Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (Dec 20 2022) for CSS

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Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (Dec 20 2022) for CSS

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December 20, 2022: National Current Affairs MCQs

1. Bannu stalemate continues

• The standoff between the security forces and banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militants continued on December 19, 2022 as the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) centre in Bannu remained under the militants` control.
• Late Sunday, the militants incarcerated in the CTD centre took control of the building after they snatched weapons from their investigators and took a number of law enforcers hostages. They had also fired upon the security personnel, reportedly injuring a CTD man and a soldier. The militants had demanded a safe passage to Afghanistan.
• Despite the passage of 24 hours, there has been no breakthrough in talks with the militants for the release of the hostages. An official source said that the standoff continued and there was `no breakthrough in negotiations` with the militants who had taken over the compound. `The top priority is to free the hostages from the captivity of militants, the source added

2. Three martyred in Miranshah suicide attack

• At least one soldier and two civilians lost their lives as a result of a suicide attack on the convoy of security forces in North Waziristan on December 19, 2022, said the media wing of the Pakistan Army.
• `A suicide blast occurred in the general area of Miramshah, North Waziristan District. Resultantly, Naik Abid, 33, a resident of district Mansehra, and two civilians embraced martyrdom while one civilian was injured in the incident,` the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in an official statement.
• Police said the bomber rammed a rickshaw into the vehicle of the security forces, killing one soldier and civilians. Following the attack, the area was immediately cordoned off by the security personnel, the senior official of the police added

3. Pakistan enrols one million non-Muslim voters in four years

• The number of voters belonging to religious minorities in the country has climbed to 4.43 million from 3.63 million in 2018. The number of voters from religious minorities was 2.77m in electoral rolls for the 2013 general election.
• The latest figures of minority voters were disclosed by National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) Chairman Tariq Malik during a consultative session with an interfaith delegation, led by Senator Kamran Michael, which called on him here on Monday.
• The NADRA chairman informed the delegation that the authority had so far registered 4.43m people belonging to minority communities including Christians, Hindus, Buddhists and people belonging to other religions

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4. US offers help with TTP threat, India rivalry

• Indicating it is closely following reports that militants have seized control of a counterterrorism centre in Bannu, the United States on December 19, 2022 offered unconditional support to Pakistan in its battle against the TTP and similar groups, saying that defeating terrorism was a shared goal of both countries.
• At the same time, it also offered to assist India and Pakistan in resolving their differences, reminding them that they were key global partners and that America would like to continue `valuable partnerships` with both.
• US State Department Spokesperson Ned Price made these remarks at a news briefing, hours after Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari reached Washington for talks with US officials

5. Over 190 nations approve historic Chinese-brokered nature accord

• More than 190 countries approve d a historic deal to reverse decades of environmental destruction threatening the world`s species and ecosystems at a marathon UN biodiversity summit early December 19, 2022.
• The chair of the COP15 nature summit, Chinese Environment Minister Huang Rungiu, declared the deal adopted at a plenary session in Montreal that ran into the wee hours and banged his gavel, sparking loud applause from assembled delegates.
• After four years of fraught negotiations, states rallied behind the Chinese brokered accord aimed at saving Earth`s lands, oceans and species from pollution, degradation and the climate crisis. `We have in our hand s a package that I think can guide us all to work together to hold and reverse biodiversity loss, to put biodiversity on the path of recovery for the benefit of all people in the world,` Huang told the assembly

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6. Russian `kamikaze` drones hit Kyiv, Putin visits ally Belarus

• Moscow launched a `kamikaze` drone attack on December 19, 2022, hitting key infrastructure in and around Kyiv, hours before Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Belarus, fuelling fears he will pressure his ally to join a new offensive on Ukraine.
• The Ukrainian Air Force said its air defences shot down 30 drones, in the third Russian air attack on the Ukrainian capital in six days and the latest in a series of assaults since October that have targeted the Ukrainian power grid, causing sweeping blackouts amid sub-freezing temperatures.
• Officials said at least three people were wounded and nine buildings damaged in the Kyiv region. The Ukrainian atomic energy agency accused Russia of sending one of the drones over part of the South Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant, in the Mykolaiv region

7. Netherlands PM apologises for 250 years of slavery

• Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte on December 19, 2022 officially apologised for 250 years of the Netherlands` involvement in slavery, calling it a `crime against humanity` The apology comes almost 150 years after the end of slavery in the European country`s overseas colonies, which included Suriname and islands like Curacao and Aruba in the Caribbean and Indonesia in the East.
• `Today on behalf of the Dutch government, I apologise for the past actions of the Dutch state,` Rutte said in a speech in The Hague.
• `We, living in the here and now, can only recognise and condemn slavery in the clearest terms as a crime against humanity,` he said.
• Dutch ministers have travelled to seven former colonies in South America and the Caribbean for the event

8. US names Kennedy scion to Northern Ireland role

• President Joe Biden`s administration on December 19, 2022 named Joe Kennedy III, a scion of the Irish American political dynasty, as an envoy on Northern Ireland.
• Kennedy was given a title of special envoy to Northern Ireland for economic affairs with a focus on promoting investment and development.
• The United States previously had a broader position of special envoy for Northern Ireland that started with former senator George Mitchell, who negotiated the landmark 1998 Good Friday agreement that largely ended decades of violence in the British-administered region.
• Kennedy will look to promote development `to the benefit of all communities` in Northern Ireland, historically divided between Protestants and Catholics, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said

9. Tunisia`s poll board revises vote turnout to 11pc

• Tunisia`s electoral board revised the turnout in parliamentary elections slightly upwards to 11.2 per cent on December 19, 2022, a poll that opposition groups said undermined President Kais Saied.
• The ISIE electoral authority had initially announced participation of 8.8pc after the close of voting for a parliament largely stripped of any power, the final pillar in Saied`s overhaul of the political system in the birthplace of the Arab Spring uprisings.
• ISIE chief Farouk Bouasker told journalists in Tunis that just over one million of the North African nation`s nine million registered voters had cast ballots

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10. First-ever home whitewash staring Pakistan in the face

• In a highly disappointing show, Pakistan face their first Test whitewash at home with England needing just 55 runs on the penultimate day to inflict upon the hosts a 3-0 series loss in the third Test at the National Stadium.
• Babar Azam`s men fell to yet another collapse on December 19, 2022 when they were bundled out for a paltry 216 as England leg-spinner Rehan Ahmed became the youngest debutant to take five wickets in an innings.
• Chasing a 167-run target with more than two days to spare, England plundered 112 with openers Zak Crawley and Bun Duckett giving them a 87-run start before the former and Rehan coming in as the night watchman were dismissed by Abrar Ahmed

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