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Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (April 05, 2022) for CSS, PMS

Shahzad F. Malik
Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (April 05, 2022) for CSS, PMS
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April 05, 2022: National / International Current Affairs

1. Imran suggests former CJP for caretaker PM slot

• Following the dissolution of the National Assembly and the de-notification of Imran Khan as prime minister, President Arif Alvi officially held through a letter on April 4, 2022 that Mr Khan would continue to hold office of prime minister in the interim period, until the appointment of a caretaker premier under Article 224 of the Constitution.
• The letter, which was sent to the secretaries of cabinet division and parliamentary affairs, apart from Mr Khan and former opposition leader in the National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif, stated that a `caretaker prime minister shall be appointed by the president in consultation with the prime minister and leader of the opposition in the outgoing national assembly as per Article 224(1A) of the Constitution of Pakistan

2. General elections not possible in three months, says ECP

• The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has expressed its inability to conduct general elections within three months, citing various legal hitches and procedural challenges as the reason.
• A senior official of the ECP told that the preparations for the general elections would require some six months. He said fresh delimitation of constituencies, particularly in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa where the number of seats had been increased under the 26th Amendment, and bringing district and constituency-wise electoral rolls in conformity were the major challenges.

3. Fund facility `virtually paused as IMF awaits new govt

• After the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf government came to a sudden and premature end, leaving the country in a constitutional vacuum and economic uncertainty, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme with Pakistan is expected to hit another `pause`.
• Esther Perez Ruiz, IMF`s resident representative in Islamabad, told Dawn that the fund would engage with the new government once it was formed.
• The fund`s $6bn Extended Fund Facility (EFF) for Pakistan had already hit a deadlock earlier this month when beleaguered Prime Minister Imran Khan announced a major relief package involving a tax amnesty scheme and energy price cuts, seen by the IMF staff mission as a reversal of agreed reform measures introduced in the mini-budget to revive the programme after months of virtual suspension

4. PPA, UN bodies jointly formulate oxygen therapy guideline for children

• With Pakistan`s under-five mortality rate standing at 55 out of 1,000 live births, the oxygen therapy guideline for children has been developed for the first time in the history of the country.
• The guideline has been developed by the Pakistan Paediatrics Association (PPA) with the collaboration of United Nations Children`s Education Fund (Unicef), World Health Organisation and Health Services Academy (HSA).
• According to HSA Vice Chancellor Dr Shahzad Ali Khan, `there was no oxygen guideline in the country and health specialists used to provide oxygen as per estimations. A few years ago, the Supreme Court, while hearing a case regarding stents, had observed that societies of specialists should develop the guidelines for diseases rather than the government. So PPA decided to develop this guideline

5. 99pc of people across globe breathe unhealthy air: WHO

• Almost the entire global population (99 per cent) breathes air that exceeds WHO air quality limits and threatens their health.
• A record number of over 6,000 cities in 117 countries are now monitoring air quality, but people living in them are still breathing unhealthy levels of fine particulate matter and nitrogen dioxide, with people in low and middle income countries suffering the highest exposures.
• The findings have prompted the World Health Organisation (WHO) to highlight the importance of curbing fossil fuel use and taking other tangible steps to reduce air pollution levels

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6. Russia faces global outrage over bodies in Ukraine`s streets

• Moscow faced global revulsion and accusations of war crimes on Monday after the Russian pullout from the outskirts of Kyiv revealed streets strewn with corpses of what appeared to be civilians, some of whom had seemingly been killed at close range.
• The grisly images of battered bodies out in the open or in hastily dug graves led to calls for tougher sanctions against the Kremlin, namely a cutoff of fuel imports from Russia. Germany reacted by expelling 40 Russian diplomats, and Lithuania threw out its Russian ambassador.
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy left the capital, Kyiv, for his first reported trip since the war began nearly six weeks ago to see for himself what he called the genocide and war crimes in the town of Bucha, the site of some of the horrors

7. First private space mission to ISS readies for launch

• The International Space Station (ISS) is set to become busier than usual this week when its crew welcomes aboard four new colleagues from Houston-based startup Axiom Space, the first all-private astronaut team ever flown to the orbiting outpost.
• The launch is being hailed by the company, Nasa and other industry players as a turning point in the latest expansion of commercial space ventures collectively referred to by insiders as the low-Earth orbit economy, or `LEO economy` for short.
• Weather permitting, Axiom`s four-man team was due to lift off on Wednesday from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, riding atop a Falcon 9 rocket furnished and flown by Elon Musk`s commercial space launch venture SpaceX

8. Noted mountaineer Little Karim passes away at 68

• Noted mountaineer Abdul Karim, also known as Little Karim, passed away at the age of 68 on April 4, 2022.
• According to family sources, he had been suffering from liver cancer since 2017, and died at the Combined Military Hospital in Rawalpindi.
• Mr Karim hails from Hushe village of Ghanche district.
• He left behind four sons, as many daughters and a widow to mourn his death.
• Karim was globally known as a high-altitude porter and mountaineer in the 70s and 80s as he served a guide to western tourists on high-altitude expeditions, braving the north`s unforgiving cold all the while carrying as much as 25-kilogramme luggage on his back.

9. Teen star Alcaraz becomes youngest Miami Open men`s champion

• Spanish 14th seed Carlos Alcaraz capped a dream run at the Miami Open with a 7-5, 6-4 win over Norwegian world number eight Casper Ruud in the final on Sunday to secure the biggest win of his young career.
• The 18-year-old Alcaraz earned his first ATP Masters 1000 crown and is the first Spanish man to triumph in Miami after eight previous final appearances by his compatriots, including five by Rafa Nadal.
• `I have no words to describe how I feel,` Alcaraz said after he replaced Novak Djokovic as the youngest champion in the 37-year-old tournament`s history. `But it`s so special to win my Masters 1000 here in Miami

10. Arooj Aftab makes history at Grammys

• Singer and musician Arooj Aftab on Sunday became the first Pakistani to win the prestigious Grammy Award in the Best Global Performance category for her song `Mohabbat`.
• The 37-year-old who has lived in New York for around 15 years, has been steadily gaining global attention for her work that fuses ancient Sufi traditions with inflections of folk, jazz and minimalism.
• After receiving the award, a visibly stunned Arooj said onstage at the 64th Grammy Awards, `I think I`m [going to] faint

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