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Who was the first Pakistani to win a Nobel Prize?
A
Dr. Abdus Salam
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B
Malala Yousafzai
C
Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan
D
Benazir Bhutto
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A
Dr. Abdus Salam
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B
Malala Yousafzai
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C
Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan
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D
Benazir Bhutto
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Explanation
Dr. Abdus Salam was a theoretical physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979 for his contributions to the electroweak unification theory. He was the first Pakistani to receive this prestigious international award. Malala Yousafzai later won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014.
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