Most Important Fill in the Blanks for PMS Pakistan Studies

The following article explores a high-yield compilation of fill-in-the-blank questions for the PMS Punjab Pakistan Studies exam. This resource is tailored to help candidates easily master the compulsory objective section and secure a full 20/20 marks on exam day.

Having command on the objective portion of the PMS Punjab Pakistan Studies paper, along with the subjective paper, is one of the most effective ways to raise your aggregate score. Every year, the exam features 10 compulsory fill-in-the-blank questions, with each blank carrying 2 marks, offering a lucrative 20 marks (20/20) that can significantly boost your final merit.

To ensure your preparation is targeted and comprehensive, this ultimate high-yield resource has been meticulously compiled by analyzing all PMS past papers from 2000 through 2026. Featuring bolded key terms designed for self-testing, this organized set of highly probable statements covers essential historical dates, constitutional developments, political milestones, and key figures, empowering you to secure those vital 20 marks effortlessly.

Access to SOLVED PMS PAST PAPERS OF PAKISTAN STUDIES Subjective Part

Set-1

1. Tarbela Dam is located in the Haripur district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
2. The Khilafat movement was launched by the Ali Brothers, and it continued from 1919 to 1924.
3. The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) was established in 1985 in Dhaka.
4. The Punjab irrigation system is a part of the Indus Basin system with 14 main canal commands system off-taking from various barrages over the Indus and its tributaries.
5. The famous August Offer was made by the Viceroy named Lord Linlithgow, in the year 1940.
6. The Second Islamic Summit Conference was held in the year 1974, and it was hosted by Pakistan (Lahore).
7. In July 1972, Prime Minister of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi signed an accord in Shimla.
8. Sir Syed Ahmad Khan established the Aligarh Movement (M.A.O College) to counter the political hegemony of Congress (or the Hindu majority).
9. Great personalities like Allama Muhammad Iqbal are born in centuries. His first public appearance was in 1930 at the annual session of the All India Muslim League (Allahabad).
10. The Radcliffe Award was announced on August 17, 1947, which established boundaries between India & Pakistan.
11. Debal was the first important town in Sindh captured by the Arabs under Muhammad bin Qasim.
12. Sindh Madrassa-tul-Islam was founded in the year 1885 in the city of Karachi.
13. Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah was declared as Ambassador of Hindu-Muslim Unity by Sarojini Naidu. 
14. In the Lucknow Pact, Congress agreed to give one-third of seats to Muslims in the council.
15. Pakistan signed SEATO in the city of Manila in 1954 from the side of Pakistan.
16. Military courts had been established to deal with the cases related to terrorism under the 21st Amendment to the 1973 Constitution.
17. The Indian National Congress was formed in 1885 and it was founded by A.O. Hume.
18. Afghanistan opposed Pakistan’s membership of UNO in 1947.
19. The National Action Plan had 20 elements/methods to deal with the issue of religious extremism in Pakistan.
20. Indus and Chenab Rivers are in Pakistan.
21. Partition of Bengal took place in the year 1905 and it was proposed by Lord Curzon.
22. The Muslim League won 30 Muslim seats in the Central Assembly and 425 Muslim Seats in the Provincial Assemblies in the elections of 1945-46.
23. At the time of the creation of Pakistan there was a cash balance of Rs. 4 billions and Pakistan was to get Rs. 750 millions.
24. The first Prime Minister of Pakistan was Liaqat Ali Khan and the first President Iskandar Mirza.
25. Zakat and Ushr Ordinance was promulgated on 1980 by Zia ul Haq.
26. Zohb and Nari-Bolan are the important rivers of  Balochistan Province.
27. RCD was established in the year 1964 and it is re-named as ECO. (CHANGED IN 1985)
28. Under the 1973 Constitution, the first Chairman of the Senate was Habib Ullah K Marwat and Speaker National Assembly was Farooq Ali.
29. Pakistan’s first Women University was established at Rawalpindi in the year 1998.
30. Pakistan’s first Public Airline was Orient Airways(PIA) and the Private Airline was Orient Airways. 11 March 1955 ko Nationalize

