Past District Zakat Officer paper

Total Questions: 98

1 - The Arabic word Zakat has been derived from Tazkiya. what does it means?

A ) To give
B ) To purify ✅
C ) To spend
D ) To offer

2 - When Zakat was made compulsory?

A ) 2 A.H ✅
B ) 3 A.H
C ) 4 A.H
D ) 5 A.H

5 - Which of the following can receive zakat?

A ) Travellers
B ) Debtors
C ) Needy
D ) All of these ✅

6 - What is the Nisaab of zakat?

A ) 2½% on 52½ silver or 7½ tola gold ✅
B ) 2½% on 53½ silver or 7½ tola gold
C ) 2½ % on 54½ silver or 9½ tola gold
D ) 2½ % on 55½ silver or 10½ tola gold

7 - How many Goats render one to pay Zakat?

A ) 10
B ) 20
C ) 30
D ) 40 ✅

10 - In clause (xxix)of section 2 of zakat and Usher ordinance 1980 Taluqa committee means:

A ) A committee at patwar circle level constituted under section 17
B ) A committee at Thana level constituted under section 17
C ) A committee at village level constituted under section 17
D ) A committee at Tehsil level constituted under section 17 ✅

11 - In Pakistan Usher began to be collected from the:

A ) Rabi crop of 1982-83 ✅
B ) Kharif crop of 1981-82
C ) Rabi crop of 1982-84
D ) None of the above

13 - The Zakat and Usher ordinance was promulgated on:

A ) 21st April 1979
B ) 20th June 1980 ✅
C ) 29th June 1981
D ) 30th June 1981

14 - Bonded labor is mostly prevalent in:

A ) Bhatta/kiln industry ✅
B ) Motor workshops
C ) Carpet industry
D ) Sports industry

15 - Synonym of Abscond:

A ) Fabricate
B ) Abstract
C ) Escape ✅
D ) To open

16 - Synonym of Chaos:

A ) Annihilation
B ) Destruction
C ) Possibility
D ) Disorder ✅

17 - Synonym of Corpus:

A ) Body ✅
B ) Cloth
C ) Complete
D ) Solid

18 - Synonym of Dictate:

A ) Guide
B ) Learning
C ) Impose ✅
D ) Teaching

19 - Synonym of Jeopardize:

A ) Put and risk ✅
B ) Modernize
C ) Joyful
D ) Simplicity

20 - Synonym of Ins and outs:

A ) Outcomes
B ) Parade
C ) All the details ✅
D ) Wandering

21 - Synonym of At sixes and sevens:

A ) Quick
B ) Bewildered ✅
C ) Come early
D ) Teenage

22 - Synonym of Blue-eyed boy:

A ) Favourite person ✅
B ) Criminal
C ) Beautiful person
D ) Poor

23 - Synonym of Cock and Bull story:

A ) Imaginary story
B ) True story
C ) Initial story
D ) A lie that is completely unbelievable ✅

24 - Synonym of Fourth estates:

A ) Agricultural land
B ) Parliament
C ) Dictatorship
D ) media ✅

25 - My house is ____ the end of the street.

A ) At ✅
B ) On
C ) Of
D ) About

27 - I couldn't find the solution ___the problem.

A ) About
B ) In
C ) To ✅
D ) Of

28 - She cares_____ the environment.

A ) About ✅
B ) On
C ) Of
D ) In

29 - He was accused ____ Theft.

A ) On
B ) In
C ) About
D ) Of ✅

31 - From where the Indus river rises?

A ) China
B ) Tibat ✅
C ) Jammu
D ) Kashmir

32 - Which salt mine is the largest in area in the world?

A ) Suleman
B ) Khewra
C ) Chicago
D ) None of them ✅

33 - Who wrote Sassi-panu?

A ) Hashim Shah ✅
B ) Bulhe Shah
C ) Waris Shah
D ) None of them

34 - The Pakistani senate is consisted on:

A ) 104 seats ✅
B ) 120 seats
C ) 200 seats
D ) 90 seats

35 - Pakistan China border treaty was signed in:

A ) 1958
B ) 1959
C ) 1964
D ) 1963 ✅

Explanation:

China–Pakistan Border

  •  ✅ Length: 596 km  (≈ 370 miles) 
  •  ✅ Pakistan Side: Gilgit-Baltistan (administered by Pakistan, part of Jammu & Kashmir dispute)
  •  ✅ China Side: Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
  •  ✅ Main Crossing Point: Khunjerab Pass (highest paved international border crossing in the world – elevation 4,693 m)
  •  ✅ Border Agreement: Sino–Pakistan Boundary Agreement signed 2 March 1963
  •  ✅ Geography: Passes through the Karakoram Range
  •  ✅ Special Note for Exams: Sometimes called the Pak–China boundary, Sino–Pakistan border, or Khunjerab Pass border.

