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November 01, 2017

1. The heads of nearly all parliamentary parties on October 31, 2017 agreed not to increase the number of seats in the National Assembly before next year`s general elections
2. In a major development in Pakistan-Iran relations, Army Chief Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa is set to visit Tehran later this week
3. Pir Kaleem Khurshid of the Independent group was elected president of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) for 2017-18 on October 31, 2017
   • Qamar Zaman Qureshi of the winning group was elected vice president on a Punjab seat
4. The Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) is finalising arrangements to introduce the barcode system to check the sale of spurious medicines in the country
   • Chief Executive Officer (CEO) DRAP: Dr Mohammad Aslam
5. The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in partnership with the Fata Secretariat inaugurated Rs1.6 billion Fata Economic Revitalisation Programme here on October 31, 2017
6. The Pakistan Post is issuing a commemorative postage stamp of Rs10 denomination and souvenir sheet of Rs50 denomination on Pakistan’s ICC Champions Trophy victory in England
7. Pakistan Navy has placed an order for two 75m corvettes from an American shipbuilding company
8. The World Bank on October 31, 2017 ranked Pakistan at 147th out of 190 countries in its `Doing Business 2018`report
   • Pakistan is among the South Asian economies that carried out a record 20 business reforms in the past year, bringing to a total of 127 the number of reforms enacted in the region over the past 15 years
   • South Asia is the only region not represented in the top 50 ranking for ease of doing business
9. A `monster` planet, which should in theory not exist, has been discovered orbiting a faint dwarf star far
   • The star has a radius and mass about half that of the sun.
10. Saudi Arabia plans to start issuing tourist visas “soon”
    • The ultra-conservative kingdom seeks to attract international visitors in a radical overhaul of its oil-dependent economy.