Full Forms of Common Abbreviations
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"What does MNA stand for?" is one of the most common one-mark questions in Pakistani screening tests, and abbreviations from government, international bodies and computing turn up in almost every paper.
This list gathers the abbreviations asked in this question bank, grouped by area. Each row links to the full question, with its options and an explanation.
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Pakistan: government, institutions and law
| Abbreviation | Full form | Question |
|---|---|---|
| ASF | Airports Security Force | Practise: ASF → |
| FATA | Federally Administrated Tribal Areas | Practise: FATA → |
| GHQ | General Head Quarters | Practise: GHQ → |
| ICT | Islamabad Capital Territory | Practise: ICT → |
| KRL | Khan Research Laboratories | Practise: KRL → |
| MLA | Member of Legislative Assembly | Practise: MLA → |
| MMA | Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal | Practise: MMA → |
| MNA | Member of National Assembly | Practise: MNA → |
| MPA | Member of Provincial Assembly | Practise: MPA → |
| PHOTA | Punjab Human Organ Transplantation Authority | Practise: PHOTA → |
| PRA | Punjab Revenue Authority | Practise: PRA → |
| SEPRA | Sindh Electric Power Regulatory Authority | Practise: SEPRA → |
| SNGPL | Sui Northern Gas Pipelines limited | Practise: SNGPL → |
| APNS | All Pakistan Society for Newspapers | Practise: APNS → |
| APTMA | All Pakistan textile mills association | Practise: APTMA → |
| ATC | Anti-Terrorism Court | Practise: ATC → |
| BISP | Benazir Income Support Programme | Practise: BISP → |
| BRT | Bus Rapid Transit | Practise: BRT → |
| CAA | Civil Aviation Authority | Practise: CAA → |
| CCRI | Central cotton research institute | Practise: CCRI → |
| CPEC | China Pakistan Economic Corridor | Practise: CPEC → |
| CTD | Counter Terrorism Department | Practise: CTD → |
| ECL | Exit Control List | Practise: ECL → |
| FCR | Frontier Crimes Regulations | Practise: FCR → |
| FED | Federal Excise Duty | Practise: FED → |
| FIR | First Information Report | Practise: FIR → |
| HRC | Human Rights Cell | Practise: HRC → |
| HRCP | Human Rights Commission of Pakistan | Practise: HRCP → |
| ISI | Inter Services Intelligence. | Practise: ISI → |
| NAP | National Action Plan | Practise: NAP → |
| NARC | National Agricultural Research Centre | Practise: NARC → |
| NCOC | National Command and Operation Centre | Practise: NCOC → |
| NCSW | National Commission of the Status of Women | Practise: NCSW → |
| NFC | National Finance Commission | Practise: NFC → |
| OPF | Overseas Pakistanis Foundation | Practise: OPF → |
| PBS | Pakistan Bureau of Statistics | Practise: PBS → |
| PCIW | Pakistan Commissioner for Indus Waters | Practise: PCIW → |
| PFI | Pakistan Forest Institute | Practise: PFI → |
| PIA | Pakistan International Airlines | Practise: PIA → |
| PM&DC | Pakistan Medical and Dental Council | Practise: PM&DC → |
| PMD | Pakistan Meteorological Department | Practise: PMD → |
| PNSC | Pakistan National Shipping Corporation | Practise: PNSC → |
| PTA | Pakistan Telecommunication Authority | Practise: PTA → |
| SAZDA | Sindhi Arid Zone Development Authority | Practise: SAZDA → |
| SUPARCO | The Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission | Practise: SUPARCO → |
| TDAP | Trade development authority of Pakistan | Practise: TDAP → |
| P.O.A | Pakistan Olympic association | Practise: P.O.A → |
| L.F.O | Legal Framework Order | Practise: L.F.O → |
| BDU | Bomb Disposal Unit | Practise: BDU → |
| APAPPS | Afghanistan-Pakistan Action Plan for Peace and Solidarity | Practise: APAPPS → |
International organisations and agreements
| Abbreviation | Full form | Question |