Set-2

1. INC was established In Dec 28 1885 By A. O. Hume.
2. Quaid i Azam Was declared as an ambassador of Hindu Muslim unity by Sarojni Naido
3. The Cripps mission was sent to the Sub-Continent in March 1942 under the leadership of  Sir Stifford Cripps.
4. The British government sold the state of Jammu and Kashmir to the Dogra Raja, Gulab Singh for Rs. 75 Lakh In 1846
5. Bharat declared to build up the Baghliar Dam on the river Chenab soon after the creation of Pakistan.
6. The first president of Pakistan was Skindar Mirza and the first vice president was  Noor ul Amin
7. The National Assembly of Pakistan consists of 336 members and Senate consist of  100.
8. A British ambassador, Sir John Marshall supervised the excavation of the remains at Mahenjodaro in the year 1921 (discovery and work started in 1922)
9. Two Muslim members of the Punjab Boundary Commission was Justice Deen Muhammad and Justice Muhammad Munir.
10. Other name of K2 is Goodwin Austin and height is 8611m
11. Quaid-i-Azam resigned from the Indian National Congress in 1920 as a protest against Satyagarh campaign.
12. Maulana Muhammad Ali Johar started as Urdu Daily Newspaper Hamdard in 1913 from Delhi
13. Quaid-i-Azam inaugurated the State Bank of Pakistan on 1 July 1948 and its first Governor was  Muhammad Zahid Hussain
14. Pakistan shares the largest border with Afghanistan and the shortest border with China
15. Pakistan joined SCO as a full member on June 2017 as a summit in Astana Kazakhstan
16. The longest-serving Chief Justice of Pakistan was Muhammad Haleem and the shortest serving was Muhammad Shahab ud Din.
17. The first United Nations Agency, Pakistan joined as a member was the Food and Agriculture Organization FAO in the year 1947.
18. The National Action Plan was launched by the Government on 14 Sep 2014 to crack down on terrorism having 20 points.
19. Pakistan takes the first structural adjustment package from the IMF during the regime of General Ayub Khan in the year 1958.
20. Takht-i-Bhai is an archaeological site of Buddhism civilization, located near the city of Mardan in KPK
21. Anjuman i Himayat Islam was founded in the year 1884 in Lahore
22. Muslim League demand for a separate electorate was accepted in Minto-Morley reforms in the year  1909
23. In year 1916 joint session of INC and the Muslim League was held at Lucknow
24. Post Khilafat era saw the launching of 2 Hindu movements and against Muslims
25. In the year 1932 Communal Award was passed and in the year Last Indian act was enacted
26. Last governor-general of Pakistan is Skindar Mirza and the first president is Skindar Mirza
27. Pakistan became member of SEATO in 1954 and signed the Baghdad pact in the year 1955
28. Hudood ordinance was promulgated by Zia ul Haq  in year 1979
29. On 5 Aug 2019, the government of India abolished article  35 A and article 370 from its constitution
30. Nadwatul-Ulama (Council of Muslim Theologians) was founded in the year 26 Sep 1898 in the city of Lucknow of India.

