Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (Dec 31 2022) for CSS

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Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (Dec 31 2022) for CSS

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December 31, 2022: National Current Affairs MCQs

1. `Impractical` court order puts ECP in a bind

• After a day of whirlwind legal proceedings, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) said on December 30, 2022 night that local bodies elections in Islamabad cannot be held on Dec 31 (today).
• Earlier in the day, the Islamabad High Court (IHC) had ordered the ECP to hold the polls on Saturday giving the machinery less than 24 hours to implement its directions.
• An ECP official told Dawn that it was `practically impossible` to hold an electoral exercise, even within Islamabad alone, on such short notice.
• The remarks came after Chief Election Commissioner Sikandar Sultan Raja held a meeting to consider the IHC verdict

2. PM okays outsourcing management of three key airports

• Reviving a decision taken by the government of his PML-N in 2017, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on December 30, 2022 issued directives calling for initiating the process of outsourcing the management of three major airports in the country.
• In April 2017, the then prime minister and PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif had approved the policy to outsource the management of the country`s three main airports.
• Chairing a meeting held to discuss matters pertaining to aviation and airports on Friday, PM Shehbaz gave a go-ahead for outsourcing of Jinnah International Airport Karachi, Allama Iqbal International Airport Lahore and Islamabad International Airport under the public-private partnership

3. NSC vows to counter terrorism with `full force`

• The National Security Committee (NSC) has vowed to respond to the resurgent terrorist threat with `full force` and safeguard the national interest but deferred crucial decisions for dealing with the situation until Monday.
• `The meeting of the National Security Committee (NSC) will continue on Monday … In which further decisions will be taken in the light of the proposals, the Prime Minister`s Office (PMO) said in a statement after a meeting on Friday, the first day of deliberations.
• The meeting was convened to discuss the aggravating security situation because of growing number of terrorist attacks, border clashes with the Afghan Taliban, and the economic meltdown.
• Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif chaired the meeting, attended by key federal ministers, services chiefs and heads of intelligence agencies

4. Turkish navy ship conducts drills with PN

• Pakistan and Turkish naval ships took part in a bilateral exercise Turgutreis-VII comprising operations including defence against asymmetric attacks, visit board search and seizure, air defence exercises and joint coordinated patrol.
• The two navies also conducted joint patrolling in the North Arabian Sea to further hone professional skills and enhance interoperability.
• The visit of the Turkish Navy ship TCG Burgazada to Pakistan is a manifestation of strong bilateral ties between the two countries and the exercise is a testimony of Pakistan Navy`s resolve towards regional peace and maintenance of order at sea.
• At the Karachi port, TCG Burgazada was earlier welcomed by senior officers of the Pakistan Navy along with officials of the Turkiye Consulate

5. Pakistani diplomatic property in US going to `highest bidder`

• The highest bidder for a Pakistan embassy property in the US capital is Shahal Khan of Burkhan World Investments and he is also the likely winner of this bid, sources privy to the development told.
• Mr Khan is believed to have offered $6.8 million for the property. Burkhan World is based in Washington and claims to `invest in projects that it believes will have a positive impact on our society`.
• A Jewish group, which presumably wanted to build a synagogue at this site, submitted the `second-highest` and not the `highest bid`, as reported earlier. The third bidder was an American investment company, which apparently employs US citizens of Indian origin as well.
• Official sources told Dawn that `the process of implementing the bid has started` which can be interpreted as `the highest bidder will get the property`, as agreed

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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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