|---|---|---|
| ASEAN | Association of South East Asian Nations | Practise: ASEAN → |
| BBC | British Broadcasting Corporation | Practise: BBC → |
| BCCI | Bank of Credit and Commerce International | Practise: BCCI → |
| ECO | Economic Cooperation Organization. | Practise: ECO → |
| FATF | Financial Action Task Force | Practise: FATF → |
| FIFA | Federation International Football Association | Practise: FIFA → |
| GPEI | Global Polio Eradication Initiative | Practise: GPEI → |
| ICC | International cricket council | Practise: ICC → |
| IFAD | International Fund for Agricultural Development | Practise: IFAD → |
| IMF | International Monetary Fund | Practise: IMF → |
| IOC | International Olympic Committee | Practise: IOC → |
| IPCC | Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change | Practise: IPCC → |
| NAFTA | North American Free Trade Agreement | Practise: NAFTA → |
| NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Practise: NASA → |
| OIC | Organization of Islamic Cooperation | Practise: OIC → |
| RAW | Research and Analysis Wing | Practise: RAW → |
| RAWA | Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan | Practise: RAWA → |
| RSS | Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh | Practise: RSS → |
| SAFTA | South Asian Free Trade Area | Practise: SAFTA → |
| SWIFT | Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication | Practise: SWIFT → |
| TPNW | Treaty on Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons | Practise: TPNW → |
| USAID | U.S. Agency for International Development | Practise: USAID → |
| MNNA | Major Non NATO Ally | Practise: MNNA → |
| THAAD | Terminal High Altitude Area Defense | Practise: THAAD → |
| CIA | Central Intelligence Agency | Practise: CIA → |
| ESPN | Entertainment and Sports Programming Network | Practise: ESPN → |
| USSR | Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. | Practise: USSR → |
| FTA | Free Trade Agreement | Practise: FTA → |
Computer and IT
| Abbreviation | Full form | Question |
|---|---|---|
| ACL | Access Control List | Practise: ACL → |
| AGP | Accelerated Graphics Port | Practise: AGP → |
| ANSI | American National Standard Institute | Practise: ANSI → |
| ASCII | American Standard Code for Information Interchange | Practise: ASCII → |
| BASIC | Beginners All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Codes | Practise: BASIC → |
| BCD | Binary Coded Decimal | Practise: BCD → |
| BIOS | Basic Input Output system | Practise: BIOS → |
| CAM | Computer Aided Manufacturing | Practise: CAM → |
| CASE | Computer Aided Software Engineering | Practise: CASE → |
| CDMA | Code Division Multiple Access | Practise: CDMA → |
| CMM | Capability Maturity Model | Practise: CMM → |
| CORBA | Common Object Request Broker Architecture | Practise: CORBA → |
| COTS | Commercial Off-The-Shelf systems | Practise: COTS → |
| CRC | cyclic redundancy check | Practise: CRC → |
| CRT | Cathode Ray Tube | Practise: CRT → |
| CSS | Cascading style sheets | Practise: CSS → |
| DHCP | Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol | Practise: DHCP → |
| DMA | Direct Memory Access | Practise: DMA → |
| DOS | Disk Operating System | Practise: DOS → |
| DVD | Digital Versatile Disk | Practise: DVD → |
| EBCDIC | Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code | Practise: EBCDIC → |
| ETL | Data Extraction Transformation & Loading | Practise: ETL → |
| FAST | Facilitated Application Specification Technique | Practise: FAST → |
| FAT | File Allocation Table | Practise: FAT → |
| FM | Frequency Modulation | Practise: FM → |
| FTP | File Transfer Protocol | Practise: FTP → |
| GDSS | Group Decision Support System | Practise: GDSS → |
| GPS | Global Positioning System | Practise: GPS → |
| GUI | Graphical User Interface | Practise: GUI → |
