Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (January 25, 2022) for CSS, PMS

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Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (January 25, 2022) for CSS, PMS

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January 25, 2022: National / International Current Affairs

1. Justice Ayesha sworn in as SC`s first woman judge

• Justice Ayesha Malik was sworn in as first female judge of the Supreme Court on January 24, 2022, a landmark occasion in a nation where activists say the law is often wielded against women.
• Justice Malik attended a ceremony in the capital where she now sits on the bench alongside 16 male colleagues at Pakistan`s highest court.
• Justice Malik was educated at Harvard University and served as a high court judge in Lahore for the past two decades. She has been credited with rolling back patriarchal legal mores in her Punjab province jurisdiction.
• Last year she outlawed a deeply invasive and medically discredited examination used to determine a woman`s level of sexual experience.
• Justice Malik`s elevation to the apex court may clear the way for more women to enter the male-dominated judiciary of Pakistan.

2. PM`s aide on anti-graft drive quits under a cloud

• A key member of the federal cabinet whose role was central to achieving one of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf`s (PTI) main manifesto promises holding the corrupt accountable and securing the return of the country`s stolen wealth has parted ways with the government.
• But after Mirza Shahzad Akbar, the prime minister`s adviser on accountability and interior, announced his resignation on Monday, it emerged that PM Imran Khan may not have been too happy with the performance of the man handpicked to lead the charge against his main political opponents; the leadership of the Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP).
• Insiders told Dawn that following Mr Akbar`s resignation, the prime minister was looking for another trustworthy aide to lead the accountability drive

3. SBP keeps policy rate unchanged at 9.75pc

• The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has kept its benchmark interest rate unchanged at 9.75 per cent in its latest monetary policy and signalled that borrowing costs would remain steady for now, as recent tax increases were expected to curb demand and reduce the country`s budget deficit.
• `There`s no need for further tightening at the moment because of the government`s fiscal policy,` SBP Governor Dr Reza Baqir told a news conference on Monday.
• He said economic indicators were within the target, which allowed the central bank to keep the interest rate unchanged at 9.75pc

4. Freight train service launched to link port with rest of Pakistan

• The huge and powerful dark green locomotive attached to a long line of big and small freight containers awaited the inauguration ceremony to be off on its way at the Hutchison Ports Pakistan, also known as the South Asia Pakistan Terminal, on January 24, 2022.
• Then as soon as the ribbon was cut, it honked loudly while making the slouching guests sit up straight in their chairs as it chugged away on its new ballastless tracks.
• Expected to take away the traffic congestion caused by container trucks on roads and highways here, this freight train will reach its destination, Lahore, in up to four days

5. Pakistan launches $1bn Ijara Sukuk in global market

• Pakistan on January 24, 2022 launched the $1 billion Islamic bond Ijara Sukuk in the global capital market at 7.95 per cent return payable on a semi-annual basis with a maturity of seven years i.e. January 31, 2029.
• Listed at the London Stock Exchange, the latest Sukuk bond turned out to be the most expensive Islamic paper Pakistan has raised in recent years. Earlier, a five-year Sukuk bond of same denomination had envisaged 6.8pc return in December 2014, followed by 5.5pc in October 2016 and 5.6pc in December 2017.
• Pakistan launched the Islamic bond in the international market after little over four years. The last five-year Islamic debt instrument was secured at 5.6pc return in December 2017, which matured last month and was required to be replaced by a fresh paper in this case with seven year maturity and 7.95pc return.

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6. Taliban hail Oslo meet as success `in itself`

• On their first visit to Europe since returning to power, the Taliban held landmark talks with Western diplomats in Oslo on January 24, 2022 over the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, a meeting the Islamist regime`s delegation called an `achievement in itself`.
• The international community has however insisted the Taliban must respect human rights before aid can be resumed to Afghanistan, where hunger threatens more than half population.
• Having accepted a controversial invitation from Norway, the Taliban were holding talks on Monday with representatives of the United States, France, Britain, Germany, Italy, the European Union and Norway

7. Two US aircraft carriers enter S. China Sea; Taiwan complains of `incursion`

• Two US aircraft carrier groups have entered the disputed South China Sea for training, the Department of Defence said on January 24, 2022 as Taiwan complained of a new Chinese air force incursion at the top of the waterway including a fearsome new electronic warfare jet.
• The South China Sea and self-governing Taiwan are two of China`s most sensitive territorial issues and both are frequent areas of tension between the United States and China.
• US Navy ships routinely sail close to Chinese-occupied islands in the South China Sea to challenge Chinese sovereignty claims, as well as through the Taiwan Strait, to Beijing`s anger

8. Yemeni rebels fire missiles at UAE, Saudi Arabia as tensions soar

• Yemen rebels fired missiles at the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, with coalition forces hitting back by blowing up the insurgents` launchpad as a sharp escalation of hostilities entered a second week on January 24, 2022.
• Witnesses saw bright flashes arcing over the Emirati capital Abu Dhabi in the early hours of Monday as two ballistic missiles were intercepted, scattering debris.
• Nobody was hurt in the attack, which came a week after the Iran-backed Houthi rebels killed three people in a drone and missile assault on the city, triggering a volley of deadly air strikes on Yemen

9. Facebook claims making massive supercomputer

• Facebook`s parent company Meta said on January 24, 2022 it was launching one of the world`s most powerful supercomputers to boost its capacity to process data, despite persistent disputes over privacy and disinformation.
• The US tech giant said the array of machines could process images and video up to 20 times faster than their current systems.
• The supercomputer, built from thousands of processors, will be used to `seamlessly analyse text, images, and video together; develop new augmented reality tools; and much more`, the firm said in a blog post written by two of its artificial intelligence (AI) researchers

10. Afridi, Babar bring more glory to Pakistan

• Pakistan fast bowler Shaheen Afridi was named men`s Cricketer of the Year on January 24, 2022, combining with team-mates Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan to help the country dominate the annual awards announced by the International Cricket Council (ICC).
• England captain Joe Root won the Test Player of the Year honours to prevent a sweep of the men`s awards by Pakistan.
• Captain Babar was adjudged One-day Cricketer of the Year while his deputy Rizwan had grabbed the T20 award the previous day.
• A fourth Pakistani cricketer, Fatima Sana, had won the Emerging Women`s Cricketer of the year award on Sunday.

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