36 - In 14 August 1947 the only fully operational Muslim Bank in Pakistan territory was :

A ) National Bank of Pakistan
B ) Habib Bank Ltd
C ) Allied Bank Ltd ✅
D ) United Bank Ltd

37 - Mention the first female member of parliament in Pakistan?

A ) Aneesa Akhtar
B ) Zubaida Jalal
C ) Begum Shaista Suharwardy Ikramullah ✅
D ) Begum Ra'ana liaquat Ali

38 - When Pakistan launched first space satellite?

A ) 1968
B ) 1990 ✅
C ) 2000
D ) 1995

40 - In which year one unit was created?

A ) 1953
B ) 1954
C ) 1955 ✅
D ) 1956

41 - Through the 18th amendment powers of president have been curtailed are:

A ) Dissolve the parliament unilaterally
B ) Declare emergency rule in any province unilaterally
C ) Appoint the head of the Election Commission
D ) All of the above ✅

42 - The permanent envoy of Pakistan in the UN is:

A ) Hussain Haqqani
B ) Wajid Shamsul Hassan
C ) Abdullah Hussain Haroon ✅
D ) Ahmed Aziz

43 - SAARS secretary general is:

A ) Lyonpo Chenkyab Dorji
B ) Abdullah Gul
C ) Ahmed Saleem ✅
D ) Ahmed Hasan

44 - Who is commander ISAF?

A ) Javier Solana
B ) David Howell Petraeus ✅
C ) Stanley A. McChrystal
D ) David Wright

45 - Which country is not a member of UNO?

A ) Thailand
B ) Fiji
C ) New Zealand
D ) Taiwan ✅

46 - "Abu Musa"area is disputed between:

A ) Iran and UAE ✅
B ) Iraq and UAE
C ) Yaman and UAE
D ) None of these

47 - The United Nations has designated the year 2010 as:

A ) International year of biology
B ) International year of forestry
C ) International year of Biodiversity ✅
D ) International year of universe

49 - In 2010 Pakistan received heavy monsoon rains due to:

A ) Rise in temperature of India Oceans
B ) Global warming
C ) Both a and b ✅
D ) Not a nor b

50 - Sayeeda Hussain Warsi is the:

A ) Chairman of the British conservative party
B ) First Muslim women to serve in the British cabinet
C ) First Pakistani woman to serve in the British cabinet
D ) All of the above them ✅

51 - The tallest man-made structure to date, the Burj khalifa in Dubai United Arab Emirates is officially opened on:

A ) 6th January 2010
B ) 4th January 2010 ✅
C ) 7th January 2010
D ) 9th January 2010

52 - ' Broadway street' is famous for:

A ) Banking
B ) Stock exchange
C ) Cinema halls ✅
D ) Shopping centres

53 - What is cartography?

A ) Art of drawing sketches
B ) Art of making maps and charts ✅
C ) Art of making pots
D ) Art of making charts

54 - Which of the following strait joins the Red sea and Persian Gulf?

A ) Bering strait
B ) Bab-ul-Mandab Strait ✅
C ) Bosporus strait
D ) Davis strait

56 - If your dwelt in igloo you would be among:

A ) German
B ) Eskimos ✅
C ) French
D ) Dutch

57 - Term belief in superiority of one's own race or ethnic group?

A ) Ethnics
B ) Racism ✅
C ) Superiors
D ) Culturist

59 - Bishkek is the capital of:

A ) Azerbaijan
B ) Kyrgyzstan ✅
C ) Kazakhstan
D ) Ukraine

61 - The currency of China is:

A ) Renminbi
B ) Yuan
C ) None of them
D ) Both of them ✅

62 - Baltic states, constituents of former USSR, consist of:

A ) Estonia,Latvia and Armenia
B ) Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania ✅
C ) Estonia, Latvia and Georgia
D ) Georgia, Latvia and Lithuania

63 - What is the old name of Tokyo?

A ) Surinam
B ) Akihito
C ) Edo ✅
D ) Rishkek

64 - The strait of Bab-ul-Mandab (red sea) is known as:

A ) Gates of Tears ✅
B ) Gates of Garden
C ) Gates of Heaven
D ) Gates of Laughing

65 - The Switzerland of Pakistan is:

A ) Swat ✅
B ) Ahmedabad
C ) Murree
D ) Kalam

67 - "Milli Majlis"parliament belongs to:

A ) Azerbaijan ✅
B ) Russia
C ) India
D ) Bahrain

69 - Which is the world's highest falls?

