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January 16, 2022: National Current Affairs MCQs

1. `Peaceful` Sindh local polls marred by `low turnout`

• After a long delay, local government elections in Karachi and Hyderabad were finally held on January 15, 2023 with people casting votes to elect their representatives.
• The polling, which started at 8am, continued till 5pm in a largely peaceful manner with sporadic incidents of violence and recriminations of rigging by political parties.
• Unofficial results from Hyderabad put the Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP) in pole position on the majority of seats.
• However, till midnight, there was no clear word as to who was leading the polls in Karachi

2. Shehbaz kicks off three-day polio eradication campaign

• Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif kicked off a three day nationwide polio eradication campaign by administering polio drops to children at a ceremony held here on January 15, 2023.
• Pakistan and Afghanistan are the only two countries in the world where polio continues to cripple children as its virus affects the nervous system of children ultimately leading to paralysis.
• Over 44 million children will be administered polio drops during the campaign.
• In nine districts of Hyderabad division and seven districts of Karachi division, the anti-polio campaign will be launched from Jan 23 to 27 due to local government elections

3. Pakistan`s productivity growth averaged 1.5pc in 2010s: study

• Pakistan`s average productivity growth remained just 1.5 per cent from 2010 to 2020, significantly low to achieve the required GDP growth rate of around 7-8pc on a sustainable basis, a new study shows.
• The study titled Sectoral Total Factor Productivity in Pakistan and conducted by the planning ministry and the think tank Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE) says that the growth of productivity is a crucial determinant of an economy`s growth that has to be pushed higher to over 3pc.
• The study used unique listed and non listed data from 1,321 firms divided into 61 sectors to estimate productivity growth in the country. Its results show that high-productivity growth sectors are mostly based on services or tech, whereas those with medium to low or negative productivity growth are in manufacturing

4. Barrick Gold starts work on Reko Diq project

• The Canada-based Barrick Gold Corporation has formally launched work on the Reko Diq project in Balochistan, the company`s head announced on January 15, 2023.
• In a ceremony held at the Chief Minister`s secretariat on Sunday, Barrick Gold Corporation Chief Executive Officer Mark Bristow said the company has also established a project office in Quetta.
• `We have hired the best team of experts while locals are also working on the project,` he added

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5. Gunmen kill former Afghan woman lawmaker

• A former lawmaker of Afghanistan, Mursal Nabizada, and one of her bodyguards were shot dead while her brother was wounded in a night-time attack at her home, police said on January 15, 2023.
• `Nabizada, along with one of her bodyguards, was shot dead at her house, Kabul police spokesman Khalid Zadran said.
• `The security forces have started a serious investigation into the incident,` he said, adding that a brother of the ex-lawmaker was also wounded in the attack, which took place during the night between Saturday and Sunday. Nabizada was a `fearless champion for Afghanistan`, former lawmaker Mariam Solaimankhil said on Twitter. `A true trailblazer strong, outspoken woman who stood for what she believed in, even in the face of danger,` she wrote

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6. Nato assures Ukraine of `more heavy weapons`

• Ukraine can expect more deliveries of heavy weapons from Western countries soon, Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said in an interview with a German daily on January 15, 2023.
• Kyiv has long pushed for heavier weaponry, including tanks, but Western nations have been reluctant, citing fears of becoming drawn into the war or provoking Russia `The recent pledges for heavy warfare equipment are important -and I expect more in the near future,` Stoltenberg told the Handelsblatt daily.
• The comments come ahead of a meeting this week of the Ukraine Defence Contact Group, which coordinates arms supplies to Kyiv, at Ramstein air base in Germany

7. Two Belgian MEPs admit to undeclared paid trips to Qatar

• Two Belgian members of the European Parliament have acknowledged they had failed to declare paid trips to Qatar, amid an influence-trafficking scandal that has rocked the European Union assembly.
• The lawyer for Belgian socialist MEP Marc Tarabella acknowledged his client had travelled to Qatar in February 2020 at the expense of the Gulf state, but had not declared the trip, as parliament rules required him to do.
• The development came four days after another Belgian member of the parliament`s centre-left Social and Democrats group, Maria Arena, admitted she had `forgotten` to declare a similar expenses-paid trip to Qatar in May last year

8. Israel`s president steps in to avert judicial crisis

• Israel`s president warned on January 15, 2023 that the country faced a constitutional crisis over a contested plan to rein in the judiciary and said he was mediating between parties.
• Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, now in his sixth term, wants to put controls on the Supreme Court, which members of his religious-nationalist coalition accuse of overreach and elitism.
• Proposed legislation would limit High Court rulings against government moves or Knesset parliament laws, while increasing politicians` sway over the selection of judges

9. Biden declares disaster as another storm hits flooded California

• US President Joe Biden has declared a major disaster in California, as the latest in a succession of storm systems blew into the state, bringing heavy Hooding to already waterlogged regions and threatening snowfalls of up to six feet.
• The latest system is expected to bring `heavy lower-elevation rain, significant mountain snow, and strong winds,` with `another surge of Pacific moisture` expected on Monday, the National Weather Service (NWS) said, while predicting `disastrous flooding` across the lower Salinas River valley, a key agricultural region south of San Francisco Bay.
• Biden `declared that a major disaster exists in the State of California and ordered Federal aid to supplement State, tribal, and local recovery efforts in the areas affected by severe winter storms, flooding, landslides, and mudslides,` the White House said in a statement

10. 68 dead in Nepal`s domestic flight crash

• At least 68 people were killed on January 15, 2023 when a domestic flight of Yeti Airlines crashed in Pokhara in Nepal, the worst air crash in three decades in the small Himalayan nation.
• Hundreds of rescue workers scoured the hillside where the flight carrying 72 people from the capital Kathmandu went down. Officials late in the evening called off the search operations for the day, saying they will resume on Monday. Local TV footage earlier showed rescue workers scrambling around broken sections of the aircraft. Some of the ground near the crash site was scorched, with licks of flames visible.
• The weather had been clear and there was no immediate indication of what caused the crash

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