The Great War Hero

Question and Answers

Q.1 Who was Major Aziz Bhatti? What was the award he won?
Ans. Major Aziz Bhatti was the son of Mohammad Abdullah Bhatti, a teacher. he was born in Hongkong and received his early education there. In 1945, he come with his father to his home village Ladian in Gujrat district.
Major Aziz Bhatti was awarded the sword of honour and the Norman Model.

Q.2 What was the military carrier of Major Bhatti?
Ans. Major Aziz Bhatti first joined the Air Force and in 1948 he became a cadet of Pakistan Military Academy at Kakul. Here he was awarded the Sword of Honour and the Norman Medal. He joined, the 6th Punjab Regiment as a commissioned officer, where he proved to be a very good military officer. In September 1965 he fought against the Indians – the enemies for 6 days and nights without rest and laid down his life in the defence of Pakistan.

Q.3 What do we learn from he martyrdom of Major Bhatti?
Ans. The martyrdom of Major Aziz Bhatti teaches us, the spirit of Jihad that is to sacrifice our lives in the defence of our dear country.

Q.4 When and where did he fight?
Ans. In the September war of 1965, Major Aziz Bhatti fought on the Lahore front for six days. From the 6th September to the 11th September without rest.

Q.5 What was Major Aziz Bhatti’s reply to the commanding officer?
Ans. When Major Aziz’s commanding officer asked him to take rest, he requested his officer not to recall him for he did not want to go back and would shed the last drop of his blood in the defence of his home land.

Q.6 Why will the name of Major Bhatti’s be written in letters of gold?
Ans. In the year 1965, Mjor Bhatti fought on the Lahore front against the enemies for six days and nights without rest. He laid down his life in the defence of his country Pakistan. He was awarded the Nishan-e-Haider the highest military aard of Pakistan in appreciation of his bravery. It is for this reason that the name of Major Bhatti will never be forgotton and will be written in letters of gold.

Stopping by Woods

Stanza No. 1

Word Meanings

Woods – Forest

Question and Answers

Q.1 What kind of scene does the poet describe in this stanza?
Ans. The poet describes a scene in winter where the forest is covered with snow.

Q.2 What season it is?
Ans. It is the winter season.

Q.3 Why does the poet stop?
Ans. The poet stopped to watch the wood filled with snow.

Q.4 Why does the poet use so many words?
Ans. The does this, so to produce poetic effect.

Stanza No. 2

Word Meanings

Queer – Strange
Frozen – Become ice

Question and Answers

Q.1 On what is the poet riding?
Ans. The poet is ridding on a little horse.

Q.2 Why does the horse think it strange to stop there?
Ans. The horse thinks its strange to stop there, because there is no farm house, which is the usual stopping place for a carriage.

Stanza No. 3

Word Meanings

Harness – Straps fixed on horse
Sweep – Quick move
Flake – Light pieces of snow

Question and Answers

Q.1 What are the harness bells?
Ans. Harness bell are bells attached to the leather strap, which is fixed on horses.

Q.2 Why does the horse shake his harness bells?
Ans. The horse shakes its harness bells, meaning to asked his master the poet whether they have stopped at the among place.

Q.3 What other sound alone can be heard where the poet is standing?
Ans. The other sound which can be heard are the cold winds blowing lightly and the snow falling.

Stanza No. 4

Question and Answers

Q.1 Why can’t poet wait to enjoy the beauty of the woods?
Ans. The poet can’t wait to enjoy the beauty of the woods because he has other urgent business to attend to.

Q.2 Why does he repeat the third line?
Ans. The poet repeats the third line to show the regrets he feels at not being able to enjoy the beauty of the forest filled with snow.

Health is Wealth

Question and Answers

Q.1 Why did Kashif’s father refused to buy sweets from the first shop?
Ans. Kashif’s father refused to buy sweets from the first shop because flies were sitting on them and so they were not good for health.

