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Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (April 30, 2022) for CSS, PMS

Shahzad F. Malik
Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (April 30, 2022) for CSS, PMS
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April 30, 2022: National / International Current Affairs

1. Punjab CM to take oath from NA speaker

• Two weeks after being elected chief minister of Punjab, Hamza Shehbaz is finally set to be sworn in today (April 30, 2022), as the Lahore High Court on April 29, 2022 directed National Assembly Speaker Raja Pervaiz Ashraf to administer the oath to the CM-elect after President Arif Alvi and Punjab Governor Omar Sarfaraz Cheema failed to obey the earlier court orders.
• Justice Jawad Hassan, who passed the order on a third petition of the CM-elect seeking implementation of the two previous court orders on his petitions, directed the NA speaker to administer the oath to Mr Hamza on Saturday at 11:30am.
• In the LHC order, Justice Hassan observed: `Both the decisions of this court despite having binding effect have been ignored deliberately by the President of Pakistan as well as by the Governor of the Punjab. The governor through his conduct has also made himself `impracticable` for the oath to be made before him

2. ECP seeks publication of 7th census results by year`s end

• The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has asked the government to publish official results of the seventh population and housing census by year end.
• It made the request in a letter to the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs secretary. Identical letters have also been written to the planning ministry`s secretary and support services member of the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
• Copies of a gazette notification and a schedule for conducting the census were also attached with the letter.
• According to the schedule, the census exercise shall start from Aug 1. As per a work plan specified in the schedule, results would be handed over to the election commission by Dec 31

3. Pakistan reports second polio case in 10 days

• After remaining a polio-free country for almost 15 months, Pakistan has reported a second case in less than 10 days.
• The new cases have crated panic among the officials concerned as the virus can travel along with people because of massive movement during Eid holidays.
• The new victim, paralysed by the wild poliovirus, is a two-year-old girl from North Waziristan, says Pakistan National Polio Laboratory at the National Institute of Health in Islamabad.
• Earlier on April 22, a 15-month-old boy was confirmed to be a victim of poliovirus. Both children belong to Mir Ali Council of North Waziristan

4. UNSC urges all states to help probe Karachi varsity blast

• The UN Security Council (UNSC) has urged all states to cooperate actively with Pakistan and China in investigating the April 26 terrorist attack in Karachi that killed four people.
• The suicide bomber, who killed three Chinese teachers and their Pakistani driver at Karachi University`s entrance, was herself a teacher who had enrolled for a master`s degree months before the attack.
• Later, a separatist group, the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA), claimed responsibility for the blast, saying that the suicide bomber had volunteered for the attack targeting the Chinese

5. Supreme leader wants world to recognise Taliban govt

• Afghanistan`s supreme leader called again on April 29, 2022 for the international community to recognise the Taliban government, saying the world had become a `small village` and proper diplomatic relations would help solve the country`s problems.
• No nation has formally recognised the regime installed by the Taliban after they seized power in August and reintroduced the hardline rule that is increasingly excluding women from public life.
• In a written message ahead of Eidul Fitr holiday that marks the end of Ramazan, supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada did not mention international sticking points -including reopening secondary schools for girls

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6. Kabul remains in mourning as 10 die in mosque bombing

• A bomb blast in the Afghan capital ripped through a Sunni mosque and killed at least 10 worshippers on April 29, 2022, interior ministry officials said, the latest in a wave of attacks that have rocked the country during the fasting month of Ramazan.
• However, Reuters quoted the head of the mosque as saying that the powerful explosion killed more than 50 worshippers. Sayed Fazil Agha said someone they believed was a suicide bomber joined them in the ceremony and detonated explosives.
• `Black smoke rose and spread everywhere, dead bodies were everywhere, he told Reuters, adding that his nephews were among the dead. `I myself survived, but lost my beloved ones.
• The blast hit the Khalifa Sahib Mosque in the west of the capital in the early afternoon, said Besmullah Habib, deputy spokesman for the interior ministry, who said the official confirmed death toll was 10

7. Tensions rise as West puts its weight decisively behind Ukraine

• Less cautious about its military support and more explicit in its war aims, the West shifted gears in its support for Ukraine this week despite the risk of a direct conflict with Russia.
• `We want to see Russia weakened to the degree that it can`t do the kinds of things that it has done in invading Ukraine,` US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Monday.
• The remark underlined Washington`s widening objectives in the conflict beyond simply enabling Ukraine to defend its territory from Russian attack

8. Riyadh, Ankara reset relations after Khashoggi killing

• Saudi Arabia`s crown prince and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan have vowed to reset relations, to end a conflict between the two regional heavyweights since the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
• Erdogan in his first visit since the 2018 killing of Khashoggi in the kingdom`s Istanbul consulate, which drove a wedge between the two countries met the kingdom`s de facto ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, to `develop` relations.
• Saudi state news agency SPA on Thursday published images of the Turkish leader embracing Prince Mohammed, who US intelligence officials determined approved the plot against Khashoggi something Riyadh denies

9. UAE to send astronaut to ISS

• The United Arab Emirates announced on April 29, 2022 it will send an astronaut on a six-month mission to space, as it seeks to become a major player in the industry.
• The wealthy Gulf country signed `a new agreement to send the first Arab astronaut on a long 180-day mission to the International Space Station`, tweeted UAE`s vice president, Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum

10. Pakistan facing long ban after six weightlifters suspended for doping

• It`s taken barely nine months for the bubble to burst.
• Talha Talib`s sensational performance at last year`s Tokyo Olympics, where he finished fifth in the 67kg class, had provided hopes of a golden future for Pakistan`s weightlifters.
• But now a doping scandal threatens Pakistan`s international weightlifting future.
• The Pakistan Weightlifting Federation faces a lengthy ban from the International Weightlifting Federation after six of its weightlifters, including Talha, were provisionally suspended by the International Testing Agency over doping offences

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