GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -Palestine News Agency), also known as the Palestine News Agency and the Palestinian News & Info Agency, is the news agency of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), and was “the P.L.O. ‘s news agency” in the years before the formation of the PA.

Detailed explanation-2: -Examples of television programs and channels include Al-Aqsa TV, Al-Quds TV, Palestine Radio and TV Corporation, Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation, Palestinian Satellite Channel and formerly, Sanabel TV.

Detailed explanation-3: -Pursuant to the decision adopted by the Palestinian National Council in its extraordinary session, held in Cairo in April 1972, the Palestine Liberation Organization’s (PLO) Executive Committee issued a decision establishing the Palestinian News & Information Agency (WAFA) on June 5, 1972.

Detailed explanation-4: -Palestine also has been a non-member observer state of the UN General Assembly since the passing of United Nations General Assembly resolution 67/19 in November 2012.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Palestinian Authority established an embassy in Islamabad on 31 January 2017. Pakistan remains a staunch supporter of the proposal for the creation of an independent Palestinian state, and in line with its pro-Palestinian doctrine, does not recognize the State of Israel (see Israel–Pakistan relations).