A ) Victoria Falls
B ) Angel Falls ✅
C ) Niagra Falls
D ) Boyoma Falls

71 - Galileo Galilei airport is located in:

A ) France
B ) Italy ✅
C ) Turkey
D ) USA

72 - The longest river in Central Asia in the Amu Darya. which statement about the Amu Darya is true?

A ) It forms the border of Afghanistan and Tajikistan
B ) It Forms border between Afghanistan and Uzbekistan and border between Afghanistan and Turkmenistan
C ) It forms the border of Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan
D ) All of the above ✅

73 - China's News agency is:

A ) CNAN
B ) CNN
C ) NCNA ✅
D ) CNT

74 - Who got Nobel prize in peace of 2009?

A ) Pop John Paul
B ) Barack Obama ✅
C ) Ban ki moon
D ) All of above

75 - "Order of the Rising Sun" is the highest military award of:

A ) Iran
B ) Afghanistan
C ) Iraq
D ) Japan ✅

77 - Goldsmid line is the border between:

A ) China and India
B ) China and Bhutan
C ) Pakistan and Iran ✅
D ) China and Taiwan

78 - 2005-2015 is UN'S decade of:

A ) Education of African children
B ) Education for sustainable development ✅
C ) Education for peace
D ) None of these

79 - Who presented the theory of "Clash of civilizations"?

A ) Bill Clinton
B ) Robot Mogabe
C ) Samuel P Huntington ✅
D ) Francis Fukuhama

80 - Fatima Bhutto's book is:

A ) Whispers in the desert
B ) Songs of blood and sword
C ) Both of them ✅
D ) None of them

Explanation:

Question: Which book did Fatima Bhutto write about her family’s political history?

A) Songs of Blood and Sword
B) Pakistan: A Hard Country
C) Descent into Chaos
D) The Begum

Correct Answer: Songs of Blood and Sword: A Daughter’s Memoir

Explanation:
Songs of Blood and Sword was written by Fatima Bhutto and published in 2010. It is a memoir about the Bhutto family’s political history, especially her father Murtaza Bhutto, who was killed in 1996.

Whispers of the Desert — 1998

8:50 a.m. 8 October 2005 — 2006

Songs of Blood and Sword — 2010

The Shadow of the Crescent Moon — 2013

The Runaways — 2019

New Kings of the World — 2019

Other options:
Pakistan: A Hard Country — Anatol Lieven, 2011
Descent into Chaos — Ahmed Rashid, 2008
The Begum — Deepa Agarwal & Tahmina Aziz Ayub, 2019.

These are two different books with similar titles:

  • The Whispers in the Desert — written by Lesley Smith, published in 2014; part of The Changing of the Sun series.
  • Whispers of the Desert — written by Fatima Bhutto, published in 1998 by Oxford University Press; a collection of poems.

81 - Total members of EU are:

A ) 20
B ) 19
C ) 27 ✅
D ) 23

83 - Current secretary general of UN belongs to:

A ) South Korea ✅
B ) Burma
C ) Thailand
D ) North Korea

84 - Currently, there are 186 member countries in IMF. What are its headquarters?

A ) New York
B ) Hague
C ) Geneva
D ) Washington ,D.C ✅

86 - Which of the following country has not written constitution?

A ) Israel
B ) New Zealand
C ) Britain
D ) All of above ✅

87 - Mention the longest continuously operating television channel in the world?

A ) Deutsche Fernsehefunk
B ) BBC
C ) BBC One ✅
D ) CNN

88 - Which statement is true regarding Maldives?

A ) It is smallest Islamic country
B ) It is the smallest Asian country in population
C ) It is the smallest Asian country in area
D ) All of the above ✅

89 - Tiger wood is a:

A ) Type of wood
B ) Golf player ✅
C ) Weapon
D ) Cloth

90 - Which is the first newspaper of Urdu language?

A ) Jam-e-Jahan Numa ✅
B ) Urdu Guide Akhbar
C ) Koh-e-Noor
D ) None of these

92 - Which is the hottest planet in our solar system?

A ) Venus ✅
B ) Neptune
C ) Mars
D ) Jupiter

93 - In which continent animal kangaroo is abundantly found?

A ) Antarctica
B ) Africa
C ) Australia ✅
D ) Europe

95 - About how much blood does the heart of an average human being pump every minute?

A ) 6.0 liters
B ) 6.2 liters ✅
C ) 6.1 liters
D ) 6.3 liters

96 - Term the time durning which an organism is present in the body before causing disease?

A ) Rest period
B ) Incubation period ✅
C ) Sleeping period
D ) Incubation time

97 - Who was the inventor of computer?

A ) Douglas Engelbert
B ) Ada Lovelace
C ) Charles Babbage ✅
D ) None of these

98 - Which instrument is used to measure the pressure of air?

A ) Radio telescope
B ) Compass
C ) Electrometer
D ) Barometer ✅