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

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6. Private jirgas banned in Mansehra

• The police department has banned the holding of private jirgas for settling criminal issues, including honour-related killings, out of court.
• `Almost all private jirgas held by tribal elders help influential criminals get off scot-free in cases from honour killings to theft to land grabbing to car snatching to the misery of their victims,` district police officer Sajjad Khan told reporters here on Saturday.
• The DPO said he had directed the deputy superintendents of police and SHOs to ensure that private jirgas don`t take place in the district and violators of the restriction are dealt with strictly.
• He said the police had formed dispute resolution councils for out-of-the-court settlement of the people`s issues

7. Norway minister resigns over affair with young woman

• Norway`s government announced on April 9, 2022 that defence minister Odd Roger Enoksen was resigning following revelations that he had a years long affair with a much younger woman.
• `It is a necessary decision, after what has surfaced in this matter,` Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store told a press conference where he confirmed that he had accepted Enoksen`s resignation.
• `I have made several bad choices and judgements, and will give an unreserved apology for the fact that my actions have made life more difficult for others,` Enoksen told news agency NTB earlier on Saturday

8. One dead as Israeli army raids W. Bank after attacks

• Israeli security forces raided the flashpoint West Bank district of Jenin on April 9, 2022 killing a Palestinian and wounding 12 others, after vowing there will `not be limits` to curb surging violence.
• The operation, which lasted several hours, came after a gunman from Jenin went on a shooting rampage in a popular Tel Aviv nightlife area on Thursday evening, killing three Israelis and wounding more than a dozen others.
• Following the attack, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett gave security agencies `full freedom` to end deadly violence that has surged since March 22 `in order to defeat terror`. `There are not and will not be limits for this war,` Bennett

9. S. Arabia to allow 1m Haj pilgrims

• Saudi Arabia said on Saturday it will permit one million Muslims from inside and outside the country to participate in this year`s Haj, a sharp uptick after pandemic restrictions forced two years of drastically pared down pilgrimages.
• However, the pilgrimage, which will take place in July, will be limited to Muslims under age 65 and fully vaccinated against the coronavirus, the ministry of Haj and Umrah said in a statement carried by the SPA news agency.
• Those coming from outside Saudi Arabia, who must apply for Haj visas, will this year also be required to submit a negative Covid-19 PCR result from a test taken within 72 hours of travel. Many Muslims outside the kingdom have been barred from making the trip since 2019.
• About 2.5m people took part in 2019

10. France prepares for first round of presidential elections

• France on April 9, 2022 prepared for the first round of presidential elections projected to produce a run-off rematch between President Emmanuel Macron and far right leader Marine Le Pen that will be far tighter than their duel five years ago.
• All further political activity by candidates was banned on the final day before polls open in mainland France at 0600 GMT on Sunday, after a campaign overshadowed by Russia`s invasion of Ukraine.
• French overseas territories will begin voting earlier to take account of the time difference, starting with Saint Pierre and Miquelon off the coast of Canada at 1000 GMT Saturday