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December 15, 2022: National Current Affairs MCQs
1. Three killed as suicide attacker rams bike into convoy
• Three civilians were killed and 14 others, including nine security personnel, wounded in a suicide attack in the Sargardan area of North Waziristan tribal district on December 14, 2022.
• Security officials said a convoy of security forces was on its way from Datta Khel tehsil to Miramshah when the suicide bomber riding a motorbike hit it.
• They said the deceased and the wounded were shifted to the District Headquarters Hospital, Miramshah.
• The area was cordoned off by security forces after the incident.
• No more details about the incident were immediately available. The Inter-Services Public Relations, the media wing of the military, has not issued any statement about the incident
2. Talks on 9th review productive so far: IMF
• International Monetary Fund (IMF) Resident Representative for Pakistan Esther Perez Ruiz has said that discussions between Islamabad and the international lender on the 9th review of the $7 billion Extended Fund Facility had been `productive` so far.
• Pakistan entered a $6bn IMF programme in 2019, which was increased to $7bn earlier this year. The programme`s 9th review is currently pending with remote talks being held between IMF officials and the government for the release of $1.18bn.
• `Discussions to date in the context of the 9th review have been productive, and have enabled a revision to the macroeconomic outlook post floods as well as an in-depth evaluation of fiscal, monetary, exchange rate, and energy policies adopted since the completion of the combined 7th and 8th reviews,` Ruiz told
3. Hina urges world to hold India accountable
• Pakistan on December 14, 2022 called upon the international community and the United Nations to hold India accountable for perpetrating terrorism in the country with undeniable and indisputable evidence available.
• Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Hina Rabbani Khar at a press briefing on the dossier regarding India`s involvement in terrorism in Pakistan said repeated terror incidents reflected India`s persistent hostility and the use of terrorist proxies against the country.
• Ms Khar was referring to evidence of India`s involvement in the Johar Town blast in Lahore last year, that killed three people and injured 24 others.
• Ms Khar said no other country had used terrorism better than India that played the victim card despite being the biggest perpetrator of terrorism
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4. Registration of several FIRs in single offence against law: IHC
• The Islamabad High Court on December 14, 2022 observed that registration of several first information reports (FIRs) of single occurrence is against the law.
• Justice Tariq Mehmood Jahangiri, while hearing petitions filed by Information and Broadcasting Secretary Shahera Shahid, Pakistan Television Managing Director Sohail Ali Khan and Director News Rashid Baig over registration of FIRs against them in Punjab, remarked that the high court would settle this issue once and for all. The judge issued a restraining order against registration of further FIRs against them over the same offence.
• The Punjab police had registered several FIRs against them as well as PML-N leader Mian Javed Latif under different sections of the Pakistan Penal Code and Anti Terrorism Act for airing the latter`s press conference on the state run PTV
5. Pakistan, Tajikistan vow to foster ties in various sectors
• Pakistan and Tajikistan on December 14, 2022 vowed to enhance bilateral cooperation in the fields of energy, rail and road connectivity, trade, investment, agriculture and culture.
• The two sides also pledged to complete much-awaited Central Asia-South Asia (CASA-1000) power project to meet energy needs.
• Both states reiterated these commitments on the first day of a two-day official visit of Tajikistan President Emomali Rahmon to Pakistan.
• President Rahmon and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif also held a one-on-one meeting followed by a joint statement
