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Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (August 04, 2022) for CSS, PMS

Shahzad F. Malik
Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (August 04, 2022) for CSS, PMS
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August 04, 2022: National / International Current Affairs

1. Drone that hit Zawahiri flew from Kyrgyzstan: reports

• The American drone that eliminated Al Qaeda leader Ayman al Zawahiri in Kabul was possibly launched from an airbase in Kyrgyzstan, some US media reports claimed on Wednesday.
• The reports claimed that the attack was launched from Ganci Airbase, a US transit facility at Manas in northern Kyrgyzstan.
• According to the US Department of Defence, Ganci is a former American military base in Kyrgyzstan, near the Bishkek international airport. It was operated by the US Air Force, which handed it over to the Kyrgyz military in June 2014

2. Japan to provide $9m for upgrading Multan drainage system

• The Japanese government will provide $9 million to Pakistan for upgrading the mechanical system for sewerage and drainage services in Multan.
• An agreement to this effect was signed on August 3, 2022.
• Ambassador of Japan Wada Mitsuhiro and Economic Affairs Division Secretary Mian Asad Hayaud Din signed the agreement on behalf of their respective countries in the presence of visiting Parliamentary Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan, Honda Taro.
• Minister for Economic Affairs Sardar Ayaz Sadiq and Chief Representative of Japan International Cooperation Agency (Jica) Kinoshita Yasumit su also attended the signing ceremony

3. A JK minister gets life imprisonment in murder case

• A sitting member of the Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) cabinet was arrested by police on Wednesday moments after the Shariat Appellate bench of the AJK High Court slapped him with rigorous life imprisonment and Rs1 million fine in a nearly two decades old murder case.
• Minister for Higher Education Malik Zaffar Iqbal, who had returned from LA-8, Kotli-I on PTI ticket, was nominated in this case in an application lodged with Kotli police station on Sept 29, 2003by Rashid Hussain Shah for the murder of his brother Amir Asif Shah.
• The complainant had alleged that a group of around 16 lethal weapon wielding people, including Mr Iqbal, had attacked his shop in Riyan Gala village in the wake of a brief altercation with Mansha Malik a few days ago

4. SBP cracks down on exchange firms to stabilise rupee

• The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) on August 3, 2022 said it has started a crackdown on exchange companies (ECs) in the light of findings from ongoing inspections and mystery shopping.
• In a statement, the central bank stated that due to recent volatility in the exchange rate and the difference between the interbank rate and the rate offered by ECs and banks to their customers, it has increased its monitoring of ECs and banks` foreign exchange operations.
• In this respect, the SBP started inspections of a number of exchange companies and banks on Monday (Aug 1), it added.
• There was clear evidence that banks were involved in mintingmoney as they were charging much higher dollar rates than the rates shown by the State Bank

5. Rupee sees biggest single-day gain in over two decades

• The rupee jumped 4.2 per cent in the interbank market against the US dollar on Wednesday, making the largest single day gain in years after weeks of battering amid political and economic turmoil.
• The rupee closed at 228.80 on Wednesday, up from 238.38 a day earlier, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) said, a day after the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said the country had cleared all prior actions needed to unlock the much-needed loan programme.
• Fahad Rauf, head of research at Ismail Iqbal Securities, t old Reuters news agency that it was the highest rupee rally in both absolute and percentage terms since1999,accordingtocentral bank data

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6. Protest leader Stalin arrested in Sri Lanka

• A top Sri Lankan trade union leader in the forefront of protests which led to the ousting of Gotabaya Rajapaksa from the presidency was arrested on August 3, 2022, witnesses and officials said.
• Joseph Stalin, the secretary of the Sri Lanka Teachers` Union, becomes the senior most activist to be arrested in a crackdown against protesters forced Rajapaksa to flee last month.
• `He is being arrested for holding a demonstration in May in violation of a court order,` police told reporters at Stalin`s union office in Colombo as he was being detained

7. First grain shipment from Ukraine sails through Istanbul

• The first shipment of grain from Ukraine since the Kremlin`s invasion five months ago sailed through Istanbul on August 3, 2022 under a landmark deal designed to help alleviate a global food crisis sparked by the war.
• The Sierra Leone-flagged Razoni`s voyage from the Black Sea port of Odessa to Lebanon is being watched closely for signs of how the first agreement signed by Moscow and Kyiv since Russia invaded its pro-Western neighbour holds.
• A deal brokered by Turkey and the Unite d Nations last month lifted a Russian naval blockade of Ukraine`s Black Sea cities and set terms for millions of tonnes of wheat and other grain to start flowing from filled silos and ports

8. US state votes to maintain abortion rights in test case

• Abortion rights advocates celebrated on Tuesday as the Midwestern US state of Kansas voted to maintain the right to the procedure, the first major poll on the flashpoint issue since the Supreme Court overturned nationwide access in June.
• Kansans rejected an amendment that would have scrapped language in the state constitution guaranteeing the right to the procedure and could have paved the way for stricter regulations or a ban.
• The vote was widely seen as a test case for abortion rights nationwide, as Republican-dominated legislatures rush to impose strict bans on the procedure following the Supreme Court`s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. Pro-abortion rights campaigners and supporters celebrated the win for their side of the hotly contested US debate. `Pm just beside myself,` campaign volunteer Anne Melia said

9. Taliban tight-lipped over US strike that killed Zawahiri

• Top leaders of Afghanistan`s Taliban were holding discussions on Wednesday about how to respond to a US drone strike in Kabul that the United States said killed Al Qaeda leader Ayman alZawahiri, three sources in the group said.
• The United States killed Zawahiri with a missile fired from a drone while he stood on a balcony at his Kabul hideout on Sunday, US officials said, the biggest blow to the Taliban since Osama bin Laden was shot dead more than a decade ago in Pakistan.
• The Taliban have not confirmed Zawahiri`s death

10. Nooh, Hussain sparkle as Pakistan`s CWG medal wait ends

• After Shah Hussain Shah ended Pakistan`s medal wait, Nooh Dastagir Butt smashed the Commonwealth Games record.
• On the sixth day of competition in Birmingham, the duo`s exploits ensured Pakistan got its first gold and bronze medals.
• It was Nooh`s breathtaking lift that delivered the gold, the 23-year-old improving on his bronze at the previous edition of the Games in Australia`s Gold Coast four years ago

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