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Explanation

World Bank established: July, 1944

World Bank established during: Bretton Woods Conference

World Bank Members: 189

World Bank aim: to provide loans and grants for various projects

World Bank headquarters: Washington, USA

Human Capital Index & World Development Report are published: World Bank

Word Bank Partner institutions: IBRO, IDA, IFC, MIGA, ICSID (total five institutions)

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Explanation

The ILO was created in 1919, as part of the Treaty of Versailles which ended World War 

International Labour Organization (ILO) declared World Day Against Child Labour on 2002

Pakistan has been an important and active member of the ILO since 31 October 1947.

Ratified 36 ILO Conventions.

The ILO Office was established in Pakistan in 1970.

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Headquarters: Geneva, Switzerland

Parent organization: United Nations

Founder: Paris Peace Conference

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On 9 June, 2017 India and Pakistan became full members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO).

The SCO Headquarters: Beijing, China

The SCO Founded: June 15, 2001

 four Observer States

The SCO currently comprises of 10 member states:

• China
• India,
• Kazakhstan,
• Kyrgyzstan,
• Russia,
• Pakistan,
• Tajikistan,
• Iran 
• Uzbekistan
• Belarus joins SCO as 10th member
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Explanation

The Non-Aligned Movement is a forum of 120 developing world states

Founded: 1961, Belgrade, Serbia

Headquarters: Central Jakarta, Indonesia

Founders:

Jawaharlal Nehru

Sukarno

Josip Broz Tito

Kwame Nkrumah

Gamal Abdel Nasse

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Pakistan Joined NAM in 1979

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The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

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History of the Soviet Union

Background

1917–1927: Establishment (founded)

1927–1953: Stalinism

1953–1964: Khrushchev Thaw

1964–1982: Era of Stagnation

1982–1991: Decline and collapse (dissolved)

A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national republics

It was the largest country in the world, covering over 22,402,200 square kilometers (8,649,500 sq mi)

spanning eleven time zones.

Capital and largest city: Moscow

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Leader  

• 1922–1924: Vladimir Lenin

• 1924–1953: Joseph Stalin

• 1953: Georgy Malenkov

• 1953–1964 : Nikita Khrushchev

• 1964–1982: Leonid Brezhnev

• 1982–1984: Yuri Andropov

• 1984–1985: Konstantin Chernenko

• 1985–1991: Mikhail Gorbachev

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Head of state  

• 1922–1946 (first): Mikhail Kalinin

• 1988–1991 (last): Mikhail Gorbachev

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Head of government  

• 1922–1924 (first): Vladimir Lenin

• 1991 (last): Ivan Silayev

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Currency: Soviet ruble (Rbl) (SUR)

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Explanation

President Ziaur Rahman of Bangladesh proposed the idea of SAARC in 1977.

His vision for economic cooperation and cultural exchange among South Asian countries led to the establishment of SAARC in 1985.

It consists of eight member states: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka."

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