Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (February 22, 2022) for CSS, PMS

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Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (February 22, 2022) for CSS, PMS

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February 22, 2022: National / International Current Affairs

1. PM looking to reinvigorate ties during Russia trip

• Prime Minister Imran Khan would during his two-day official visit to Russia, which begins from Wednesday, seek to further cement bilateral relations with Moscow.
• The Foreign Office on Monday announced the prime minister`s trip, saying Mr Khan will visit Russia on Feb 23-24 on the invitation of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
• He will be accompanied by a high-level delegation, including members of the cabinet, on the `official visit`, the FO said.
• `The visit of the prime minister will contribute to further deepening of the multifaceted Pakistan Russia bilateral relationship and enhancement of mutual cooperation in diverse fields,` it added

2. Imran announces zero tax for IT freelancers

• Prime Minister Imran Khan on February 21, 2022 announced a zero tax rate for freelancers in the information technology sector.
• He said Pakistanis, especially the youth, had great talent but the system did not allow them to excel.
• Speaking at the launch of the National E-Tijarat Portal, Mr Khan assured the youth of `all-out facilitation` by the government and urged them not to miss the IT revolution.
• They should not only generate revenues for themselves, but also help bridge the country`s trade gap.

3. Army captain martyred in Kohlu operation

• An army captain was martyred during a clearance operation in Balochistan`s Kohlu district on February 21, 2022 when fleeing terrorists opened indiscriminate fire at the raiding party.
• According to a statement issued by military`s media wing ISPR, Captain Haider Abbas embraced martyrdom in pursuit of the terrorists during an intelligence-based operation. `As soon as troops started cordoning the area, terrorists, while fleeing the hideout, opened indiscriminate fire, the statement said

4. Afghan trucks arrive to lift first consignment of Indian wheat

• A convoy of 41 Afghan trucks reached Wagah border on February 21, 2022 to collect the first consignment of wheat from India at Attar.
• New Delhi has committed 50,000 tonnes of wheat for Afghanistan because of food shortages there.
• The unloading of wheat from Indian lorries and its loading onto Afghan trucks is expected to begin today (Tuesday).
• `The 41 trucks, driven by Afghan drivers, were allowed to enter Pakistani territory at Torkham on February 21, 2022 morning,` a Lahore-based senior Customs official told Dawn

5. England scraps compulsory Covid self-isolation

• UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced February 21, 2022 all pandemic legal curbs in England would end later this week, urging a shift from government intervention to personal responsibility.
• But he faced scientific unease and claims of political calculation to shut down discontent at the restrictions and his premiership within his ruling Conservative party.
• Johnson, who has been mired in scandals that have threatened his hold on power, said the legal need for people to self-isolate when infected with Covid-19 would stop from Thursday.
• Access to free home testing kits will also cease from April 1, he added

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6. Tehran sees `significant progress` in nuclear talks

• Talks in Vienna on reviving the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers have made `significant progress`, Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said on February 21, 2022.
• Separately, Iran`s top security official Ali Shamkhani said talks with European negotiators were ongoing and would continue while negotiations with the United States were not on the agenda because they would not be the source of `any breakthroughs`.
• Indirect talks between Tehran and Washington have been held in Vienna since April amid fears about Tehran`s nuclear advances, seen by Western powers as irreversible unless agreement is struck soon

7. EU parliament`s biggest bloc wants Switzerland `blacklisted`

• The main political grouping in the European Parliament called on February 21, 2022 for a review of Switzerland`s banking practices and for the country`s possible inclusion in the EU`s dirty money blacklist after leaks of Credit Suisse documents.
• Media outlets published the results of investigations into a leak of data on thousands of accounts held at the bank in past decades and said they appeared to show clients included human rights abusers and businessmen under sanctions.
• Credit Suisse said it strongly rejected any allegations of wrongdoing and that the media reports were based on `partial, inaccurate or selective information taken out of context`

8. Unicef to pay Afghan teachers for two months

• As the country descends into economic crisis due to looming sanctions on the Taliban regime, the United Nation`s children`s agency has announced it will pay a monthly stipend to Afghanistan`s teachers, who have remained unpaid as most schools across the country remained closed since August last year.
• The payments, of roughly $100 per month, would be paid in local currency to around 194,000 primary and secondary schoolteachers for January and February, and would be funded by the European Union, Unicef announced.
• `Following months of uncertainty and hardship for many teachers, we are pleased to extend emergency support to public school teachers in Afghanistan who have spared no effort to keep children learning,` said Mohamed Ayoya, the representative for Unicef Afghanistan

9. Putin recognises Ukraine`s rebel regions, infuriates West

• Russian President Vladimir Putin on February 21, 2022 recognised two Moscow-backed rebel regions of Ukraine as independent, in a move that could set off a potentially catastrophic war with Kyiv`s Western-backed government.
• In an often angry 65-minute televised national address, Putin railed against Russia`s ex-Soviet neighbour Ukraine as a failed state and `puppet` of the West, repeatedly suggesting that it is essentially part of Russia.
• He accused authorities in Kyiv of persecuting Russian speakers and of preparing a `blitzkrieg` against the breakaway regions of Donetsk and Lugansk in Ukraine`s east.

10. Pakistan hockey great Abdul Waheed Khan is no more

• Eminent Olympian Abdul Waheed Khan, one of the two survivors of 1960 Rome Olympics gold medal-winning Pakistan hockey team, died peacefully at his home in Karachi early February 21, 2022.
• He was 87.
• Waheed is survived by a widow, two daughters and a son.
• He will be laid to rest at Sakhi Hasan graveyard after Zuhr prayers on Tuesday.Born in Raipur village of Bhopal district in India on Nov 13, 1934, Waheed migrated to Pakistan with his parents in 1949 and settled in PIB Colony in the metropolis

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