January 2023

Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (Jan 06 2023) for CSS

January 6, 2023
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6. Senate body passes bill to curb illegal immigration

• The Senate Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development Committee on January 5, 2023 unanimously passed a bill suggesting an increase in the punishment for individuals involved in sending Pakistani citizens abroad through illegal means and defrauding expatriates.
• Senator Manzoor Ahmed Kakar presided over the meeting in which a bill titled `The Emigration (Amendment) Bill, 2022` was tabled, said a statement. The objective of the bill was to address the grievances of overseas Pakistanis. According to the bill, the punishment of the people involved in fraud with people will be increased from seven years to 14 years.
• The committee members also asked for the details of the Pakistanis imprisoned abroad.
• They said that overseas workers send remittances to Pakistan and legislation needed to be done for their protection

7. Punjab launching new land record system

• The Punjab government is starting a new land record system, but the revenue record of 460 mouzas (villages) in the district of Rawalpindi is still incomplete.
• Upon this, the Board of Revenue (BoR) has written a letter to the deputy commissioner to complete the scanning of `Massavi` (details of land ownership) by January 9, as a team will visit the district headquarters to check it.
• According to the letter, the BoR director said Punjab Urban Land System Enhancement project was being conceived for implementation by the board with the assistance of the World Bank (WB) wherein each and every Khasra will be mapped digitally to replace the traditional manual land maintenance method

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8. Afghan Taliban claim killing of Pakistan embassy attackers

• Afghan Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid said on January 5, 2023 the Islamic State (IS) militants involved in the attack on Pakistan`s embassy in Kabul have been killed in an operation, Dawn.com reported.
• Afghan security forces carried out operations in Kabul against a `dangerous network` of the militant Islamic State group who were involved in attacks on the Pakistan embassy and on a hotel where Chinese nationals were staying, Mr Mujahid said in a statement.
• The Afghan government spokesperson confirmed that the militants killed in the operation were also involved in a bomb attack near a military airfield in Kabul and several other areas, according to Dawn.com.
• Mr Mujahid claimed the killed terrorists had planned more attacks on key targets

9. Putin orders ceasefire for Orthodox Christmas

• Russian President Vladimir Putin on January 5, 2023 ordered a 36-hour ceasefire in Ukraine to run during Orthodox Christmas, a move that war battered Kyiv swiftly branded as `hypocrisy` Putin`s directive to his troops was announced days after Moscow suffered its deadliest reported loss of the invasion, and following 11 months of brutal combat.
• Both nations celebrate Orthodox Christmas and the Russian leader`s order came after a ceasefire was urged by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russia`s spiritual leader Patriarch Kirill, a staunch Putin supporter.
• `Taking into account the appeal of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill, I instruct the defence minister of the Russian Federation to introduce… a ceasefire along the entire line of contact between the sides in Ukraine,` said a Kremlin statement

10. Iran closes French institute to protest Khamenei cartoons

• Iran on January 5, 2023 announced the closure of a Tehran-based French research institute in protest against cartoons of the Islamic republic`s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, published by French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo.
• The magazine printed the caricatures in support of months of protests in Iran as part of a special edition to mark the anniversary of the deadly 2015 attack on its Paris office which left 12 people dead, including some of its best known cartoonists.
• `The ministry is ending the activities of the French Institute for Research in Iran as a first step,` the Iranian foreign ministry said in a statement, a day after Tehran had warned Paris of consequences.
• The French government must hold responsible `the authors of such hatred`, it added, also calling for `a serious fight against anti Islamism and Islamophobia` in France

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