 16, Q10; mock-only bank row for the lineage, no mark claimed).

Pakistan’s pair — the one papers test at home

• ISI (1948) is the military-run, external-facing agency; IB is the civilian, domestic agency. Papers that ask “which is Pakistan’s secret agency?” accept ISI; papers that ask for the civilian bureau want IB. Do not merge them.
• FIA (Federal Investigation Agency) is a police/investigation body, not an intelligence agency — it appears in papers as a distractor for the ISI question.

The classic confusions, resolved

• CIA vs FBI: CIA works abroad; FBI works at home (federal law enforcement). A question about an agency operating inside the USA wants FBI; one about foreign operations wants CIA.
• MI5 vs MI6: MI5 is domestic (the Security Service); MI6 is foreign (the SIS). The James Bond service is MI6.
• KGB vs FSB: KGB is the dead Soviet agency (ended 1991); FSB is the living Russian successor. A question in the present tense wants FSB; a historical question wants KGB.
• Mossad vs Shin Bet: Mossad works abroad; Shin Bet works inside Israel and the Palestinian territories.
• RAW vs IB (India): RAW is India’s external agency (founded 1968); India’s domestic bureau is the Intelligence Bureau (IB) — the same initials as Pakistan’s IB, which is exactly why papers pair them.
• Lekem / Lakam: papers print the spelling LEKEM for Israel’s former scientific-intelligence bureau (the bureau behind the nuclear programme’s secrecy). It is a historical Israeli bureau, not a current agency.

2. News agencies — the country table

Same fixed question form: “X is the news agency of which country?” The world table first, then Pakistan’s own.

The world table

The Gulf confusion set (asked as a group)

• SANA = Syria, KUNA = Kuwait, MENA = Egypt, IRNA = Iran, Petra = Jordan, WAFA = Palestine. Papers set these six against each other and against the capital Sana’a (Yemen). Rule: SANA has one A more than Sana’a, and belongs to Syria, not Yemen.

Pakistan’s news agencies

• APP — Associated Press of Pakistan, the state news agency, founded 1947.
• PPI — Pakistan Press International, the private news agency.
• NNI — News Network International, a later private agency.
• The bank pattern: a question naming APP wants Pakistan; a question asking Pakistan’s state agency wants APP.

3. International & national days — the month-by-month master table

Papers ask days in two forms: “X Day is observed on which date?” and “1 May / 3 May / 8 March is celebrated as which day?” Learn by month — the calendar below is the whole section in one table.

Pakistan’s own days (the national set papers ask together)

• 23 March — Pakistan Day (Resolution Day, 1940); 14 August — Independence Day; 6 September — Defence Day; 5 February — Kashmir Solidarity Day; 27 October — Kashmir Black Day; 9 November — Iqbal Day; 25 December — Quaid-e-Azam Day; 8 October — National Disaster Awareness Day.
• Day of Deliverance — 22 December 1939: Muslims celebrated the resignation of the Congress ministries (1937–39) — taught in full in Pakistan Studies Chapter 7; it appears in this topic’s count because papers phrase it as a “day” question, but it belongs to the 1937–39 story, not to the UN calendar.

3A. Retrospective — the 2025 days & observances year: the themes papers ask (origin year 2025) 🆕 2025

Section 3 teaches dates; papers also ask themes — “what was the theme of World X Day 2025?” — and until now the notes had no theme for any day. This table is that missing layer: every observance theme the gk360 monthly CA bank asks for 2025, each verified against the issuing body in the 1 November 2026 run. Read it as date → day → theme; the date column is Section 3’s date, so a theme question and a date question on the same day are now one revision line. No 🔁/⭐ mark is claimed for this table itself — one year only — and its bank rows are corrected where the bank is wrong (see Section 8).

