Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (February 05, 2022) for CSS, PMS

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6. Putin, Xi hail `no limits` partnership, assail US policies

• China and Russia proclaimed a deep strategic partnership on February 4, 2022 to balance what they portrayed as the malign global influence of the United States as China`s President Xi Jinping hosted Russia`s Vladimir Putin.
• In a joint statement, the two countries affirmed that their new relationship was superior to any political or military alliance of the Cold War era.
• `Friendship between the two States has no limits, there are no `forbidden` areas of cooperation,` they declared, announcing plans to collaborate in a host of areas including space, climate change, artificial intelligence and control of the Internet

7. Lord Nazir Ahmed jailed over sex offences

• Former Labour peer Lord Nazir Ahmed of Rotheram was sentenced by a UK court on Friday to five-and-a-half years in prison for abusing two children in the 1970s.
• He faced charges of serious sexual assault against a boy and attempted rape of a young girl, and was convicted last month.
• Mr Justice Lavender passed the sentence and said the disgraced peer`s actions had had `profound and lifelong effects` on the victims.
• The abuse took place in Rotheram when Lord Ahmed was aged 16 or 17, and his victims much younger.

8. Australia confirm Pakistan tour with start and finish in Rawalpindi

• In its first tour of Pakistan in 24 years, Australia`s cricket team wants to spend the most time in Rawalpindi.
• Cricket Australia on February 4, 2022 confirmed its first tour of Pakistan since 1998, having agreed a revised schedule with the Pakistan Cricket Board which will see the first of three Tests being played in Rawalpindi, which will also host three One-day Internationals and the lone Twenty20 International.
• That means Australia will spend just over more than half of their tour 20out of 39 days in Rawalpindi with Karachi, which was scheduled to host the first Test, now switching with Rawalpindi while Lahore, originally chosen as the venue for the white-ball matches, will keep the third Test

9. Pakistan Super League Malik stars as Zalmi down Kings

• The runs must have bolstered Babar Azam`s already-impressive Twenty20 average but they couldn`t inspire Karachi Kings to their first victory in the ongoing edition of the HBL Pakistan Super League.
• In an unbeaten 90 off 63 balls, Babar played 17 dots as the Kings fell nine runs short to Peshawar Zalmi here at the National Stadium on February 4, 2022.
• Babar`s Pakistan team-mate Shoaib Malik`s innings, made the difference though. His unbeaten 52 powered Zalmi to 173-4 and he returned to dismiss Kings danger man Sharjeel Khan in the first over of their innings.

10. China opens Olympics, with lockdown and boycotts

• China, which used its first Olympics to amplify its international aspirations, invite d the world back on February 4, 2022 sort of for the pandemic era`s second Games, this time as an emboldened and more powerful nation whose government`s authoritarian turn provoked some countries leaders into staying home.
• Chinese President Xi Jinping declared the Games open during a ceremony heavy on ice-blue tones and winter imagery, held in the same lattice-encased Bird`s Nest stadium that hosted the inaugural event of the 2008 Summer Olympics.
• Athletes Zhao Jiawen and Dinigeer Yilamujiang, a member of the country`s Uyghur Muslim minority, delivered the final Olympic flame. The choice of Yilamujiang was steeped in symbolism: Critics say the Beijing government has abused and oppressed Uyghurs on a massive scale