Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (Dec 28 2022) for CSS

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Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (Dec 28 2022) for CSS

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December 28, 2022: National Current Affairs MCQs

1. ECP postpones Islamabad LG polls at eleventh hour

• The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on December 27, 2022 put an end to the uncertainty surrounding the local government elections in Islamabad as it postponed the polls `for the time being` at the last minute, frustrating thousands of contestants and their supporters.
• The decision was announced by the election watchdog after a five-member bench, headed by Chief Election Commissioner Sikandar Sultan Raja, conducted a hearing on the issue in the light of the Islamabad High Court`s directives.
• `Keeping in view the legal provisions and the judgement of the Honourable High Court, Islamabad dated Dec 23, 2022, regarding the subject matter. Local Government Elections in ICT scheduled to be held on Dec 31, 2022, is hereby postponed for the time being,` the short order by the ECP said

2. Federal govt buildings to shift to solar power by April: PM

• Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on December 27, 2022 vowed to convert all government buildings in the country to solar power, starting from those belonging to federal government entities by April to save 300 to 500 megawatts per month and slash the import bill hovering around $27 billion a year.
• Speaking at a solarisation conference in Islamabad, the premier also blamed all previous governments in the last 30 years that include at least two terms of his brother and PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif for `unbridled circular debts` in the power sector that have escalated to Rs2.5 trillion.
• He said that in view of the pre-vailing economic crisis in the country, the time had come to make long overdue reforms, for which he said bureaucrats had to rejuvenate themselves to serve the nation and clear official files without any fear of NAB

3. Japan aid agency sends mosquito nets for flood-hit

• The Japan International Cooperation Agency`s (Jica) Pakistan Office has provided 9,000 mosquito nets, 80,000 ORS and 400,000 water purification tablets to support the people affected by recent floods in districts of Punjab and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.
• On the request of governments of Punjab and KP, the Japanese government and Jica Pakistan Office decided to support the worst affected districts of the two provinces.
• In Punjab the target districts are Dera Ghazi Khan and Rajanpur, while in KP, the target districts are Kohistan, Dera Ismail Khan, Tank, Nowshera and Charsada.
• The expected beneficiaries of this support are around 80,000 families with pregnant or lactating women and children under five, a press release by Japanese embassy said on Tuesday

4. SBP lifts curbs on import of essential items

• The State Bank of Pakistan has eased imports of several essential items required as raw material and some basic needs of the exporters.
• A circular issued by the SBP on December 27, 2022 stated that the central bank had decided to withdraw its instructions with effect from Jan 2, 2023, paving the way for acceptance of requests for import transactions already submitted to the SBP.
• Earlier, under circulars issued in May and July this year, the authorised dealers (banks) were required to seek permission from the SBP`s Foreign Exchange Operations Department before initiating any import transaction.
• Though the main hurdle in the way of imports is the country`s poor foreign exchange that still persists, the State Bank came out to facilitate the economy heading fast to hit rock bottom

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5. UN asks Taliban to revoke policies against women

• The Taliban must immediately revoke their policies targeting women and girls in Afghanistan, the UN rights chief insisted on December 27, 2022, condemning their `terrible` consequences.
• `No country can develop indeed survive socially and economically with half its population excluded,` Volker Turk, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, said in a statement.
• `These unfathomable restrictions placed on women and girls will not only increase the suffering of all Afghans but, I fear, pose a risk beyond Afghanistan`s borders.` He said the policies risked destabilising Afghan society

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6. 100m people forced to leave home in 2022: UN report

• At least one hundred million people up from some 90 million in 2021 were forced to leave their homes in 2022, says a UN end-of-the-year report with a warning that this `record should never have been set`.
• Outbreaks of violence, or protracted conflicts, were key migration factors in many parts of the world, including Ukraine, Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Burkina Faso, Syria, and Myanmar, the report adds.
• The statistics do not include internal displacements caused by natural disasters. At least 30 million people were displaced in Pakistan alone when unprecedented rains led to a flood of biblical proportions in the summer of 2022. People who lose their homes in these disasters are not considered `refugees` and thus are not mentioned in such reports

7. UN urges countries to help Rohingya at sea as hundreds land in Indonesia

• The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR)urged countries on December 27, 2022 to help Rohingya Muslims stranded at sea as at least 20 reportedly died and hundreds more landed in Indonesia after weeks adrift in the Indian Ocean.
• Nearly 500 Rohingya have reached Indonesia in the past six weeks while `many others did not act despite numerous pleas and appeals for help`, the UNHCR said in a statement.
• It said on Monday said 2022 could be one of the deadliest years at sea in almost a decade for the Rohingya with a growing number of them fleeing desperate conditions in refugee camps in Bangladesh. One boat carrying 180 people is believed to have sunk in early December, with all on board presumed dead, according to rights groups

8. Reporters win UK defamation case

• A UK high court has awarded legal costs and damages of around GBP 75,000 to two London-based journalists after settling a defamation case in their favour.
• The claimants had filed the lawsuit against two individuals and a law firm after they were accused of corruption, violence and hooliganism in a press release circulated via social media.
• The defamation suit was initiated in 2019 after solicitor Ajaz Ahmed, his firm Pure Legal Solicitors, and Raja Usman Arshad held a press conference in London relating to the murder of British national Barrister Fahad Malik, who was gunned down in Islamabad in 2016.
• Mr Arshad is the son of Raja Arshad, the main accused in the murder case

9. Russian ultimatum to Kyiv: concede or face `military wrath`

• The Russian foreign minister has given an ultimatum to Kyiv to accept Moscow`s demands for ending the war or else suffer defeat on the battlefield.
• Those demands include Ukraine recognising Russia`s conquest of a fifth of its territory.
• Kyiv, armed and supported by the United States and its NATO allies, has vowed to recover all occupied territory and to drive out all Russian soldiers.
• `Our proposals for the demilitarisation and denazification of the territories controlled by the regime, the elimination of threats to Russia`s security emanating from there, including our new lands, are well known to the enemy,` TASS news agency quoted Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov as saying late on Monday.

10. South Korea`s military apologises for not downing North`s drones

• South Korea`s military apologised on December 27, 2022 for failing to shoot down five North Korean drones that crossed their shared border after facing wide criticism over its lack of readiness.
• Monday`s incursion prompted Seoul to fire warning shots and deploy fighter jets and attack helicopters to shoot down the drones, one of which flew close to the capital.
• `Yesterday, five enemy drones invaded South Korean airspace, and our military detected and tracked them, but we apologise for not being able to shoot them down,` the Joint Chief s of Staff (JCS) said in a statement. All of the drones appeared to have returned to the North despite an operation to hunt them down that lasted five hours

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