| HDD | Hard Disk Drive | Practise: HDD → |
| HDMI | High-Definition Multimedia Interface | Practise: HDMI → |
| HTML | Hyper Text Markup Language | Practise: HTML → |
| HTTP | Hypertext Transfer Protocol | Practise: HTTP → |
| HTTPS | Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure | Practise: HTTPS → |
| IMEI | International Mobile Equipment Identity | Practise: IMEI → |
| IP | Internet Protocol | Practise: IP → |
| ISDN | Integrated Service Digital Network | Practise: ISDN → |
| ISP | internet service provider | Practise: ISP → |
| JPEG | Joint photographic experts group | Practise: JPEG → |
| KB | Kilo Byte | Practise: KB → |
| LAN | Local Area Network | Practise: LAN → |
| LCD | Liquid Crystal Display | Practise: LCD → |
| LED | Light Emitting Diode | Practise: LED → |
| MAC | Media Access Control | Practise: MAC → |
| MICR | Magnetic ink character recognition | Practise: MICR → |
| NIC | Network Interface Card | Practise: NIC → |
| NOS | Network Operating System | Practise: NOS → |
| OCR | Optical Character Recognition | Practise: OCR → |
| PDA | Personal Digital Assistant | Practise: PDA → |
| Portable Document Format | Practise: PDF → | |
| PNG | Portable Network Graphic | Practise: PNG → |
| PSTN | Public Switched Telephone Network | Practise: PSTN → |
| RAID | Redundant Array of Independent Disks | Practise: RAID → |
| RAM | Random access memory | Practise: RAM → |
| RTF | Rich Text Format | Practise: RTF → |
| RUP | Rational Unified Process, IBM | Practise: RUP → |
| SATA | Serial Advanced Technology Attachment | Practise: SATA → |
| SDLC | Software Development Life Cycle | Practise: SDLC → |
| SIM | Subscriber identity module | Practise: SIM → |
| SIMM | Single Inline Memory Module | Practise: SIMM → |
| SWF | Shock Wave Flash | Practise: SWF → |
| TCP | Transmission Control Protocol | Practise: TCP → |
| USB | Universal Serial Bus | Practise: USB → |
| UTP | Unshielded Twisted Pair | Practise: UTP → |
| VLSI | Very Large Scale Integration | Practise: VLSI → |
| VOIP | Voice over IP | Practise: VOIP → |
| VSAT | Very small aperture terminal | Practise: VSAT → |
| W3C | World Wide Web Consortium | Practise: W3C → |
| WAN | Wide Area Network | Practise: WAN → |
| WMA | Windows Media Audio | Practise: WMA → |
| WORM | Write once, Read many | Practise: WORM → |
| WSDL | Web Services Description Language | Practise: WSDL → |
| WWW | World Wide Web | Practise: WWW → |
| OS | Operating System | Practise: OS → |
| PSU | Power Supply Unit | Practise: PSU → |
| UPS | Uninterruptible Power Supply | Practise: UPS → |
| PLC | Programmable Logic Controller | Practise: PLC → |
General
| Abbreviation | Full form | Question |
|---|---|---|
| AD | Anno Domini | Practise: AD → |
| CCTV | Closed Circuit Television | Practise: CCTV → |
| CEO | chief executive officer | Practise: CEO → |
| ECG | Electro Cardio Gram | Practise: ECG → |
| FAQ | Frequently Asked Questions | Practise: FAQ → |
| GDP | Gross Domestic Product | Practise: GDP → |
| GMT | Greenwich mean time | Practise: GMT → |
| HIV | Human Immune-deficiency Virus | Practise: HIV → |
| HRM | Human Resource Management | Practise: HRM → |
| ICU | Intensive Care Unit | Practise: ICU → |
| IDEAS | International defence exhibition and seminar. | Practise: IDEAS → |
| IED | Improvised Explosive Device | Practise: IED → |
| IPM | Integrated pest management | Practise: IPM → |
| KFC | Kentucky Fried Chicken | Practise: KFC → |
| LPG | Liquefied petroleum gas | Practise: LPG → |
| ODI | One Day International | Practise: ODI → |
| PERT | project examination and review technique | Practise: PERT → |
| SWOT | Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats | Practise: SWOT → |
| USP | Unique Selling Proposition | Practise: USP → |