Set-3

1. The first O.I.C summit was held in Rabat, Morocco in 1969.
2. The first central office of Muslim League was established at Aligarh.
3. The word Pakistan appeared in the pamphlet “Now or Never” by Choudhry Rahmat Ali.
4. The first constituent assembly of Pakistan was dissolved in the year 1954 and Maulvi Tamizuddin was its speaker.
5. Under the constitution of 1973, the National Assembly originally consisted of 207 Muslim members and the Senate consisted of 87 members.
6. Allama Iqbal’s tomb was built in 1951.
7. The 22 points of Ulema were put forward on 24th January 1951 by 31 Ulema.
8. BBC started its first Urdu service on 13th April 1949.
9. In 1950, Iftikhar Hussain Mamdot founded the Jinnah Muslim League party.
10. Pakistan got status of Test cricket in 1952.
11. Zafarullah Khan served as president of the UN General Assembly’s 17th session in 1962.
12. An agreement with Canada on the first nuclear power station in Karachi was signed in 1965.
13. Nationalization of educational institutions & industries occurred in 1972.
14. The first biogas plant was established in 1974.
15. In December 1981, Zia-ul-Haq announced Majlis-e-Shoora with 350 members.
16. Wafaqi Mohtasib was created in 1983.
17. A nuclear cooperation pact with China was signed on 15th September 1986.
18. Ojri Camp Tragedy occurred on 10th April 1988.
19. The Junejo government was dismissed on 29th May 1988.
20. Zia died on 17th August 1988; the US ambassador who died with him was Arnold Raphael.
21. Pakistan’s re-entry into the Commonwealth took place in 1989.
22. The first test-tube baby in Pakistan was born at Lahore in 1989.
23. A severe wheat crisis occurred in 1952.
24. KANNUP was established in 1971.
25. Mr. Ghulam Muhammad served as Finance Minister before becoming Governor-General of Pakistan.
26. Bait-ul-Mal was established in 1992.
27. General sales tax under the 1973 Constitution is a Federal subject.
28. Total area of Jammu and Kashmir in 1947 was 84,471 sq. miles.
29. India stopped the passage of water from the rivers Ravi and Sutlej in April 1948.
30. The Quaid-e-Azam Relief Fund was set up in September 1947.

Set-4

1. At the time of division, the cash balances of undivided India stood at about Rs. 4,000 million.
2. India and Pakistan mutually agreed that Pakistan would get Rs. 750 crores as her share, but only Rs. 200 crores had been paid initially.
3. On 15th August 1947, the state of Junagadh announced that it had acceded to Pakistan.
4. The Pakistan Fund was set up by Quaid in June 1947.
5. State Bank of Pakistan was inaugurated by Quaid-e-Azam in July 1948 with initial assets equal to 3 crore.
6. Karachi was declared a Federal area by the Legislative Assembly in May 1948.
7. Mian Iftikhar-ud-Din was the only Muslim to oppose the Objectives Resolution in the Assembly.
8. Ayub Khuhro ministry in Sindh was dissolved by Quaid in April 1948; Khuhro was prosecuted under PRODA.
9. The Quaid delivered his last message to the nation on 27th August 1948.
10. Khan Qayyum Khan was called the “Iron Man” of NWFP.
11. Pir Sahib Manki Sharif founded the Awami Muslim League party in September 1949.
12. In East Bengal, provincial elections were held in 1954.
13. Martial Law in Lahore was imposed in March 1953.
14. Ghulam Muhammad dissolved the government of Khawaja Nazimuddin in April 1953.
15. A shortage of salt took place in 1952 in East Bengal.
16. The First Five-Year Plan was announced by Chaudhry Muhammad Ali on 18th May 1956.
17. The principle of Joint Electorate was accepted by the Assembly on 10th October 1956 at Dacca.
18. The Suez Canal Crisis took place during the premiership of Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy.
19. The Muslim Family Laws Ordinance was promulgated during the Ayub Khan regime.
20. Pakistan launched Operation Gibraltar in Kashmir in 1965.
21. India launched a full-scale attack against Pakistan along Lahore on 6th September 1965.
22. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman presented his 6 points in February 1966 at Lahore.
23. In 1967, five parties formed an opposition alliance against Ayub Khan called PDM.
24. The old name of Nasir Garden was Round Garden, renamed in 1966.
25. Sardar Abdul Rab Nishtar died in 1958, while I.I. Chundrigar died in 1960.
26. In April 1969, the Yahya regime announced Labour Reforms.
27. General elections were postponed to 7th December 1970 due to severe floods in East Pakistan.
28. The Agartala Conspiracy Case was alleged as a plot to secede East Pakistan.
29. Kashmiri Mujahideen hijacked the Indian plane named Ganga in 1971.
30. Military action in East Pakistan was launched in March 1971.

