6. CM grants status of district to Jampur tehsil
• Chief Minister Chaudhry Parvez Elahi on December 30, 2022 announced granting of the status of district for Jampur following a longstanding demand of its people. Jampur is a tehsil of Rajanpur district.
• The chief minister made this announcement while chairing a meeting, which was attended by MNA Sardar Nasrullah Khan Dareshak, whose son provincial minister Hasnain Bahadur Dareshak had got into an altercation with the chief minister and was asked to leave a cabinet meeting.
• Later, Hasnain tendered his resignation, which the CM refused to accept, saying the minister was like his son. The chief minister said Jampur was like Gujrat for him, adding he wanted progress and uplift of the area at the earliest
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7. 1,700 journalists killed in 20 years
• Nearly 1,700 journalists have been killed worldwide over the past 20 years, an average of more than 80 a year, according to an analysis published by Reporters Without Borders.
• Pakistan was ranked fifth, as 93 journalists were killed since 2003 in different parts of the country.
• The two decades between 2003 and 2022 were `especially deadly decades for those in the service of the right to inform`, said the Paris-based media rights campaigners. `Behind the figures, there are the faces, personalities, talent and commitment of those who have paid with their lives for their information gathering, their search for the truth and their passion for journalism,` RSF secretary-general Christophe Deloire said
8. China names `wolf warrior` as FM
• China appointed Qin Gang, its ambassador to the United States, as its new foreign minister on December 30, 2022, installing a top diplomat known for tough talk against the West.
• The 56-year-old replaces Wang Yi, who has been the face of Chinese diplomacy since 2013.
• Qin had been Beijing`s top representative in Washington since last year, charged with putting the relationship between the world`s two largest economies back on track.
• Qin, from the north-eastern city of Tianjin, has earned a reputation as a `wolf warrior`, a nickname given to Chinese diplomats who respond vehemently to Western nations they perceive as hostile.
9. Iran holds military drills in Gulf
• Iran held joint naval, air, and ground exercises in the Gulf on December 30, 2022 near the strategic Strait of Hormuz waterway.
• The drills involve submarines and drones `practising information-gathering operations against attacking forces`, as well as reconnaissance operations, Admiral Habibollah Sayyari told the official IRNA news agency.
• The exercises, code named Zolfaghar-1401, were launched on Friday in the eastern side of the strait in the Gulf of Oman. Tehran, which opposes the presence of US and Western navies in the area, holds annual war games in the Strait of Hormuz, the conduit for some 30 percent of all crude oil traded by sea
10. Putin expects Xi`s visit, seeks to boost military cooperation
• Russian President Vladimir Putin said on December 30, 2022 he was expecting Chinese President Xi Jinping to make a state visit early next year, in what would be a public show of solidarity from Beijing amid Russia`s fialling invasion of Ukraine.
• In effusive introductory remarks from a video conference between the two leaders broadcast on state television, President Putin also said he aimed to strengthen military cooperation with China.
• Putin`s statement, which lasted around eight minutes, highlighted Russia`s dramatic pivot away from the Western powers that have ostracized it economically and politically for its actions in Ukraine, and given Ukraine weapons, towards courting the rising global power of long-time rival China
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