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Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (August 17, 2022) for CSS, PMS

Shahzad F. Malik
Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (August 17, 2022) for CSS, PMS
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August 17, 2022: National / International Current Affairs

1. PA passes prohibition of loan interest bill

• Chief Minister Chaudhry Parvez Elahi on August 16, 2022 promised to introduce a rehef package for the people of Punjab wherein the ban on recruitments would be lifted, doctors and teachers` salaries would be increased and special persons would be accommodated.
• Addressing the Punjab Assembly session after passing the prohibition of interest bill on private loans and the Punjab privileges (repeal and revival) bill, he said time has come when the nation, which suffered a lot at the hands of PML-N, should be given relief.
• `The PML-N banned recruitments but it is the PTI government that is going to lift it in coming days. Emergency wards in hospitals would be upgraded and salaries of those doctors, who served in those emergency wards, would be increased by three per cent. The visually impaired persons, whom the PML-N treated with an iron hand, will be fully accommodated. It is regrettable that they were baton-charged by the PML-N government although they were not able to see the very baton beating them. Similarly, the salaries of the teachers would be increased and MPAs would be given funds for development projects in their respective constituencies which had been deprived in the PML-N`s regime,` he said

2. Proposal to raise drug prices rejected

• The federal cabinet has turned down a summary moved by the Ministry of National Health Services seeking an increase in the prices of at least 35 medicines, which may force people to `opt for costly alternatives` as the pharmaceutical industry fears the `hasty decision` will result in the discontinuation of these relatively cheaper drugs.
• According to a statement issued by the Prime Minister`s Office on August 16, 2022, the federal cabinet unanimously rejected the summary moved by the ministry and ordered that the prices of medicines should not be increased without approval from the federal government.
• An official of the Ministry of NHS said that these 35 medicines included anti-cancer medication, painkillers, and some antibiotics.
• `It was suggested that their prices be increased as hardship cases, but the federal cabinet rejected the summary,` he said, adding that the decision will be complied with

3. Two cops guarding polio team gunned down in Tank

• Two policemen guarding a polio vaccination team were shot dead by unknown assailants in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa`s Tank district on the second day of the campaign on August 16, 2022.
• `Two gunmen hiding near a small water channel opened fire on the policemen from a very close range,` Waqar Ahmad Khan, Tank`s district police officer (DPO), told the AFP news agency. He said the attackers spared the two-member polio vaccination team and fled on a motorbike.
• The incident occured in Tank`s Kachra Garah village within the limits of Gomal police station.
• Officials have identified the martyred police constables as Nisar, son of Sina Azam of Manzaiarea; and Pir Rehman, son of Ghani Khan of Khargi village.

4. Balochistan cabinet okays commission on missing persons

• The Balochistan cabinet has decided to constitute a high-powered parliamentary commission on the issue of missing persons.
• The body will be headed by the provincial home minister and include two members each from the government and the opposition.
• The cabinet announced the decision after a marathon meeting on Tuesday. `The summary of the commission should be submitted to the Chief Minister as soon as possible,` the cabinet decided

5. Air travellers must declare currency, jewellery: CAA

• The Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority (PCAA) has started implementing Financial Action Task Force (FATF) standards in accordance with the government`s directives for submission of customs` declaration forms by all inbound and outbound passengers of international flights giving details of their currency, gold jewellery, precious stones and restricted goods such as narcotics, weapons, satellite phones, etc.
• Pakistan Customs has been directed to depute its staff at all international airports to facilitate inbound/outbound passengers of all international flights.
• The airlines` crews will distribute the customs` declaration forms during the flights among all passengers, irrespective of their nationality

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6. Pakistan ranked 92nd out of 116 countries on Global Hunger Index: report

• While the world is off track in the fight against hunger and moving further away from the binding goal of ending hunger by 2030, the 2021 Global Hunger Index (GHI) showed that over the years, Pakistan has shown improvement as the country was ranked 92nd out of 116.
• GHI is a peer-reviewed report published by the Concern Worldwide of Ireland and Welt hunger hilfe (WHH) every year since 2007 to track hunger across the globe.
• An event, to launch the chapter regarding Pakistan, was organised at a local hotel on Tuesday and attended by the nutrition section of the Scaling up Nutrition (SUN) Secretariat in the planning ministry

7. US commander says China missile fire over Taiwan must be `contested`

• China`s recent decision to fire missiles over Taiwan is a `gorilla in the room` that has to be contested, a top US military commander said on August 16, 2022.
• Beijing has carried out huge air and sea drills this month around Taiwan in a furious reaction to visits by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and a congressional delegation.
• Those exercises included firing multiple ballistic missiles into waters off Taiwan some of the world`s busiest shipping routes and it was the first time China has taken such a step since the mid-1990s

8. Chinese military ship docks in Sri Lanka

• A Chinese research vessel bristling with antennas and communication gear docked at Sri Lanka`s Chinese-run port of Hambantota on Tuesday despite concerns from India and the United States about its alleged spying activities.
• The Yuan Wang 5 entered the deep-sea port after securing permission to enter Sri Lankan waters on the condition it would not engage in research, port officials said.
• It was originally due to arrive last week, but Colombo asked Beijing to defer the visit following objections by India, which shares Western concerns about Chinese activities in the region

9. Taliban add more compulsory religion classes to Afghan universities` schedule

• Afghan university students will have to attend more compulsory Islamic studies classes, education officials said on Tuesday while giving little sign that secondary schools for girls would reopen.
• Many conservative Afghan clerics in the hardline Islamist Taliban, which swept back into power a year ago, are sceptical of modern education.
• `We are adding five more religious subjects to the existing eight,` said Abdul Baqi Haqqani, minister for higher education, including Islamic history, politics and governance

10. Turkish strikes on Syria border post claim 11 lives

• Turkish air strikes on a Syria border post run by regime forces killed 11 on August 16, 2022, following an overnight flare-up between Ankara`s forces and Kurdish fighters that control the area, a war monitor said.
• `Eleven fighters were killed in a Turkish air strike that hit a Syrian regime outpost… near the Turkish border,` the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, without specifying if the victims were affiliated with the Damascus government or Kurdish forces.
• The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces said `Turkish military aircraft have conducted 12 air strikes against positions of the Syrian army deployed on the border strip west of Kobane,` a Kurdish-held town. The raids caused `casualties`, SDF spokesman Farhad Shami said, without specifying how many

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