How papers will ask this table: in exactly two forms — “what was the theme of X Day 2025?” and the reverse, “which day’s 2025 theme was ’… ’?” Drill it as a theme chain in calendar order: Unique (Feb) → Power/Planet (Apr) → Blood/Hope (Jun) → Local Youth (Aug) → Science→Action (Sep) → Clean Air (Sep) → Sustainable Transformation (Sep) → Living in Space (Oct) → Collaborative Teaching (Oct) → Seeing the Unseen (Nov) → My Day, My Rights (Nov) → Overcoming Disruption (Dec) → Everyday Essentials (Dec). The three September themes are the trap cluster — ozone (science), environmental health (air) and tourism (transformation) sit within eleven days of each other; learn them by their nouns, not their month.

4. Common abbreviations — the expansion tables

Papers ask expansions in one form: “X stands for?” Learn by family — the family tells you the answer even when you forget the exact words.

Pakistan institutions

Science, health & technology

International bodies & treaties (the overlap with Chapter 3)

4A. Retrospective — the 2025 rankings & indexes year: the tables papers ask (origin year 2025) 🆕 2025

Papers ask indexes in exactly two forms: “who topped X?” and “what is Pakistan’s rank in X?” — so every row below gives the topper, Pakistan’s rank, and the denominator, and names the publisher. The denominator is part of the answer: the same rank means nothing without it (Pakistan 109th of 147 in happiness is not Pakistan 109th of 193 in development). Read the table as “2025 editions only”: later editions exist for several of these indexes, and the Traps below show where papers — and our own bank — mix editions. All 13 rows are backed by CA-bank questions and verified against the publisher’s 2025 release in the 1 November 2026 run; script hidden_files/goldmine-notes-count-gk07-2025indexes.py over 17 CA files / 2,012 questions.

How to learn this table: learn the topper + Pakistan pair for each index, then the denominator. Papers rarely ask a middle rank — they ask the top, the bottom, or Pakistan. Two patterns cover most of the table: the Nordic sweep (Iceland tops HDI, peace and gender gap; Finland tops happiness; Norway tops press freedom; Denmark tops rule of law) and Pakistan’s 2025 ladder (12 → 103 → 109 → 124 → 130 → 135 → 144 → 148 → 168 across firepower, passport, happiness, democracy, rule of law, corruption, peace, gender gap and development).

5. Master table — the whole chapter on one page

6. Rapid-fire one-liners

• ISI — Pakistan, 1948; RAW — India, 1968; CIA — USA, 1947; FBI — USA, 1908.
• MI5 domestic, MI6 foreign — both United Kingdom; MI6 headquarters London.
• Five Eyes — USA, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand (UKUSA, 1946); ISIS emerged as Al-Qaeda in Iraq (2004, Zarqawi).
• Mossad — Israel, 1949; Shin Bet — Israel’s domestic service.
• KGB — USSR, 1954–1991; FSB — Russia, 1995; BND — Germany, 1956.
• KHAD — Soviet-era Afghanistan; NDS — post-2002 Afghanistan.
• AFP — France, 1835, world’s oldest news agency; AP — USA, 1846; Reuters — UK, 1851.
• TASS — Russia; Xinhua — China; PTI — India, 1947; APP — Pakistan, 1947.
• SANA — Syria; KUNA — Kuwait; MENA — Egypt; IRNA — Iran; Petra — Jordan; WAFA — Palestine.
• DPA — Germany; Belga — Belgium; Ritzau — Denmark; Agerpres — Romania; ZIANA — Zimbabwe; ANTARA — Indonesia; BERNAMA — Malaysia.
• 1 May — Labour Day (Haymarket, Chicago, 1886); 3 May — World Press Freedom Day; 5 June — World Environment Day.
• 11 July — World Population Day; 10 December — Human Rights Day; 1 December — World AIDS Day; 7 April — World Health Day.
• 16 October — World Food Day; 27 September — World Tourism Day; 22 March — World Water Day; 4 February — World Cancer Day; 14 November — World Diabetes Day.
• 5 February — Kashmir Solidarity Day; 27 October — Kashmir Black Day; 23 March — Pakistan Day; 6 September — Defence Day; 9 November — Iqbal Day; 25 December — Quaid-e-Azam Day.
• 21 August — Senior Citizens Day; 1 October — International Day of Older Persons (UN).
• NADRA — National Database and Registration Authority; CNG — Compressed Natural Gas; LPG — Liquefied Petroleum Gas.
• GPS — Global Positioning System; SIM — Subscriber Identity Module; WWW — World Wide Web; CPU — Central Processing Unit.
• DNA — Deoxyribonucleic Acid; AIDS — Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome; FIR — First Information Report; NATO — North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
• FAST — Foundation for Advancement of Science and Technology; GT Road — Grand Trunk Road; MBBS — Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery.
• 2025 indexes, topper + Pakistan: Henley — Singapore 1 / Pakistan 103 (33 destinations); Firepower — USA 1 / Pakistan 12; Happiness — Finland 1 / Pakistan 109; HDI — Iceland 1 / Pakistan 168; Terrorism — Burkina Faso 1 / Pakistan 2; Peace — Iceland 1 / Pakistan 144; Gender Gap — Iceland 1 / Pakistan last, 148th; Rule of Law — Denmark 1 / Pakistan 130; Press Freedom — Norway 1; Smart City — Zurich 1; Competitiveness — Switzerland 1; Democracy — Pakistan 124; Corruption (2024 ed.) — Pakistan 135.
• 2025 themes, date order: Cancer United by Unique (4 Feb) · Earth Our Power, Our Planet (22 Apr) · Blood Donor Give blood, give hope: together we save lives (14 Jun) · Youth Local Youth Actions for the SDGs and Beyond (12 Aug) · Ozone From Science to Global Action (16 Sep) · Environmental Health Clean Air, Healthy People (26 Sep) · Tourism Tourism and Sustainable Transformation (27 Sep) · Space Week Living in Space (4–10 Oct) · Teachers Recasting teaching as a collaborative profession (5 Oct) · Radiography Radiographers: Seeing the Unseen (8 Nov) · Children’s My Day, My Rights (20 Nov) · AIDS Overcoming disruption, transforming the AIDS response (1 Dec) · Human Rights Human rights, our everyday essentials (10 Dec).