Q.2 What do dust and flies carry?
Ans. Dust and flies carry hundreds of germs and they are enemies to our health.

Q.3 How are diseases caused?
Ans. Diseases are caused by germs.

Q.4 What are germs?
Ans. Germs are the smallest living things. They cannot be seen with the naked eye. You can see them through a microscope. These germs are harmful to our health.

Q.5 How do flies carry germs to food?
Ans. Flies sit in dirty things, these are germs on these things and they stick to the flies legs when these flies sit on water or our food. The germs they are carrying stick on it, and when we eat that food they enter our bodies and thus we fall ill.

Q.6 How do we get Malaria?
Ans. We get malaria from a kind of mosquitoes which lives in stagnant water.

Q.7 How can we get rid of Malaria?
Ans. We can get rid of Malaria by not allowing any kind of stagnant water near the house. The last matter to getting rid of a mosquito is to spray kerosene oil or D.D.T to kill the mosquitoes before they are big enough to be harmful.

Q.8 Why was the second shop dirty? or Why did Kashif’s father refused to buy sweets from the second shop?
Ans. The second shop was dirty because the sweets in the shop were covered with a layer of dust, below by a men sweeping the road by the shop.

Quaid-e-Azam Said

Question and Answers

Q.1 When and where was Quaid-e-Azam born?
Ans. Quaid-e-Azam was born at Karachi on 1876.

Q.2 What do you know about his early life?
Ans. Quaid-e-Azam received his early education in Karachi, when he was 16 years old he passed his matriculation examination and was sent to England for higher studies. When he return to India he started his practice as a lawyer first in Karachi and then in Bombay. Quaid-e-Azam took part in leadership which reed the Muslims from the British rule and Hindus domination.

Q.3 Why is 14th August 1947 is important day for us?
Ans. On the 14th August 1947, the Muslims majority was namely Sindh, Punjab, NWFP and Baluchistan were united under a single Muslim state this state was named the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. The nation of Pakistan celebrated this date with great pomp and show.

Q.4 What does the Quaid-e-Azam mean? Why the Muslim of Sub-continent give him this name?
Ans. The Quaid-e-Azam mean “Great Leader”.
The Muslims of the sub-continent give him this appreciation of his services to the Muslims of South Asia.

Q.5 What did Quaid-e-Azam said about education?
Ans. Quaid-e-Azam laid great stress on the importance of education. He believed that a nation which did not educate itself would not only be left behind but would exist no more. Indeed, for a developing country like Pakistan, education was a matter of life and death. Education to him did not mean academic education alone but education and character building were hand in hand.

Q.6 What type of education did the Quaid stress on in the message at the Pakistan Educational Conference held in Karachi?
Ans. At the All Pakistan Educational Conference held in Karachi on 27th November 1947, he said that education did not mean academic education but it also included moldizing the people and building up their character of the future generation that is education and character building were hand in hand.

Q.7 What did Quaid ask the people to do for the progress and prosperity? or What advice did the Quaid give to his people?
Ans. Quaid-e-Azam advised his people to educate themselves and to serve Pakistan honesty, earnestly and selflessly for it was only then that Pakistan would prosper and grow stronger.

Q.8 What did the Quaid say about education at the Gujrat educational Conference held in January 1945?
Ans. At the Gujrat Educational Conference held on 14th January 1945, the Quaid said the education was a matter of life and death to our nation, and that the world was moving fast and if we did not educate our selves we would not only be left behind but will not even exist.

Q.9 Why did Quaid leave the Indian National Congress and joined the All India Muslim League?
Ans. Mr. Jinnah realize that the Hindus and the Muslims could never agree on any point. Besides he realized that the Congress was selfish and aimed at promoting only the interest of the Hindus.

Q.10 How does the Quaid speeches help us in becoming good citizens?
Ans. In all his speeches, the Quaid stressed certain qualities which if we follow can help us to become a good citizen. He talked about trust in God, hard work, good education including character building and above all service to the country with honesty, earnestness and selflessness.

