NewsTracker Answers for week of Apr 02, 2018

Q: Nobel  peace prize laureate Malala Yousafzai visited her hometown in northwest Pakistan for the first time since she was shot on a school bus by a Taliban militant in 2012. Where is Pakistan?

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Q: Yousafzai, 20, was already a prominent advocate for girls’ education when a Taliban gunman boarded her school bus, asked “Who is Malala?” and shot her, along with two others. The Taliban has been fighting to regain control what nation northwest of Pakistan?

A. Afghanistan

B. India

C. China

D. Iran

A. In the longest war in its history, the United States has been fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan since 2001. Pakistan is bordered by Afghanistan on the north and northwest, China on the northeast, India on the southeast, the Arabian Sea on the south and Iran on the southwest.

Q: The Taliban are religious fundamentalists who oppose education for women and girls. Taliban are extremist members of which religion that nearly all of Pakistanis follow?

A. Buddhism

B. Christianity

C. Hinduism

D. Islam

D. More than 96 percent of Pakistan’s approximately 205 million people follow Islam. The Taliban are Sunni Muslim militants who follow the Salafi jihadism of Osama bin Laden.

Q: The Taliban has been described as a movement of religious students (talib) educated in traditional Islamic schools in Pakistan. Many of those schools were financed by what oil-rich nation?

A. Egypt

B. Iran

C. Saudi Arabia

D. Yemen

C. Salafism is the dominant religious sect in Saudi Arabia and is supported by the House of Saud royal family, which rules the nation as an absolute monarchy. It also was the religion of Osama bin Laden, the Saudi-born leader of the Al-Qaeda terrorist group that attacked the U.S. on Sept. 11, 2001.

Q: Osama bin Laden was killed in a 2011 raid by U.S. Navy SEALS in which nation?

A. Afghanistan

B. Pakistan

C. Saudi Arabia

D. Yemen

B. The United States did not inform Pakistan before the May 2, 2011 raid on the fortified complex of buildings that was probably built for bin Laden. The compound was located less than a mile from Pakistan Military Academy and about a 60-mile drive from Pakistan's capital, Islamabad.