Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (April 28, 2022) for CSS, PMS

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6. New FBR chief appointed one month before budget

• The 13-party coalition government on April 27, 2022 appointed a senior officer of the Inland Revenue Service (IRS) Asim Ahmed as the chairman of the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) in the wake of a change in the federal government.
• Mr Asim replaced the incumbent chairman Ashfaq Ahmed who was appointed on Aug 24, 2021. Mr Ashfaq is the second top bureaucrat after Azam Khan, the personal secretary to former Prime Minister Imran Khan, who was removed from his position.
• Earlier, the PTI government appointed Asim Ahmed as chairman of FBR on April 4, 2021. He served nearly four months in the position before he was replaced on August 24, 2021, after a cyberattack on taxpayers` data, which apparently was an excuse to replace him

7. EU defies gas `blackmail`, Putin fires off dire threats

• The European Union warned Russia on April 27, 2022 it would not bend to `blackmail` over its support for Kyiv, after the Kremlin cut off gas supplies to Bulgaria and Poland.
• Russia`s President Vladimir Putin, meanwhile, warned that if Western forces intervene in Ukraine, they will face a `lightning fast` military response.
• `We have all the tools for this, that no one else can boast of having,` he told lawmakers, implicitly referring to Moscow`s ballistic missiles and nuclear arsenal

8. Israeli air strikes kill 10 combatants, soldiers in Syria

• Israeli air strikes near Damascus on April 27, 2022 killed 10 combatants, among them six Syrian soldiers, in the deadliest such raid since the start of 2022, a war monitor said.
• The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said an ammunition depot and several positions linked to Iran`s military presence in Syria were among the targets.
• Government media in Syria confirmed four casualties in the strikes, on which Israel did not comment.

9. SpaceX launches another mission to ISS for Nasa

• Days after a SpaceX Dragon capsule crewed by wealthy adventurers splashed down off Florida`s coast, another launched on Wednesday, this time for a Nasa mission to the International Space Station.
• The Crew-4 mission blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center at 3:52am, carrying Americans Kjell Lindgren, Bob Hines and Jessica Watkins, as well as Italian Samantha Cristoforetti of the European Space Agency.
• The event was livestreamed on Nasa`s website and social media

10. Former Chitral MNA Shahzada Mohiuddin passes away

• Shahzada Mohiuddin, a scion of royal family of Chitral and a former MNA, passed away in the wee hours on April 27, 2022.
• Mr Mohiuddin was born on August 5, 1938, to Shahzada Amiruddin a son of Sir Shujaul Mulk the Mehtar of Chitral, who ruled the princely state from 1895 to 1936. Born in an era when his family ruled the princely state, Shahzada Mohiuddin saw first-hand the erosion of that power. Even as a young boy he would often contemplate the reasons for the fading influence of his family and how to salvage it.
• By 1969, after years of regression at the local level, and wider political developments, the state of Chitral was dissolved and merged into Pakistan