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

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

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February 05, 2022: National / International Current Affairs

1. Accord signed with China for industrial cooperation

• Pakistan`s Board of Investment (BoI) and China`s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) on February 4, 2022 signed the much-needed `Framework Agreement on Industrial Cooperation` that will inter alia facilitate relocation of industries as well as investment from China and other parts of the world to Special Economic Zones (SEZs) in Pakistan.
• The milestone was achieved a day after the arrival of Prime Minister Imran Khan in Beijing on a four-day tour. He held a series of meetings on Friday with executives of China`s leading state-owned and private companies, interacted with NDRC chairman He Lifeng to deliberate on China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) projects, and also joined world leaders at the National Stadium as the spectacular Beijing Winter Olympics 2022 kicked off

2. Three terrorists killed in Kech during operation against Panjgur attackers

• Three terrorists, including two high value targets, were killed on February 4, 2022 in an operation carried out by security forces in Kech district of Balochistan to hunt down those involved in late Wednesday night attacks on their two camps in Nushki and Panjgur.
• Levies personnel along with security forces also launched a search operation in the Roghani area after a grenade attack on a check-post in the border town of Chaman left two Levies Force personnel and four civilians injured.
• The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) in a statement issued late Friday evening explained that security forces conducted a follow-up operation in the Balgatar area of Kech and surrounded a makeshift hideout of the terrorists linked with the recent terrorist activities in Panjgur

3. Senate body approves bill to clip ICT officials` judicial powers

• A parliamentary committee on February 4, 2022 approved four bills, including one seeking separation of the judiciary and the district administration in Islamabad.
• The Senate Standing Committee on Interior, which met with Senator Mohsin Aziz in the chair, also discussed a number of other bills.
• Besides the committee members, Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, senior officials from the interior ministry and the Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) administration participated in the meeting.
• The committee discussed the draft `Code of Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Act 2021` which seeks amendments to the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) 1898 to end judicial powers enjoyed by bureaucrats in Islamabad

4. Moody`s terms IMF programme revival `credit positive`

• Terming the revival of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme `credit positive` to help shore up foreign exchange reserves, the Moody`s Investor Service wondered if the government would sustain reform momentum after September 2022 as it enters the election mode.
• In a statement, the New Yorkbased rating agency said the disbursement of $1bn by the IMF `will partially offset pressures on foreign exchange reserves, while facilitating further financing from other official sources`.
• The rating agency said sustained progress on reforms areas revenue, energy and state-owned enterprise sector will not only raise economic productivity and competitiveness but also reduce contingent liability risks to the sovereign. `We believe Pakistan remains committed to advance other reforms under the IMF programme, likely unlocking further disbursements, Moody`s said.

5. US eases restrictions on funds transfer to Afghanistan

• In a major move towards easing restrictions on Afghanistan, the United States has now decided to allow international banks to transfer money to the country for humanitarian purposes.
• A directive issued by the US Department of Treasury earlier this week also allows aid groups to pay teachers and healthcare workers at state-run institutions without the fear of breaching US sanctions on the Taliban.
• `Both US and non-US companies can ship food to Afghanistan, and banks can process financial transfers and other transactions associated with food shipments to Afghanistan,` said the directive issued in Washington

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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

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