Category: Pakistan Current Affairs January 2025

Correct Answer: B. 21 January 2025

Pakistan’s lower house of parliament on January 21, 2025, passed a controversial bill that will give the government sweeping controls on social media, including sending users to prison for spreading disinformation. The bill was quickly passed after lawmakers from the opposition party of imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan staged a walkout to denounce the law. 

Correct Answer: D. 21 January 2025

The Punjab Assembly on 21 January 2025, imposed a complete ban on kite flying across the province with severe penalties for violation by enacting the Punjab Prohibition of Kite Flying (Amendment) Act, 2024. The ban applies to “transport kites, metallic wire, nylon cord, any other thread coated with sharp mannjha or any other injurious material for the purpose of kite flying.” According to the amendments, individuals caught flying kites will face three to five years in prison or a fine of Rs2 million, or both. Failure to pay the fine could result in an additional year of imprisonment. 

Correct Answer: D. 20 January 2025

The airport, a flagship project of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), became operational on January 20. While it is fully equipped to handle large Airbus and Boeing aircraft, the national airline is currently operating ATR planes on the Gwadar route due to low passenger demand. PIA has launched one weekly international flight to Muscat from the New Gwadar International Airport. On the inaugural flight, 39 passengers departed for Muscat, with senior PIA officials bidding them farewell at the airport.

Correct Answer: B. 44

According to the migrant rights group Walking Borders, 44 of the deceased in the Atlantic boat tragedy were from Pakistan. while trying to cross the Atlantic Ocean illegally to reach Europe, according to an NGO and victims’ families. The boat with 86 migrants, including 66 Pakistanis on board, left the West African country of Mauritania for Spain’s Canary Islands, migrant rights group Walking Borders said on January 16, 2025.

Correct Answer: C. Mauritania

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif also expressed his sorrow over the deaths. Pakistan said it had been informed by its embassy in Morocco that a boat carrying 80 passengers, including some Pakistanis, had set off from Mauritania and capsized near Dakhla, a Moroccan-controlled port city in the disputed Western Sahara.

Correct Answer: C. Imran Khan

Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan was on January 17, 2025, sentenced to 14 years in prison, and his wife Bushra Bibi to seven years in a case related to the misuse of authority and corruption involving Khan’s Al-Qadir University Project Trust. Khan was also given a fine of 1 million Pakistani rupees ($3,500), while Bibi was fined half that amount. An accountability court operating from Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi, where Khan has been imprisoned since August 2023, had reserved its verdict in December last year and deferred the announcement three times. Bibi was arrested at the court premises.

Correct Answer: B. 17 January, 2025

Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan was on January 17, 2025, sentenced to 14 years in prison, and his wife Bushra Bibi to seven years in a case related to the misuse of authority and corruption involving Khan’s Al-Qadir University Project Trust. Khan was also given a fine of 1 million Pakistani rupees ($3,500), while Bibi was fined half that amount. 

Correct Answer: B. China-Pakistan B2B Matchmaking Conference

The $250 million worth of Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) between Pakistani and Chinese companies were signed at the China-Pakistan B2B matchmaking conference in Beijing on January 17, 2025. The conference was hosted by the Pakistani Embassy in Beijing and was the first in a series of B2B events. The conference focused on the medical equipment and surgical instrument sector.