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Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (January 29, 2022) for CSS, PMS

January 29, 2022
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6. Pakistan dismisses India`s disarmament claim as dubious

• Pakistan has rejected as dubious India`s claims about its `impeccable` disarmament record, saying New Delhi is solely responsible for pioneering nuclear proliferation in South Asia that escalated tensions in the region and beyond.
• `It is India which dealt a death blow to nonproliferation norms by conducting its first nuclear test in 1974, followed by additional nuclear tests in 1998,` Pakistani delegate Mohammad Omar told the Conference on Disarmament, now in session in Geneva. India, he said, conducted the test by diverting nuclear material from the Canada-supplied CIRUS reactor in clear violation of its safeguards commitments to the suppliers

7. West has not addressed key concerns on Ukraine: Putin

• President Vladimir Putin said the United States and Nato had not addressed Russia`s main security demands in their standoff over Ukraine but that Moscow was ready to keep talking.
• Putin offered his first reaction to the US and Nato responses to Russia`s demands in a phone call with French President Emmanuel Macron after weeks of personal public silence on the crisis, in which Russia has massed troops near Ukraine.
• The Kremlin quoted Putin as telling Macron he would study the written responses provided by Washington and Nato this week before deciding on further action

8. Houthi strike on Yemen govt`s last stronghold kills five

• At least five people were killed and 34 injured in what Yemeni-government media said was a Houthi missile strike on Marib city on Wednesday night, state news agency SABA said on January 28, 2022.
• A resident and a medical source said a missile on Wednesday had fallen next to a military building in the al Matar area.
• Marib city is the Yemeni government`s last northern stronghold. It sits in an energy-producing region which has been the focus of fighting over the past year, during which Iran-aligned Houthi forces advanced towards the city

9. Rockets fired at Baghdad airport damage two planes

• Six rockets were fired on Friday at the Iraqi capital`s airport, causing damage but no casualties, authorities said, the latest in a string of attacks the US blames on Iran-linked militias.
• The rockets hit Baghdad International Airport`s facilities, causing `significant damage to one runway and to two civilian planes` the Civil Aviation department said in a statement.
• Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhemi denounced the attacks, which he said were aimed at `tarnishing` Iraq`s reputation and `casting doubt over the security situation`

10. HBL Pakistan Super League Malik, Hussain power Zalmi past Gladiators in last-over thriller

• The experience of more than two decades was on display when Peshawar Zalmi`s stand-in captain Shoaib Malik, after arriving at the crease right after the powerplay, took it right till the end.
• The 39-year-old, however, decided to assume to supporting role, while allowed all-rounder Hussain Talat to play the protagonist in Zalmi`s seven wicket victory in their HBL Pakistan Super League opener over Quetta Gladiators at the National Stadium here on Friday.
• The left-hander, with his impact, snatched the limelight off young English opener Will Smeed, who smashed 97 off 62, helping the Gladiators to post 191-4 in the first innings

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