Year 2011 At A Glance (MCQs)

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Year 2011 At A GlanceJanuary:01: Drone strikes kill 17.02: Pakistan PM loses vital partner04: Governor Taseer assassinated. There has been international condemnation of the assassination of one of Pakistan’s best-known liberal politicians, governor of Punjab province. 09: Rally in support of blasphemy law.18: Major quake hits southwestern Pakistan.23: 32 killed after bus crashes into oil tanker.24: Suspect in governor’s death lauded.27: An American Official Raymond Davis killed two Pakistanis at Qartaba Chowk in Lahore.February05: Long bans for Pakistani cricketers.09: Teen bomber kills 20 at army base in Mardan.12: Pakistan seeks Musharraf’s arrest.March01: The Minister for Minority Affairs, Shahbaz Bhatti, a Christian, dies after gunmen opened fire on his car in Islamabad. 17: Suspected drone strike kills up to 30 in Pakistan remote tribal areas.18: Calls for revenge after US drones kill 40. Tribal leaders in the Pakistani region have vowed revenge against the US after drones killed more than 40 people near the Afghan border. 19: Pakistan and Australia’s World Cup record run.22: 43 bodies recovered after mine explosion in a southwest Pakistan mine.23: Pakistan eases into semi-finals and Pakistan car bombing kills five in Quetta.30: Pakistan PM in India for cricket clash and India beat Pakistan to make final. Also the prime ministers of India and Pakistan meet to watch a cricket match, an occasion seen as a chance for the two nations to repair relations. April03: Pakistan Sakhi Sarwar shrine attack ‘kills 41’04: Cameron to renew links with Pakistan.14: Pakistan condemns US drone strike. 21: Sixteen die in Pakistan blast and Pakistan drone attacks ‘kills 12’.22: US exits Pakistan drone base.May01: The founder of al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, is killed by American special forces in Abbottabad. 04: Pakistan reacts angrily to US comments.09: US needs permission to interview UBL wives and Pakistan starts Bin Laden inquiry.12: Three of Osama bin Laden’s wives have been interrogated by US intelligence officers under the supervision of Pakistani’s intelligence services.13: Pakistan’s parliament has called for a review of the country’s relationship with the US over the American commando raid. 14: US charges six Pakistani over Taliban aid.15: Fatal Karachi attack on Saudi car.19: Bail denied in US Pakistani Taliban case. 20: Deadly Pakistan Nato tanker blast in northwest Pakistan kills at least 15 people. 22: Militants attack naval air base in Karachi killing at least 16 people. 26: Suicide blast kills 25 in a funeral service in the lower region of Dir in Pakistan. The CIA team searches Bin Laden compound. June01: 23 Pakistani troops die in border attack near Peshawar.04: Key Pakistani militant ‘killed by US drone. ‘Deadly bomb strikes near Peshawar. 08: Militants hit Pakistan checkpoint near Peshawar. 09: Pakistan probes videoed killing got a young man by paramilitary troops in Karachi.11: At least 34 people have been killed and 90 wounded after two explosions ripped through a market in the north-western Pakistani city. 15: CIA informants who led to Bin Laden arrested. 24: Hum group denies al-Qaeda link. July09: At least 100 killed from ethnic violence in Karachi. 10: US halting millions in aid to Pakistan. 18: Taliban video: Execution of Pakistani men.19: Hina Rabbani Khar became the first female and the youngest person to over head Pakistani’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 20: Infant killings on the rise in Pakistan.August09: US drone attack kills 21 ‘militants’.13: American kidnapped in Pakistan. 14: Bomb flattens hotel on Independence Day in southwest Pakistan killing at least 12 people. 19: 100 wounded in a blast during Friday prayers at a mosque in Pakistan’s Khyber Agency. The mosque had about 300 people. 25: Flood victims stranded as a river bank overflowed during recent heavy rains. 27: Pakistan border raid ‘kills 25.’ Son of Slain governor abducted from the Gulberg areas of Lahore. Al Qaeda’s No. 2 Atiya Abd al-Rehman has been killed. September05: The Pakistani Intelligence service has arrested a senior al-Qaeda leader who sought to attack targets in the United States, Europe and Australia. 06: Ten killed in Pakistan explosion in Quetta.11: Flooding kills 200, damages one million homes. 19: Dengue fever strikes thousands in Lahore. 20: Polio strain spreads to China from Pakistan. 22: Pakistan ‘supported’ US Kabul embassy attack according to US senior officials. 24: Pakistanis strike back at US accusations.29: Pakistan PM rejects US pressure. 30: A Pakistani court has found guilty and sentenced to death the police bodyguard who killed Punjab governor Salman Taseer in January. October02: Afghan officials stepped up accusations that the assassination of the country’s peace council chairman began with a plot in Pakistan. 21: Hilary Clinton has led a US delegation to Islamabad in an attempt to prod Pakistan into action against the Haqqani network. 23: Pakistan: Indian copter violated airspace. Also Begum Nusrat Bhutto died after a prolong illness. November01: Cricketers guilty of betting scam, ‘sport fixing’ after a trial at South work Crown Court.05: Seven men, including two senior police officers, were indicted for conspiracy to commit murder in the killing of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.08: Pakistan hit by flood cash crisis in Sindh province. 20: Trucks carrying fuel for Nato torched in Pakistan’s Southwestern Balochistan province. 22: Pakistan’s prime minister asked the ambassador to resign because an offer to Washington by Pakistan’s president to cut down the military leadership.23: Pakistan appointed a former information minister and human rights campaigner Sherry Rehman as its ambassador to the United States on, moving quickly to fill a post left vacant after Hussain Haqqani’s resignation. 25: Woman suspected of cooking husband. Pakistani officials have accused Nato helicopters of firing on a military checkpoint near Afghan border, killing at least 12 soldiers. 26: Nato admits Pakistan troop deaths. 28: Prime minister issues a warning to US.December01: Al-Qaeda says it has 70-year-old aid expert Warren Weinstein, who was kidnapped by armed men in the Pakistani city nearly four months ago. 02: US talked with Pakistan before fatal strike. 07: President Zardari undergoes treatment in Dubai for a heart condition. His spokesman dismisses media speculation about an imminent resignation. 11: US troops leave the Shamsi air base in Balochistan in the wake of the November border attack, and Pakistan blocks US convoys entering Afghanistan.\\19: Pakistan’s Supreme Court opened hearings into a secret memo sent to Washington that has sharply raised tensions between the powerful military and the civilian government. 21: The Supreme Court has ordered the Election Commission to prepare voters lists by December 31, 2011 in any