7. Most-asked facts (from our verified past-paper banks)

• The agency-country pairs dominate the intelligence bucket: RAW, KGB, CIA, MI6 and ISI are asked by name in nearly every cycle; the country is the whole answer.
• The news-agency country pairs are asked the same way — SANA, WAFA, ANTARA, TASS/Itar-Tass, Petra, ZIANA, Agerpres and BERNAMA recur, plus “oldest news agency” (AFP) and “Germany’s news agency” (DPA).
• The days bucket (65) is the chapter’s biggest: Kashmir Solidarity Day, Human Rights Day, World Environment Day, World Food Day, World AIDS Day, Press Freedom Day (3 May) and the Pakistan national days are asked as dates, and as “which day is 1 May / 3 May / 8 March?” reversals.
• The expansion bucket (87) is the largest single question type in the chapter: NADRA, CNG, GPS, SIM, WWW, MBBS, LPG, ISO, FIR and NATO expansions are asked repeatedly; papers also ask “K” in Pakistan-style letter questions and organisation expansions (SAARC, NATO) that overlap Chapter 3.
• The 2025 indexes (Section 4A) are asked as topper + Pakistan pairs: the CA bank carries the same two question forms for every index, and the 2025 editions are the ones papers draw from — Henley 103, Firepower 12, Happiness 109, HDI 168, Terrorism 2nd, Peace 144, Gender Gap last (148th) and Rule of Law 130 are the Pakistan figures to hold.
• The 2025 themes (Section 3A) are asked as date → theme and theme → day pairs: the CA bank’s 14 observance theme rows for 2025 (13 taught, 1 held) are the whole set — no other 2025 observance theme appears in the bank, so a theme question on a day outside Section 3A is either a date question in disguise or a later year’s theme.

