Climate & Society
The 2022 floods affected 33 million people—more than half of Italy’s population. Pakistan contributes what share of global greenhouse-gas emissions?
Less than 1%
Italy’s first woman prime minister took office in 2022. Pakistan’s first woman prime minister took office 34 years earlier. What year?
1988
Pakistan’s 2023 census counted about how many Christians—more than Albania’s entire population?
3.3 million
How old was Malala Yousafzai when she received the Nobel Peace Prize, becoming its youngest laureate?
17
At the UN in 2021, Pakistan’s prime minister cited about how many Pakistani deaths in the post-9/11 War on Terror? (Government estimate.)
80,000
Taxila’s ruins include Buddhist monasteries. Which religion’s teachings spread across much of Asia?
Buddhism
Pakistani physicist Abdus Salam helped establish the International Centre for Theoretical Physics. In which country is it based?
Italy
According to the Asian Development Bank, Sialkot makes more than what share of the world’s footballs?
70%
Mohenjo-daro’s planned streets and drainage belonged to a civilization flourishing about how long ago?
4,500 years
At Mehrgarh in present-day Balochistan, archaeologists found evidence of what ancient dental practice?
Dental drilling