Q.11 What did the Quaid say in the lunch given by Dr. Ziauddin Ahmed?
Ans. On 8th March 1944 speaking at the lunch given by Dr. Ziauddin Ahmed, Quaid said that Muslims can get Pakistan not by asking, not by logging, not even by meal progress but by “working with trust in God”.

Children

Stanza No. 1

Word Meanings

1. Perplexed – Complicated, Puzzled
2. Vanish – Disappear


Question and Answers

Q.1 What are the children doing?
Ans. The children are playing.

Q.2 What is the question that is disturbing the poet?
Ans. The poet is disturbed by the problems and difficulties in life.

Q.3 How has this question been answered?
Ans. Seeing the children playing happily and innocently, the poet does not feel that the difficulties are a burden any more and this thus the question that have perplexed him have disappeared.

Stanza No.2

Word Meanings
1. Ye – You ‘Ye’ is sometimes used in poetry for “you”.
2. Swallow – A kind of small bird.
3. Brooks – Small streams


Question and Answers

Q.1 What does the poet mean by saying that the children open the windows that look to the east?
Ans. Just as a sun gives warmth and life to the earth so as a south of happiness is in the presence of children.

Q.2 With what does the poet compare the thoughts?
Ans. The poet compares the thoughts to singing swallows and flowing brooks.

Q.3 Why does he compare them so?
Ans. Singing swallows and following brooks are objects of nature-happy and care free. In the same way the children are untouched by the problems of modern living and are happy and care free.

Stanza No.3

Word Meanings
1. Autumn – Season before winter when leaves turn yellow and fall.



Question and Answers

Q.1 How can the birds and the sunshine be in the hearts of the children? What does the poet mean?
Ans. When the poet says that the birds and the sunshine are in the hearts of children he means that they are happy and care free.

Q.2 The poet says that the children are thinking of the brooks while he is thinking of autumn. What does it mean?
Ans. The poet says that children are thinking of brooks because they are young and free from worries and troubles.
He is in the autumn of life for he is old and heavy and approaching the end of his life.

Q.3 Is the poet using the word autumn for old age?
Ans. Yes, he is using the word autumn for old age. Autumn is the season before winter when the leaves turn yellow and fall. In the same way in old age the body becomes weak and less active and finally give way.

Q.4 What other words does the poet use to show the coming of old age upon him?
Ans. The first fall of snow shows the coming of old age upon him.

Q.5 How are the children different from the poet?
Ans. The children are young and full of life and energy, without a care in the world. While the poet is old, tired and full of worries.

Stanza No. 5-6

Word Meanings

1. Tender – Delicate
2. Trunk – Main stem or part of a tree, the thick bark of a tree.


Question and Answers

Q.1 What would happens to the trees if there were no leaves?
Ans. If there were no leaves, the trees would lose their beauty, colour and life.

Q.2 What would happen to us if there were no children?
Ans. If there are no children, our lives would be dull, barren and absolutely lifeless.

Stanza No. 7

Word Meanings
1. Whisper – To speak slowly
2. Atmosphere – Air


Question and Answers

Q.1 Why does the poet ask the children to come to him?
Ans. The poet asks the children to come to him so that h could get joy and happiness from their company and for the time being forget about his worries and troubles.

Q.2 What songs does the poet wish to be whispered in the ear?
Ans. The poet loves to hear the innocent talk of the children and asks them to come to him so that he could enjoy their natural sincere hatter.

Stanza No. 8

Word Meanings
1. Contriving – Devices, invention
2. Wisdom – Quality of being wise.
3. Caresses – Love or affection, kiss, embrace


Question and Answers

Q.1 The grown up people have wisdom and books. What do the children have?
Ans. The children have innocent happy looks and are full of affection and warmth.

Stanza No. 9

Word Meanings
1. Ballads – Simple songs with a story, poems containing old stories.


