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April 11, 2022: National / International Current Affairs
1. Shehbaz set to be elected prime minister today
• As the National Assembly convenes today (on April 11, 2022) to elect prime minister after Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz president Shehbaz Sharif and Pakistan Tehreek-Insaf vice chairman Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Sunday filed their nomination papers, the PTI seems divided over its erstwhile decision ofen masse resignations by its lawmakers.
• While the cabinet division de-notified 52 members of the federal cabinet 25 federal ministers, four ministers of state, four advisers to the PM and 19 special assistants to the PM after the historic vote of noconfidence by the joint opposition against ex-premier Imran Khan, Mr Sharif having bright chances to make it to the top slot said the new cabinet would be formed only after consultation with all allies.
• As the PTI core committee remained indecisive in a meeting chaired by Mr Khan on Sunday whether to go for en masse resignations of MNAs or not, the party chairman called the parliamentary party meeting at the Parliament House at 12 noon on Monday to make a final decision. Whether Mr Qureshi will contest the election for the premiership or will resign along with other MNAs of the PTI and its allies depends on the outcome of the PTI parliamentary meeting
2. Cabinet okayed change in diesel price mechanism before ouster
• Days before its dissolution, the cabinet of former prime minister Imran Khan approved a change in mechanism of high-speed diesel (HSD) prices to replace the fixed negotiated premium of long-term supplier Kuwait Petroleum Company (KPC) with a higher market based weighted average.
• The change was approved through circulation by the federal cabinet on the basis of an earlier decision of the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) to ensure diesel availability during the harvesting season amid volatile international markets. This allows an increase in premium charged to Pakistani importers by spot traders for an interim period of three months April-June.
• In a communication to the Petroleum Division and Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra), the Cabinet Division has conveyed the `ratification` of the ECC decision by the federal cabinet with a directive to report the implementation status of the decision to it.
3. Competitive exam centre at IUB opens doors today
• The first Centre for Competitive Examinations in south Punjab is set to start functioning at the Islamia University of Bahawalpur (IUB) on April 11, 2022 (today).
• The facility has been set up under the auspices of South Punjab`s Higher Education Department (HED) for those aspiring to a career in the Civil Services of Pakistan in a special academic block on IUB`s Baghdadul Jadeed campus.
• South Punjab Higher Education Department Secretary Dr Ehtesham Anwar Mahar told Dawn that the first batch of the participants had been selected through a rigorous process entailing holding of orientation sessions and entrance tests on university`s main campus as well as sub-campuses in Bahawalnagar and Rahim Yar Khan
4. 14 nations to take part in Indonesia-US war games
• The annual military exercises between Indonesian and US armies will include more than a dozen countries this year, officials said on April 10, 2022, as tensions with China continue to spike in the region.
• The `Garuda Shield` joint training will see militaries from 14 countries including Brit ain, Australia and Japan participate in ground drills and beach-landing exercises from August 1-14 in Indonesia`s South Sumatra archipelago and the East of Borneo island, the Indonesian Army said.
• A US official said an estimated 3,000 soldiers will participate in the event.
• That would make it `the largest` edition since Garuda Shield was estab-lished in 2009, Albert Tambunan, an Indonesian military spokesperson said Sunday
5. Sri Lanka nearly out of medicines, warn doctors
• Sri Lanka`s doctors warned on April 10, 2022 they were nearly out of lifesaving medicines and said the island nation`s economic crisis threatened a worse death toll than the coronavirus pandemic.
• Weeks of power blackouts and severe shortages of food, fuel and pharmaceuticals have brought widespread misery to Sri Lanka, which is suffering its worst downturn since independence in 1948.
• The Sri Lanka Medical Association (SLMA) said that all hospitals in the country no longer had access to imported medical tools and vital drugs