Set-5

1. A commission appointed by Bhutto to probe into the 1971 crisis was called the Hamoodur Rahman Commission.
2. Under land reforms, Z.A. Bhutto reduced individual landholding limits to 150 acres of irrigated land and announced second reforms in 1977.
3. Z.A. Bhutto withdrew Pakistan from the Commonwealth of Nations in 1972.
4. Governor’s rule / Martial Law was imposed in Balochistan in 1973.
5. General elections to the National Assembly under Z.A. Bhutto were held in March 1977.
6. NADRA was formally established on 16th February 2000.
7. The master plan of Islamabad was prepared in 1960 by the Greek firm Doxiadis.
8. The National Institute of Oceanography was established in 1982 at Karachi.
9. Pakistan successfully test-fired the Ghauri missile on 6th April 1998.
10. Jamrud Fort in Peshawar was built by Hari Singh Nalwa in 1836.
11. Nishtar Hospital, the largest hospital complex in the region, was established in 1953.
12. Only 3 radio stations were functioning in Pakistan at the time of partition.
13. 10 seats are reserved for non-Muslims in the National Assembly.
14. The National Institute of Silicon Technology was established in 1991.
15. Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya was a prominent Sufi saint of the Chishtia order.
16. The Defense Council of Pakistan was formed on 1st April 1948.
17. The Pakistan Irrigation Research Council was founded in 1964.
18. The National Security Council was established by the federal government in October 1999.
19. The head of State is the President, while the head of Government is the Prime Minister.
20. The secretariat of the OIC is located in Jeddah, and RCD was headquartered in Tehran.
21. The desert region of Sindh is called Thar, while that of Bahawalpur is called Cholistan.
22. Hazrat Ali Hajveri (Data Ganj Bakhsh) is among the earliest Sufi saints in South Asia.
23. Hazrat Usman Marwandi is popularly known as Lal Shahbaz Qalandar.
24. Rahman Baba is the celebrated Sufi poet of Pashto literature.
25. Amir Kror Suri is traditionally considered the first poet of Pashto.
26. The Mughal ruler contemporary to Queen Elizabeth I was Jalal-ud-din Akbar.
27. The ruling party in Punjab following the 1937 elections was the Unionist Party.
28. The book The Last Mughal was authored by William Dalrymple.
29. We Have Learnt Nothing from History was written by Asghar Khan.
30. The foundation stone of Islamia College Peshawar was laid by Sir George Roos-Keppel.

Set-6

1. The Quaid-e-Azam Solar Park is located in Bahawalpur.
2. Swami Dayanand Saraswati launched the Arya Samaj movement.
3. The 21st Constitutional Amendment provided for the establishment of Military courts.
4. The book Gold and Guns, published in 1945, was banned in NWFP by Khan Abdul Qayyum Khan.
5. The key concession made by Muslims in the Delhi Proposals was giving up the demand for separate electorates.
6. Maulana Shabbir Ahmad Usmani assisted Liaquat Ali Khan in drafting the Objectives Resolution.
7. Tarbela Dam’s water storage capacity is declining due to sedimentation (siltation).
8. Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy was a prominent Bengali leader who served as Prime Minister of Pakistan.
9. The infamous Doctrine of Lapse was introduced by Lord Dalhousie.
10. Jogendra Nath Mandal served as Pakistan’s first Law Minister and interim Chairman of the Constituent Assembly.
11. The Pirpur Report was published to investigate grievances under Congress ministries.
12. The 1970 General Elections were conducted under the Legal Framework Order (LFO).
13. Archaeological excavations at Mohenjo-daro and Harappa began around 1922.
14. Hujjat Allah al-Baligha is a famous work written by Shah Waliullah.
15. Brahmo Samaj was founded by Raja Ram Mohan Roy.
16. The first President of the Indian National Congress was W. C. Bonnerjee.
17. The first official census in British India was conducted during the tenure of Lord Mayo.
18. The Life of Mahomet was written by William Muir.
19. Sindh was separated from the Bombay Presidency in 1936.
20. Darul Uloom Deoband was established by Maulana Qasim Nanautavi.
21. The Viceroy of India during the 1919 Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms was Lord Chelmsford.
22. The first secretary of the Central Khilafat Committee was Hafiz Muhammad Siddiq Khatri.
23. Sir Zafrullah Khan served as Pakistan’s first Foreign Minister.
24. Prominent poet Faiz Ahmad Faiz was convicted in the Rawalpindi Conspiracy case.
25. Pakistan purchased Gwadar from Oman in 1958.
26. South Waziristan was historically the largest agency in the Tribal Areas.
27. Militants attacked the Quaid-e-Azam Residency at Ziarat in 2013.
28. The 2013 General Elections in Pakistan were held on 11th May.
29. Khawaja Nazimuddin served as both Governor-General and Prime Minister of Pakistan.
30. The British Parliament passed the Indian Independence Act on 18th July 1947.

