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Security Challenges
For Security Challenges, which option correctly gives the "cyber"?
A. Reliable access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food
B. Cyber domain
C. By intensifying disasters, displacement and resource stress
D. Integration of military, economic, social, cyber and environmental resilience
Correct Answer: B
Cyber: Cyber domain. Cyberattacks can disrupt critical infrastructure and steal sensitive data.
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For Security Challenges, which option correctly gives the "terrorism"?
A. Reliable access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food
B. Severe economic weakness limits state capacity and social stability
C. Integration of military, economic, social, cyber and environmental resilience
D. Terrorism and militancy
Correct Answer: D
Terrorism: Terrorism and militancy. Militant violence became a major national security challenge.
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For Security Challenges, which option correctly gives the "Kashmir"?
A. Systems whose disruption would seriously harm society or the state
B. Water security
C. Kashmir dispute
D. Reliable and affordable access to energy
Correct Answer: C
Kashmir: Kashmir dispute. Kashmir has been the source of repeated military crises.
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For Security Challenges, which option correctly gives the "eastern border"?
A. India
B. Afghanistan
C. Chashma
D. Balochistan
Correct Answer: A
Eastern border: India. Pakistan's security doctrine has long been shaped by rivalry and unresolved disputes with India.
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For Security Challenges, which option correctly gives the "traditional security"?
A. Defense against military threats
B. Non-traditional security
C. Cyber domain
D. By intensifying disasters, displacement and resource stress
Correct Answer: A
Traditional security: Defense against military threats. Traditional security focuses on sovereignty, borders and armed conflict.
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What is a comprehensive security approach?
A. Integration of military, economic, social, cyber and environmental resilience
B. Kashmir dispute
C. Reliable access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food
D. By intensifying disasters, displacement and resource stress
Correct Answer: A
Modern national security planning combines multiple dimensions of state and human security.
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Which assets are called critical infrastructure?
A. Terrorism and militancy
B. Kashmir dispute
C. Defense against military threats
D. Systems whose disruption would seriously harm society or the state
Correct Answer: D
Power, telecoms, transport, finance and water networks are typical examples.
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What is disinformation in a security context?
A. Severe economic weakness limits state capacity and social stability
B. Systems whose disruption would seriously harm society or the state
C. Deliberately false or misleading information used to influence audiences
D. Integration of military, economic, social, cyber and environmental resilience
Correct Answer: C
Information operations can polarize society and undermine trust.
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What is food security?
A. Severe economic weakness limits state capacity and social stability
B. Non-traditional security
C. Water security
D. Reliable access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food
Correct Answer: D
Food insecurity can produce humanitarian and political instability.
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How can climate change become a security threat?
A. By intensifying disasters, displacement and resource stress
B. Integration of military, economic, social, cyber and environmental resilience
C. Terrorism and militancy
D. Defense against military threats
Correct Answer: A
Climate shocks can deepen social and economic vulnerabilities.
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Why is macroeconomic stability considered a security issue?
A. Kashmir dispute
B. Severe economic weakness limits state capacity and social stability
C. Reliable and affordable access to energy
D. Deliberately false or misleading information used to influence audiences
Correct Answer: B
Debt, inflation and foreign-exchange crises can constrain defense, welfare and governance.
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What does energy security mean?
A. Non-traditional security
B. Terrorism and militancy
C. Reliable and affordable access to energy
D. Deliberately false or misleading information used to influence audiences
Correct Answer: C
Energy shortages and import dependence can undermine economic and national resilience.
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Which resource issue is increasingly important for security because of scarcity and interprovincial/river pressures?
A. Deliberately false or misleading information used to influence audiences
B. Integration of military, economic, social, cyber and environmental resilience
C. Kashmir dispute
D. Water security
Correct Answer: D
Population growth, climate stress and river dependence make water a strategic issue.
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Which modern domain can threaten banks, power grids and government networks without a conventional attack?
A. Integration of military, economic, social, cyber and environmental resilience
B. Cyber domain
C. By intensifying disasters, displacement and resource stress
D. Systems whose disruption would seriously harm society or the state
Correct Answer: B
Cyberattacks can disrupt critical infrastructure and steal sensitive data.
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Which internal threat has caused major civilian and military casualties since the 2000s?
A. Reliable and affordable access to energy
B. Defense against military threats
C. Terrorism and militancy
D. Integration of military, economic, social, cyber and environmental resilience
Correct Answer: C
Militant violence became a major national security challenge.
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Which territorial dispute remains a central India-Pakistan security issue?
A. Integration of military, economic, social, cyber and environmental resilience
B. Severe economic weakness limits state capacity and social stability
C. Kashmir dispute
D. Cyber domain
Correct Answer: C
Kashmir has been the source of repeated military crises.
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Security Challenges
Which neighboring country's instability has major spillover effects on Pakistan?
A. Chagai
B. Afghanistan
C. Ras Koh Hills, Chagai
D. India
Correct Answer: B
Cross-border militancy, refugees and trade make Afghan stability a key security concern.
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Which neighboring country is central to Pakistan's conventional security planning?
A. Afghanistan
B. Balochistan
C. Kahuta Research Laboratories
D. India
Correct Answer: D
Pakistan's security doctrine has long been shaped by rivalry and unresolved disputes with India.
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Which category includes climate, water, health and cyber risks?
A. Non-traditional security
B. Terrorism and militancy
C. Systems whose disruption would seriously harm society or the state
D. By intensifying disasters, displacement and resource stress
Correct Answer: A
Modern security concepts include threats beyond conventional warfare.
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What does traditional national security primarily concern?
A. Systems whose disruption would seriously harm society or the state
B. Defense against military threats
C. Cyber domain
D. Severe economic weakness limits state capacity and social stability
Correct Answer: B
Traditional security focuses on sovereignty, borders and armed conflict.