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Solved PMS 2026 GK practice set on Pakistan's first female ambassadors: Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan, Maleeha Lodhi and Naghmana Hashmi, with verified answers and explanations. A Sir Adnan practice set, not an official past paper.
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About this paper
Sir Adnan's 'Pakistan's First Female Ambassadors / High Commissioners-GK' booklet (3 pp, header 'ONE-LINER (PPSC/FPSC NEW TREND 2025-26)') from the monster-data 'PMS SCREENING 2026 GK UPDATED' pack. 9 of 25 printed items published. DROPPED, never inferred or rewritten: printed Q5 (Denmark) and Q6 (Norway) - Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan's documented postings are the Netherlands, Italy and Tunisia only; printed Q7 (Shamshad Akhtar as first female Permanent Representative to the UN) - Maleeha Lodhi holds that distinction, and Q9 already covers it; printed Q13 (Masooda Jalal to Afghanistan) - a conflation with the Afghan politician Massouda Jalal, with no Pakistani diplomat of that name as ambassador; printed Q14 (Sana Hashmi to Indonesia), Q16 (Noor Jehan Panjwani to Sri Lanka), Q17/Q20/Q25 (Ayesha Farooq to Malaysia/Italy/Morocco) - no record of any such ambassadorships found; printed Q15 (Rukhsana Afzal to Bangladesh) - Afzaal was High Commissioner to Singapore, not Bangladesh; printed Q18 (Shafqat Kakakhel to Spain) - Kakakhel is a male career diplomat who never served in Spain; printed Q19/Q22/Q23 (Tehmina Janjua to Sweden/Norway/EU) - her documented postings are Italy, UN Geneva and Foreign Secretary, none of those three; printed Q21 (Zamir Akram to Switzerland) - Akram is a male former Permanent Representative to UN Geneva, and the booklet's own parenthetical contradicts the question; printed Q24 (Nighat Dad to South Africa) - Dad is a lawyer and Digital Rights Foundation founder, never an ambassador.
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Correct Answer: Begum Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan
Begum Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan was appointed Pakistan's ambassador to the Netherlands in September 1954, becoming Pakistan's first woman ambassador and the first Muslim woman ambassador.
Correct Answer: Begum Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan
Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan served as Pakistan's ambassador to the Netherlands from 1954 to 1961, where she was also doyen of the Diplomatic Corps.
Correct Answer: Begum Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan
After the Netherlands, Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan served as Pakistan's ambassador to Italy and Tunisia in 1965-1966.
Correct Answer: Begum Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan
Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan served as Pakistan's ambassador to Italy and Tunisia in 1965-1966, after her 1954-1961 Netherlands posting.
Correct Answer: Maleeha Lodhi
Maleeha Lodhi was Pakistan's ambassador to the United States in 1993-1996 (and again in 1999-2002), the first woman to hold the post.
Correct Answer: Maleeha Lodhi
Maleeha Lodhi was the first Pakistani woman to serve as Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York (2015-2019). Shamshad Akhtar held senior UN posts but was never Pakistan's Permanent Representative.
Correct Answer: Maleeha Lodhi
Maleeha Lodhi served as Pakistan's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom in 2003-2008, the first woman in the post.
Correct Answer: Naghmana Hashmi
Naghmana Hashmi served as Pakistan's ambassador to China in 2019-2020, retiring in July 2020; she had earlier been ambassador to Ireland and to the EU, Belgium and Luxembourg.
Correct Answer: Naghmana Hashmi
Naghmana Hashmi served as Pakistan's ambassador to Ireland from 2007 to 2012, before her 2014-2019 posting as ambassador to the EU, Belgium and Luxembourg and her 2019-2020 posting to China.
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No. It is Sir Adnan's 'Pakistan's First Female Ambassadors / High Commissioners-GK' one-liner booklet from the monster-data 'PMS SCREENING 2026 GK UPDATED' pack, published as paperType 'practice', never as a past paper. The year 2026 is the booklet's label, not a claimed exam session.
Only the three verified pioneers: Begum Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan (first female ambassador, to the Netherlands in 1954, later Italy and Tunisia), Maleeha Lodhi (first female ambassador to the United States, first female Permanent Representative to the UN in New York, and first female High Commissioner to the United Kingdom), and Naghmana Hashmi (ambassador to Ireland 2007-2012 and to China 2019-2020).
Because they were false, conflated or unverifiable as printed: wrong postings for Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan and Tehmina Janjua, a male diplomat and a lawyer named as 'first female' ambassadors, and several names with no record of the claimed ambassadorship. Per the standing rule, unanswerable-as-printed items are dropped, never inferred or rewritten.
Begum Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan, appointed ambassador to the Netherlands in September 1954 - Pakistan's first woman ambassador and the first Muslim woman ambassador.
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