Quiz: Pakistan

Published August 12, 2023

1 Name the 17-year-old athlete who won the World Junior Squash Championship trophy for Pakistan, after 37 years, in Melbourne on July 23.

2 Who designed Pakistan’s national flag?

3 What is the emblem of Pakistan?

4 Who was Pakistan’s first Test captain in cricket?

5 Ayesha Ayaz, a talented 12-year-old athlete hailing from Swat, recently garnered global attention with her remarkable performance at which prestigious international championship held in Bangkok?

6 Name the longest river in Pakistan?

7 Name the Pakistani mountaineer, who is the son of legendary mountaineer Ali Sadpara, and has summited all five eight-thousanders in Pakistan, as well as Mount Everest, without the help of supplementary oxygen.

8 What is the name given to the border which separates Pakistan and Afghanistan?

9 Which Pakistani female mountaineer became the first Pakistani woman to scale all 8,000-metre peaks in the country recently?

Published in Dawn, Young World, August 12th, 2023

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