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FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR RECRUITMENT TO PIN BS-17
UNDER THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

Pakistan Affairs

1) Mohenjo-daro and Harappa were discovered in

(a) 1909
(b) 1920s
(c) 1922
(d) None of these
Answer: (b)

Explanation: In 1826, a British traveller in India called Charles Masson came across some mysterious brick mounds. He thought they looked like old castles.
Thirty years later in 1856, engineers building a railway found more bricks, and carted them off to build the railway. This was the first people knew of the lost Indus city of Harappa.
In the 1920s, archaeologists began to excavate the sites of Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro. They uncovered the remains of long-forgotten cities. They had found the Indus Valley civilisation.

FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR RECRUITMENT TO PIN BS-17
UNDER THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

General Science & Ability

1) Operation Desert Shield was launched by US in
(a) 2 August 1990
(b) 17 January 1991
(c) 28 February 1991
(d) None of these
Answer: (a)
Explanation: Operation Desert Shield was the US operational name for the US buildup of forces and Saudi Arabia’s defense from 2 August 1990, to 16 January 1991. On 17 January 1991, when it became clear that Saddam would not withdraw, Desert Shield became Desert Storm.
Another Operation Desert Shield was a 2006 operation by the Iraqi insurgency and al-Qaeda in Iraq, planned in December 2005 as a push against American forces during the Iraq War.

2) Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) was conducted by the US in
(a) Iraq
(b) Afghanistan
(c) Libya
(d) None of these
Answer: (b)
Explanation: Operation Enduring Freedom began on 7 October 2001, four weeks after the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks on America. Early combat operations included a mix of air strikes from land-based B-1, B-2 and B-52 bombers; carrier-based F-14 and F/A-18 fighters; and Tomahawk cruise missiles launched from both U.S. and British ships and submarines