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Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (July 04, 2022) for CSS, PMS

Shahzad F. Malik
Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (July 04, 2022) for CSS, PMS
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July 04, 2022: National / International Current Affairs

1. Pakistan seeks Qatar gas on deferred payment

• Amid severe energy crunch and unprecedentedly expensive fuel imports, Pakistan is seeking more gas imports on deferred payments from Qatar, which is irritated by roadblocks to its infrastructure investment plans, particularly in import terminals.
• Authorities in Islamabad are engaging with Qatar at different levels to ramp up Liquefied Natural Gas(LNG) supplies to Pakistan to make up for shortage of four to five cargoes (about 400-500 million cubic feet of gas per day) every month.
• At almost every engagement, the other side wants to hear an update on the removal of hitches to its plans to set up a merchant LNG terminal near Karachi.
• The government has failed in last three attempts over the past couple of weeks to secure even a single cargo for July from the spot market as whatever quantities are available in the spot or otherwise are herded by the Unites States towards Europe suffering energy shortages amid the Russia Ukraine war and ready to pick every molecule at any cost

2. Visitors from Washington look to rejuvenate ties after lull

• The bilateral relationship between Pakistan and the United States is regaining momentum following the `Cablegate` hiccup, with both sides engaging far more frequently now than in the recent past.
• The two sides have, in the recent engagements, agreed on making their relationship broad-based one that looks beyond the traditional areas of security, strategic concerns and Afghanistan.
• It was towards this goal that both sides held working-level meetings on law enforcement and economy this past week. A meeting on the health sector is also scheduled to take place soon

3. Low testing skews data as Covid fatigue sets in

• As the Covid-19 positivity rate hits insane levels in some cities, government officials blame a decline in testing for skewed figures.
• They believe that both citizens and the health authorities have started taking the pandemic `as a normal disease` thanks to pandemic fatigue, an expected and natural response to a prolonged public health crisis.
• Official data released on Sunday showed that Pakistan logged 650 Covid cases over the last 24 hours, lower than the 818 infections recorded a day earlier.
• The countrywide positivity ratio, at 3.88 per cent, was also down from 4.47pc a day ago. According to the National Institute of Health (NIH), 16,755 tests were conducted during the last 24 hours

4. Meeting on security, TTP tomorrow

• National Assembly Speaker Raja Pervaiz Ashraf has called a meeting of the parliamentary committee on national security on Tuesday (tomorrow) to discuss issues of national security, including talks with the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).
• According to a press release issued by the National Assembly Secretariat on Sunday, the meeting to be chaired by the speaker will be attended by members of the National Assembly and Senate, the president and prime minister of Azad Kashmir, chief minister of Gilgit-Baltistan and chief secretaries of all the four provinces

5. Bungalow Babusar Track opened for tourists

• An old route to Gilgit-Baltistan, Bungalow Babusar Track, near Babusar Top in Diamer district has been opened for tourists.
• The 3km track was the historical route between River Kunhar and River Indus and it remained for years the only jeep route to connect GB with the rest of the country till 1960s.
• After rehabilitation and improvement, the track was opened for tourists on Sunday.
• Deputy Commissioner of Diamer Fayyaz Ahmed inaugurated the track during a ceremony which was attended by officials of the district administration and local people

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6. 17 Pakistani women successfully complete energy sector programme

• As many as 17 Pakistani female university students successfully completed the four week United States Pakistan Women`s Council (USPWC) Future of Women in Energy Scholar`s pilot programme.
• United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Mission Director Reed Aeschliman presided over a graduation ceremony for the participants at the US Embassy in Islamabad. According to a statement released on Sunday, the inaugural four-week programme was designed to encourage women to consider careers in the energy sector. All of the participants were female Pakistani students pursuing their undergraduate degrees in the sciences.
• The programme is a product of the US`s commitment towards promoting women`s educational and economic participation in Pakistan`s energy sector, it added

7. Sweden refuses to deny deportations to Turkey part of Nato deal

• Sweden`s Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson refused on July 3, 2022 to deny Turkey`s claim that it had promised to deport individuals sought by Ankara as part of Stockholm`s efforts to join Nato.
• Despite questioning by journalists and concerns among Kurdish and Turkish refugees in Sweden, Andersson would not say whether such a commitment had been given to Ankara for it to lift objections to Sweden`s membership.
• `I`ve been a minister for eight years and I never talked about what is said in the negotiation room,` she said.
• `(That) actually puts me in a bit of a difficult situation right now,` she added

8. North Korea slams US plan for `Asian Nato`

• North Korea criticised the United States, South Korea and Japan`s recent agreement on strengthening military cooperation to be a means to materialise a US plan for a military alliance like Nato in the region.
• North Korea`s foreign ministry spokesperson said as much to a question put by KCNA, the state news agency reported on Sunday. `The reality clearly shows that the real purpose of the US spreading the rumour about `threat from North Korea`is to provide an excuse for attaining military supremacy over the Asia-Pacific region,` said the spokesperson.
• `The prevailing situation more urgently calls for building up the country`s defences to actively cope with the rapid aggravation of the security environment,` the spokesperson added

9. Indian govt bars Pulitzer-winning Kashmiri journalist from leaving country

• A Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist from Indian-occupied Kashmir, Sana Irshad Mattoo, was barred by immigration officials at the New Delhi airport from travelling to France on Saturday `without any reasons`, The Indian Express reported.
• In a tweet, the 28-year-old journalist said she was scheduled to travel from New Delhi to Paris for a book launch and photography exhibition as one of 10 award winners of the Serendipity Arles Grant 2020 but was stopped at the airport`s immigration desk despite procuring a French visa.
• `I was not given any reason but told I would not be able to travel internationally,` she tweeted, according to a Dawn.com report.

10. Russia claims key Ukraine city, kills six in Sloviansk

• Russia claimed on July 3, 2022 to have captured the strategic Ukrainian city of Lysychansk and the entire frontline Lugansk region as a mayor said six people were killed by Russian shelling to the west.
• The gains claimed by Russia would mark a decisive breakthrough for Moscow`s forces seeking control of eastern Ukraine, more than four months into their invasion and after turning their focus away from the capital Kyiv.
• The mayor of Sloviansk, 75 kilometres west of Lysychansk, reported the heaviest Russian shelling `for a long time`, saying that a child was among six people killed, with another 15 people wounded and 15 fires sparked

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