Question and Answers

Q.1 With what does the poet compare the children?
Ans. The poet compare the children with ballads.

Q.2 How can the children can be like the ballads and the poems?
Ans. Ballads and the poems give one phase and happiness. In the same way children are source of joy and happiness.

Q.3 The poet call the children living and the rest all dead. Why does he say this?
Ans. Ballads and poems consist only of words, where as children are living human beings and are full of life and energy.
Q.4 How are children important for elders?
Ans. Children are important for elders because without them life would be dull and their care free and their happy ways help elders to forget there troubles, their caresses brings sun shine in to the life of the old people.

The Role of Women in the Pakistan Movement

Question and Answers

Q.1 Who was Bi Aman? Why is she remembered till today?
Ans. Bi Aman was the mother of Maulana Mohammad Ali nd Maulana Shaukat Ali. Her greatness lies in the fact that she had taught her sons to be willing to sacrifice their lives in the cause of Muslim independence and later encouraged them to accomplish their goals.

Q.2 Why is Miss. Fatima Jinnah called Mother-e-Millat?
Ans. Miss. Fatima Jinnah was the sister of Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah. She helped her brother in the struggle for the establishment of Pakistan. The nation called her “Mother-e-Millat” (Mother of Nation)

Q.3 In Sind, where did the first meeting of the women take place?
Ans. The first public meeting nad women in Sind was held in Karachi’s Zoological Garden.

Q.4 What do you know about Lady Haroon?
Ans. Lady Haroon was a spirited woman of upright character and a kind hostess. Here house in Karachi became the centre of women’s political activity and it was a place of welcome to the Muslim League workers when they came to Karachi to attend meetings. Classes were also held in her house to educate Muslims girls.

Q.5 Who was Begum Rana? What do you know about her?
Ans. begum Rana was the wife of Liaquat Ali Khan. she worked as an honorary secretary and typist to Liaquat Ali Khan at a time, when the Muslim League could not afford the salary of a secretary. She arranged parties, where Muslim women could meet the wife and the daughter of the viceroy, so as to explain to them their side of the matter and expresses their protest. She also organized the women’ Voluntary Services and later the womens’ National Guard’s consisting of three battalions with 2400 girls, in which she herself held the rank of Brigadier.

Q.6 What do you know about Begum Jahan Ara Shahnawaz?
Ans. Begum Jahan Ara Shahnawaz from the Punjab represented the Muslim women at the Three Round Table Conference held in London and was the first women ever to make a speech at London’s Guild Hall. She also traveled widely and explained to the people of other countries, why the Muslims in India wanted a separate state.

Q.7 How did the Muslim women work for independence?
Ans. Though the Muslim women were in street “purdah” and were less and less politically aware, they played an active part in the independence movement. They formed the womens branch of the Muslim League to organize women and inform them about the politics of the country. They organized public meetings for women and addressed large gathering. They had opened classes in their honour to educate Muslims girls. Thee brave ladies encouraged their brothers, husbands and sons not to give up the struggle for Pakistan until their goal was achieved.

Q.8 What role did Begum Mohammad Ali play in the freedom movement?
Ans. Begum Mohammad Ali was a admirable and remarkable lady. Dressed in Burqah she not only attended men’s public meeting but was called the first women to address them. She also wrote for the press in simple but effective words and awakened the Muslim women by her inspiring speeches.

Q.9 What was the Indian National Congress? Why did many Muslim leaders left it?
Ans. The Indian National Congress was the political party formed by the Hindus and the Muslims in order to drive British out of India. The Muslims soon realized that the Hindus wee in majority and the Congress would never ever treat the Muslims equally and give them their due share in the government, so many Muslim leaders left it.

Allama Iqbal

Question and Answers

Q.1 When and where was Allama Iqbal born?
Ans. Allama Mohammad Iqbal, the poet of the East, was born in Sialkot, a town in the Punjab on 9th Nov, 1877.