Set-7

1. India stopped the flow of canal waters to West Punjab on 1st April 1948.
2. Kashmir was sold to Maharaja Gulab Singh under the Treaty of Amritsar in 1846.
3. Sheikh Ahmad Sirhindi (Mujaddid Alf Sani) was born in Sirhind.
4. Pakistan had a total of 7 Prime Ministers prior to the 1958 Martial Law.
5. Ideology is defined as the science of ideas.
6. Afghanistan was the only country to vote against Pakistan’s admission to the UN.
7. The First Constituent Assembly of Pakistan was addressed by Quaid-e-Azam on 11th August 1947.
8. Nawab Waqar-ul-Mulk presided over the 1906 Dhaka meeting where the All-India Muslim League was formed.
9. Mangla Dam is situated in the Mirpur district of Azad Kashmir.
10. The first student enrolled at Darul Uloom Deoband was Maulana Mahmud al-Hasan.
11. Sir Syed Ahmed Khan retired from judicial service in 1876.
12. The Prime Minister of India during the signing of the Tashkent Declaration was Lal Bahadur Shastri.
13. Altaf Hussain Hali authored Hayat-e-Javeed as a biography of Sir Syed Ahmed Khan.
14. First Martial Law was declared by President Iskander Mirza in October 1958.
15. Governor-General Ghulam Muhammad dissolved the First Constituent Assembly on 24th October 1954.
16. The capital of Sindh at the time of Muhammad bin Qasim’s invasion was Aror (Alor).
17. Shah Alam II was the first Mughal Emperor to accept a pension from the British.
18. The 18th Constitutional Amendment was passed by the National Assembly in April 2010.
19. Pakistan tested the nuclear device on 28 May 1998 in the district Chagi of Baluchistan.
20. Khanjrab Pass connects Pakistan with China while Khyber Pass connects Pakistan with Afghanistan.
21. Chaudhary Rehmat Ali was a graduate of  Islamia College Lahore, which was established in 1892.
22. Major Tufail Muhammad was cited with Nishan-i-Haider for his undaunted valor in one of the skirmishes that took place on East Pakistan-India border in the year 1958. (in 1967 got Nishan e Haider)
23. NCOC was formed in April 2020 in order to combat COVID-19.
24. Sindh Madrassa-Tul-Islam was founded In the year 1885 sep 1 in the city of Karachi
25. The Simla Agreement between India and Pakistan was signed in the year July 2 1972 and at that time, the Prime Minister of India was Indra Gandhi.
26. Faraizi Movement was started by Haji Shariat Ullah in the province of Bengal.
27. The Indus Water Treaty was signed between India and Pakistan on 1960 at karachi.
28. The All-India Muslim League was founded at Dhaka in December 1906.
29. The Shimla Deputation met Viceroy Lord Minto under the leadership of Sir Aga Khan III in October 1906.
30. Chaudhry Muhammad Ali served as Prime Minister during the passage of the 1956 Constitution.

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