8. Traps & confusions

• Petra the site vs Petra the agency: Petra is Jordan’s ancient city (a New Seven Wonder) and Jordan’s news agency. The question’s wording decides: “Petra is the news agency of” → Jordan; “Petra, the archaeological site” → Jordan too — but a wonders question is Chapter 2’s territory, not this chapter’s.
• SANA vs Sana’a: SANA (Syria’s agency) vs Sana’a (Yemen’s capital). Papers deliberately put them in the same option list.
• ANSA vs Ansar: the bank’s “ANSA” questions are about Italy’s agency; do not confuse the name with Ansar (the Madinan helpers) or with “ransack” vocabulary questions.
• 21 August vs 1 October: Senior Citizens Day (21 August, US proclamation 1988) is not the UN International Day of Older Persons (1 October). Papers ask both; the month decides.
• 3 December’s two names: “World Handicapped Day” in older papers is today’s International Day of Persons with Disabilities (3 December) — same date, updated name.
• VIRUS and SOS are folk acronyms: VIRUS is not a true acronym (the “Vital Information Resources Under Siege” expansion is the papers’ key, not an etymology), and SOS is a Morse distress signal chosen for its pattern, not initials of “Save Our Souls”. Learn the papers’ keys, but know they are conventions, not derivations.
• ISO is not an acronym: the International Organization for Standardization takes its name from the Greek isos (equal) — “International Standards Organization” is the wrong expansion papers offer as a distractor.
• PCO has two answers: Public Call Office (telecom) vs Provisional Constitutional Order (constitutional history). Read the question’s subject before answering.
• “Oldest news agency” vs “largest news agency”: oldest = AFP (1835); largest = AP (USA). Papers swap the superlative deliberately.
• BBC is a broadcaster, not an agency: papers still phrase it as “BBC is a news agency of” — the answer they want is the United Kingdom.
• Gender Gap bank keys are stale — teach 148th, not 145th or 142nd: the CA bank’s April row keys Pakistan at 145 (that is the 2024 rank) and its June row at “142 of 146” (wrong on both rank and denominator). The WEF 2025 report ranks Pakistan last, 148th of 148, at 56.7% — down from 145th in 2024.
• HDI “Norway consistently first” is stale for 2025: the CA bank’s August row keys Norway as the perennial HDI topper. For the 2025 edition the topper is Iceland (0.972); Norway ties Switzerland at 2nd (0.970).
• “Democracy Index 2025” is 2024 data: papers and the bank label the February 2025 EIU release “2025”, but its data year is 2024 — Pakistan 124th, 2.84. Do not confuse it with any later EIU edition.
• CPI edition trap: the February 2025 release is CPI 2024 (Pakistan 135th of 180, score 27). CPI 2025, released February 2026, ranks Pakistan 136th of 182 (score 28) — a different edition, not part of the 2025 table.
• Henley edition trap: teach the January 2025 edition (Singapore 1st, Pakistan 103rd, 33 destinations). Henley revises during the year, and a second December 2025 passport ranking in the bank (UAE top, Singapore + Spain tied 2nd) is a different index, held here, not taught — never mix its topper into a Henley answer.
• GTI edition trap: GTI 2025 ranks Pakistan 2nd (Burkina Faso 1st). A March 2026 bank row claiming Pakistan 1st belongs to the next edition, not to 2025.
• GFP is conventional power only: Pakistan 12th in the Global Firepower Index 2025 is a conventional-capabilities rank (60+ factors, 145 countries) — it is not a nuclear ranking, and it is not comparable across years without noting GFP’s changing formula.
• QS NUST 127 held, not taught: a single March 2025 bank row keys NUST at “127 in world QS ranking” without stating the edition or scope (world vs Asia vs subject) — unverified as a world rank, so it is held, not taught.
• Climate Risk Index cross-link, not a duplicate: Pakistan 15th in the Global Climate Risk Index 2026 (Germanwatch, released November 2025) is already taught in EDS-09 Section 8A — it is cross-linked from Section 4A, not re-taught here.
• 2025 theme traps (Section 3A) — four bank corrections, not copied: the May 2025 Earth Day row keys “Our power our earth” — the EARTHDAY.ORG theme is “Our Power, Our Planet” (triple clean electricity by 2030); the June 2025 Blood Donor row gives only “Give blood, give hope” — the full WHO theme adds ”: together we save lives”; the November 2025 Children’s Day row gives “My day, My rights” — UNICEF’s full form is “Listen to children: my day, my rights” / “My Day, My Rights: From Promises to Action”, so a long option is not a different theme. The Radiography theme is the consensus of ISRRT/Testbook/Guidely/Pace (“Radiographers: Seeing the Unseen”, continuing the 2024 theme) — one secondary source’s “healing without cutting” is flagged here, not taught.
• 2025 theme holds (Section 3A), not taught: the February 2025 Global Tourism Resilience Day row (“Tourism Resilience in Action: From Crisis Response to Impactful Transformation”) is held — no official 2025 theme for that day was announced, so the bank wording is unverified and is not taught as a theme; the day itself (17 February, UN-designated) is the safe answer. The January 2025 “International Day of Education 2024” row (“Learning for lasting Peace”) is out of year — it is the 2024 theme, not a 2025 row, and is held out of Section 3A. Summit themes in the same theme scan (BRICS, World Governments Summit, WEF Davos, G20, World Health Summit) belong to the summits table (GK-11), not to the observance table, and are not repeated here.

