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March 19, 2022: National Current Affairs MCQs
1. Senate body to take up bills on new provinces next week
• At a time when political temperatures are on the rise and warring politicians are not even ready to sit on the table, the Senate Standing Committee on Law and Justice is set to take up two controversial constitution amendment bills seeking creation of new provinces in the country.
• The two bills, moved by senators belonging to the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) seeking creation of South Punjab and Hazara provinces, are part of the nine-point agenda issued by the Senate Secretariat for the March 22 meeting of the law and justice committee headed by Ali Zafar of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI).
• Under the Constitution, a two third majority in both houses of the parliament is required to carry out an amendment to the Constitution. The Senate committee members are set to review the bills at a time when the National Assembly has a total of 217 members in the house, 11 short of the required two-third majority (228 members) due to the stalemate over the PTI members` resignation issue
2. Japan`s relief operation for Turkiye starts from Lahore
• Relief operation by Japan, in collaboration with NATO, for earthquake victims in Turkiye has started from Lahore.
• Japan Air-Self Defence aircraft loaded with relief goods took off from Allama Iqbal International Airport, Lahore, for Turkiye on March 17.
• The plane transported about 22 tonne relief goods, including 250 tents and 250 winterizing kits manufactured in Pakistan and donated by the UNHCR.
• Japan is conducting this humanitarian assistance operation comprising many airlifts in collaboration with NATO and it will continue for many days
3. Pakistan, others demand greater role for women in technology
• Pakistan called for greater female enrollment in science and technology as the largest UN gathering on gender equality completed its proceedings on March 18, 2023.
• The 2023 Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) successfully wrapped up on Saturday, with member states calling for a full and equal participation of women and girls in the development of digital technologies.
• The week-long gathering, held at the UN headquarters in New York, also released a `blueprint for all stakeholders,` reminding both public and private sectors that denying technical education to women was also a violation of their basic rights.
• Nilofar Bakhtiar, chairperson of the National Commission on the Status of Women, represented Pakistan at this gathering. `There is an urgent need to raise awareness for greater female enrollment in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)-related studies and removal of existing gender biases in curricula and parental preferences,` she told a panel of experts
4. Loss-making govt firms borrowed Rs142.3bn
• Rising cost of money has failed to stop the flow of credit to loss-making public sector enterprises (PSEs), as they have borrowed a record Rs142.3 billion this fiscal year so far.
• The 20 per cent policy interest rate has made it impossible for investors to enter new ventures and increased the government`s domestic debt servicing.
• However, loss-making state firms, already causing the economy to bleed, have received record money from banks. The latest data released by the State Bank of Pakistan showed that the credit to state-owned firms reached Rs142.3bn during the first eight months (July to February) of the current fiscal year
March 19, 2022: International Current Affairs MCQs
5. India says situation with China dangerous in Himalayan front
• The situation between India and China in the western Himalayan region of Ladakh is fragile and dangerous, with military forces deployed very close to each other in some parts, Indian Foreign Minister S Jaishankar said on March 18, 2023.
• At least 24 soldiers were killed when the two sides clashed in the region in mid-2020, but the situation has been calmed through rounds of diplomatic and military talks.
• Violence erupted in the eastern sector of the undemarcated border between the nuclear-armed Asia giants in December but did not result in any deaths.
• `The situation to my mind still remains very fragile because there are places where our deployments are very close up and in military assessment therefore quite dangerous,` Jaishankar said at an India Today conclave
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