Muhammad bin Qasim conquered Sindh during the caliphate of:
- (A) Abbasids
- (B) Umayyads
- (C) Ottoman
- (D) Mughals
- (B) Umayyads
Muhammad Bin Qasim, an Arab military leader from the Arab world, who was also from the Thaqif tribe, launched an expedition that conquered Sindh and Multan around 711-712 CE. Under the auspices of the Umayyad Caliphate, which was the Muslim empire that ruled the world during that time, the invasion took place under the rule of Caliph Walid I, with al-Hajjaj Bin Yusuf, the eastern governor, leading it. The defeat of Sindh’s ruler, Raja Dahir, in the Battle of Aror was the beginning of a permanent Muslim presence in South Asia, an event that is referred to as the “Bab-ul-Islam”—Gateway of Islam.
Algorithm and flowchart are used for:
- (A) Specify problem be chart
- (B) Specify problem clearly
- (C) Specify problem technically
- (D) Specify problem via graph
- (B) Specify problem clearly
A cupboard was bought for Rs.2000 and sold for Rs.2500. What is the profit or loss percentage?
- (A) 10 percent
- (B) 12 percent
- (C) 25 percent
- (D) 20 percent
- (C) 25 percent
In MS-Excel 2016, “Conditional Formatting” is available in:
- (A) Ctrl + Z
- (B) Numerical Keys
- (C) Home Tab
- (D) Ctrl + Tab
- (C) Home Tab
Complete the sentence in reported speech: “Meet me at the cinema”, he said. — He asked me _______.
- (A) that to meet me at the cinema
- (B) to meet at the cinema
- (C) to meet him at the cinema
- (D) to met him at the cinema
- (C) to meet him at the cinema
Choose the correct antonym of the word: IMMUTABLE
- (A) Flexible
- (B) Resistible
- (C) Visible
- (D) Powerful
- (A) Flexible
The correct opposite of IMMUTABLE is (A) Flexible. Immutable means something that does not change, something that is fixed. Flexible means something that will bend, change, or be altered. Other opposites of immutable include mutable, changeable, and variable.
Which country did the famous 14th-century traveller Ibn Battuta come from?
- (A) Syria
- (B) Egypt
- (C) Morocco
- (D) China
- (C) Morocco
Ibn Battuta was a renowned medieval Muslim scholar and traveler who was born in the year 1304 in the city of Tangier, Morocco. Ibn Battuta is best recognized for his incredible 29-year-long journey that covered a distance of 75,000 miles (approximately 120,000 kilometers) across Africa, the Middle East, India, Southeast Asia, and China. His travelogue, Rihla , is considered the most significant ethnographic and historical work from the Islamic world during the 14th century.
Indira Gandhi, the first female Prime Minister of India, was the daughter of:
- (A) Moti Lal Nehru
- (B) Jawaharlal Nehru
- (C) Rajiv Gandhi
- (D) Mahatma Gandhi
- (B) Jawaharlal Nehru
DOS cannot retrieve any data from a disk if a computer virus corrupts its:
- (A) Directory Area
- (B) Data Area
- (C) Bat Files
- (D) File Allocation Table
- (A) Directory Area
In the event the computer virus messes up the (D) File Allocation Table, the DOS system will be unable to retrieve any data from the disk. The FAT acts like a roadmap showing the operating system where each piece of a file is located. If the table becomes damaged, the operating system will be lost without a roadmap to locate the files, even though the data blocks are still there.
What is the meaning of the title “Israel” given to Hazrat Yaqoob (A.S)?
- (A) Friend of God
- (B) God Blessed
- (C) Servant of God
- (D) Son of God
- (C) Servant of God
The name or title “Israel” ( اسرائیل ) has a meaning that is given by Islamic scholars as: “Isra” means a slave or servant, and “Il” means Allah or God. The name therefore means “Slave of Allah” or “Servant of God”. This name was given to the Prophet Hazrat Yaqoob (A.S.) by Allah. The descendants of the Prophet are called Bani Israel, i.e., the Children of Israel, the Children of the Servant of God.