9. Memory tricks

• The domestic–foreign ladder: for every country, learn the pair in order — Pakistan: IB (in) → ISI (out); UK: MI5 (in) → MI6 (out); USA: FBI (in) → CIA (out); Israel: Shin Bet (in) → Mossad (out); India: IB (in) → RAW (out). The number or letter that comes second is the foreign one.
• AFP–AP–Reuters by year: 1835, 1846, 1851 — France, USA, UK, in founding order and in alphabetical order of country (France < UK < USA is wrong; use the years: 35–46–51, rising by elevens).
• The Gulf six by alphabet of country: Egypt MENA, Iran IRNA, Jordan Petra, Kuwait KUNA, Palestine WAFA, Syria SANA — E-I-J-K-P-S, and the agency initials follow the country, not the capital.
• The Pakistan days in calendar order: 5 Feb (Solidarity) → 23 Mar (Pakistan) → 14 Aug (Independence) → 6 Sep (Defence) → 27 Oct (Black Day) → 9 Nov (Iqbal) → 25 Dec (Quaid) — the year’s story in seven dates.
• The 10 December anchor: the Universal Declaration was adopted 10 December 1948 — Human Rights Day is the Declaration’s birthday, and 10-12 is the easiest date pair in the chapter.
• CNG vs LPG by state: Compressed = CNG is a gas kept under pressure; Liquefied = LPG is a gas turned liquid. The first letter of the process is the first letter of the fuel.
• The Nordic sweep (indexes): Iceland, Finland, Norway and Denmark top nearly every social index in 2025 — Iceland for development, peace and gender gap; Finland for happiness; Norway for press freedom; Denmark for rule of law. If the question is a social index and the options are Nordic, pick the Nordic country that owns that index, not just any Nordic name.
• Pakistan’s 2025 rank ladder: 12 (firepower) → 103 (passport) → 109 (happiness) → 124 (democracy) → 130 (rule of law) → 135 (corruption, 2024 ed.) → 144 (peace) → 148 last (gender gap) → 168 (development) — read it as a ladder, not nine separate numbers; the two outliers to anchor are 2nd (terrorism) and last (gender gap).
• The 2025 theme chain (Section 3A, calendar order): Unique → Power/Planet → Blood/Hope → Local Youth → Science→Action → Clean Air → Sustainable Transformation → Living in Space → Collaborative Teaching → Seeing the Unseen → My Day, My Rights → Overcoming Disruption → Everyday Essentials — thirteen links, February to December; the September triple (ozone, environmental health, tourism) is learned by noun, not by month.

