May/June 2024

This question concerns the East India Company. Look closely at the sources (Insert) and then answer the questions that follow.

Natural topography

Describe the publication titled ‘The Loyal Muhammadans of India’.

Location of administrative areas and cities

Describe what the Communal Award was.

Mineral resources

Describe the ‘One Unit’ Scheme.

Renewables

Describe Sajjad Ali Shah’s part in the Pakistan governments of the 1990s.

Benazir Bhutto, Nawaz Sharif and Musharraf 1988–99

Examine Fig. 1.1, which is a map of limestone deposits in southern and western Pakistan. Fig. 1.1 includes these labels and features: - Directions: N(north arrow) - Scale: 0 100 200 300 km - Countries named: AFGHANISTAN, IRAN, INDIA - Cities/places: Quetta, Karachi - Water body: Arabian Sea - Province-level areas marked X, Y and Z - Key: limestone deposits (shown as circles), international boundary, province-level boundary.

Mineral resources

Examine Fig. 2.1 (Insert), a photograph of part of the River Swat and its floodplain. Using Fig. 2.1 only, identify two natural features of the floodplain. 1 ........................................ 2 ........................................

Water

Look at Fig. 3.1, a map showing sugar cane production in southern and western Pakistan. Using only Fig. 3.1: - measure the distance between Karachi and Multan .................... km - state the compass direction from Karachi to Multan ....................

Crops and livestock

Study Fig. 4.1, which is a map showing population density in southern and western Pakistan. Identify the population density for the locations labelled X and Y on Fig. 4.1. X ........................................ people per square kilometre Y ........................................ people per square kilometre

Distribution and density of population

Fig. 5.1 presents a map of rail networks in southern and western Pakistan. It shows a north arrow marked N, a scale bar reading 0, 100, 200, 300 km, and the country names AFGHANISTAN, IRAN and INDIA. The Arabian Sea is labelled beside the southern coastline. The map labels the following places and stations: Peshawar, Sargodha, Dera Ghazi Khan, Bahawalpur, Khanewal, Khanpur, Rohri, Nawabshah, Mirpur Khas, Hyderabad Kotri, Karachi Cantt, Larkana, Sukkur, Jacobabad, Sibi and Quetta. The key indicates: a filled circle for 'station'; a double line for 'main line'; a single line for 'branch line'; and a dashed line for 'international boundary'. Fig. 5.2 is a pie chart headed 'percentage of Pakistan’s imports by continent'. The circle is marked with percentages at 0%, 10%, 20%, 30%, 40%, 50%, 60%, 70%, 80% and 90%. The legend headed 'Continent' includes: Asia, Europe, Americas, Africa and Oceania, each shown with a different shading.

Internal transport