Facts about the region
1. Government
structure
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Parliamentary or Presidential |
Head of Govt (Who? How chosen? Powers) |
Head of State (Who? How chosen? Powers) |
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2. National
legislatures
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Upper House Total # of seats |
Upper House election principle(s) |
Lower House Total # of seats |
Lower House election
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3. Based on CIA Factbook 2004)
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4. Current leaders
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President &
party affiliation |
PM & party
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5. Name of the
ruling coalition in the national legislature in 2004 and the major party within
it
6. Names of two major
Opposition parties in the national legislature in 2004
7. Religious groups
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Religions /percent |
Sects within the
two largest religious groups / percent |
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8. Names of 3
administrative units (states/provinces etc) that share boundaries with another
country/countries
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9. Capital of
Jammu & Kashmir state (
10. Capital of
Azad Kashmir (
11. Site of India-Pakistan war in 1999 _______________________________________.
12. Capital of
Northern Areas (
13. Person associated with the success of Grameen Bank/micro-credit program in BD ______________________________.
14. SAARC, established in ______________ stands for ____________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________.
15. Members of SAARC are ________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________.
16. The new
Constitution of
17. Major amendment in Pak Constitution, which established Presidential form of govt, was in ____________________.
18. First PM of BD
was __________________________ who
was assassinated in __________________ in
a revolt called the
____________________________.
19. The first woman
Head of the Govt in the world was PM _______________________ of SL in 1961.
20. Women leaders
currently head the two major political parties in BD. They are:
_______________________ _____of
__________________________________and ________________________________of
_____________________________________.
21. Father of the
Nation in
22. First PM in
23. Three Indian
leaders who were assassinated were ___________________________ in 1948;
_____________________________ in 1984; and
_____________________________ in 1991.
24. Pakistani leader assassinated
in 1951 _________________________; hanged in 1978 ___________________________ and died in
mysterious plane crash in 1988 _____________________________.
25. Soviet
invasion of
26. Taliban rule in
27. The country where Hinduism is the national/official religion is ________________.
28. The 2 largest ethnic/linguistic
groups in
and in