Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (August 24, 2022) for CSS, PMS

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Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (August 24, 2022) for CSS, PMS

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August 24, 2022: National / International Current Affairs

1. Pakistan seeks world aid to cope with flood emergency

• As massive floods across Pakistan have so far claimed at least 830 lives since July, the government on August 23, 2022 decided to launch an international appeal seeking funds for relief and rehabilitation of flood-hit people and restoration of damaged infrastructure.
• This decision was taken during an urgent briefing on the flood emergency in Pakistan by the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), which was summoned to reassess the damage done by floods and to apprise the development partners and donors of the magnitude of the crisis.
• In addition to looking outward for assistance to mitigate the devastation caused by abnormal monsoon downpour, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif also appealed to the nation to extend help to the flood-stricken people as the government required hundreds of billions to rehabilitate the flood victims

2. Senate body okays bills seeking to repeal MTI Act, abolish PMC

• The Senate Standing Committee on National Health Services (NHS) on August 23, 2022 passed two important bills following which members of the health fraternity have become hopeful that the Medical Teaching Institution (MTI) Act at Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) and Pakistan Medical Commission (PMC) would be abolished soon.
• It is worth mentioning here that the committee, chaired by Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Senator Mohammad Humayun Mohmand, had to discuss two bills titled `The Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) Bill 2022` and `The Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) Bill 2022` moved by Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP)Senator Saleem Mandviwalla on Aug 1.
• The house had referred both bills to the standing committee with a suggestion to consider and report within two days but during its last meeting, held on Aug 3, the committee chairman refused to hold voting on the matter and announced to adjourn the meeting despite severe protest by senators of the coalition government parties

3. Pakistan`s political turmoil echoes in US, UN corridors

• The political turmoil in Pakistan echoed far away in the United States as well, where the UN chief urged Islamabad to keep the legal process impartial while the State Department underlined the need to follow `democratic, constitutional and legal` principles.
• The controversy that followed PTI chief Imran Khan`s controversial remarks against a female judge and the Islamabad police also drew the attention of the US media and Washington`s think tanks, where experts urged ruling and opposition forces in Pakistan not to rock the boat.
• On Monday afternoon, the issue came up at a UN news briefing in New York as well when a reporter asked if the UN chief was aware of the recent political developments in Pakistan. Stéphane Dujarric, the spokesperson for Secretary General Antonio Guterres, said the UN chief was `aware` of the charges brought against Imran Khan and emphasised the `need for a competent, independent and impartial legal process`

4. India sacks 3 officials over missile mishap

• India on August 23, 2022 blamed the March 9 firing of a missile into Pakistan on violation of Standard Operating Procedures and sacked three Indian Air Force (IAF) officials.
• A mid-range BrahMos cruise missile had struck a cold storage in Mian Channu after originating from India.
• No loss of life occurred due to the incident, which India had then claimed to have happened accidentally during a routine maintenance operation because of a technical malfunction.
• The missile travelled 124km inside Pakistan for three minutes and 44 seconds, but it was not shot down by Pakistani air defences. The military had claimed to have tracked the missile all along its route till it hit the cold storage

5. Malaysia`s ex-PM Najib gets 12-years jail for graft

• Malaysia`s top court ordered former prime minister Najib Razak to begin a 12-year prison sentence on August 23, 2022 after upholding a guilty conviction on charges related to a multibillion dollar graft scandal at state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB).
• The federal court ruling caps the stunning downfall of Najib, who until four years ago governed Malaysia with an iron grip and suppressed local investigations of the 1MDB scandal that has implicated financial institutions and high ranking officials worldwide.
• Investigators have said some $4.5 billion was stolen from 1MDB co-founded by Najib during his first year as prime minister in 2009 and that over $1 billion went to accounts linked to Najib

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6. India forced Twitter to put agent on payroll, says whistleblower

• A former Twitter Inc security chief has alleged that the Indian government forced the social media firm to put a government agent on the payroll, according to a whistleblower disclosure with US regulators.
• Peiter `Mudge` Zatko raised the issue with the US Securities and Exchange Commission among other security lapse claims at Twitter.
• He said the government agent would have had access to sensitive user data due to Twitter`s weak security infrastructure, according to a redacted version of the complaint uploaded by The Washington Post newspaper and verified by Zatko`s attorney at Whistleblower Aid.
• A company source said that the allegations about the India government had surfaced previously within Twitter, without elaborating further

7. UK spies under fire over arrest of Sikh blogger in India

• Human rights groups on August 23, 2022 said UK intelligence agencies may have shared information with India that led to the arrest and torture of a Sikh blogger from Scotland.
• Jagtar Singh Johal, 35, has been held in detention in India for more than four years.
• He is accused of being part of a terror plot against right-wing Hindu leaders and has been charged with conspiracy to murder.
• `Our investigators have uncovered critical information that in 2017, the UK government may have authorised MI5 and MI6 to share information about UK citizen Jagtar Singh Johal,` two organisations, Reprieve and Redress, said in a joint statement

8. Solar-powered drone crashes in US after record 64-day flight

• An unmanned solar-powered aircraft crashed after flying for 64 days, more than doubling the record for a pilotless plane, the US army and media sources said on August 23, 2022.
• The Zephyr-8 drone, made by Europe`s Airbus, `encountered events that led to its unexpected termination` over a desert test facility in Arizona on Aug 18, the Army Futures Command said in a statement.
• The statement did not provide details, but the Simple Flying website, studying online flight tracking data, said the gangly high-tech aircraft was flying in S-shaped patterns over south-western US at 45,00050,000 feet when it suddenly descended at an accelerated rate

9. Record 1,295 migrants cross Channel to Britain in one day

• The number of people crossing the Channel to the UK from northern France in small boats has hit a new high, the government in London said on August 23, 2022.
• Some 1,295 migrants were detected on Monday, beating the previous single-day record of 1,185 on November 11, 2021, the Ministry of Defence said.
• The issue has caused a major political headache for the UK government, which promised tighter border controls after leaving the European Union.
• Tensions have risen between London and Paris, with the UK government accusing France of not doing enough to stop the crossings. So far this year there have been some 22,670 crossings. At the same point in 2021, nearly 12,500 had been intercepted making the journey. Last year, the UK authorities brought ashore a total of 28,526 people as they tried to cross the busy shipping lane

10. Apple to start iPhone 14 production in India

• Apple Inc plans to start making the iPhone 14 in India about two months after its release out of China, in a move that will narrow the gap from the typical six to nine months for previous launches, Bloomberg News reported on August 23, 2022.
• The company has been working with suppliers to ramp up manufacturing in India and the first iPhone 14s from the country are likely to be finished in late October or November, following the initial September release, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter.
• Apple`s Taiwan-based supplier Foxconn has studied the process of shipping items from China and assembling the iPhone 14 at its plant outside southern Indian city of Chennai, it reported

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