Q.2 When did Allama Iqbal die?
Ans. Allama Iqbal; died in 1938, and could not see the actual creation of Pakistan although he had played a major role in its creation.

Q.3 Write about the education of Allama Iqbal?
Ans. He received his early education in his home town. In 1985, he went to Government College, Lahore. He passed his M.A. in 1899 from the University of Punjab. In the same year he was appointed Professor of Arabic at the Oriental College, Lahore. As held his job till 1905. In 1905 he left for England for higher studies. In London he received a Law Degree. In 1908, he was awarded a degree of Ph.D by Munich University, for his work on Persian philosophy. He is also known as Dr. Mohammad Iqbal.

Q.4 Write in three to four sentences the important years of 1877, 1930, 1938 in Allama Iqbal’s life.
Ans.
1877
Allama Iqbal the poet o the east, was born in Sialkot on 9th November 1877.
1930
In 1930, Allama Iqbal presided over the Allahabad meeting of the All India Muslim Leage. Here he made a definite demand for a separate Muslim state in South Asia.
1938
Allama Iqbal died in 1938 and could not see the actual creation of Pakistan although he worked very hard for its creation.

Q.5 What did Allama Iqbal write to the Quaid-e-Azam in May 1937?
Ans. Allama Iqbal in his letter to Quaid-e-Azam discussed in detail the problems of Indian Muslims and advised that only the creation of a separate Muslim state could solve these problems.

Q.6 What were the contents of Allama Iqbal’s letter of 21 June 1937 to Quaid?
Ans. On 21 June 1937, Allama Iqbal wrote a letter to the Quaid in which he stated that, a separate state of Muslim provinces, formed on the lines he had proposed, was the only way by which they could have a peaceful India and save the Muslims of India from the troubles created by non-Muslims.

Q.7 What was Quaid’s message on the death of Allama Iqbal? or How did Quaid-e-Azam praise Iqbal’s role in the message on his death?
Ans. Allam Iqbal died in 1938. On his death, the Quaid-e-Azam sent a message in which he called him a guide, friend and philosopher. He praised Iqbal for standing like a rock during the difficulties and troubles, which the Muslim league had to face which fighting the rights of the Indian Muslims.

Q.8 What was the results of Allama Iqbal efforts?
Ans. The result of Allama Iqbal efforts was that he woke the Muslims from their sleep and make them realize that the solution to all their problems was the creation of a separate Muslim state in India.

Q.9 Write in three to four sentences about the political life of Allama Iqbal from 1926-1930?
Ans. Allama Iqbal was elected a member of Punjab legislative council in 1926 and held this office till 1929. He was then selected as the President of the Punjab branch of the All India Muslim League. and held that important office till his death in 1938.

Q.10 Write three to four lines about the accomplishments of Allama Iqbal.
Ans. Allama Iqbal is known as a great poet. He was well-versed in philosophy both Eastern and Western. He devoted a great part of his life to the study of Islam. He als otook an active part in politics. He worked for Muslims of South Ashia with great courage.

Q.11 Mention any three points of Allama Iqbal’s Allahabad’s Address?
Ans. In 1930, Allama Iqbal presided over the Allahabad meeting of the All India Muslim League:
1. On this historic occasion, he made a definite demand for a separate Muslim state in South Asia.
2. India is a continent of human groups belonging to different races, speaking different languages and believing in different religions.
3. The principle of European democracy cannot be applied to Indian without recognizing the fact of different groups.
4. Punjab, north West Frontier Province, Sindh and Baluchistan be united urdu a single Muslim State.

Q.12 Why did Allama Iqbal want a separate state for the Muslims of India?
Ans. Allama Iqbal wanted a separate homeland for the Muslims of the sub-continent, for they were a separate nations, with their own culture, customers, literature and religion.
He wanted then to live in the state where they were free to follows the Islamic teachings and Quranic laws and would conduct their own foreign policy, plan their economic life, pressure and develop their own culture.