10. Visuals (site build specs)

• INFOGRAPHIC — The domestic–foreign ladder: five country rows (Pakistan, UK, USA, Israel, India), each split into domestic (left) and foreign (right) agency — placed in Section 1.
• MAP — News agencies of the world: world map with agency pins on France (AFP), UK (Reuters), USA (AP), Russia (TASS), China (Xinhua), India (PTI), Pakistan (APP) and the Gulf six — placed in Section 2.
• CALENDAR — The year of days: twelve-month strip marking every day in Section 3’s table, Pakistan’s national days in green, UN days in blue — placed before Section 3 as the chapter’s orientation graphic.
• INFOGRAPHIC — The expansion families: four panels (Pakistan institutions / science & health / technology / bodies & treaties) with the abbreviation on the left and its expansion on the right — placed in Section 4.
• INFOGRAPHIC — The 2025 index ladder: one vertical ladder showing Pakistan’s 2025 ranks (12 → 103 → 109 → 124 → 130 → 135 → 144 → 148 → 168) with the topper beside each rung — placed in Section 4A.
• CALENDAR — The 2025 theme strip: the Section 3A thirteen themes as a single February-to-December strip, each node carrying date + day + theme, with the September triple highlighted — placed at the end of Section 3A.

11. Practice this topic

• Practice set: 197 verified past-paper questions in the PPSC + FPSC banks are tagged to this topic’s sub-topics (intelligence agencies 22; news agencies 23; days 65; expansion-asking questions 87) — the site serves them as this chapter’s practice set, with the IBES General Knowledge capsule questions behind them. Note: the days bucket includes a few cross-topic questions (Day of Deliverance, taught in Pakistan Studies Chapter 7; other countries’ independence days, taught in Chapter 1; Bastille Day, taught in Chapter 4) and the abbreviations bucket counts expansion questions across subjects — the practice set is filtered by this chapter’s tags at serve time, so each question is served from its home topic. Companion practice for Section 4A: the 23 cited CA-bank 2025 index rows (10 month files, Jan–Dec 2025) serve as this section’s practice set — the 2025 indexes are CA-bank material, not site-bank topic questions, so the chapter’s bankCount stays 197.
• Companion practice for Section 3A: the 13 taught CA-bank 2025 theme rows (script hidden_files/goldmine-notes-count-gk07-2025themes.py: 21 theme rows in the 2025 CA files, 14 observance rows, 13 taught + 1 held, 6 summit rows + 1 out-of-year row excluded with reasons) serve as this section’s practice set — CA-bank material, so the chapter’s bankCount stays 197.
• Book mode: ← Previous: Sports · Next: Firsts & Records →

Goldmine Notes · General Knowledge · Chapter 7 · Sources: verified PPSC/FPSC past-paper banks (197 topic questions, script-counted by tight question-text keyword, first-match, across 23,990 questions in 196 files), IBES General Knowledge capsule bank, standard-reference checks (AFP founded 1835 as Agence Havas, world’s oldest news agency; Senior Citizens Day 21 August, US proclamation 1988, vs UN International Day of Older Persons 1 October; Afghanistan KHAD → NDS 2002; FAST = Foundation for Advancement of Science and Technology, sponsoring body of NUCES). Section 4A 2025 indexes verified against the publishers’ 2025 releases: WEF Global Gender Gap Report 2025 (Jun 2025), UNDP Human Development Report 2025 (May 2025), IEP Global Terrorism Index 2025 and Global Peace Index 2025, RSF World Press Freedom Index 2025, WJP Rule of Law Index 2025 (28 Oct 2025), Henley & Partners Henley Passport Index January 2025, GlobalFirepower Index 2025, Transparency International CPI 2024 (Feb 2025), EIU Democracy Index 2024 data (Feb 2025), IMD Smart City Index 2025 and World Competitiveness Ranking 2025. Section 3A 2025 themes verified against the issuing bodies in the 1 November 2026 run: UICC World Cancer Day 2025–2027, EARTHDAY.ORG Earth Day 2025, WHO World Blood Donor Day 2025, UN DESA International Youth Day 2025, UNEP World Ozone Day 2025, IFEH World Environmental Health Day 2025, UN Tourism World Tourism Day 2025, UN World Space Week 2025, UNESCO World Teachers’ Day 2025, ISRRT World Radiography Day 2025, UNICEF World Children’s Day 2025, UNAIDS/WHO World AIDS Day 2025, UN Human Rights Day 2025. PMS Screening 2026 GK High Yield Mock 14 residue added 2026-11-03 (NSA Fort Meade row, Al-Qaeda 1988 line, UN Day 24 October row; no marks claimed). Standard answers only.