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Shahzad F. Malik
Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (April 25, 2022) for CSS, PMS
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April 25, 2022: National / International Current Affairs

1. IMF agrees to add $2bn to ongoing programme

• The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has agreed to increase the size of its $6 billion loan programme by $2bn and extend it for another year to prop up Pakistan`s balance of payments position and foreign exchange reserves.
• Finance Minister Miftah Ismail said on April 24, 2022 that Pakistan had asked the IMF to enhance its bailout package from the remaining $3bn to $5bn.
• Addressing a news conference at the Pakistan Embassy in Washington, the minister said that the IMF will send a staff-level delegation to Pakistan for talks on this request.
• Technical talks on Pakistan`s proposal are expected to begin from Tuesday

2. Modi`s visit to held Kashmir sparks protests

• As Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in occupied Jammu and Kashmir on his first visit since the limited autonomy of the disputed territory was nullified in August 2019, Kashmiris on Sunday expressed their wrath and indignation at the coming of their `tormentor` by staging anti-India and pro-freedom rallies in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) and elsewhere in Pakistan and abroad.
• The call for anti-India demonstrations was jointly given by AJK Prime Minister Sardar Tanveer Ilyas and the AJK chapter of All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC).
• In the federal capital, PM Ilyas and APHC convener Farooq Rehmani were among the leaders and activists from both sides of the divide in Kashmir who lined up outside the Indian High Commission to condemn Mr Modi`s visit

3. Pakistan trashes Indian propaganda over Kartarpur Corridor

• Pakistan has rejected the `malicious Indian propaganda` that it is allegedly using the Kartarpur Corridor for business meetings, the Foreign Office said on April 24, 2022.
• `It`s obvious that this concoction is part of India`s deliberate smear campaign seeking to undermine Pakistan`s historic initiative of opening the Kartarpur Sahib Corridor for Sikh pilgrims from India and around the world,` the Foreign Office said in a statement.
• The response from the Foreign Office comes in the wake of reports carried by certain sections of the Indian media that Pakistan`s officials were `using the Kartarpur corridor to meet and cultivate contacts among Indians going on the pilgrimage`

4. Pakistan, Iraq to sign deals on cooperation in various sectors

• Ambassador of Iraq Hamid Abbas Lafta has said that Pakistan and Iraq will sign agreements on cooperation in various sectors, including trade promotion and tariff rationalisation, to enhance bilateral economic and trade ties.
• Pakistan and Iraq will sign 10 agreements to promote such cooperation in coming June, which will mark the beginning of a new era in enhancing bilateral relations, the ambassador told APP on Sunday.
• These agreements would be signed on tax and tariff exemptions, economic and trade cooperation, coordination against human trafficking and other crimes, besieds air connectivity, he said

5. KP govt to establish first-ever education city in South Waziristan

• The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has planned to establish education city in militancy-stricken South Waziristan tribal district.
• It will be the first-ever such initiative of its kind in the province. The `South Waziristan Education City` will comprise schools, colleges and sub-campuses of different universities established in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and other parts of the country.
• The education city will be established in Barwand, situated in the Mehsud dominated area of the tribal district. South Waziristan remained a hub of terrorism during the previous two decades. Education institutions in the Mehsud area were badly affected where militant groups had either destroyed schools or converted them into their hideouts

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6. PIA opens engineering hangar at IIA

• Nearly four years after the inauguration of Islamabad International Airport (IIA) by the then prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on May 1, 2018, Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) inaugurated its first engineering hangar for aircraft maintenance at the airport.
• The hangar, named after Noor Khan, will be used for maintenance of the PIA aircraft.
• A PIA spokesman said that the planes will no longer need to be sent to Karachi airport for maintenance.
• Arshad Malik, the chief executive officer PIA, inaugurated the engineering hangar on Sunday

7. Top US officials to visit Kyiv

• The United States` top diplomat and defence chief were set to make their first war-time visits to Kyiv since Russia invaded Ukraine two months ago, with fierce fighting casting a long shadow over Orthodox Easter.
• The trip by Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin comes as the war enters its third month with thousands dead and millions displaced.
• Several European leaders have already travelled to Kyiv to meet President Volodymyr Zelensky and underscore their support, but the United States a leading donor of finance and weaponry had not sent any top officials so far

8. Israel says committed to status quo at Jerusalem site

• Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid said on Sunday that Israel was `committed` to the status quo that prevents Jews praying at Jerusalem`s flashpoint Al Aqsa Mosque compound, the epicentre of repeated clashes.
• His comments follow violence in Israel and the Palestinian territories that has killed 38 people since late March, with tensions further fuelle d by the clashes in Jerusalem and consequent exchanges of fire between Israel and the Palestinian enclave of Gaza.
• `Muslims pray on the Temple Mount, non-Muslims only visit,` Lapid said, using the Jewish term for the Al Aqsa Mosque compound in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem

9. Macron defeats far-right Le Pen in French election: projections

• French President Emmanuel Macron was on course Sunday to win a second term by defeating far-right leader Marine Le Pen in presidential elections, projections showed.
• Macron was set to win 57.0-58.5 per cent of the vote compared with Le Pen on 41.5-43.0 per cent, according to projections by polling firms for French television channels based on a sample of the vote count.
• The result is narrower than their second-round clash in 2017, when the same two candidates met in the run-off and Macron polled over 66 percent of the vote

10. World Bank roadmap to mitigate Ukraine war impact on developing countries

• The World Bank Group (WBG) has devised a roadmap outlining a medium-term targeted approach encompassing 15 months till ending June 2023 to respond the crisis in the wake of war in Ukraine in the amount of $170 billion.
• This roadmap will support developing countries as they address the human and development setbacks caused by compounding crises impacts of the war, including food and fuel price shocks, and disruptions to trade, supply chains and foreign direct investment, Covid-19 pandemic and climate change.
• According to the document titled `Global Impacts of the War in Ukraine`, seen by Dawn, the WBG management will explore with its board of executive directors to put in place a 15-month crisis response envelope of around $170 billion for the period between April 2022 and June 2023

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