Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (Dec 22 2022) for CSS

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Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (Dec 22 2022) for CSS

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December 22, 2022: National Current Affairs MCQs

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1. SBP slashes GDP growth forecast to below 3-4pc

• The central bank has lowered its projected GDP growth from the previously announced range of 3-4 percent for the current fiscal year, citing flood-induced destruction and the stabilisation policy as major factors in its flagship economic health report released on Wednesday.
• However, in its Annual Report on the State of Pakistan`s Economy, which mostly discussed the previous financial year that ended on June 30, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) said economic growth was stronger than expected in the 2021-22 fiscal year as real GDP increased by 6pc compared to 5.7pc a year ago.
• The primary drivers of this growth were a broad based expansion in largescale manufacturing (LSM) and improved agricultural output, the report said

2. SC overturns verdicts in favour of khula

• In a family suit, the Supreme Court on December 21, 2022 set aside the Peshawar High Court (PHC) and appellate court decisions for dissolution of a marriage by way of khula and restored the decree of a family court to dissolve the marriage on the basis of cruelty inflicted by a man on his wife.
• While the family court after recording of evidence and hearing both sides had dissolved the marriage due to cruelty on a suit moved by Tayyeba Ambareen against her husband Shafgat Ali Kiyani demanding dower amount, dowry articles, medical expenses and maintenance for herself and their daughter, the appellate court on Nov 10, 2015 overturned the decree and converted it into khula with the direction to the woman to refund five-tola gold to her husband. The high court also upheld the appellate court decision.

3. Abdullah Sumbal posted as regular Punjab CS

• The federal government on December 21, 2022 posted Abdullah Khan Sumbal as the Punjab chief secretary after a delay of over three months when sitting CS Kamran Ali Afzal went on leave.
• Since then, the Punjab government has given look-after charge of the top administrative office to Mr Sumbal which was extended thrice. The PTI-PMLQ`s coalition government in Punjab views the development as a `serious move` at this critical juncture. However, it believes that the new chief secretary now commanding all administrative powers would not denotify chief minister Chaudhry Parvez Elahi if the governor asks him to do so since Mr Elahi did not take vote of confidence on the advice of the Punjab governor.
• However, sources in the bureaucracy say the chief secretary is bound to do what the law says, regardless how stakeholders interpret the constitutional provisions

4. Amir Zulfiqar appointed Punjab IGP

• Ending the uncertainty with regard to the appointment of new head of Punjab police, the federal government late on December 21, 2022 posted Muhammad Amir Zulfiqar Khan as provincial police chief.
• The federal government has issued the notification for appointment of Mr Zulfiqar as Punjab inspector general of police, who was deputy director general of the Anti Narcotics Force (ANF). He has previously held the posts of National Highways & Motorway Police IG, Islamabad police IG and Additional IG Operations, CPO Punjab, Lahore.
• Mr Zulfiqar, as an assistant superintendent of police (ASP), won both top police honours -the Quaid-e-Azam Police Medal and the Pakistan Police Medal. He belongs to Lahore and joined the Police Service of Pakistan (PSP) in 1991 and belonged to 19th Common

5. Flood-hit areas exposed to harsh winter: UN

• The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in an interim report on flood damage severity and propensity for severe weather says 14 districts of Sindh, 10 districts of Balochistan, nine districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and two of Punjab have been identified as the most exposed to difficult winter conditions.
• The UNOCHA report, made available on December 21, 2022, says that with the onset of winter season, stagnant receding water, displacements at inadequate and makeshift sites, damaged shelters and the lack of appropriate winter clothing, basic household items and safe heating supplies, are contributing to placing millions of people at risk of illness, disease and protection concerns, especially gender-based violence

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6. First foreign Covid vaccines head to China from Germany

• Berlin has sent its first batch of BioNTech Covid-19 vaccines to China to be administered initially to German expatriates, a German government spokesperson said on December 21, 2022, the first foreign coronavirus vaccine to be delivered to the country.
• No other details were available on the timing and size of the delivery, although the spokesperson said Berlin is pushing for foreigners other than German citizens to be allowed access to the shot if they want it.
• The shipment comes after China agreed to allow German nationals in China to get the shot following a deal during Chancellor Olaf Scholz`s visit in Beijing last month, with the German leader pressing for Beijing to allow the shot to be made freely available to Chinese citizens as well. There are about 20,000 German nationals currently in the country. `I can confirm a shipment of the BioNTech vaccine is on its way to China,` the person told journalists in Berlin

7. Afghan women stopped from entering varsities; Taliban ban stuns students

• Female university students in Afghanistan were turned away from campuses on December 21, 2022 after the Taliban-run administration said women would be suspended from tertiary education.
• The decision to bar women was announced on Tuesday evening in a letter to universities from the higher education ministry, drawing condemnation from foreign governments and the United Nations.
• `We went to university, the Taliban were at the gate and told us you are not allowed to enter the university until further notice` … everyone was crying,` said Shaista, a business studies student at a private university in Kabul.
• A professor at another university in Kabul who declined to be identified said staff turned female students away at the gate as they had no choice but to implement the instruction

8. Nepal court orders release of serial killer Charles Sobhraj

• Nepal`s top court ordered on December 21, 2022 the release and deportation of Charles Sobhraj, the French serial killer portrayed in the Netflix series `The Serpent` who was responsible for a string of murders across Asia in the 1970s.
• The Supreme Court ruled Sobhraj, 78, who has been in prison in the Himalayan republic since 2003 for murdering two North American tourists, should be freed on health grounds.
• `Keeping him in the prison continuously is not in line with the prisoner`s human rights,` read a copy of the verdict

9. Rocket lost after liftoff in setback for Europe`s space ambitions

• Europe`s new Vega-C rocket was lost shortly after lift-off from French Guiana overnight with two satellites on board, in the latest blow to European space efforts.
• The launch failure threatens to ground the Vega-C, which would leave Europe without a short-term way to send satellites into orbit after delays to the Ariane 6 rocket and cancelled Russian cooperation over the Ukraine war.
• If it had been successful, it would have been the first commercial launch of the Vega-C since its inaugural flight on July 13

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10. PM forms Sethi-led interim body to run PCB affairs; elections within four months

• In a major top-level change in Pakistan cricket administration, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on December 21, 2022 nominated a 14-member management committee headed by Najam Sethi to run the affairs of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) till the elections to be held within the next four months.
• `The Prime Minister has seen and is pleased to approve the proposal at para 7, of the summary with the stipulation that names of the Management Committee, to be placed before the Federal Cabinet,` said the notification issued by the Prime Minister`s Office on Wednesday.
• The Sethi-headed committee includes Shakil Sheikh (ex-PCB BoG), Gul Zada (ex-PCB BoG) Nauman Butt (ex-PCB BoG), ex-Test cricketers Haroon Rashid, Shahid Khan Afridi and Shafgat Rana, Sana Mir (ex-Pakistan women team`s captain), Aized Syed (ex-PCB director NHPC), Tanvir Ahmed (ex-president Larkana Region), Advocate Supreme Court Mustafa Ramday and Chaudhry Arif Saeed (CEO Service Industries)

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